Dr. I.W. Stout and wife came from Ohio to Barber County April 30, 1880.
     They first settled in Elm Mills township and engaged in the sheep and
     cattle business. Later they moved to Medicine Lodge and Dr. Stout practiced
     medicine and later devoted himself to fruit growing; the tornado of 1907 
     destroyed his fruit farm, so he turned to other fields.
       He was always interested in public affairs. He was a Democrat in principal
     and that principal was sacred to him. He knew no compromise; had he done
     as other men in this age do so often, drift into the dominant party for
     policy's sake, he would doubtless have been one of the great men of Kansas
     politics.
       Dr. Stout was born in Gilboa, Ohio, April 6, 1846, and died at Medicine
     Lodge, March 21, 1910. He was married to Elia Hortense Case, on February 4,
     1871. They had five sons and one daughter. The daughter died in infancy. 
     The sons were W.E., E.W., W.P., Rexford, and Ray. Ray decided he wanted to
     see the world, and at an early age joined the Army. He was last heard from
     in 1908 when he wrote his parents that he was going to Panama.
       Two of the sons resided in Medicine Lodge. They were W.E., and Rexford.
     W.E. was manager of the Metz Lumber Company, at Lake City, and W.P.C. Stout
     was a harness maker in Harper.
       Elisha Worthington Stout, known as E.W., was born June 7, 1874 and died
     on May 23, 1919. He was married on August 15, 1902, to Miss Elnora Hulick
     and they had four children - Albert, Wilsey, Margaret and Bernice. Mr. Stout
     died at the age of 44.   
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 443 
     This information taken from The Barber County Index of March 23, 1910.