Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 12 January 2005

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DR. E. B. STEVENS, physician, Lebanon, was born Aug. 5, 1823, at Monroe, Butler Co., Ohio. His parents were Joshua Stevens, who emigrated to Ohio from Winthrop, Me., and Eliza (Blackleach) Stevens, a native of New York, who came to Ohio with her widowed mother about 1820. Our subject attended the common school of Monroe and a private high school which was under the auspices of the Associate Reformed Church until 1839, when he entered Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1843. He then taught school one year in the Associate Reformed School, in which he had lately been a pupil, and at the same time read medicine with his father. In 1845-46 he attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, where he in the latter year graduated, and, returning to Monroe, practiced his profession until 1849, when he came to Lebanon. After remaining in Lebanon five years, he moved to Cincinnati, and while there (in 1865) he assisted in reorganizing the Miami Medical College, in which he became Professor of Materia Medica. In 1873, he was elected to the same chair in the University of Syracuse, N. Y., where a medical department had just been organized. In the spring of 1877, he returned to Lebanon, and has since been engaged here in the practice of his profession, having entered into a large and lucrative practice immediately on his arrival. He was married, July 11, 1848, to Miss Mary L. Stewart, of Carthage, Jefferson Co., N. Y., by whom he has had five children, viz.: Mary E., who is living with her parents; Carrie E., now the wife of C. C. Robinson, of Cincinnati; Edward S., a practicing physician of Clarksville, Ohio; Charles B., now engaged in business in Cincinnati, and Jennie C., who died at the age of nine years. Dr. Stevens has been largely connected with the publication of several of the leading medical journals of the country. He became the editor of the Lancet and Observer, a journal devoted to the interests of the profession, in 1856, having Drs. Mendenhall and Murphy, of Cincinnati, associated with him a part of the time. He practices what is known among the profession as the "regular" system of medicine, but gives his especial attention to obstetrics. He is a man of great ability and gentlemanly manners, and stands at the top of his profession. In 1878, he established the Obstetric Gazette, a monthly journal devoted to obstetrics and diseases of women—the only monthly of the sort in America. He has always been an active member of the State and other medical societies, and a frequent contributor to the medical literature of the day as found in the journals and society transactions. For many years he was Secretary of the Ohio State Medical Society, and, in 1867, was elected its President. He presided over the annual meeting at Delaware in 1868.