Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Stewart, Samuel G. 1845 - 
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Author: James L. King (1905)

SAMUEL G. STEWART, A. M., M. D.

    SAMUEL G. STEWART, A. M., M. D., who for 32 years has been in active medical
practice, has been a resident of Topeka since 1887. Dr. Stewart was born October
1, 1845, at Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, and is a son of Dr. Robert and Mary
Elizabeth (White) Stewart.

    Our subject's ancestors, traced as far back as the great-great-grandparents,
were of North of Ireland, Londonderry, stock on the paternal side and of
Scotch-Irish on the maternal. Dr. Robert Stewart, his father, was a graduate of
a medical college at Cincinnati, Ohio and practiced in that State for many years.

    Samuel G. Stewart obtained his academical training at Xenia, Ohio, and
graduated at the Miami University at Oxford with the degree of B. S. He then
entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he was graduated with
his medical degree in 1873. Two years later he came to Kansas, on horseback, in
order to look the country over with the idea in view of later locating here. He
had an honorable war record, having served from 1861 until the close of
hostilities as a member of Company D, 74th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., with the 14th
Army Corps, under General Thomas, and he was a fully equipped physician and
surgeon. But at this time the prospects did not sufficiently please Dr. Stewart
to induce him to settle at Topeka, and for the next 12 years he practiced in
Montgomery County, Ohio.

    In 1887 Dr. Stewart settled at Topeka and this city has been the central
point of his interests ever since. During his previous years of practice, he had
added to his professional knowledge by post-graduate work in New York, and he
subsequently accepted a place on the faculty of the Kansas Medical College at
Topeka, as professor of the principles and practice of medicine, his duties
including three lectures a week to the students and one to the nurses under
training. He is chief of the medical staff of Christ's Hospital, Topeka.

    Dr. Stewart was first married, in 1876, to Margaret Bigger, of Ohio, who
died in February, 1891, leaving three sons, namely: Robert, now a senior in the
Kansas Medical College, who will graduate next year; James and William. Dr.
Stewart married, second, Isabel Gibson, who was born in the North of Ireland,
and they have three children, namely: Samuel G., Jr., Isabel and Margaret. Dr.
Stewart is a member of the First United Presbyterian Church of Topeka.

    Dr. Stewart is a member of the Shawnee County and Kansas State medical
societies, American Medical Association and the Clinical Medical Society, of New
York City. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Young Men's
Christian Association at Topeka. His long residence here, his eminent
professional services and standing, his interest in public measures and his
unblemished personal character have all served to make him a representative
citizen in all the term implies.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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