Richard Stebbins

STEBBINS, DICKINSON, BILLINGS

Posted By: C Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/13/2007 at 02:14:45

Richard Stebbins, M.D., one of the pioneer merchants and prominent physicians of Onawa in the by-gone days, was born in Springfield, Mass., May 16, 1824, and is the son of Festus and Frances (Dickinson) Stebbins. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1846, and took a medical course in the same institution and after that at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. After a time spent in Europe, and a few years spent in practice in New York, he came West, and after a short time spent in Omaha settled in Onawa, and from that time on was connected with its growth. The Doctor was married January 17, 1879, to Miss Mary J. Billings and was the parents of two children. He now resides in Omaha

Source: History of Monona County Iowa
Chicago National Pub. Co. 1890