"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 491.
 
JOHN STEWART
     The subject of this sketch, a view of whose livery establishment in Eugene
City appears in this volume, was born in Macoupin county, Illinois, January 6,
1837, but when quite young accompanied his parents to Missouri, and afterwards
to Iowa.  In 1852 he crossed the plains to Oregon, settled in Lane county about
five miles from Eugene City, in the Forks of the Willamette, where his father
took up a donation claim, and there they resided until 1855, when the family
moved into town.  Our subject engaged in a mercantile business in Springfield
with his brother for about ten years, and two years ago established his present
stable and  barn.  He married, October 6, 1864, Miss Louisa M. Duncan, and has
three children.

 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.