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The Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens (July 13 1815 – June 11 1887) was the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. Born on July 13 1815 Stevens was educated at Phillips Academy Andover and later studied medicine at Dartmouth College and the Medical College of South Carolina. After practicing medicine in Savannah Georgia for five years he served state historian of Georgia and at that time he began to study for the priesthood of the Episcopal Church.
