Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Stewart, William John 1869 - living in 1917
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WILLIAM JOHN STEWART, M. D.

    William John Stewart, one of the most successful and prominent physicians of
Summerfield, Marshall county, Kansas, was born on a farm in Lake county,
Indiana, on July 7, 1869, the son of John and Melissa (Young) Stewart.

    John and Melissa Stewart were natives of Ireland and the state of Ohio,
respectively, the former, having been born in 1842 and the latter in 1844. At
the age of two years, John Stewart came with his parents to America in 1844.
William Stewart, the father, located in the city of Philadelphia, where they
lived for a time, and later established their home in Lake county, Indiana.
There Mr. Stewart homesteaded land and engaged in general farming, and was known
as one of the substantial and influential men of the county. There the son,
John, was reared on the home farm and educated in the public schools. Later he
was united in marriage to Melissa Young and their children were born and reared
on the old homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were the parents of the following
children: William John, Clayton, Alice, Frank, Ross, Nellie, Agnes May,
Elizabeth and Harry. Clayton is on a large ranch in Texas; Alice Vickers is a
resident of Sioux City, Iowa; Frank is a well-known physician of Eskridge,
Kansas; Ross is a resident of Indiana: Nellie Gibbs also resides in the state of
Indiana, as do Agnes May Simpson and Elizabeth Simpson and Harry is on the old
home place. The parents were prominent in the social and the religious life of
the community in which they lived and where they were held in the highest regard
and esteem by all who knew them. Being early settlers in the locality in which
they lived in Indiana, they had much to do with the development and growth of
their home township and county. In August, 1862, John Stewart enlisted in the
Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the Civil War.

    William John Stewart received his education in the common schools of Indiana
and at the university at Bloomington and at Valparaiso, having taken a
preparatory course as well as a business and teacher's course in the
universities. For one year he taught school and won much praise as a successful
instructor. He then came to Kansas and for seven years engaged in general
farming, near Eskridge. He then decided to complete his education, and entered
the Washburn medical school of the University of Kansas and was graduated from
that institution in 1909. He also received his diploma from the university of
Kansas in 1914. Soon after his graduation from the medical school, he engaged in
general practice at Topeka, Kansas, but later established himself at
Summerfield, where he now has a good practice. Doctor Stewart practically worked
his way through school, and during his career in college he operated a store in
Topeka.

    In 1896 Doctor Stewart was united in marriage to Mary A. Baird, of Crown
Point, Indiana, and to this union two children have been born, Gertrude, who is
a student in the Tarkio College at Tarkio, Missouri, and Martha, who is in the
schools at Summerfield. Doctor and Mrs. Stewart are active members of the United
Presbyterian church and have long been prominent in the social life of their
home city, where they are held in the highest regard. They take much interest in
the betterment of the moral and social conditions of the district, and are
active in all that tends to the betterment of their beautiful little city.
Doctor Stewart, being a man of much ability and a strong personality, has much
influence in all enterprises that has a tendency toward the growth and
development of the district. Mrs. Stewart is a woman of education and refinement
and with her husband is interested in the betterment of the schools, as well as
the moral and social conditions of Summerfield. To such people, as Doctor and
Mrs. Stewart, is clue the excellent condition of the city today; the excellent
schools, beautiful homes, well-kept streets and churches, that are doing much to
make the city of Summerfield an ideal residence place. Doctor Stewart is one of
the directors and stockholders of the First National Bank of Summerfield, which"
is being started at this writing.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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