BIO: David STEWART, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 214-217. 
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  STEWART, DAVID, born October 30, 1792, in Hanover township, Dauphin 
county, and died May 29, 1869, at Coleraine Forges, Huntingdon county, 
Pa.; buried in the Spruce Creek cemetery at Graysville.  He was twenty-
one years of age at the time of the exodus of the family from Hanover 
to Centre county in 1813.  He became the general manager at 
Pennsylvania Furnace, and subsequently entered the firm under the title 
of Shorb, Stewart & Co., which was synonymous with that of Lyon, Shorb 
& Co., Pittsburgh, manufacturers of the famed Juniata iron.  Mr. 
Stewart was, undoubtedly, the most prominent and wealthy member of this 
large family; resided at Coleraine Forges, Huntingdon county, from 1831 
until his death.  His house was noted for its elegant and liberal 
hospitality.  In person he was large and imposing, showing traits of 
his Scotch ancestry, and was the last of his father's family, a long 
lived race, and it may be noted that from the birth of his eldest 
brother, Robert, to the date of his own death, embraced a period of 
nearly one hundred years.  He married, May 22, 1822, Sarah Walker, 
daughter of John Walker and Ann, his wife, of Alexandria, Huntingdon 
county, Pa., originally from county Strabane in the north of Ireland.  
She was born September 23, 1799, and died at Coleraine Forges, April 
24, 1874, having survived her husband, by whose side she now lies 
buried.