Person:Stevens Norvell (4)

He served in the Rainbow Division, 3rd Engineers during WWI. After the war, he attended Tri-State College, Angola, IN where he obtained degrees in Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering. He met his wife, Cora Kellam Norvell there.

He worked for many years as an engineer for Western Electric Co in Western Springs, IL. In the early 1950's he retired from Western Electric and purchased a ranch in Custer Co, Colorado. He served as a State Representative during this time and also founded a telephone cooperative to bring telephone service to the area. In the late 1950s, he sold the ranch and moved to Greenacres, Palm Beach Co, FL.

He designed and built many things including two houses in Western Springs, another in Florida, a sawmill in Colorado, and two boats and a fold-up trailer. Later, he designed patterns and made parts for his lathe and built his own faceting machine. An active man, he had many hobbies: fishing and fly tying, teaching classes in lure making, lapidary and rock hunting, and silver-smithing. The founder of the Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois, he designed the Logo Newsletter cover. He also founded the Gem and Mineral Club of Palm Beach Co, FL. He also traveled widely in the west taking 16mm motion pictures and 35mm slides, from which he lectured on his travels. As a horticulturalist he grew both common and unusual plants in his beautiful gardens. He died of leukemia which his family believes was caused by exposure to thorium in the thorium mine on his ranch in Colorado.

1. ↑ HRNorvell Desc.FTW.

   Date of Import: Nov 22, 2000

2. ↑ HRNorvell Desc.FTW.

   Date of Import: Nov 22, 2000