BIO:  Asahel Steward, 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, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 168

ASAHEL STEWARD, M.D., the eldest son and sixth child of the ten children of Nehemiah and Amelia 
(Cooper) Steward, was born in Peach Bottom Township, March 10, 1841.  His parents were natives 
of York County, his father of Irish and his mother of English extraction.  His boyhood was 
passed on his father’s farm, and his early education received in the common schools, and at 
York County Academy.  At the age of twenty-two he began the study of medicine with Dr. James Y. 
Bryan, and graduated at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, in the class of 
1868-69.  His first practice as a physician was in Fulton Township, Lancaster Co., Penn., where 
he remained about eight years.  In 1877 he returned to Peach Bottom Township, where he still 
pursues his profession, enjoying a large and lucrative practice.  He was married, December 9, 
1875, to Miss Cassandra I. McCullough, daughter of Robert K. McCullough, of Lancaster County.  
Their children are William J., Amelia F., Montgomery L., Asahel, who died in August, 1884, and 
Robert King, who died in infancy.  Mr. Steward is a member of Mount Hebron Lodge No. 516, I. O. 
O. F., and also of Esdraelon Lodge No. 176, A. F. & A. M.  His parents are both living at the 
age of seventy-five years.