James Harvey Stewart

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family History: From Indiana County Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present, by Professor J. T. Stewart. 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.

• Cemetery: Greenwood Cemetery, 1906, White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

James married Sarah Elizabeth St. Clair, daughter of Samuel St. Clair and Catharine Miller, on 26 Sep 1878 in Center Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. (Sarah Elizabeth St. Clair was born on 15 Mar 1849 in Indiana, Pennsylvania and died on 19 Jun 1923 in White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania.)