Henry Stevens, born in Barnet on December 13, 1791, and educated at Peacham Academy, was at various times a farmer, innkeeper, mill owner, legislator, postmaster, temperance leader, stage line proprietor, and operator of the Passumpsic Turnpike. A dedicated antiquarian who assembled Vermont's first great collection of historical materials, he became in 1838 a founder and the first president of the Vermont Historical Society. He died on July 30, 1867, and is buried in the Stevens Cemetery. His son Henry Stevens, Jr., born in Barnet on August 24, 1819, inherited a love of books and historical research from his father. In 1845 he went to England, where he became his generation's greatest antiquarian book dealer, helping to build the Americana holdings of the British Museum, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, and collectors including James Lenox and John Carter Brown. Fond of signing his letters "G. M. B." for "Green Mountain Boy," he died in 1886 and is buried in London under a monument made of Barre granite that bears the inscription "Lover of Books."