Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Stewart, Malcolm N M 1834 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

MALCOLM N. M. STEWART was born July 24, 1834, in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, 
N. Y., to Peter and Elizabeth (Buckmaster) Stewart, natives of Scotland and 
New York respectively. He emigrated to America when young, and was married in 
the county in which his son was born. Peter Stewart followed the trade of a 
stonemason, and built the first locks on the Erie Canal and several of the 
first buildings of the Brooklyn Navy Yards. He came to Wilmington in 1835, and 
in the fall of that year returned to New York to bring his family here. They 
went by lake to Detroit, Mich., and by team to Chicago, this State, and landed 
in Wilmington about September 1, 1836. Here he bought land, paying $2,000 for 
one hundred and sixty acres, which is still owned by the subject of this 
sketch and two brothers. Here he also lived until his death, in 1868, having 
passed his four- score years, the mother dying some years previously. While 
working at his trade he superintended all the stone work in the Illinois and 
Michigan Canal, and was a man of prominence and good circumstances. 
Politically, he was first a Whig and later an Abolitionist, and was President 
of the Underground Railroad, and quite an influential and active politician, 
afterward becoming a Republican. He was quite instrumental in getting the 
right of way for the Chicago & Alton Railroad, and journeyed to Washington on 
its account. Religiously, the father of our subject was a member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and built the church at Wilmington of his own means, 
principally. Before his death he had taken all the degrees of Masonry. The 
parents of our subject had ten children born to them, namely: John W., Edward 
W., Mary, George T., Malcolm N. M., Catherine, James N., Minerva, and a pair 
of twins who died in infancy. Our subject was reared in Wilmington, and 
received his education in the public schools. In 1861 he joined the army as a 
private with the Chicago Dragoons, but in September, 1861, owing to the fact 
that this company neither belonged to the State of Illinois nor the United 
States, they were ordered back to Chicago, where Mr. Stewart then joined the 
One Hundredth Illinois Infantry, Company A. Soon afterward he was promoted to 
First Lieutenant of his company, and, while in the Atlanta campaign, was 
commissioned Captain of the company and served in that capacity for some time. 
He was then promoted to be Major of the United States Volunteers, in which he 
served until the close of the war, first in the Twenty-first and last in the 
Fourth Army Corps. The subject of this notice participated in the following 
hard-fought battles of the Civil War: Perryville (Ky.), Stone River, 
Tullahoma, Chickamauga, siege of Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, siege of 
Knoxville, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Calhoun, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, 
Franklin and Nashville. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged 
and returned home, where he has remained ever since, commencing the occupation 
of farming. He has been connected with the First National Bank of Wilmington, 
having been a stockholder since its organization, and now holds the position 
of Teller of the Bank. He still has considerable farming interests in Will 
County, and gives much attention to the breeding of blooded horses. He started 
in life with a small capital, and has made all he has by his own efforts. An 
interesting event took place in the life of our subject May 30, 1871, when he 
became the husband of Miss Anna McIntyre, of Wilmington, a daughter of the 
Hon. Archibald J. and Jane (Whitten) McIntyre, natives of New York and Canada, 
and of Scotch extraction. They became the parents of two children—Jean and 
Margaret, both living, their ages being sixteen and twelve years respectively. 
Malcolm Stewart has always taken an active interest in political affairs, but 
is not an aspirant for office. His views coincide with those of the Republican 
platform. He is not a member of any religious denomination, but supports the 
Presbyterian Church. Socially, he is a member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, being enrolled in Bowen Post, No. 17, at Wilmington, which is one of 
the oldest posts in the State. He has served as Commander of the same, and has 
filled all the chairs.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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