Bio of William STEWART (b.1866), 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

William Stewart,   an active and progressive farmer of Lynden township, 
was born in county Leitrem, Ireland, August 19, 1866, son of Arthur and 
Elizabeth (Mitchell) Stewart, who brought him to Lynden township in 1880.  
In 1894 he purchased the home farm from his father and here he has since
continued to live.  He has greatly improved the place in many ways, has 
remodeled and rebuilt the dwelling, and in 1910 erected a large modern 
barn, which is a model of its kind.  At the same time other outbuildings 
were erected.  To his original tract of land he has added until he now 
owns 240 acres, well stocked and improved.  He is engaged in scientific 
farming and keeps thoroughly abreast of his times by reading, observation 
and experiments.  He is a valuable citizen in every way.  Mr. Stewart was 
married December 28, 1897, to Elizabeth Eickmeyer, who was born in Fair 
Haven township, June 8, 1873, daughter of Christ and Caroline (Bodierson) 
Eickmeyer.  Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have three children: Emily E., born 
November 22, 1898; blanche E., Born January 13, 1901; and Jessie A. W., 
born February 22, 1907.  The family faith is that of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.  Christ Eickmeyer and his wife, Caroline, were natives 
of Germany.  They came to America in 1867, and located in Fair Haven 
township, this county and became representative farmers.  First they 
took a homestead of eighty acres, and later they bought eighty acres.  
Here he farmed the remainder of his life.  He died in 1894,and his wife 
in 1903.