while the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates were in progress he supported the cause of Stephen A. Douglas and made a number of strong speeches for the Democratic cause. When the Civil War raised an issue, however, he enlisted with the Republicans, and became a member of that party. He was not, however, in accord with the colonial policy of the McKinley administration, which he strenuously opposed in the presidential campaign of 1900. In 1864, in a Democratic county, he was elected as a Republican to the Iowa Legislature and served with ability upon several of the most important committees of that body. In 1865 he was chosen to Occupy a seat in the higher branch of the Legislature, being elected to the Senate over his preceptor and former law partner, Colonel Summers. In 1866 he resigned his seat in the Senate to accept the position of reporter of decisions of the Iowa Supreme Court. To that office he was re-elected in October, 1870, but at the expiration of the second term refused to be a candidate again. In 1883 Mr. Stiles was made the Republican candidate for Congress in the district wherein General James B. Weaver was the candidate of the strong fusion forces. This was during the greenback agitation, and with a combined majority of 5,000 against him the race seemed an entirely hopeless one. Mr. Stiles was not elected, but he performed the wonderful feat of reducing the majority of 5,000 to the narrow margin of 241. As a writer and compiler Mr. Stiles has an established reputation. During his service as reporter of court decisions it was his task to prepare for publication sixteen volumes of the "Iowa Reports." These, on account of the intelligent headlines, footnotes and reference marks, and their general arrangement, made by Mr. Stiles, are considered standard among all the reports issued in this country. In 1873 he prepared and published a new "Iowa Digest," in three. volumes. For many years he stood conspicuously in the very front rank of the Iowa bar and enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He removed to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1886, and has since been a prominent resident and leading practitioner of that city. He was appointed master in chancery of the United States Circuit Court for the western district of Missouri in November, 1892, and still holds that position. During the years 18991900 he served as special master for the re ceivership of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railway. Mr. Stiles was married September 19, 1861, to Miss Emma M. Vernon, of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She comes of Quaker stock, and her ancestors were members of William Penn's company of pioneer settlers. To Mr. and Mrs. Stiles six children have been born, of whom two are deceased: Mary Holcomb, who died in 1870, and Eugenia Vernon, who died in 1866. Those living are Bertha Vernon, Edward Holcomb, Dorothy Vernon and Maris Vernon Stiles. The head of this family holds a position of dignified prominence at the Kansas City bar and in social circles. His life has been marked by repeated honors, and the esteem in which he is held is an evidence of the friendship and respect of all who know and associate with him. Still, Andrew Taylor, discoverer of the system of curing disease known as osteopathy, and founder of the American School of Osteopathy, located at Kirksville, Missouri, was born in Jonesboro, Lee County, Virginia, August 6, 1828, son of Rev. Abraham and Martha P. Still. Abraham Still was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a physician. In 1834 he removed to Newmarket, Tennessee, and became connected with the Holston Conference. In 1837 he was sent as a missionary to Missouri, and after a tedious trip overland, settled in Macon County, and was the first resident Methodist Episcopal minister in northern Missouri. When the schism in the Methodist Episcopal Church caused the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rev. Still strongly opposed the division and remained with the old church. He became attached to the Iowa conference, and was made presiding elder and placed in charge of the ministers of Missouri. By the ministers and adherents of the Southern church he was persecuted in numerous ways, though for a number of years he steadfastly performed his duties, until he was appointed a missionary to the Shawnee Indians of Kansas. Andrew T. Still received the rudiments of his education in the country schools of his native county. When his father removed to Tennessee, along with his two older brothers, he was sent to Holston College, at Newmarket, which he attended for nearly three years. When his father located in Macon |