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Below is a family biography included in Portrait and Biographical Album of Greene and Clark Counties, Ohio published by Chapman Bros., in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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CHASE STEWART. The name of Chase Stewart is well known throughout Clark County as that of her Prosecuting Attorney, and his reputation as a rising young lawyer is not confined to the county in which he lives. He was born in Yellow Springs, Greene County, October 26, 1858, and is therefore but little more than thirty years old. In the paternal line he is of Scotch-Irish extraction, his remote ancestors having left Scotland in the times of the persecutions and settled in the Emerald Isle, intermarrying with natives of that land. His grandfather, John T. Stewart, settled in Clark County in 1806 and is numbered among its sturdy pioneers. Here his son Samuel was born and became a prominent farmer and dealer in live stock. In 1860 he removed to Hardin County, where he settled on a farm and lived the rest of his days. His death took place about the year 1888. For a time he filled the office of County Commissioner. His wife, Mary A. Marshall, was a daughter of William Marshall, an early settler in Clark County, where she was born in 1825, and reared to womanhood. She bore her husband two sons and four daughters, all yet living in their native State. The Marshall family to which she belonged were remotely connected with the late Chief Justice Marshall.

The early schooldays of Chase Stewart, who was the third of the parental family, were passed in the log schoolhouse in Hardin County, and during the intervals of study he assisted his father on the farm. After leaving the common school, he entered the Wesleyan University, at Delaware, where he pursued his studies about three years. He then entered Chicago University, from which he was graduated in the class of ‘80. His taste leading him to the study of law, he went to Washington, D. C., and became a student under Judge William Lawrence, at that time Comptroller of the Treasury.

Mr. Stewart was graduated from the National Law University in the Capital in 1882, and in October of the same year was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He began his practice in Springfield the following year, since which time he has devoted his attention entirely to his professional duties. In 1888 he was nominated and elected Prosecuting Attorney for a period of three years and assumed the duties of his office on New Year’s Day, 1889. The fine classical education which preceded his law studies, added to the brilliancy of a mind naturally acute, gave Mr. Stewart a command of language which proves valuable in his chosen work. Not only is he well grounded in the principles of law and equity, but he possesses the knowledge of men and the power to move them, which, when exercised properly, are among the best qualifications for success in the legal arena. His social nature has led him to become a member of Clark Lodge, No. 101, F. & A. M., and of Moncieffe Lodge, No. 33, K. of P. He is popular in society and bids fair to attain a position of eminence in his profession if life and health are spared him.

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This family biography is one of the many biographies included in Portrait and Biographical Album of Greene and Clark Counties, Ohio published by Chapman Bros., in 1890. 

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