S.M.
STEWART, farmer, post-office Mercer, was born in 1846 in
County Derry, Ireland, to David and Elizabeth
(Campbell) Stewart, who came to America in 1850, and settled in
Lawrence County, Penn. Here the father was employed at the McKinley
Furnace for ten years. He then moved to a farm in that county. He
subsequently sold notions at wholesale over the surrounding country,
traveling by a four-horse team. He was employed in this for some time by
James Cochran, then of Hanover, Ohio. He finally joined the firm
of James Cochran & Co. He later removed
to Pittsburgh and followed this business, and subsequently established a
business in partnership with his sons, W. C:, D.
W., S. M. and A. L., at Beaver Falls, and continued a number of
years, and then moved back to Pittsburgh, where he continued in trade
until death, in April, 1882. His widow died in Mercer County, and had
blessed him with eleven children: J. B., W. C. (was
in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers),
D. W. (was in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania
Volunteers), S. M., James (deceased), A.
L., R. W., Mary, Margaret J., Elizabeth and Mattie. The father
was married a second time, his last wife being Mrs.
Mertilla Reed. S. M. Stewart was educated in the common schools
of Mercer County, and was married to Zenobia E.,
daughter of George and Amanda Cotton,
natives of this county and the parents of the following children:
Zenobia, Melissa, Armina, Fannie, Mary, John, William, Edward and
Clarence. Mr. Stewart located where he now lives in 1887, and has
built a fine house in which to spend the remainder of his days. He and
wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Mercer, and he is a
Republican and belongs to the F. & A. M. His children are Eleanor,
Lina, Florence and Nina B.
History
of Mercer County, 1888, page 972
