California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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WILLIAM MILLER STOVER, M. D. A resident of San Luis Obispo since 1899, Doctor Stover has 
been prominent not only as a physician and surgeon but as an upbuilder of that city and one 
willing to identify him- self at the cost of sacrifice to himself with the best welfare of the 
community.
Doctor Stover is one of the eminent surgeons in this section of California, and is proprietor .of 
the San Luis Sanitarium, which he built in November, 1911. It is one of the best equipped 
institutions of its kind between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has furnished an unexcelled 
service under the supervision of Doctor Stover. It is a two-story and basement building, with 
accommodations for twenty-five patients.
Doctor Stover is a Virginian by birth, born at New Hope in that state February 10, 1867, a son of 
John A. and Barbara A. (Grove) Stover. He was liberally educated and as a youth had a military 
training in the Augusta Military Academy of Virginia. He holds the degree M. D. from the 
University of Virginia and also from the medical department of the University of California, 
where he graduated in 1896. Doctor Stover during 1908 did post-graduate work in New York 
City and also abroad in Vienna, Austria. He served as an interne in the City and County Hospital 
at San Francisco during 1896-97, and for the following two years was resident physician at 
Paraiso Springs, California. Since coming to San Luis Obispo in 1899 he has steadily devoted 
himself to a large and growing practice, with special emphasis on surgery. He is a Fellow of the 
American College of Surgeons, a high honor bestowed only upon those of exceptional ability in 
surgery. He also belongs to the American Medical Association, is a republican, a Mason, an Elk, 
and a member of the Emerson Club. He has served on the school board, has been mayor of San 
Luis Obispo, and in many ways has worked for the betterment of the town. He has shown his 
faith in the community by investment of considerable capital, and has built nine houses and 
other buildings and in other ways has improved local real estate.
Doctor Stover was married October 12, 1898, to Miss Hannah E. Mitchell of Watsonville, 
California. They have two children : Virginia and Beverly.