Editing Adlai Stevenson I (section)

==Ancestry==
Adlai Ewing Stevenson was born in [[Christian County, Kentucky]], on October 23, 1835,<ref name=":Miller">{{cite web|title=Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897)|date=October 4, 2016 |publisher=[[Miller Center of Public Affairs]]|url=https://millercenter.org/president/cleveland/essays/stevenson-1893-vicepresident|accessdate=January 31, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=On Oct. 23, 1835, Adlai E. Stevenson,...|date=October 23, 1991|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-10-23-9104050436-story.html|accessdate=January 30, 2024}}</ref><ref name=":CentreCollege">{{cite web|last=Kocher|first=Greg|title=Two U.S. Vice president attended Centre College, home of the 2012 debate|date=October 5, 2012|publisher=Lexington Herald Leader News|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article44380668.html|accessdate=January 30, 2024}}</ref> to John Turner and Eliza Ann Ewing Stevenson,<ref name=":Miller"/> [[Wesleyan Church|Wesleyan]]s of [[Scotch-Irish American|Scots-Irish]] descent. The Stevenson family is first recorded (as the Stephensons) in [[Roxburghshire, Scotland]], in the early 18th century. The family appears to have had some wealth, as a private chapel in the [[Archdiocese of St Andrews]] bears their name. At some point, probably shortly after the [[Jacobite rising of 1715]], the family  migrated to [[County Antrim, Ireland]], near [[Belfast]]. At least one Stephenson was a police officer. Adlai's great-grandfather William Stephenson was a tailor who specialized in [[millinery]]. After William's father died in the 1730s, his family moved to [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]]. William joined when his apprenticeship was completed in 1748.{{sfn|Baker|1997|pp=64–66}}

In 1762, the family moved to [[North Carolina]] in what is now [[Iredell County, North Carolina|Iredell County]]. Including lands given to his children, William Stephenson (Stevenson after the [[American Revolution]]) had amassed {{convert|3400|acre}} of land by the time of his death.{{sfn|Baker|1997|p=69}} One branch of the family, including Adlai Stevenson's father, then moved to Kentucky in 1813.