Linder James Forney

FORNEY, STILES

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/1/2004 at 10:19:07

L. J. Forney, (Dr.), Winterset; born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1841; came to this county in 1863, and engaged in teaching and farming; he has taught thirteen terms of school in Madison county; he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. A. B. Smith as preceptor, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, and is also a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, and of the Rush Medical College, Chicago; he married Miss Eliza Stiles in 1869; she was born in Putnam county, Indiana; has three children: Frank F., Joseph W. and Brady M.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 535