History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, MO
Cedar County Biography Section

   A. W. Stearns, editor of the Tribune at Ed Dorado Springs,
was born in Fulton County, Ill., in 1845, and is the son of 
Jefferson G. and Mary (Wilson) Stearns, natives of New York.  
The parents were married in Illinois, and in 1867 removed to 
Butler County, Kan., where they are residing at the present 
time.  The father is a farmer by occupation, and has been 
quite successful in this industry.  The Stearns family first 
made settlements in America in the sixteenth century. A. W. 
Stearns received a common school education, and started out 
for himself at the age of sixteen years.  At the breaking out 
of the war he enlisted in Company G, Eleventh Illinois Volunteer
Cavalry, Col. Robert Ingersoll's regiment, and served three 
years and four months in the Army of the Tennessee.  He was 
discharged in August, 1865, at Springfield, Ill.  In 1868 he 
was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Geyer, a native of 
Illinois, and the daughter of Joseph Geyer, who was born in 
Germany.  Mr. Stearns and and family removed to Kansas in 
1869, and there his wife died in February, 1887.  To their 
marriage were born two children.  Mr. Stearns followed 
agricultural pursuits the principal part of the time until 
1886, when he removed to Wichita, Kan., and was there 
connected with various newspapers until his health failed, 
when he removed to El Dorado, Mo., in 1888.  In March, 1889,
he purchased the Tribune, which he has since edited and 
published, and which is a spicy sheet, well filled with news 
and useful information.  Mr. Stearns is Independent in politics
and religion, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and, 
although a late resident of El Dorado, he is already one of 
its prominent and influential citizens.  He was married in 
October, 1888, to Mrs. Fannie Jett,  née Parker, a native of
Henry County, Mo.  

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 781, 782  
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