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Born 1868, Green township
From A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902)
RALPH NICHOLSON STEWART.
Ralph Nicholson Stewart resides at No. 67 East Pleasant street, in Springfield, where he has a good residence and his office is at No. 711% East Main street. He is the secretary of the Clark County Farmers Mutual Protection and Aid Association, having acted in this capacity since 1901. A native son of Clark county, he was born in Green township, April 12, 1868, his parents being Oscar Nesbit and Rachel (Nicholson) Stewart, whose history is given on another page of this work. He was about sixteen years of age when his people removed to Harmony township and in addition to the educational privileges afforded by the country schools he pursued a course in a business college at
Antioch and was graduated there when:
eighteen years of age. He likewise spent about six months as a student in Antioch
College and was thus well fitted for life practical duties. For a number of years he followed farming and was a progressive and enterprising agriculturist, his. well tilled fields returning to him rich harvests for the care and labor which he bestowed upon the land. At length, on account of ill health, he was forced to retire from farm life and in 1901 came to Springfield, where he has since occupied the position of secretary for the Clark County Mutual Protection and Aid Association, the welfare and success of which has been increased in a material degree through his efforts.
On the roth of February, 1896, in Preble county, Ohio, in the town of Eaton, Mr. Stewart was united in marriage to Miss Grace G. Carlton, who was born in Coolville, Athens county, Ohio, June 1, 1875, and is a daughter of Dr. Edwin and Martha Carlton. She is a graduate of the high school of Selmá and has attended normal school. They now have one child, Oscar Carlton, born August 27, 1901. From his boyhood days Mr. Stewart has been an earnest advocate of the Republican party and its principles and has voted for its men and measures since he cast his first presidential ballot for Benjamin Harrison in 1892. He has always resided in this county and belongs to one of the leading and distinguished families that throughout the years of development and improvement here has been active in the work of progress. __——
As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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