C. S. Stokes

STOKES, WOLFRAM, STEWART, FLEMING

Posted By: Debbie Clough Gerischer (email)
Date: 6/19/2005 at 15:07:13

IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926

C. S. STOAKES

Dr. Charles Stewart Stoakes, a physician of broad experience and pronounced
ability practiced in Battle Creek for seventeen and one-half years before
removing to Dysart, Iowa, winning the esteem of its residents. He was born
August 22, 1877, in Traer, Iowa, and is a son of Mathias and Jane (Stewart)
Stoakes, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Wisconsin. The father
followed the occupation of farming for many years and subsequently lived retired
at Traer. He had a family of six children: Ella, at home; Charles Stewart;
William, who lives in Terril, Iowa; Edith, the wife of J. W. Fleming, of
Waterloo, this state; and John R. and Frank R.m both residents of Traer.

After the completion of his high school course, Dr. Stoakes taught a rural
school for two years and then entered the college at Cedar Falls, Iowa, which
he attended for three years, graduating in 1902 with the degree of Master of
Didactics. While at the Iowa State Teachers College he was business manager
of the school paper and also played on the football team, of which he was
captain in 1900. He was superintendent of the public schools of Randolph, Iowa,
for a year and then enrolled as a student at the University of Nebraska,
form which he won the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1905 and that of Doctor of
Medicine in 1907. He was connected with the Douglas County Hospital at
Omaha, Nebraska, for a year and in 1908 opened an office in Reinbeck, Iowa. He
located at Battle creek in 1909 and gradually established a large practice. On
August 1, 1926, he located at Dysart, Iowa, to be near his parents at Traer.
His father died October 1, 1926, following a paralytic stroke on September
13th. The Doctor is exceptionally well equipped for his profession and has
been very successful in his efforts to alleviate suffering and restore health.

On December 21, 1911, Dr. Stokes married Miss Margaret Wolfram, and they
have three children: Anna Jane, James Stewart, and Charles Franklin. Dr.
Stoakes belongs to the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity, which he joined while attending
the University of Nebraska, and is also identified with the Masonic order. He
is a consistent member of the Presbyterian church and casts his ballot for
the candidates of the republican party. He is a progressive physician and
throughout life has been a student, constantly striving to broaden his field of
usefulness.

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