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Stewart, Andrew

agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born in June, 1792, in Fayette county, Pa. He was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature, and served three years; and was appointed by President Monroe district attorney for western Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1829, from 1831 to 1835, and from 1843 to 1847. He died July 16, 1872, in Uniontown, Pa.

Stewart, Archibald

congressman. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785 to fill a temporary vacancy.

Stewart, Austin

educator, author, was born about 1793 in Prince William county, Va. He was an author and educator of African descent who published Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman. He died about 1860.

Stewart, Charles

soldier, congressman, was born in 1729 in Ireland.

He became a deputy surveyor-general of the province of Pennsylvania. In 1777 he was appointed by congress commissarygeneral of issues in the continental army, serving as such on Washington's staff till the close of the war. ar. In 1784-85 he was a representative from New Jersey in congress. He died July 24, 1800, in Flemington, N. J.

Stewart, Charles

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 30, 1836, in Memphis, Tenn. In 1866 he moved to Houston, Texas; was city attorney in 1872; and served two terms as a state senator. He was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fiftysecond congresses as a democrat.

Stewart, Chase

lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1856, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is an able lawyer of Springfield, Ohio; and for six years was prosecuting attorney of his county. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Ohio house of representatives; and re-elected in 1897.

Stewart, David

lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 13, 1800, in Baltimore, Md. He was a senator in congress from Maryland from 1849 to 1850 by executive appointment to fill a vacancy.

He was commissioner of public buildings: for the District of Columbia. He died Jan. 5, 1858, in Baltimore, Md.

Stewart, Eliza D

philanthropist,. was born April 26, 1816, in Piketon, Ohio..

She organized the first Woman's union in the great temperance cause; and is the author of Memories of the Crusade; and The Crusader in Great Britain.

STEWART, FERDINAND CAMPBELL, physician, author, was born Aug. 10, 1815,. in Williamsburg, Va. He is a physician of New York city who removed to England in 1855; and is the author of Hos-- pitals and Surgeons of Paris.

Stewart, Gideon Tabor

lawyer, journalist, prohibitionist, was born Aug. 7, 1824, in Johnstown, N. Y. In 1861 he moved to Iowa, where he edited and published the Dubuque Daily Times during the civil war. He has been elected three times grand worthy chief Templar by the Good Templars of Iowa, and has been their nominee three times for governor, seven times for supreme judge, once for congress, and once for vice-president of the United States.

Stewart, Harlon Lincoln

jour-- nalist, was born Dec. 12, 1861, in Norwalk, Ohio. He is editor and publisher of the Norwalk Daily News in Norwalk,.

Ohio.

Stewart, Isaac A

lawyer, jurist,, was born Jan. 10, 1854, in Knox county, Ky. Since 1891 he has been judge of the criminal court at De Land, Fla. He is one of the largest orange growers in his section.

Stewart, James

congressman, was born in 1770. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina during the years 1818 and 1819. He died in February, 1822, in North Carolina.