1890 Buchanan and Delaware Counties History pg. 427

SAMUEL STEWART, farmer of Coffin's Grove township, Delaware
county, Iowa, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, July 22, 1832.    His father, James Stewart, was  born in Luzerne county,  Pa.,  June 29, 1796.    He was reared in his native place, and served in the commissary
department in the War of 1812.    In 1820 he emigrated West and settled in Delaware county, Ohio, where he made his home for nineteen years.    In 1839 he moved to Coles county, Ill., and afterwards accompanied his son, the subject of this sketch, to Iowa county, Wis., where he died in 1865.    He was a large and successful farmer, and held  in high esteem   by   all   who   knew   him.     The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary Jones, and was   born in Lycoming county, Pa., July 4, 1805.   She was a daughter of Samuel Jones, a native of Wales, who came to this country when a young man and died in Delaware county, Ohio, at the age of seventy-three.   James and Mary (Jones) Stewart were the parents of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, only six of whom are now living, viz. - Josiah,  who   lives in  Miner county, Dak.; Charles, a resident of Boone county,    Nebr.;    Samuel,   our    subject; James, of Buchanan county, Iowa; Mrs. Eliza Graham, a resident of Rock county, Minn., and Mrs. Mary Smart, of Richland county, Wis.

Samuel Stewart, the subject of this brief sketch, was reared in his native county and Coles county, Ill., whither his parents moved when he was a boy. He was brought up on a farm and received a good common-school education. He then went with his parents to Wisconsin, settled on the Pictonic river, taking up two hundred and forty acres of government land, on which he lived for twenty-three years. In the spring of 1866 he came to Iowa and purchased eighty acres of land in Coffin's Grove township, on which he settled and where he now lives. He began in the usual way with early settlers, and has prospered far beyond his expectations. He now owns a fine farm of two hundred and seventy-seven acres, all in a good state of cultivation, well improved and well stocked.

Mr. Stewart married August 13, 1857, taking to wife Miss Anna Ward, a native of England, who was born September 13, 1841, and who was brought by her parents to America when only eighteen months old. The result of this union has been five children, viz.-Ward B., born April 30, 1859; Elmer S., born April 26, 1867; Rose Anna M., born December 9, 1874; Francis Burton, born March 7, 1882, and John Muton, born January 11, 1885.

In politics Mr. Stewart is a stanch republican and takes much interest in all public matters relating to his township and county.

Personally, he is kind and accommodating- and is well liked by his neighbors.

 

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