Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Stewart, Selkirk A. September 14, 1826 - 
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SELKIRK A. STEWART, farmer, section 14, Wheatland Tp., is a son of Neil and 
Angeline (Baker) Stewart, 

natives of New york, and of Scotch and Irish descent.  He was born in Genesee 
County, N.Y., Sept. 14, 

1826.  He commenced a life of active toil at the age of 11 years, leaving the 
homestead of his parents and 

engaging in the cpacity of a farm laborer.  He continued to work in various 
localities, until the spring 

of 1844, when he went to Waukesha Co. Wis., and there engaged in agriculture 
in a similar manner until his 

mariage, Nov. 5, 1851, in Waukesha County, to Angeline H., daughter of Isaac 
and Jeusha (Estabrooks) Wood, 

who ws born in Genesee Co., N.Y., Dec. 5, 1832, and went to Wisconsin with her 
paents when she was eight 

years old.  The latter were natives of the Empire State.  Mr. Stewart took 
farms on shares, until the fall 

of 1862, when he removed with his family to Michigan, and purchased 240 acres 
of land on sec. 26, 

Wheatland Tp.  He made considerable progress in improving his land, but sold 
it finally, and bought the 

homestead, consisting of 160 acres, where he has since resided.  Seventy-five 
acres of this he has 

improved, and has one of the best of farms as to quality of the land, etc., in 
Mecosta County.  It is 

traversed by a stream of flowing water, fed by living springs.  Mr. Stewart is 
making preparations to 

build a new house, and expects to invest about $1,000 therin.  He is a 
Republican in political faith; has 

been Township Treasurer three years, Justice of the Peace three years, and 
held other minor offices.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have been the parents of four children - Clara A., born 
Feb. 2, 1853; Cora E., July 

31, 1855; Mary F., bonr July 28, 1860, died Feb, 31, 1874 (sic); Ida A., born 
Oct. 31, 1866, died Oct. 7, 

1879; Edward H. (son by adoption) was born Aug. 2, 1869, and died Sept. 14, 
1879.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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