My Genealogy Hound

JOHN W. STEWART, insurance-agent, McKeesport, was born in Versailles township, Allegheny county, Sept. 9, 1834, a son of Hamilton and Nancy S. (Dinsmore) Stewart. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Stewart, a native of County Derry, Ireland, and a farmer by occupation, settled in McKeesport about 1785, and there resided until his death. He, had seven children, who grew to maturity: Nancy (Mrs. Robert Whigham), John, Hamilton, Margery (Mrs. James Carroll), Elizabeth, Samuel and Robert. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Henry Dinsmore, whose father as well as himself was a native of County Derry, Ireland, and among the pioneers of what is now Patton township.

Hamilton Stewart was born in what is now McKeesport in 1799. He was a carpenter by trade, though the latter part of his life was spent in farming; was an elder in the Presbyterian Church upward of forty years. He had nine children, who grew to maturity: Sarah J. (Mrs. Col. William Douglass), Samuel H., Henry, John W., Margaret, Martha T. (Mrs. R. A. Scott), Eliza (Mrs. Joseph Fiddler), Mary A. (Mrs. A. Y. Shaw) and Nancy J.

John W. Stewart was reared on a farm, where he remained until thirty years of age. He was a carpenter by trade, which he followed many years, and since 1880 he has been engaged in his present business. In 1863 he married Lizzie, a daughter of John and Fannie (Stewart) Gamble, of Armstrong county, and has three children living: M. Wilson, J. Boyd D. and Scott M. Mr. Stewart is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of the board of trustees of which he has been secretary fifteen years; is also secretary of the board of education. Politically, he is a democrat.