Biography of Solomon Stough, M.D., pages 940 / 941.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Solomon Stough, M.D., the oldest practicing physician of De Kalb County, is 
a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, born Feb. 14, 1820, a son of Dr. Samuel 
and Susan (Kinsley) Stough, his father a native of Virginia and his mother 
of Pennsylvania.  Rev. John Stough, his grandfather, was the first Lutheran 
minister to cross the Allegheny Mountains.  His father, now a resident of 
Kansas, in the ninety-sixth year of his age, was a practicing physician over 
sixty year.  He is a graduate of the old Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, and was one of the most prominent and able physicians of his 
day.  He was twice married.  His first wife, the mother of our subject, died 
in 1836.  She was a true Christian, an affectionate wife, loving and devoted 
mother, and was universally loved by all who knew her.  She was the mother 
of eight children. The second wife, Elizabeth Colepenny, died in 1845.  Five 
of her seven children are living.  Our subject in his early life attended 
Keyon College.  He early began the study of medicine in his father’s 
office, and in 1843-’44 attended lectures at Rush Medical College, 
Chicago.  He was subsequently appointed Censor of Fort Wayne Medical 
College, from which he graduated in 1847.  The Doctor has been in active 
practice, over fifty years, and has won the reputation he now has by close 
study and hard work.  The opinion of no physician is respected more highly 
than his, and many of the younger practitioners consult with him when they 
are called to any difficult or complicated case.  The medical fraternity, 
as well as those whom he has treated have, the utmost confidence in his 
judgement, and it will be difficult to fill his place in many of the hearts 
and homes of De Kalb County.  Mr. Stough left Ohio in 1845 and came on 
horseback to Indiana. His first night in the county was spent with Judge 
Parker, and in the morning when it was proposed to divide the expense, the 
Doctor gave Mr. Parker 6 ¼ cents, all the money he had.  The people were 
poor, the greater part of their money being from the sales of corn and 
deer skins.  Roads were few, and the few were rough and seldom traveled, 
and the doctor of the pioneer period was forced to undergo hardships and 
privations unknown to the young practitioners of to-day.  Dr. Stough is a 
member of the De Kalb and Steuben County Medical Society.  He was married 
Aug. 26, 1846, to Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Wood, of New York.  Of their 
six children five are living---Martha, wife of Silas St. Clair, of Chicago, 
Ill.; Morgiana, wife of Thomas Ward, of Brimingham, Mich.; Alphonso, a 
commission merchant of Chicago; Belle, wife of S. H. Schmuck, of Cleveland, 
Ohio; J.H., a physician of Louisburg, Kan.  Mrs. Stough died Jan. 22, 
1862, and Dr. Stough subsequently married Elizabeth S. Corkner.  They have 
three children---Ernest S., Edith May and Solomon.  Politically Dr. Stough 
affiliates with the Republican party.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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