Arizona republican., 1911-03-03
VETERAN AUTHOR
 VISITS PHOENIX
Distinguished Son of Washineton's First Governor, Entertained n
 Phoenix.

In 1902 HOughton, Mfflin X Co of Boston published an edition of The Biography of General Isaac l. Stevens, DO the first governor of the territory of Washington. The first edition vas linn ited tO one thousand copies, and MT. HOushton expressed himself at the lime of publication as doubtful of the reception which the new work would receive from the reading public both on account of the forty years which had elapsed since the death of Gen eral Stevens, and the comparatively small publicity which had been given his great work of organizing and regu lating the government of the newly created territory The first edition of the biography was entirely sold out during the first year succeeding it's publication. A second was ordered and has met with equal success and popu- larity. A third is being considered, and work for which a small sale had been anticipated by such a competent judge as the owner of Boston's great publishing house. has been recognized as q valuable and authoritative history tof the restless and unsettled period of lthe early days of Washington.
 
 Stevens. and the author of his biogra- phy. himself q brigadier general, and q veteran of the civil war. came to Phoc- nix last Tuesday from Los Angeles. and Twas interviewed last evening at the 1 Adams Annex by reporter for The Republican, to whom the distinguished Ivisitor gave a brief history of his own life. and a condensed review of his fathers biography, which he wrote with infinite labor after spending all lmost twenty-five years in collecting
 material for the book.
 | General Stevens may well be con isidered a pioneer of the northwest. having ac" mpanied his father to Wash Iington when a boy of 12 in 1854. His first yist to the territory lasted but three years. when he was sent to Bos- lton to continue his studies At the ioutbreak of the civil war he enlisted in Ithe Seventy eighth Highlanders. New Work volunteers, and served in the field. tchiefly in the Army of the Potomac throughout the entire war. becoming tsuccessvely adjutant and inspector general of the First and Third divisions lof the Ninth corps, and Second dlVlslon of the Sixth corps, and attained the rank of brigadier general by brevet be- fore he was g years of age. During the war he was wounded three times. and was awarded a medal of honor for taking Fort Huget on the Nansemond
 river in April 1863, an engagement (which brought him the highest praises from the government After the war ihe returned to Washington, where he
 served as collector of internal revenues for three ears, and afterward as at .tornev for the Northern Pacific Rail-
 road company, returning to Boston Tn
 1875, which has been niS home up to
 this time Having extensive interests in the region Of the Puget sound which
 require his attention he has made a number of trips to the west since he
 made his home permanently in Boston.
 but is making hIs first visit to the Salt river valley. Referring to the biogra-
 phv of his father. General Stevens said: 1 "I wrote1he book with the conviction that it would be well received by the public on account of my fathers serV- ices in Washington. and the result or its publication has proven the interest which the American people are taking
 in the history of the great northwest
 ern country.
 | The biography has met with the highest commendation Of critics. and