Hi Listers.. An index to the biographies in the History of Barron County, 1922, and those previously submitted are available at the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/barron/bios.htm Transcribed by Peg Lamkin, brinwood@chibardun.net. Edited and submitted by Victor Gulickson. , one of the leading business men of Barron, proprietor of an up-to-date drug store, was born at Coudersport, Penn., May 13, 1880, son of Edward M. and Mary T. (Clapp) Stebbins, the former of English descent, and later of English-Huguenot stock. The family came to Barron from Pennsylvania in 1891, and here the father engaged in woodworking for the remainder of his life. Arthur P. Stebbins started his education in Pennsylvania, and was 11 years of age when he came to Barron, where he continued his schooling. In 1902 he entered Northwestern University as a student in the pharmacy course and was graduated in 1904. In June of the latter year he took a position with Frank Danielson of Cumberland, Wis., as drug clerk and later was with a drug house in Superior, Wis. After two years' practical experience, on May 28, 1906, he became proprietor of his present business in Barron. He has a fine store at the corner of LaSalle and Third streets, and keeps an ample stock of pure drugs, stationery, school supplies, and other lines of merchandise customary in the trade. He is enjoying a good patronage and is the owner of a good residence on South Fifth Street. Fraternally, he belongs to the local lodges of Masons and Knights of Pythias. Politically, he is a Democrat. Mr. Stebbins was married Sept. 5, 1914, to Louise T. Ticknor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ticknor, of Menomonie, Wis, in which city she was born Sept. 20, 1890. A graduate of Stout Institute, she was for some time before her marriage a teacher of domestic science in the public schools of her native city. Mr. and Mrs. Stebbins are members of the Episcopal church in Barron, which the former has served for some years as warden and treasurer. They have one child, Joan, who was born Feb. 16, 1916. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 80.