Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B
Johnson County

J.F. Stewart was born in Butler County, Pa., in 1833, a son of William and
Elizabeth (Frew) Stewart, natives, respectively, of Butler and Beaver
Counties, Pa.  The grandparents were James and Nancy (Scott) Stewart; the
former, a native of Scotland, came to America when a child and settled in
western Pennsylvania; he was a farmer, as was also William Stewart.  J.F.
Stewart was educated at Westminster College, Lawrence County, Pa., and
studied law with Moore & Gallup, of Louisa, Ky., where he began practice in
1860 and followed the same there more or less for five years.  In 1862 he
entered the United States military service in the Thirty-ninth Kentucky
Infantry as a private, under Col. John Dills, Jr., and was mustered out of
service with a Major's commission in February, 1865.  In the following year
he located in Paintsville, Johnson County, Ky., where he has since been
engaged in the active duties of his profession.  He served his county as
school commissioner two years and county judge four years; 1860 he married
Clara Rodgers, of Ohio, a daughter of Moses and Nancy (Burns) Rodgers, of
Kentucky.  Mr. Stewart is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1856 and of Lodge No. 381,
of Paintsville, since 1871.  He is a Republican.

Stewart Frew Scott Dills Rodgers Burns
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Butler-PA Beaver-PA Lawrence-PA OH Scotland

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