BIOGRAPHIES:  James STUART, Arkansaw, Pepin Co., WI

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James Stuart, farmer, P. O. Arkansaw, Pepin county, was born at
Lachine, Canada, November 25, 1841.  He is a son of John and
Catherine (Keergan) Stuart.  His grandfather, Charles Stuart, a
native of Scotland, moved to Ireland, where he married, and where
John Stuart was born.  The latter also married there, and came to
America about 1840.  James received no schooling, as when he was
about fifteen months old his parentsmoved to McGillivray, Canada,
then a wild, unsettled region.  When he was eight years old his
father died, and Mrs. Stuart afterward married James Gorbal.  At
thirteen our subject began to learn the blacksmith's trade, and two
years later he left home and came to Eau Galle, Dunn county, Wis.,
and began to work at lumbering.  Later he became cook in a lumbering
camp and followed that occupation for a number of years.  March 17,
1862, he enlisted in the Tenth Wisconsin light artillery.  He was at
Corinth, Miss.; Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn., at which latter place
bran bread was served for two weeks; then to Chattanooga, Stone
River, Lookout Mountain, siege of Atlanta, and thence accompanied
Sherman in his campaign to Savannah, and from there northward.  In
March, 1865, he was captured at Morrison's Cross Roads, N. C., and
marched with his fellow prisoners to Libby prison.  Fifteen days were
consumed on the journey, their rations consisting of one pint of corn
meal each, per day.  At night they slept without blankets.  At the
end of two months he was released.  He was discharged May 28, 1865,
having taken part in sixty-one engagements.  He returned to Eau Galle
in 1866, and purchased a farm near his present residence.  February
19, 1867, he married Lavinia Thompson, and she has borne him the
following children:  James Wallace, Milton Edward, William Walter,
Katie J., Carrie B., Charles E., and Grace B.  Mr. and Mrs. Stuart
lived at Eau Galle until 1887, when they removed to their present
residence.  Mr. Stuart endured hardships and privations that can not
be understood by the rising generation.  In sacking logs on the Eau
Galle and Chippewa rivers he has often had his clothes frozen as high
as his waist.  In early days, before jimmy poles came into use, it
was necessary to get into the water and handspike the lumber off the
sand bars.  In politics he is an ardent republican.  He is a member
of the Methodist church and the G. A. R.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 923-924.


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