is raised and there is every indication that the demand will continue to increase as the years pass. The success of Blackman Brothers is due to their industry, perseverance and good judgment. The brothers are identified with the Methodist church and both are active prohibitionists, believing that the saloon is the greatest enemy of society.
ADELBERT B. Maxwell, M. D.
Dr. Adelbert B. Maxwell, a member of the medical profession in Ames and president of the Story County Medical Society, was born in DuPage county, Illinois, on the 10th of February, 1863. He is the son of David N. and Altha (Bartholomew) Maxwell, the father also being a native of DuPage county, where he always lived until the family removed to Story county, Iowa, in 1867. He is no longer engaged in active business. Of the three children of the family only one is now living, Adelbert B.
Dr. Adelbert B. Maxwell was only four years of age when his parents located in Story county, so that almost his entire life, with the exception of the years he was away studying for his profession, have been spent in this immediate locality. His boyhood and youth were very similar to those of the majority of men. He attended the district schools, performed such tasks as were assigned by parental authority and occupied his leisure hours in the diversions which appeal t6 every boy who lives in the rural districts. After he had completed the work of the common schools he entered the Iowa State College, where he studied for two years. Later he went to Iowa City and matriculated in the medical department of the Iowa State University, remaining there for a similar period, but finished his medical course in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, being identified with that institution until his graduation, at which time he received the degree of M. D. He was a very ambitious young man, however, having always been a diligent student, and unlike most young physicians, felt that instead of having completed the study of medicine he had just begun it and so entered Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Chicago, in order to continue his research in the healing art.
After the completion of his postgraduate course Dr. Maxwell returned to Ames and began the practice of medicine and surgery, in both of which lines he has proven himself to be most capable and skillful. Later he took up the special practice of eye and ear. One of his strongest assets in all probability has been his personality which never fails to soothe and cheer the patient, while at the same time it inspires confidence in the efficacy of his art. He also possesses that most essential of all powers to the medical man acuteness in the diagnosis of disease, as well as the gentle touch and positive hand of the competent surgeon. He always makes friends in the sick room as is attested by his large and growing practice.