Calvin Stephens
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Apr 1797
Baptism:
Death: Oct 1822 - At Sea
Burial:
Cause of Death: killed by a whale 1
Notes
Medical:
ship George Porter
Hannah Stephens
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1730 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Eleazar Ralph (Est 1730 - )
Marriage: 1755 - Eastham, Massachusetts 2
Status:
Ralph D Stephens
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 21 Jun 1896
Baptism:
Death: 22 Aug 1931 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 3
Burial:
Cause of Death: organic heart disease
Notes
Medical:
age 35-2-1
Rebecca Stephens
Sex: F
AKA: Rebecca Stevens
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1735 - (Eastham, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Isaac Penny (Est 1732 - )
Marriage: 23 May 1755 - Eastham, Massachusetts 4
Status:
Richard Stephens
Sex: M
AKA: Richard Stevens
Individual Information
Birth: 1668 - Taunton, Plymouth Colony
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Ruhama Doane (30 Apr 1685 - )
Marriage: 22 Sep 1726 - Eastham, Massachusetts 5
Status:
Elisha Stephenson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Aug 1747 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 25 Dec 1748 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Elisha Stephenson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Sep 1753 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 23 Feb 1796 - Cohasset, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Spouses and Children
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Hannah Stephenson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Dec 1755 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1805
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
James Stephenson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Jun 1759 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 27 Dec 1759 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Jesse Stephenson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 29 Jan 1721 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1795
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Content Cushing (19 Jul 1722 - After 1766) 6
Marriage: 3 May 1743 - Second Church, Scituate
Status:
Children:
1. Ruth Stephenson (1744-1764) 6
2. Elisha Stephenson (1747-1748) 6
3. Molly Stephenson (1748-1748) 6
4. Molly Stephenson (1750-1799) 6
5. Elisha Stephenson (1753-1796) 6
6. Hannah Stephenson (1755-1805) 6
7. Luke Stephenson (1757-1817) 6
8. James Stephenson (1759-1759) 6
9. Sarah Stephenson (1760-1810) 6
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Luke Stephenson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 6 May 1757 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1817
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Molly Stephenson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Jan 1750 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1799
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Spouses and Children
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Molly Stephenson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Oct 1748 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: Dec 1748 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Ruth Stephenson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Mar 1744 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 12 Apr 1764
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Sarah Stephenson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Nov 1760 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1810
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Stephenson (1721-1795) 6
Mother: Content Cushing (1722-After 1766) 6
Spouses and Children
Notes
General:
Source:
Cushing gen, p. 58.
Harold Sterling
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1925 - (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sallie Evelyn Johnson (Est 1925 - )
Marriage: 6 Nov 1948 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 7
Status:
Notes
General:
of Portsmouth, RI, 1948
Philip Sterling
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Jul 1907
Baptism:
Death: 11 Sep 1989 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 116-07-5028, New York in New York
Spouses and Children
1. *Dorothy Dannenberg (23 Nov 1913 - 1 Dec 2008)
Marriage:
Status:
Ethel Sterne
Sex: F
AKA: Eliza Sterne 9
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Feb 1874 - Calgary, Alberta
Baptism:
Death: 30 Nov 1949 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Fred A Powdrell (1875 - 1945)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Robert E Powdrell (1907- )
2. Gertrude L Powdrell (1906-1996)
Notes
General:
obitMarriage Notes (Fred A Powdrell)
moved to Wellfleet in 1921
member of Wellfleet Methodist ch, OES, Orleans Rebekah, Wellfleet WCTU
parents Francis Sterne and Frances Kidd
survivors: daughter Mrs Frank Gomes of Marblehead and Wellfleet, son Robert of Wellfleet, sisters Mrs Priscilla Sutherland of Miami and Mrs Annie Lowes of Tonkin, Saskatchewan
1910 US census, Braintree
1920 US census, Brookline
Hessie Gernon Sterne
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Oct 1817 - Belfast, Ireland
Baptism:
Death: 10 Jan 1889 - Kearney, New Jersey
Burial: in Old North Cemetery, Truro
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Margaret Reid (1845-1924) 10
Notes
General:
Sterne is probably a remarried name, but she died as Hessie Stevens.
Maurice Sterne
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1877 - Russia
Baptism:
Death: 1957 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Mabel Dodge (Est 1890 - )
Marriage: 1917
Status: Divorce - Abt 1919
2. Vera Segal (Est 1900 - After 1958)
Marriage: 1923
Status:
Notes
General:
CHAPTER XI, Provincetown Profiles, 1958
Maurice Sterne
MAURICE STERNE, a Provincetowner of long standing, died in 1957. I was profoundly sorry to hear of his death. I considered him one of the greatest men I knew and I loved his sense of humor.
He was a sick man when I first met him in 1955. In fact, he was bedridden. But his illness never deterred his glowing spirit or curtailed his facetious remarks. I saw him several times in 1955 and 1956 and I enjoyed every moment of his company. I treasure his memory.
The story I wrote about him in 1955, I am happy to say, gave him some pleasure. Here it is:
Nearly 30 years ago a lot of Worcester, Mass, people were saying, "What does the painter and sculptor Maurice Sterne, a native of Russia, know about American pioneering?"
Today even a cursory glance at his accomplishments abundantly proves that he has a wealth of knowledge as well as derring-do in at least one field of American pioneering: The field of art!
Maurice Sterne is the sculptor who executed the Rogers-Kennedy Memorial, which is located in Elm Park at Highland street and Park Avenue, Worcester. It is a memorial to New England's first settlers.
It was in 1926 when his name was first proposed for the Rogers-Kennedy commission that it came under a cloud of criticism. He had been recommended as a highly competent and gifted sculptor to the Memorial Committee.
The committee, which comprised Alexander H. Bullock, chairman; Robert K. Shaw, librarian of the Worcester Free Public Library at that time; and the late Frank C. Smith, Jr., was also considering the work of nine other sculptors in the competition.
Despite the weighty criticism of Sterne's work there were those in Worcester who did appreciate it. After considering the pros and cons and viewing various pieces of work, the committee awarded the $80,000 commission to him.
The $30,000 came from a 1918 bequest of $75,000 by Mrs. Ellen Rogers Kennedy, a prominent member of the Worcester Woman's Club, and a $5000 bequest by her husband, Walter S. G. Kennedy, who died in 1924.
Shortly after receiving the commission Sterne boarded a ship for Italy and it was there that the statuary was executed. The huge man and woman pioneers atop the work were done in bronze. They arc more than 12 feet high. At the bottom 16 bas-reliefs, each over six feet, were done in limestone. Stern had 18 stonecutters quarrying and working the material with him.
In 1929 the monument was unveiled and the occasion was an important one — artistically — in Worcester. Art critics went there from various sections of the country and most of them were lavish in their praise of the work.
But to a good many Worcesterites the work was "too modern." Their criterion of art appreciation was the Victorian. However, as the years have melted away their feeling towards the monument has mellowed and, perhaps, some of them even now are able to appreciate it.
Since the day of its unveiling right up to the present, it has drawn artists, critics, and other lovers of art from various sections of the globe — for it is world famous.
At the time of its unveiling Robert Rattray Tatlock, editor of the Burlington Art Magazine in London, wrote: "I weep that this statute is in Elm Park in Worcester, Mass., and not in Hyde Park in London, England."
The late Carl Milles, famous Swedish-American sculptor, said: I" think that I have probably seen most of the important monuments in this country . . . and I shall be much surprised if this monument of Sterne's does not become a great influence. It may quite possibly change the whole direction of American monumental sculpture."
And where is Maurice Sterne today? And what has happened to him over the years?
Well, nowadays he summers in Provincetown and spends the remainder of the year mostly at his home in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. He is 78 years old and working on his autobiography. Despite his years he has a relatively youthful appearance. His hair and eyebrows are black without a trace of gray and he reads without glasses. His mind is razor-sharp and he has a wonderful sense of humor.
He is ill and this occasionelly gets him down. The first time I visited him at his Provincetown home on the harbor he was in bed.
I asked him: "How are you feeling, Mr. Sterne?" And his reply was typical.
He smiled broadly, showing off his famous dimples.
"I'll answer you in the words of Mark Twain," he said with a Russian accent. "All the great men are dead." Then counting on his fingers, he continued, "Shakespeare is dead. Bach is dead. Keats is dead. Shelley is dead. And ..." His eyebrows went up naively. "I don't feel too well myself."
He is proud of the pioneering he has done in the field of art. He was the first American (he became a citizen in 1904) to be given a retrospective exhibition by the Musuem of Modern Art in New York. That was in 1933 and the entire four floors of the building were given over to more than 200 of his works.
In 1925 he was greatly honored by the Third Biennial International Exhibition in Rome. Three galleries were usually assigned to each nation for the exhibition of its art work. That year Sterne was invited to represent all of the United States of America. The three galleries were devoted to his paintings, drawings and one sculpture, "The Awakening." The latter is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
As a result of his work exhibited in Rome he shortly thereafter was invited by the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence to do a self-portrait. He was the first living American so honored. There were self-portraits there by Sargent and Whistler but none of any living American.
He was also the first living American to be represented at the famous Tate Gallery in London. Shortly after World War II that gallery acquired one of his oil paintings titled "Mexican Church Interior."
He was the first white artist to live on Bali. He went there in 1912 and remained there for two years. The only other white man to arrive there and spend any time during those two years was a German doctor, he said. He made thousands of drawings and paintings of Balinese life. Many of them were in oil on thin rice paper.
Sterne was born in Russia in 1877. His parents were Gregor and Nacey (Schlossberg) Sterne. He was the youngest of nine children, three of whom died in infancy. Only other one living today is a sister, Mrs. Lena Sosno of Berkley, California. His father died at the age of 47 and his mother, at the age of 90. Maurice was 12 when he came to America.
"My mother was a great worrier," he reminisces with a kindly smile, he was always worrying about something or other. I remember an occa-siojn back in 1925 after an exhibit of mine had been sold out and I had made ##05,000. I set my mother up in a fine apartment in New York and hired a woman attendant for her. When I went to visit my mother I found her intears. I couldn't understand it.
" 'What is the matter,' I asked. 'Isn't everything all right?'
" 'Yes,' she sobbed, 'everything is fine. It's so wonderful something terrible is bound to happen!
Sterne's first wife was Mabel Dodge, a writer. They were married in 1917 and divorced about two years later. In 1923 he married Vera Segal, a ballet and interpretative dancer, who is still with him. She is a sister of Vivienne Segal, musical comedy actress.
Sterne has exhibited in Paris, London, Berlin and the principal cities the United States. He is represented in numerous museums and galleries al1 over the world. The Worcester Art Museum has a bronze head of his entitled "The Bomb Thrower."
He says his biggest job was 20 murals, each six by ten feet, which he didd for the Library of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., some years ago.
He has won many prizes in his career, including a Logan Medal and ##50 at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1928 and the first William A. Clark prize of $2000, plus the Corcoran Gold Medal at Washington, D.C., in 1930.
In 1894 when he was 17 he enrolled at the National Academy of design in New York City where he studied for five years. Among his instructors was Thomas Eakins, who came from Philadelphia once a week to teach.
In 1904 Sterne won a Mooney Traveling Scholarship for composition at the school and shortly after took off for Europe. For four years he studied the masters in museums in France, Germany and Italy. The next six years he spent in Greece, Egypt, India, Burma and Bali, returning to New York in 1915. Three years later he returned to Italy. He has done quite a bit of commuting between the Italian town of Anticoli-Corrado and New York City in the course of his life.
He first saw the sand dunes of Provincetown in 1915. Only other painters around there in those days were Charles W. Hawthorne, John Whorf, Richard Miller and George Elmer Browne. There was also a young playwright around by the name of Eugene O'Neill. Since then Sterne has spent a good many summers at the tip of Cape Cod.
Today Sterne is glad the controversy about his Rogers-Kennedy Memorial has more or less turned to ashes in Worcester.
I recently asked Francis Henry Taylor (he also died in 1957) director of the Worcester Art Museum and until July, 1955, director for 15 years of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, what he thought of it.
Taylor said: "I consider it the greatest piece of outdoor statuary in America." 11
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