JAMES C. STEWART, M. D. Many of the physicians and surgeons of today are
devoting their energies to certain special lines, believing that in this way
they accomplish much more good than if they spread their efforts over a
wider field. One of the men who has achieved success in his chosen walks of
life and has made his name a representative one in the profession of
medicine, is Dr. James C. Stewart, who is engaged in practice at Anna,
Illinois, and makes a specialty of diseases of the eye. Dr. Stewart was born
at Buncombe, Johnson county, Illinois, in 1866, and is a son of Thomas B.
and Sarah J. (Lovelace) Stewart, retired farming people of Illinois, who now
make their home in St. Louis. James C. Stewart received his early education
in the common schools of Johnson county, after leaving which he entered the
Southern Illinois Normal University, at Carbondale, which he was compelled
to leave on account of ill health six months before graduating. During the
next four years he was engaged in teaching in the public schools of Johnson
county, in the meantime diligently pursuing his medical studies, and he then
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at St. Louis, from which he
was graduated in 1891. Subsequently he took a general postgraduate course at
the Illinois Post-graduate Medical School, Chicago, from which he graduated
in 1900, having given special study on diseases of the eye, and in 1891 he
began practice at Goreville, Johnson county. After seven years of successful
practice at that place, Dr. Stewart came to Anna, where he has since built
up a large clientele. He has retained the confidence of a large body of
patients through his success in a number of complicated cases, is a close
and careful student, a steady-handed surgeon and a sympathetic friend and
advisor, and keeps himself well posted on the latest discoveries in his
profession by subscription to numerous medical journals. He is a member of
the Union County Medical Society, the Illinois and Southern Illinois Medical
Societies and the American Medical Association, has been connected with the
American Association of Railway Surgeons for some years, and also belongs to
the Joint Association of Surgeons of the Illinois Central, Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley and Indiana Southern Railway Companies. Fraternally, the
doctor is connected with the local lodge of Masons, No. 520. He and his wife
are consistent members of the Presbyterian church, in which he now acts as a
member of the board of trustees. Dr. Stewart is one of Anna's most
public-spirited citizens, and can always be found in the front rank of any
movement which will prove of benefit to his profession, to the cause of
education, or to his adopted city.
In 1892 Dr. Stewart was married to Miss Ada P. May, of Marion, Illinois, and
four children have been born to this union, namely: Don B., who was born
October 25, 1896, and is now attending the Union Academy, at Anna; Beryl J.,
who died at the age of ten years; Victor, who died when ten years old; and
Fay, who passed away when an infant of eighteen months. Dr. Stewart has a
well-appointed suite of offices in Anna, where he is also the owner of a
modern residence property.
Extracted 16 Jan 2018 by Norma Hass from 1912 A History of Southern Illinois, volume 2, pages 782-783.
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