(P. 583) J.M. BARSTOW, leading physician and surgeon of this city, b. Fulton Co, Illinois, Sept 10, 1854, son of Samuel and Eleanor (Coulson) Barstow. Dr Barstow came with his parents to Iowa at age one year; he attended a subscription school "in a slab house in Mills County;" he also attended the Bellevue High School, of Bellevue, Nebraska two terms; attended the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is one of the staff of the Pottawattamie Co Asylum for the Insane and St Bernard's Hospital. He was united in marriage to Carrie M. Shepard, 1884, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth (Foutz) Shepard. Dr and Mrs Barstow have one child, Ruth. (P. 595) W.E. MAXWELL, b. Jefferson Co, Iowa, 1854, son of John Maxwell and Catherine (Clover) Maxwell. His Grandfather Benjamin Maxwell was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. John and Catherine Maxwell had six sons: Albert who resides in Washington; W.E. our subject; I.M. of Sumner Co, Nebraska; T.H. and E.J. (twins) of Iowa; and C.G. of Creston, Iowa in the mercantile business with his brother T.H. W.E. Maxwell married at Council Bluffs, Iowa, September 1878 to Miss S.J. Timberman, a native of Iowa. Mr and Mrs Maxwell have 3 children: Amy Pearl, Gaylen Cloyd and Ivy Emma.