Steiner, John

STEINER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/22/2009 at 14:04:47

John Steiner

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.55, Council Bluffs)
John Steiner, physician, Council Bluffs, was born in Goettingen, Germany, March 30, 1842, and was educated in his native place. In 1860, he began the study of medicine in Tubingen, Germany, graduating there in 1863, and was admitted to practice. During the Franco-Prussian war, he was Second Assistant Surgeon in the German Army, and while acting in that capacity saw a great deal of service. In 1867, he married Magdeline Frash, and they have four children, two boys and two girls. In 1873, he came to this country and located in Sac County, Iowa, where he followed farming for some time. He then moved to Audubon County, Iowa, where he followed the practice of his profession for some time, thence moved to St. Mary's, Iowa, and thence to Westphalia, Iowa. Meanwhile, he had been attending the Herring Medical College of St. Louis, Mo., from which he graduated in the spring of 1882. He then located in Council Bluffs, where he has now a good practice.