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From 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908), The History of Clark County Ohio, (1881)
JOHN T. STEWART (deceased). There is perhaps no family in Clark Co. who are more widely known than the descendants of John T. Stewart, and most of his sons are leading business men of the community in. which they reside, and a credit to their deceased father. The family are of Scotch origin, and went to Ireland about 1661, changing their name from Stuart to Stewart, to avoid persecution. In 1735, the grandparents of John T., viz., Samuel T. Stewart and wife, came to the American Colonies, and with them came the father of John T., viz., Samuel Stewart, a native of Belfast, Ireland, the family settling in Pennsylvania. The subject of this sketch was the fifth son of Samuel Stewart, and was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., March 3, 1781, and there grew to maturity, his father dying in that county Sept. 19, 1803. In the autumn of 1806 he, with his brother, Samuel, came to Ohio, and purchased 500 acres of land in Sec. 15, Town 5, Range 8, which was then a part of Greene Co., but now lays in Green Township, Clark Co., Ohio. About 1815, they divided the land, John T. receiving the southern portion in the division then made. He was married near his home, March 2, 1815, to Miss Ann Elder, third daughter of Robert and Ann Elder, natives of Dauphin Co., Penn., who settled on Sec. 10 of the same township in the spring of 1813. Mrs. Stewart was born in her parents' native county, May 19, 1798, and had the following children by this union: Juliana, Perry, Elder R., Samuel, Charles, James M., Thomas E., Osear N., William C. and Harriet, all of whom are living but the lastmentioned, who died in infancy. John T. and wife resided with his brother, Samuel, until he built a house on his own place, whither they removed in the fall of 1816. In 1813, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held until 1836; he was the first Clerk of the Clifton Presbyterian Church, which was organized in 1811; was the first Clerk of his Township, and served as Associate Judge one term. He continued to reside on the old homestead until his death, April 16, 1850, his widow surviving him thirty years, dying Sept. 24, 1880. Both were life-long members of the Presbyterian Church, and went down to the grave with a strong faith in a blissful immortality. John T. Stewart was a man of ability and intellectual worth; of the strictest temperance views, and can be truly called one of the pioneer temperance men of Clark Co. He uit a Mie bi,, M (4q 3 was a rank Abolitionist, and early took strong grounds against slavery, and believed that nothing but a war would be able to strike the shackles from the slave, which demonstrates that he possessed a discerning, far-seeing mind, much in advance of his time. He was one of the most energetic. successful farmers of Clark Co., and accumulated an estate worth, at the time of his death, $40,000, which was considered wealthy in those days. He was a man honored and respected by all classes of society, and has left a name that his descendants can point to with just pride. His portrait appears in the pages of this work, having been inserted by his children, who yet love and honor his memory, and who believed that it was their duty to represent him in this history, where he justly deserved a place.
As printed in The History of Clark County Ohio, (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
JOHN TEMPLETON STEWART. It is deemed fitting and proper to give representation in this work to one who, though long deceased, left an impress on the affairs of Clark County which more than half a century of time has not effaced. A pioneer, coming in 1805, prior to the organization of Clark County, Mr. Stewart took an important part in the work of development, improvement and progress in this part of the state, both in private and official capacity. Aside from this, he gave to the community a large family of children, who became influential and of large affairs and have done much as individuals, some of them as public officers, to add materially to the welfare and prosperity of Clark County.
John Templeton Stewart (1) was born in Hanover Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1781, and was a son of Samuel, Jr., and Nancy (Templeton) Stewart. He came of a prominent old colonial family in this country and traced his ancestry in Scotland back to John Stewart, a Scotch Covenanter of the seventeenth century, who fled from Scotland to County Down, in the North of Ireland, at the time when Charles II. of England was trying to force Episcopacy upon the Scottish nation, some time between the years lfifiO and 1f85. Of this early ancestor we have record of but one son,
Robert Stewart, who was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1665. The latter did not go to the Emerald Isle until the death of his father in 1720, then located in Drumore Township. County Down, where he died ten years later.
Samuel Stewart, Sr., a son of Robert, was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1698, and in 1720 emigrated to North of Ireland with his father. In 1735, with his only brother, Hugh, he came to America, and after landing in Philadelphia, went to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1770. He married Mary McClay, and one of their ten children was Samuel, Jr.
Samuel Stewart, Jr., was born in County Down, Ireland, and came with his parents to America. He was reared in Lancaster County, where, about the year 1750, he settled on a farm of 100 acres in Hanover Township, for which he held a warrant dated May 17, 1754. He served as a private in a battalion commanded by Colonel Tim Greene in the defense of the frontier, and in 1776 he became a member of the company commanded by Captain James Rogers of Lancaster, fighting for American Independence. He moved to Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and in 1785 served on the first grand jury of that county. He first married Nancy Templeton, a daughter of Robert and Agnes Templeton, and after her death married Agnes Calhoun, a daughter of William and Hannah Calhoun. He died September 16. 1803. and was buried in Hanover Cemetery.
John Templeton Stewart lived in his native county until 1805, when, with an older brother, Samuel E.. he came west to what is now Clark County, Ohio, then a part of Greene County, settling on the bank of the Little Miami River. In 1813 he was elected justice of the peace, serving continuously until 1838. He was the first clerk of Green Township, and served from 1837 until 1840 as associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In company with his brother he purchased about 500 acres in Section 15, Green Township, erected a log cabin and set about clearing the land and converting it from its wild state to one of cultivation. There he lived and prospered, adding largely to his landed interests. His death on April 16, 1850, was mourned as a sad loss to the entire community.
Mr. Stewart was married March 2, 1815, to Miss Ann Elder, who was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in May, 1798, and was a daughter of Robert and Ann Elder, her people moving to Ohio in 1812. This union resulted in the birth of ten children, eight sons and one daughter growing to maturity, as follows: Juliana, wife of David Anderson, died in 1901, at the age of eighty-six years; Perry, a record of whom may be found in the sketch of David Wilmot Stewart; Elder Robert, a resident of Springfield; Samuel, who died near Kenton, Hardin County; Charles, a resident of Springfield, died October 26. 1902; Hon. James M.. of Xenia, Ohio; Thomas, a resident of Green Township; Oscar N., a resident of Harmony Township; and William C, a resident of Green Township.
As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: David Anderson David Wilmot Stewart (b. 1848)
Their biographies name John Stewart: Charles Alfred Wood George Otstot
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