"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chicago:
Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1047.
 
HENRY STEWART

     Since the latter part of the '80s Henry Stewart has been known around
Albany as an enterprising and successful dairyman-farmer. He came to the state
in 1885, engaged at various occupations in Albany for a couple of years, for two
years conducted a small ranch near the city and finally settled upon his present
farm, four and a half miles southwest of Albany. He has one hundred acres of
land, a large part of it in pasture, and his general improvements are modern and
consistent with an ideal dairying enterprise.
     Born in Ashe county, N. C., February 9, 1860, Mr. Stewart is a son of
Jackson and Hila (Francis) Stewart, natives of North Carolina, and the former
born in Surrey county, N. C., February 29, 1819. Jackson Stewart was formerly a
farmer, who left his large southern property to enlist in the Civil war, during
which service he contracted an illness which has since resulted in total
blindness.  He was a member of the Home Guard, and was never afterward able to
work as well as before the fortunes of war left him with weakened faculties.
Many years ago his wife died at the age of sixty-four, and he, himself, is
eighty-four, a philosopher in his affliction, and inclined to view the world
after better fashion than it has treated him. Thirteen children have been born
into his family, and of this large number the following are living: Casper, of
Eugene; Eli, of Albany; John, of North Carolina; Jacob, also of North Carolina;
Margaret, Newell, Henry, Lowry and Lular.
     At the age of twenty-one Henry Stewart left the old farm in North Carolina
and went to Virginia, where he followed farming for a couple of years. For a
year, also, he farmed in Nebraska, but not being particularly well pleased with
the middle west came to the coast and settled in Albany in 1885. With him came
his wife, who was formerly Celia V. Testermon, a native of Virginia, and who is
now the mother of five children, the order of their birth being as follows :
Maggie E., Ella L., Dent F., Roy C. and Dora B. While not an office-seeker, Mr.
Stewart is a stanch upholder of Republicanism, and has served for one term on
the school board. He is fraternally connected with the Knights of the Maccabees.
As a farmer and promoter of the well being of Linn county, Mr. Stewart takes
high rank, and he has many friends in the county. His dairy products have
reached the highest standard of excellence, and he has as high grade Jersey
cattle as will be found in Linn county.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.