From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 446.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


A. F. STIFEL

A. F. Stifel, M. D., a son of John Louis Stifel, named elsewhere, was 
born at Wheeling, July 22, 1855.  He received his early education in 
the public schools of this city, and then determining to prepare 
himself for the business of a druggist, he attended, during the years 
1871, 1872 and 1873, the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, where he 
was graduated in that profession.  He was subsequently engaged in the 
drug business at New York city until 1875, when he concluded to enter 
the medical profession, and to that end, went to Germany and entered 
the University of Wuerzburg, later to Leipsic, where for four years 
he pursued the study of medicine, and was graduated in 1879.  After 
spending three months of practice in the hospitals of Vienna, he 
returned to his native land, and at Wheeling embarked in the general 
practice.  His thorough preparation and scientific devotion to his 
profession has given him a creditable rank among the physicians of 
the city.  He is a member of the Medical society, of Wheeling, and of 
the county of Ohio, of which he was president one year, and he is a 
member of the Medical society, of West Virginia, and the American 
Medical association. 


(Linda Fluharty)