20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . LLIAM C. STEWART, a prominentresident of Green Township, and formerlya well known citizen of Spring-field, is lo-cated on the old Stewart homestead, andis occupied in farming. He has five hun-dred and forty acres of land, partly inGreene County, and farms on an exten-sive scale. Mr. Stewart was born on his presentfarm along the Little Miami, October 27,1835, and is a son of John Templeton andAnn (Elder) Stewart, a further record ofwhom may be found elsewhere in thiswork. He was reared on this place and r
20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . LLIAM C. STEWART, a prominentresident of Green Township, and formerlya well known citizen of Spring-field, is lo-cated on the old Stewart homestead, andis occupied in farming. He has five hun-dred and forty acres of land, partly inGreene County, and farms on an exten-sive scale. Mr. Stewart was born on his presentfarm along the Little Miami, October 27,1835, and is a son of John Templeton andAnn (Elder) Stewart, a further record ofwhom may be found elsewhere in thiswork. He was reared on this place and re-ceived a meagre educational training inthe schools of this vicinity. A natural stu-dent, he applied himself to jDrivate re-search, and is at the present time well readon all topics of current interests, being abroad gauged, liberal minded man. Hewas a httle past fourteen years of agewhen his father died, and he thereaftertook care of his mother during her life-time, living on the home place. This con-sisted of 260 acres originally, Mr. Stew-art inheriting 129 acres of it, and the re-. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 677 maindei of his property being acquiredthrough his own hard work and judiciousmanagement. He remained on this placefor fifteen years after his marriage, thenin 1896, in order to give his daughter bet-ter educational advantages, moved toSpringfield. Here he took rank amongthe substantial men and occupied a placehigh in the esteem of his fellow 1907, after eleven years of retirement,he returned to Green Township, and re-sumed his agricultural operations. Mr. Stewart was married September 9,1880, to Elizabeth Theodosia Sellers, adaughter of Albert and Harriet (Johnson)Sellers, of Cedarville Township, GrefeneCoimty, Ohio. Mrs. Stewarts father wasfrom Berkley County, Virginia, and hermother from an old family of ClarkCounty, Ohio. Two children were theissue of this union: Lea Virginia, whodied in infancy; and Hazel Marie, whowas, on November 21,1907, joine
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