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Dr. Edward D. Stein, a physician and surgeon at Centre Ridge, was born in
Carroll County, Mo., in 1840, and is a son of Major James and
Charlotte
(Casner) Stein. The former born in Baden-Baden in 1818, and the latter in
Brussells, Belgium, the same year. Both came with their parents to the
United States, Mr. Stein at 15 and wife at 12 years old. They married at
Harrisburg, Penn., and from there they removed to North Carolina, thence to
Northwest Missouri, and Mrs Stein died in Carroll County, Mo., in 1872.
Mr. Stein died in Andrew County in 1873 or 1874, Both were Catholics. Mr.
Stein was a captain in the Black Hawk war, and served under Gen. Sterling Price,
as a major in the Mexican war, and fought at Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, etc. His
father, Daniel Stein, was a merchant at Harrisburg, Penn, where he died.
Grandfather John Casner was a farmer in Northwest Missouri, where he died.
Dr. Stein is the sixth of seven children, the doctor and one sister (Buena,
now Mrs. George Callahan, of Logan County, Ark.) living. Dr. Stein was educated
principally at New Orleans and Mobile, and at about 15 began the study of
medicine with an uncle, Dr. Wm. Glaze, of Maryville, Mo, and graduated from the
New Orleans Medical College; practiced in Louisiana a few years, and about 1872
took a course at Ann Arbor, Mich., and continued practice in Louisiana till
1886, when he removed to Northwest Arkansas, and in 1887 to Conway County, and
since January, 1890, has been located at Centre Ridge.
He served nearly all through the Southern ****y in various capacities – in
the field, and doing hospital service, etc. Was in the battles of Oak Hill and
Lexington, Mo., Sugar Creek and Elk Horn, Ark., and Corinth and Iuka, Miss. He
married in 1881 to Josephine Prichett, and has one son and one daughter. He is a
Democrat in politics and has been Worshipful Master of Mount Moriah Lodge, No.
557, A. F. & A. M., in Louisiana, and Noble Grand of Goodwin Lodge (Louisiana),
No. 325 I. O. O. F., and is a member of the American Medical Association. Mrs.
Stein is a Methodist.
Source : Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
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