When John Ira Stewart was born on 24 June 1854, in Springhill, Springhill Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Albert Galatin Stewart, was 28 and his mother, Susan Ann McElroy, was 22. He married Maude Dean Lyons on 3 July 1890, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Union District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Washington Township, Crawford, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 28 November 1929, in Mulberry, Crawford, Kansas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Mulberry, Crawford, Kansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Crawford, Kansas, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: originally an occupational name for an administrative official of an estate, from Middle English stiward, Old English stigweard, stīweard, a compound of stig ‘house(hold)’ + weard ‘guardian’. In the Anglo-Saxon period this title was used of an officer controlling the domestic affairs of a household, especially of the royal household; after the Norman Conquest it was also used more widely as the native equivalent of Seneschal, for the steward of a manor or manager of an estate. In Scotland the term was also used of a magistrate originally appointed by the king to administer crown lands, forming a stewartry.
History: Stuart or Stewart is the surname of one of the great families of Scotland, the royal family of Scotland from the 14th century, and of England from 1603, when James VI of Scotland acceded to the English throne as James I. There were many minor branches of the family left in Britain after the flight of James II in 1688, but not every bearer of the surname can claim relationship with the royal house, even in Scotland. Every great house in medieval England and Scotland had its steward, and in many cases the office gave rise to a hereditary surname. The fall of the house of Stuart in Britain, conversely, led to the establishment of several highly placed branches bearing this surname in continental Europe, which are in most cases related to the old Scottish royal family.
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