| His US histories texts were standard college texts during the last decades of the 19th century.As a lawyer, minister and professor, he survived the Civil War with his economic circumstances
virtually unscathed. After the Civil War, he took over the "Braehead" property of his older brother John,
who was unable to meet his mortgage debts on the property; the property, subsequently given its
"Braehead" monicker by Robert Reid Howison, was a private enclave in the
Fredericksburg Battlefield Monument park until very recent years when its Stephens owners
(descendants of Robert Reid Howison) sold it to the park. |
