Samuel Stephens was born in Trevarvas, Breage, Cornwall, England.  He was five years old when his father died and when the estate was settled his siblings and mother pooled their inheritance and came to America.  They arrived in 1845 and settled in Grant County, Wisconsin, where they purchased a farm near Potosi.  

On the 20th of April, 1865, eleven days after the treaty at Appomattox, Samuel Stephens married Elizabeth Sarah Pedlar.  Pedlar was born in Potosi, but her parents had emigrated from England the same year as did Samuel.  Together they would have six children.

Stephens had probably been working in the brewery owned by Peter Joseph Uedelhoven in the township of British Hollow.  In around 1863 Stephens and William Mohrenburg (who was 15 years older than Stephens) purchased the brewery from Uedelhoven.  Stephens oversaw the brewing operations and Mohrenberg ran the saloon.  They ran the firm until 1872, after which Stephens became a farmer and Mohrenberg continued in the saloon business.

Stephens died on the 15th of September 1915 at the age of 78.

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