Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . alwaysvotes for the man he deems best qualified for the office. He casthis first vote in Des Moines for James Buchanan for President. Atthat election, there was but one voting place in the town, the oldCourt House, which stood where the Union Depot now is. Thetotal vote of the town at that election was eight hundred and nine. Socially, he is quiet, imassuming, genial, courteous in manner,and deservedly popular. Domestic in taste and habit, he finds inhis home more satisfaction than in the usual society events. He isone of the old
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . alwaysvotes for the man he deems best qualified for the office. He casthis first vote in Des Moines for James Buchanan for President. Atthat election, there was but one voting place in the town, the oldCourt House, which stood where the Union Depot now is. Thetotal vote of the town at that election was eight hundred and nine. Socially, he is quiet, imassuming, genial, courteous in manner,and deservedly popular. Domestic in taste and habit, he finds inhis home more satisfaction than in the usual society events. He isone of the oldest members of Capital Lodge, of the Order of OddFellows, and Capital Lodge, of the Masonic order, and was thesecond Master Mason passed in that lodge. He is also a memberof Lodge Numlier Ten, Ancient Order of L^nited Workmen. Religiously, he was reared in the faith of the PresbyterianChurch, but in 1884, he united with the Roman Catholic Church,of which his estimable wife had been a member from girlhood toher death, Augrist Ninth, November Third, JOSEPH B. STEWART J. B. STEWAR r CALLING the roll of pioneers of Polk County, none wouldreceive greater meed of praise and esteem than Joseph Buf-ton Stewart, who, for nearly half a century, was a prominentpersonage in the civic and social life of the community. Born August Twelfth, 1821, near Saint Charles, Missouri, he])assed the days of his boyhood with his parents, subject to thesomewhat predatory life of his father, who was a surgeon in theFnited States Army, where he served many years. In 1805, whenthe United States acquired the Territory of Missouri, he waslocated at Saint Louis. He served in the War of 1812, and in]S14, while on his way to Prairie du Chien, was wounded by theIndians at Kock Island. He deceased in 1834. In 1835, when fourteen years old, Joseph removed with hismother to Fort Madison, then in the county of Demoine, and being:i part of Michigan Tei-ritory. The following year, the county was ca
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