Donald Stevenson

[1] He was born in the Scottish Highlands, came to British North America in 1833, was educated in the common schools of that country, and settled in Douglas County, Minnesota.

[2] Stevenson came to the Red River Valley long in advance of any of the settlements, excepting that at Pembina and Walhallalong before Bismarck, Fargo, Wahpeton or Grand Forks had any inhabitants.

He was at Pembina in 1863, engaged as an army freighter in charge of a train of 300 wagons with supplies for Hatch's battalion.

In 1876, he was engaged in freighting to the Black Hills and arrived at Big Meadow just after Billy Budge's battle with the Sioux.

[1] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: C. A. Lounsberry's "Record" (1898)