James H. Stewart Biography   Hancock County, WV
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:

James H. Stewart:
    was born in Allegheny County, Pa., in 1810.  In 1816 he was brought to 
now Hancock County, West Virginia, by his father, William Stewart.  He 
married Sarah Ann Pugh in 1841.  They settled on the farm where they are now 
living.  Their union resulted in eight children, six sons and two daughters, 
two sons and one daughter are deceased.  He followed the manufacturing of 
fire and common bricks for twenty five years, and the remainder of his time 
he has followed farming as his vocation.