coln, then a very small village,
connected with Nebraska City, the nearest railroad
point, only by stage. The surrounding country was a
wild, untamed but fertile tract, teeming with deer,
antelope, and other wild game, and not infrequently
roamed over by large packs of wolves.
In beginning life at Lincoln, our
subject purchased a lot on Tenth between R and S
streets, at that time on the outskirts of the village.
Having provided himself with a home, and a small one
at that, he found his means exceedingly limited, but
nevertheless started in business as a boot and
shoemaker. In 1859 he took a homestead claim of eighty
acres in Middle Creek Precinct, erected a small hut
comfortable farmhouse, and removed to the same and
gave his attention to farming; and, being a man of
sound judgement, some experience and untiring energy,
he rapidly became very successful in this undertaking;
so much so, that in a few years he was enabled to
purchase 160 acres in Oak Creek Precinct, whither he
removed and made his home until 1885, and there
carried on farming successfully. On account of
ill-health, our subject retired from his farm and
returned to Lincoln, and made his home on Washington
and Tenth streets, one of the most pleasant situations
in the city.
Mr. Stewart was united in marriage
with Susana Schofield, on the 18th of July, 1861, at
Keokuk. This lady was born in Ohio, Nov. 14, 1838, and
died April 24, 1863, aged twenty-four years and six
months. They had one child who lived, Jesse, now in
California. A second alliance was formed, on the 7th
of November, 1865, with Annie R. McIntyre. By this
marriage our subject became the father of four
children, whose names are here recorded in the order
of birth: George Franklin, Blanch, Grace and Asa
T.
Mrs. Stewart was born in New
Bedford, Mass., Aug. 10, 1846. Her father was James
McIntyre, of Scottish parentage, a cooper by trade. In
the year 1855 he went to California by the way of the
Isthmus for the purpose of engaging in mining, and
when his family last heard from him he was doing well
and preparing shortly to return home, but it is
supposed that he was murdered by Indians, as nothing
has been known of him since that time. His wife, the
mother of Mrs. Stewart, was Annie Ward, a native of
New Bedford, who resided in that place her whole life
of eighty-two years, and died there in the year 1882.
Six children were born as a result of this union:
John, Helen, Mary, David, Susan, and Mrs. Stewart, the
wife of our subject.
Mr. Stewart is one of that class or
citizens who are always on the lookout for what shall
be of benefit to the community, and through them, to
the country at large. He therefore hails with pleasure
every enterprise and project that looks forward to
such an end and promises benefit upon that line. He is
a man of solid worth, and is proportionately esteemed
by his fellow citizens.
 ILLIAM
R. HORN. This prominent resident and capitalist of the
city of Lincoln, is at present engaged as a
real-estate dealer, and may usually be found at his
business office or residence, at the corner of
Randolph and Thirtieth streets. He has been a resident
of Nebraska since 1854, coming within its borders with
his parents while it was still a Territory. The family
first settled near the embryo town of Peru, and
subsequently moved to this county, of which our
subject has since been a resident, and prominently
identified with its business and agricultural
interests.
The first few years of the life of
our subject were spent in Beardstown, Ill., where his
birth took place on the 4th of February, 1837. His
father, Rev. William S. and his mother, Sylvia (Hall)
Horn, were natives respectively of Kentucky and
Virginia. The father was born May 9, 1814, and when a
lad twelve years of age went to Illinois with his
parents, where he lived until coming to Nebraska, in
1854. Upon reaching manhood he was married, on the 5th
of May, 1833. The wife and mother in her girlhood, and
while living with her parents in Illinois, was, with
her younger sister, captured by the Indians during the
Black Hawk War, but rescued twelve days afterward by
United States troops. It was upon her return from
savage captivity to civilization that she met her
future husband, whom she still survives after
fifty-five years of congenial married life. They were
the parents
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