Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Stormont, David Wasson 1820 - 1887
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Author: James L. King (1905)

DAVID WASSON STORMONT, M. D.

    With the death of Dr. David Wasson Stormont, at his beautiful home in
Topeka, Kansas, on August 18, 1887, was brought to a close a useful and
well-rounded life, rich in good deeds and dear to the memory of thousands. He
was born September 26, 1820, at Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana. His father
was a substantial man of that locality who was able to give his son the
advantages of a college education.

    Dr. Stormont received his degree in 1845, and began and continued his
practice until 1859, in the village of Grand View, Illinois, in the meantime
adding to his medical knowledge and surgical skill by post-graduate courses at
the University of Pennsylvania. In 1862 he sought the attractive field offered
by the rapidly growing city of Topeka, with which city he was identified during
the succeeding 25 years. He was connected with many medical organizations and
was a strong supporter of the movement that was organized to spread a knowledge
of advanced methods and to require a higher standard of medical education for
the profession. For a number of years he was secretary of the State Board of
Health. In practice he was all that could be desired in a physician, adding to
this medical skill the true sympathy of a tender-hearted man. The influence Dr.
Stormont wielded, both directly and by his stimulating example, was not confined
in its effects entirely to the medical profession, but was apparent in the
promotion of educational and philanthropic works.

    On October 30, 1848, Dr. Stormont was married to Jane Cree Smith, of Grand
View, Illinois. This estimable lady survives and it has been her pleasure to not
only carry out many philanthropic plans of her late husband but to erect at
Topeka enduring monuments to his memory. In the Stormont Medical Library and in
The Jane C. Stormont Hospital and Training School for Nurses are public gifts
which will bring blessings in their wake for generations. Other public buildings
have profited by her generosity while her helping hand is continually extended
in support of innumerable charities. The hospital was established in 1895, at
which time Mrs. Stormont gave the building lots and the sum of $20,000. This
institution has since been enlarged and has achieved grand results in the field
of charity. Mrs. Stormont gave to the Stormont Medical Library books to the
value of $5,000 and for its maintenance endowed the library with the same
amount. She also contributed the sum of $5,000 to the support of the Topeka Free
Public Library.

    The late Dr. Stormont was no politician, but he always took a deep interest
in public matters and was the advisor of many prominent political and business
organizers, his high character and sterling integrity making his support very
valuable. During the administration of President Lincoln he was. appointed
receiver of public moneys at Topeka. His remains rest in the Topeka Cemetery
under a monument of enduring granite, typical of the strength of his character
and also of the long-continued remembrance of his fellow-citizens.

    Mrs. Stormont resides in a handsome home at Ingleside, and is surrounded by
many friends of long years standing. Portraits of Dr. and Mrs. Stormont
accompany this sketch.


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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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