George Stewart Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Lancaster, Biographical Sketches, Page 897

GEORGE STEWART, farmer; P.O. Lancaster.  A native of Perthshire in the highlands 
of Scotland; born Jan. 1, 1820, a son of Thomas and Anna (Melrose) Stewart.  He 
left his native land at the age of 14, and came to Canada West, where he lived 
eight years engaged in farming.  In 1847, he was married in Rochester, N.Y., to 
Miss Eliza Morrow, a daughter of John and Jane Higgins Morrow, natives of 
Ireland; she was born April 18, 1826, in Dublin.  Mr. Stewart came West to 
Lancaster and worked several years for J. Holloway.  In the spring of 1862, he 
bought 80 acres three miles south of Lancaster on which he remained seven years, 
and then, in 1868, sold the 80 and purchased 400 acres from Lewis Holloway.  He 
has been a successful farmer, and now owns one of the best farms in the county - 
320 acres prairie land and 80 acres of timber, valued at $20,000.  They have a 
son and five daughters – Jane, Robert, Ellen, Catharine, Mary and Lucy.