Archibald Todd Stewart

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family History: From Indiana County Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present, by Professor J. T. Stewart. ARCHIBALD TODD STEWART, who is cultivating the original Todd homestead in Center township, Indiana county, was born on that farm Feb. 26, 1880, son of James Harvey and Sarah Elizabeth (St. Clair) Stewart. Samuel Todd Stewart, grandfather of Archibald T. Stewart, was born in 1803, and was young when he came from Center county. Pa., to Indiana county. He settled at the county seat and worked at his trade, printing, some time there. Then he moved to Center township and bought the Samuel Todd farm 120 acres, which he cleared and improved, and there he lived and died. He was a member of the Bethel Presbyterian Church. About 1820 he married Susan Cummins, daughter of John and Eleanor (Todd) Cummins, of Center township, and nine children were born to them: Margaret Ellen; Archibald Allison, attorney and judge, of Greensburg, Pa. ; Jane ; John D. ; Judge William C, of Kansas City, Mo. ; Samuel T. ; David, who was major of the 46th Ohio Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war, and died of disease at Memphis, Tenn., after nearly four years of service in the army ; James Harvey, and Ida S., who died in Kansas City, Mo. The father of this family died Dec. 19, 1879, the mother died Aug. 19, 1883, and they are buried in Greenwood cemetery, at Indiana.

James Harvey Stewart, father of Archibald T. Stewart, was born on his father's farm in Center township May 18, 1842, and died May 29, 1906. He was educated in the schools of the neighborhood. In his youth and early manhood he helped his father with the work on the home place, and for a period of five years during the oil excitement in Pennsylvania was employed in the oil regions. Returning to the home farm, he spent the rest of his life there, engaged in farming, in which he was quite successful. He was a Jacksonian Democrat in his political views and a stanch supporter of the principles of his party. On Sept. 26, 1878, Mr. Stewart married Sarah Elizabeth St. Clair, daughter of Samuel St. Clair, a prominent farmer of Center township, and they had a family of five children Archibald Todd ; Jessie Frances, now the wife of C. P. Spencer, of Vendergrift, Pa.; Joan, the wife of D. Gilhouser, of Homer City; Sarah Katherine, a wife of George C. Stewart, of Homer City; and Ida Bell, who is living with her mother at Homer City. Mr. Stewart died May 29, 1906, and was interred in Greenwood cemetery, Indiana. He was a member of the Lutheran Church.

Archibald Todd Stewart, eldest son of James Harvey and Sarah Elizabeth (St. Clair) Stewart, was educated in the public schools of Center township. All his experience as a farmer has been gained on the home farm, where he worked with his father until the latter's death, in 1906. Then he purchased the homestead, which he is now farming on his own account. He is industrious, energetic and progressive, one who makes the most of his land and facilities, and the property is in up-to-date condition, showing the results of systematic and careful attention. On Oct. 3, 1906, Mr. Stewart was united in marriage with Laura Edna McLaughlin, daughter of John P. and Laura Jane (Corley) McLaughlin, of Chambersville, Indiana county. Mr. Stewart is a member of the Lutheran Church. He supports the Democratic party in political matters, and is loyal to its principles.

• Cemetery: Greenwood Cemetery, 1957, White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Archibald married Laura Edna McLaughlin on 3 Oct 1906 in Center Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. (Laura Edna McLaughlin was born in 1887 and died in 1973 in Center Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania.)