Joseph Warren Stewart

As printed in 1909

HON. JOSEPH WARREN STEWART.

The salient points in the life record of the Hon. Joseph Warren Stewart are such as have gained for him the respect and good will of his fellow townsmen. He has made a most creditable public record, including service m the thirty-second general assembly and he is even more widely known as one of the most prominent and successful stock buyers of the west His is the record of a strenuous life — the record of a strong individuality, sure of itself, stable in purpose, quick in perception, swift in decision and energetic and persistent in action.

Mr. Stewart was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, September 6, 1846, and is a son of Archibald K. and Mary Ann (Lawrence) Stewart. The father, a native of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, was born March 23, 1820, and when fifteen years of age accompanied his parents on their removal to Dearborn county, Indiana, his parents traveling westward by boat, while Archibald K. Stewart drove across the country with a four-horse team, taking with him a portion of the household effects. He attained his majority in Dearborn county and was there married to Miss Mary Ann Lawrence, who was a native of that county. They began their domestic life in that locality, where they continued to reside until 1856. In 1852, 1854 and again in 1855, however, Mr. Stewart had made trips to Iowa and on the first occasion purchased two hundred and forty acres of wild and unimproved land five miles east of the city of Washington in Washington county. Two years later he bought a farm of four hundred and eighty acres in Dallas county and in 1855 made investment in a tract of land of three hundred and

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As printed in History of Washington County, Iowa from the first white settlements to 1908. Also biographical sketches of some prominent citizens of the county (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.