Dr. William David Stumbaugh

21 Nov 1912  Adams County Free Press, Corning Iowa 

"Doctor Attempts Suicide Milo - For some reason unknown, Dr. W. B. Stumbaugh, age 45, a prominent resident of Lacona, shot himself with a revolver while at the home of James Brower of near Lacona Thursday afternoon."

Note: W.B. Stumbaugh was really Dr. William David Stumbaugh born September 26, 1857, son of James S. Stumbaugh and Barbara Woods, cousin of James Allen Brower. Just 8 years later in 1920, James Brower also takes his own life by gunshot on the same property, in the barn.


Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929 - Ancestry.Com

Name:	William D. Stumbaugh
Birth Date:	1859
Death Date:	21 Nov 1912
Death Place:	Lacona, IA
Type Practice:	Allopath
Licenses:	MO, 1910, IA, 1897
Medical School:	Baltimore University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 1897, (G)
JAMA Citation:	59:2172
Cause of Death:	suicide, gunshot

The Chariton Leader

Thursday, Nov. 21, 912

Vol. 4, No. 4

Only a few months prior to Dr. Stumbaugh committing suicide he was assaulted and injured. Is this all coincidental? Was Dr. Stumbaugh involved in some shady business with the wrong people or was he staging his first attempted suicide and failed? 

The Chariton Leader

Thursday, May 30, 1912

Chariton Leader
May 30, 1912

Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929