STEWART, William, MS., then West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
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William Stewart, a native of Mississippi, was born in 1851 to Noland and
Mary Jane (Reneau) Stewart, who were also Mississippians.  The father came
to Louisiana in 1856 and began planting in the parish of West Feliciana, in
which business he was quite successful.  In 1862 he enlisted in the Fourth
Louisiana infantry as an independent private, and after a few months'
service was discharged on account of ill health.  He was afterward
commissioned first lieutenant of an independent company and was a
participant in the engagement at Baton- Rouge.  William Stewart had every
advantages in his youth, but after the war was for some time a student in
Centenary college (some two years) and after a short time spent in Mobile,
Ala., returned to that school, which he attended for another year.
Immediately following this he engaged in planting in Mississippi, then kept
books for the firm of Worthington Brothers for eight years, after which he
embarked in the same business for himself in Mississippi.  He was then
traveling agent for the Refuge Oil mill of Vicksburg for four years, but
since 1881 has been a cotton planter of Louisiana.  He is managing a tract
of land comprising 2,200 acres, about three-fourths of which is under the
plow and a part of which was formerly the Erin plantation.  He handles
about 300 bales of cotton annually, and on his property has a good steam
cotton-gin and gristmill and a plantation store.  He takes considerable
interest in local politics and is now a candidate for the position of
parish sheriff, and should he be elected will without doubt make a faithful
and efficient officer.  Socially he is a member of the K. of P. and the I.
O. O. F.  He was married in 1878 to Miss Riggs, of Emneville, Ind., by whom
he is the father of four children:  Riggs,  Noland,  Foster and an infant.
Mr. Stewart is quiet and unassuming in demeanor and is very social and
amiable in disposition, his manly worthy traits of character winning him
many friends.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 407.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.