BIOGRAPHY: Edwin R. STEWART, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 106-7
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EDWIN R. STEWART, the courteous and very efficient station agent of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad company, at Conemaugh, is a son of Judge Robert and 
Elizabeth A. (Patton) Stewart, and was born on the Stewart homestead farm in 
Blair county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1862. He attended the public schools of 
Williamsburg, in his native county, until he was fourteen years of age, and then 
went to Philadelphia, where he was employed in the office of the St. Cloud hotel 
for three years. At the end of that time he became a clerk in the office of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad company at Altoona, and in 1879 was transferred to 
Conemaugh and placed in charge of the station and shop work there, which 
position he has held ever since. On July 12, 1884, Mr. Stewart wedded Annie 
Clark, a daughter of William Clark, of Baltimore, Maryland, but formerly a 
resident of Columbia, this State. Their union has been blessed with three 
children, two sons and a daughter: William Denning, Edwin P., and Kathryn E.
     In religious faith and church membership, Edwin R. Stewart is a 
Presbyterian. He is a member of the Conemaugh Presbyterian church, in which he 
is an active and zealous worker. He is also a member of the Young Mens' 
Christian association, of Conemaugh, where he is never lacking in words of cheer 
and acts of usefulness, and secretary of the Conemaugh Building and Loan 
association, which has done much to improve the borough. A republican in 
politics, his active labors in political affairs are confined to local matters. 
Thus early in life Mr. Stewart has achieved the success that many men have 
labored long years to win. That he is methodical, correct, and honest, may be 
judged from his being so long in the employ of one of the greatest and most 
exacting business companies of the world, while his promotion at their hands 
tells more forcibly than words could of his special ability and fitness for the 
important position which he holds.
     The Stewarts are descended from an ancient and honorable Scotch family of 
Pennsylvania. John Stewart, a member of this family, was among the early 
settlers of Canoe Valley, Blair county. He was a farmer and iron-master and died 
at the age of about seventy years. He had an only child by his marriage with 
Eliza Ferguson. This child was Judge Robert Stewart, and he was born and reared 
in Canoe valley, in Catherine township, of Blair county, which was also the home 
of the Moreheads, Lowerys and Deans, a member of which latter family is Judge 
John Dean, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Judge Stewart received a good 
English education, spent his early years at home and on the farm of his father, 
and then lived a life of honor and usefulness of which his descendants may be 
proud.
     Judge Stewart, who died June 29, 1893, aged sixty years, was an old-line 
whig, a Presbyterian, and a Free Mason, and was very active alike in politics, 
church and lodge. He was one of the last associate judges of Blair county, 
serving from 1881 to 1887, when the office was abolished. He married Elizabeth 
A. Patton, who is a daughter of John S. Patton, of Huntingdon, and was born in 
1837. Their children were: Kathryn E., wife of G. E. Schmucker; John Dean; Edwin 
R.; Wm. Patton, of Altoona; and Frederick, a resident of South Fork.