For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 537
W. H. STEPHENS, M. D....W. H. Stephens, M. D., who is meeting with well merited success in the practice of his profession at Stockton, was born in Laporte, Indiana, June 13, 1858, and is the only son of the marriage of S. R. and Clarissa ( Church ) Stephens, the former likewise a native of Indiana, while the latter claimed the Keystone state as the place of her nativity. The mother was of English descent, but the family has been represented in America since about 1700. In 1868 the father left his native state and removed to Clinton county, Iowa, where he spent one year, after which he removed to Des Moines and there lived during the succeeding two years. He then took up his abode in Davenport, but after spending a decade in that city removed to Rock Island, Illinois, and there his remaining days were passed, his death occurring in the latter city in 1898. The mother survived for several years, her death occurring in Fresno, California, in 1906.Dr. W. H. Stephens remained under the parental roof until he had reached the age of twenty-five, having in the meantime accompanied his parents on their various removals and acquired his education in the schools of the different localities in which they resided. Having decided to enter the field of medicine, to this end he went to Chicago and became a student in the Bennett Medical College of that city, graduating from that institution in 1883. He then located for practice in Rock Island, Illinois, remaining in that city for three years, while for four years he practiced his profession in Durant, Iowa. In 1892 he came to Stockton and opened an office, practicing here for five years. He then for a time abandoned his profession and traveled on the road for five years. However, he found the practice of medicine more to his liking and at the end of that period once more he returned to Stockton, where he has been engaged in practice of his profession to the present time. He ever keeps in touch with the advancement that is being made by the medical fraternity through reading and research and is most successful in the handling of his cases, his practice having now grown to large and profitable proportions.
In 1886 Dr. Stephens was united in marriage to Miss Anna Beck, of Muscatine, and this union has been blessed with one daughter, Verna. In his political views the Doctor is a republican, but aside from informing himself on the current events of the day through broad reading, he takes no active interest in public affairs. He holds to high ideals not only in his profession, but in citizenship and in social relations, thus commanding the warm esteem and genuine admiration of all with whom he comes in contact.
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