Bio of Arthur STEWART (d.1906), Wright Co., MN

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Bios from:  Mitchell, William Bell, 
History of Stearns County, Minnesota.  Volume II.  
Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. and Co.  1915.

Page 968 + 969

Arthur Stewart, for many years a worth resident of Lynden township, was 
born in County Leitrem, Ireland, and there became a farmer.  He married 
Elizabeth Mitchell, a native of the same neighborhood.  It was in 1880 
that they came to the United States, found their way to Minnesota and 
located in Lynden township.  Here he purchased 160 acres of land, and 
engaged in farming.  He erected a comfortable home and suitable outbuildings, 
and successfully conducted agricultural operations until 1894, when he 
turned the farm over to his son, William, with whom he continued to make 
his home for many years.  In 1906,, he took up his home with his daughter.  
He died on October 3, 1906.  His wife died in March 1908.  In the family 
there were six children: Alexander, now of England; James, who died in 
Australia; George who lives in Australia; Ellen, now Mrs. Wallace Bowers 
of Clear Lake, Minn.; William, of Lynden; and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Gustav 
Eickmeyer of Fair Haven.  In the Eickmeyer family there were eight 
children: Augusta, now Mrs. Henry Throne, of Fair Haven; Lena (deceased); 
Minnie (deceased), Gustav, who conducts the home farm in Fair Haven 
township; Anna, now Mrs. William Maurer, of New Rockford, North Dakota; 
Elizabeth, now Mrs. William Stewart, of Lynden township; Mary , now Mrs. 
William Rode, of south Haven; Ida, now Mrs. Julius Gasser of Kimball.