Henry Bailey Stevens was an author and playwright, particularly noted for his one-act plays. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1912, he worked at the Woman's Journal, a suffragist newspaper in Boston, where Agnes Ryan, who was to become his wife, was the managing editor. In 1917, he and Ryan resigned from the Journal in part due to their opposition to World War I. The following year, he was hired as the director of the University of New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, where he stayed until his retirement in 1956. Read a more detailed memorial of his life in the attachments. He and Agnes Ryan share the same headstone in the woods near their former home in Durham, N.H.
Henry Bailey Stevens was an author and playwright, particularly noted for his one-act plays. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1912, he worked at the Woman's Journal, a suffragist newspaper in Boston, where Agnes Ryan, who was to become his wife, was the managing editor. In 1917, he and Ryan resigned from the Journal in part due to their opposition to World War I. The following year, he was hired as the director of the University of New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, where he stayed until his retirement in 1956. Read a more detailed memorial of his life in the attachments. He and Agnes Ryan share the same headstone in the woods near their former home in Durham, N.H.
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