BIO:  J. C. Stem, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Newberry Township, Pg 157

J. C. STEM, M. D., was born July 26, 1855, in Cashtown, Adams Co., Penn., and is 
the son of William and Eliza (Watson) Stem, natives of Adams County, and of 
German and Irish descent, who had two children (twins), J. C. and Annie.  The 
father is a retired physician in Cashtown, and his father, Reuben, now eighty 
years of age, is a retired merchant and resident of Adams County, Penn.  Our 
subject’s grandfather, on the mother’s side, James Watson, died at the advanced 
age of one hundred and two years.  Dr. J. C. Stem spent his younger days in 
Cashtown, where he attended the public and select schools, and afterward attended 
a select school at Gettysburg for five terms, and taught school at Buchanan 
Valley, Adams County, three winters.  At the age of seventeen years he began the 
study of medicine with his father; then attended the Cincinnati College of 
Medicine and Surgery, and graduated in the class of 1878.  He then took a tour 
through the West, after which he settled in Lewisberry, Penn., in the fall of 
1878, where he has built up a lucrative practice.  He was married, in 1880, to 
Mary Paup, daughter of Hiram and Phoebe A. (Hoopes) Paup, of York County.