encies, he does not lose sight, by any means, of the stock interests, and in this industry he has gained an extensive reputation. He received a common-school education, and at an early age began assisting his father in buying stock. At the age of twenty-one years he commenced for himself by farming and dealing in stock in Ogle County, Ill., and there continued until 1877. He then came to Story County, Iowa, settled at Colo, and here he owns 400 acres of well-improved land. He is one of the most extensive stock dealers in Central Iowa, and from January to June, 1890, he shipped twenty car loads of horses from Colo and Nevada. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1887 was elected a member of the Story County board of supervisors. He chose Miss Minerva Myers as his life companion, and was married to her in 1875. One child, Ida Maud, is the result of this union. Mr. Stewart is progressive in his ideas, and has applied himself to his chosen calling with the success which may be inferred from a glance at his extensive and well-kept farm. His father, William Stewart, was born in the North of Ireland, and came to the United States about 1840. He is now sixty-eight years of age and resides in Story County. The mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Jane Bell, was born in Canada, and is now about sixty-four years of age. They were the parents of six children, our subject being the second in order of birth.
George Stitzell, M. D., is a physician of established reputation, and one who has steadily risen in the channels of medical life. He was born in Franklin County, Penn., August 13, 1830, and is a son of George and Catherine (Wagner) Stitzell, who were also born in the Keystone State, near Philadelphia, the former in 1800 and the latter in 1796, their deaths occurring in Franklin County, Penn., and Michigan, in 1876 and 1888, respectively. Dr. Stitzell was educated in the common schools of his native county, and finished his literary education in a college at Mercerburg. He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. John Olig, at Waynesboro, and afterward attended lectures in the University of Pennsylvania and in the Pennsylvania Medical College, and after applying himself diligently to the course of study given him, he was graduated from that college as an M. D., March 12, 1858, well prepared to go out into the world and enter actively upon the practice of his profession. His time since then has been devoted entirely to the relief of suffering humanity, and as a physician he is held in the highest esteem and is in the enjoyment of a good practice. After first graduating, he settled at St. Thomas, Penn., there remaining until the spring of 1862, when he enlisted as an assistant surgeon in the Fifty-Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was in the service until after the battle of Gettysburg, when he resigned, coming in October of that year to Nevada, where he has since made his home. He is one of the oldest physicians in the county ; is a close student and assiduously applies himself to the practice of his calling. From 1864 to 1876 he was examining surgeon of United States pensions at Nevada, and he is now president of the pension board. He has had in his thirty-five years of professional life 2,400 cases of obstetrics, and in all, only two cases have proved fatal. He was married in 1852 to Miss Malinda M. Mowen, of Waynesboro, Penn., but her death occurred in Nevada, Iowa, in January, 1873, after she had borne a family of five children: LaVelle F., George A., John D., Charles E. and Mary C. The Doctor's second marriage took place in June, 1873, to Mrs. Susan Nichols, formerly Miss Stubbs, a native of the "Hoosier State." One