Bio of STEWART, Alexander (b.1847), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol II, pg 330-333
ALEXANDER STEWART
Year by year marks the growth of Minneapolis as a grain trade center and the
focal point of the milling industry of America. The great broad prairies of the
upper Mississippi valley, offering splendid opportunity for grain production,
made the development of the milling industry a logical sequence. It remained,
however, to men of keen sagacity and marked enterprise to recognize the
conditions and opportunities of this section and to use the natural resources of
the country in directing the trend of settlement and civilization. Among the
number active in this great field of labor was Alexander Stewart of Minneapolis,
who became identified not only with one of the most extensive grain elevator
concerns in the northwest but with many corporations of similar character and
almost equal in volume. He thus wan his way to a place in the foremost ranks of
the business men of Minnesota and the entire middle west. By birth, by training
and preference he was a western man, imbued with the spirit of marked progress
that has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of this great division of
the country. His birth occurred in Delaware county, Iowa, October 3, 1847, his
father being William Stewart, a man of Scotch lineage, who became one of the
pioneer residents of Delaware county, where he converted a tract of wild land
into a highly developed farm, continuing actively in agricultural pursuits there
until his death in 1865.
His son, Alexander Stewart, bore his full share in the work of cultivating and
improving this farm on the western frontier and at the same time made good use
of the educational advantages offered by the public schools of the neighborhood.
He was fifteen years of age when he left the farm to take a forward step in his
business career by becoming identified with the purchase and shipment of grain.
His previous experience had well qualified him to judge of the worth of farm
products and success attended him in the venture. Naturally he drifted to
Minneapolis, which was becoming more and more the grain trade center of the
country, and here throughout the intervening period to the time of his demise he
occupied a position of prominence and influence among the grain merchants of the
country. In 1893 he became associated with the late Frank H. Peavey, the founder
of the F. H. Peavey Grain & Elevator It was in the year 1886 that Mr. Moore came
to Minneapolis so that he might reside near his children and for a year
thereafter he served as pastor of the Blooming-ton avenue church, but failing
health obliged him to give up the task and he placed his membership in the
Simpson Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, where he remained an active worker
until the infirmities of age prevented further service of that character. He
made his home in the eighth ward of the city and throughout that section, where
he was greatly loved and respected, he was called Father Moore. One who knew him
for many years bore testimony to the remarkable blamelessness of his life and
his most kindly character. His daughter remarked that the proudest day of her
life was when the city papers, came out at his death with the headlines: "A
Blameless Life Ended. He lived as he taught, practiced as he preached and died
as he had lived, in perfect peace."