Born on the 7th of June, 1857, at Gallion, Ohio. Mr. Stiger is a son of Stephen and Abigail (Jackson) Stiger, who moved from their native state of Ohio to Missouri in the spring of 1860, and in the following year, 1861, located at Toledo, Iowa. After completing his education in the public schools of Toledo, Horry J. Stiger studied law for three years in the office of Messrs. Appelgate and Kinne. During the latter part of the '70s he served as a deputy in both the auditor's and treasurer's offices, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. In the following year of 1881 he became associated with Messrs. G. R. Struble and L. G. Kinne, under the firm name of H. J. Stiger & Co., in the land and loaning business, the firm being successors to Nelson & Barker. The business was consolidated with their law practice, and the whole was conducted under the firm name of Struble, Kinne & Stiger, until 1886, when the firm dissolved partnership owing to Mr. Kinne's election to the bench. In 1909 he organized the Struble & Stiger Loan and Investment Company, of Toledo. He has always stanchly and actively supported the Democratic cause, and in 1895 was elected to the Twenty-first General Assembly of Iowa, overcoming the then large Republican majority in his county, and he has also served two terms as the mayor of Toledo and a term as the city attorney. In 1892 he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago that nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency. Aside from his large law practice he also has several business interests, and is a stockholder and director in four banks. He married in Toledo, in 1882, Miss Carrie E. Blinn. Mr. Stiger is an active member of the Masonic fraternity.