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Joseph M. Steim, M. D.
JOSEPH M. STEIM, M. D., of Kittanning, is the son of Richard A. and
Ella M. Steim, born July 15, 1877.Richard A. Steim, the father, a resident of Kittanning since childhood, is
widely known as a progressive hotel owner and a successful coal operator. lie
married Ella M. Mefford, a native of Armstrong county, daughter of Milton
Mefford, and they have three children, Joseph M., Richard D. and Charity
Marie.Dr. Joseph M. Steim received his early education at the public schools of
Kittanning, and obtained his medical degree from the Medico-Chirurgical
College at Philadelphia. After graduation he served as resident physician at
the St. John’s Hospital, the West Penn Hospital and the St. Francis Hospital,
all of Pittsburgh. Upon entering private practice lie was appointed assistant
medical examiner of the Pittsburgh Railways Company, and later for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He became extensively interested in the study
of the eye, and with this object in view became connected with the Pittsburgh
Eye and Ear Hospital, subsequently taking special postgraduate work at the New
York School of Clinical Medicine, the Philadelphia Polyclinic and the Wills
Eye Hospital of Philadelphia, Pa., also studying at London, England, and
Vienna, Austria, and he was in 1914 a delegate to the International Congress
of Ophthalmology at St. Petersburg, Russia, a gathering of eye surgeons from
every civilized country in the world.Source: Pages 608-609, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed October 2001 by Laurel Black Morris for the Armstrong County Beers
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