History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 107
Lee comity, Illiuois, where lie successfully taught school for five
or six years. lucliiied, however, toA\ard a professional career, he
entered Northwestern University, where he attended the medical
school, graduating in 1876. In that year he returned to Lee county
and established himself in practice at Paw Paw, which he has since
made the field of his labors and where he has attained to a position
which places him with the foremost medical men of the coimty. In
point of years of practice he is the oldest doctor in this vicinity.
He is careful in diagnosis and there are few if any mistakes which
have occurred in the execution of his duties during his long career.
His medical standing is fully recognized in the profession and his
reputation with the general public bespeaks the confidence which
is reposed in him and is only too well merited.
On December 31, 1870, in Paw Paw, Illiuois, Dr. Stetler was
married to Miss Elizal^eth Rosenkraus, a daughter of Abram and
Elizabeth Rosenkrans, the former a pioneer agriculturist of Lee
county, who settled here in 1855. Her parents are deceased and
found their last resting place at Marble Rock, Iowa. Dr. and Mrs.
Stetler have one daughtei', Orla, a graduate of the Paw Paw high
school, formerly a student of Northwestern University and also
a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of jNIusic. She is a highly
accomplished young lady and poj^ular in the younger society set.
Dr. Stetler and family occupy a handsome residence which he
himself erected and where he has his office. Although his pro-
fessional duties are arduous and occupy practically all of his time,
the Doctor has taken an active interest in matters of public impor-
tance and has served successfully as chairman of the republican
central committee, although he has since embraced the principles
and ideals of the progressive party. Along fraternal lines he is
prominent with the Masons, being a Knight Templar, and has also
been worshipful mastei' of the blue lodge at Paw Paw. He is a
member of Bethany Commandery. Along more strictly profes-
sional lines he is a member of the Lee County and Lllinois State
Medical Societies, a life member of the North Central Medical
Association and a member of the American Medical Association,
and through these connections keeps in touch with the latest dis-
coveries and ideas w^hich constantly revolutionize the world of
medical science. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian
denomination and he is a member and trustee of that church at
Paw Paw. He is interested in all projects imdertaken in the inter-
ests of the general public and is ever ready to give his support to
worthy public enterprises and to help along measures which make