BIO: Robert Templeton 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 200-201.
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  STEWART, ROBERT TEMPLETON, was born June 15, 1773, in Hanover, and 
died October, 1835, at Hollidaysburg, Pa., while enroute to Pittsburgh; 
buried at Saltsburg, Indiana county, Pa.  He settled in Bellefonte in 
the year 1800, and was admitted to the bar of Centre county at the 
November term.  He was retained in the famous slander suit of McKee vs. 
Gallagher, August term, 1801, in which there were fourteen lawyers for 
the plaintiff and twenty-two for defendant.  In 1810 he was appointed 
postmaster, and continued in office until 1819.  In 1810 engaged in 
mercantile pursuits with his brother, William C., and in 1819 entered 
into partnership with John Lyon in the manufacture of iron; residence 
at Coleraine Forges, Huntingdon county.  In 1828 Lyon and Stewart sold 
Coleraine Forges to Joseph and James Barnett and Anthony Shorb.  He 
moved to Pittsburg in 1823, and built Sligo Rolling Mill.  Represented 
Allegheny county in Pennsylvania Legislature in 1831-32.  Disposing of 
his interests in the iron business, Mr. Stewart went to manufacturing 
salt on the Kiskiminetas.  He was a man of genial disposition and 
social habits, and of great practical humor.  In person, above the 
ordinary size, and of very dark complexion, which he inherited from his 
grandmother Stewart.  He married, in 1809, by Rev. Henry Wilson, Mary 
Dunlop, daughter of James Dunlop, and Jean, daughter of Andrew Boggs, 
of Donegal township, Lancaster county, Pa., who, in connection with 
James Harris, in 1795, laid out the town of Bellefonte.  Mary Dunlop 
Stewart died in 1827, aged forty-five years, and was buried in the 
First Presbyterian churchyard, Pittsburgh.  Robert T. Stewart married, 
secondly, in 1831, Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton, of Middlesex, Cumberland 
county, Pa., who died in Pittsburgh in 1842.