Thomas 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 Mount Ida, Biographical Sketches, Page 1041

THOMAS STEWART, farmer, Sec. 24;  P.O. Fennimore; was born in Champaign Co., 
Ohio, Oct. 13, 1814; removed when 7 years of age, with his parents, to Indiana; 
again, in 1834, to Elgin, Ill.; came to Grant Co., Wis., in 1856.  Was married 
Oct. 13, 1854, to Mrs. Mary A. Swits, widow of Tunis Swits, and daughter of John 
and Caroline Wheeler; Mrs. Stewart has a daughter by her first marriage - Susan 
C. born Nov. 6, 1845; they have no other children.  Are both consistent members 
of the United Brethren Church.  He is a Democrat of the old Jackson stamp.  Owns 
a farm of 120 acres, one of the handsomest farms in his locality, and highly 
cultivated.