BIO: Hugh Stuart, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

396  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  HUGH STUART was born in County Antrim, Ireland, June 23, 1758; came 
to America in 1784; and, in 1790, married Ruth Patterson and settled on 
the Patterson tract of land on the head of Letort Spring, in what is 
now South Middleton Township.  Ruth Patterson was born in Scotland, in 
1763.  The children of this marriage were five sons:  Hugh, William, 
John, James and Joseph.  Hugh and William died in early life; John 
settled in this county; and James and Joseph went with their father to 
Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1821, where they were the first settlers.  Hugh 
Stuart, Sr., died there in 1854, at the age of ninety-eight years.  All 
of the family are now dead, except Joseph, who still lives in Bucyrus, 
now in his eighty-seventh year.  John Stuart, the third son, was born 
at the head of the Letort, in October, 1794.  January 4, 1816, he 
married Barbara Steen, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Cairns) Steen, 
also of County Antrim, Ireland.  Ten children were born to this union, 
eight of whom lived to maturity, the sons being Hugh, John, Joseph A., 
James T. and William P.; and the daughters:  Amelia, married to 
Thompson Weakley; Elizabeth, married to William Wherry, and Martha A., 
married to George Searight.  John Stuart, the father, after his 
marriage, lived in Carlisle, and was engaged in milling until 1827, 
when he moved to his farm in South Middleton.  He was appointed 
associate judge of Cumberland County, under the Constitution, in 1835, 
for life.  After the 

397  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

judiciary was made elective, he held the office by election until 1857.  
He died in 1870.  His eldest son, Hugh, was born in the latter part of 
1816; was a farmer; a member of the State Legislature during the two 
sessions of 1857 and 1858; in 1861 was elected associate judge, and 
held the office by re-election until 1871.  He died in 1880.  Joseph 
A., the only surviving son, was born in 1826, and still farms in South 
Middleton Township, this county.  He was married, in 1850, to Mary A. 
McCune, whose grandfather, of Scotch-Irish parentage, settled near 
Shippensburg, on the farm where his descendants still live.  Their 
children living are John T. and H. S. Stuart.