Lewis Gilbert Steward
1824 - 1896 (71 years)-
Name Lewis Gilbert Steward Born 20 Nov 1824 Hollisterville, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States 
Gender Male Died 27 Aug 1896 Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States Buried Little Rock Township Cemetery, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States Person ID I37474 Molloy-Remde Family Tree Aug 23 Last Modified 5 Jun 2022
Father Marcus Aurelius Steward, b. 1 Jun 1796, Waterford, New London, Connecticut, United States , d. 2 Sep 1872, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States (Age 76 years) Mother Ursula Hollister, b. 16 May 1801, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 12 Oct 1882, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States (Age 81 years) Married 18 Jun 1822 , , Connecticut, United States Family ID F14042 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Cornelia Gale, b. 1828, , , New York, United States , d. 1858, , Kendall, Illinois, United States (Age 30 years) Married 8 Aug 1848 , Kendall, Illinois, United States Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 Family ID F14043 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Mary Lowry Hunt, b. 19 Feb 1836, Hadlyme, New London, Connecticut, United States , d. 23 Feb 1922, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States (Age 86 years) Married 23 Nov 1860 , Kendall, Illinois, United States Children 1. Lee Steward, b. 9 Apr 1855, , , Illinois, United States 2. Professor Julian Rumsey Steward, b. 9 Feb 1864, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States , d. 5 Oct 1942, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States (Age 78 years)3. Howard Greeley Steward, b. 12 Sep 1869, d. 18 Mar 1883 (Age 13 years) 4. William Deering Steward, b. 12 Jul 1872, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States , d. 30 Nov 1953, Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, United States (Age 81 years)5. George Somerset Bangs Steward, b. 12 Apr 1874, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States , d. 12 Sep 1924, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 50 years)6. Charles Marsh Steward, Senior, b. 18 May 1876, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States , d. 11 Jan 1954, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States (Age 77 years)7. Thomas Coulter Steward, b. 13 May 1879, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States , d. 10 Nov 1882, Plano, Kendall, Illinois, United States (Age 3 years)Last Modified 7 Sep 2023 Family ID F14044 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - US Congressman, Businessman. He attended schools in Pennsylvania before moving to Illinois with his parents in 1838. Steward was a successful farmer and landowner, and also became involved in several business enterprises, including banking and the manufacture of farm machinery. In the early 1850s he founded the town of Plano as part of an arrangement to have the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad transport his farm products and machines. He was a main financial backer of the Marsh Brothers, who invented the harvester as an improvement to McCormick's reaper, which was originally manufactured in Plano, and the town adopted the slogan "Birthplace of the Harvester, Home of the Reaper." Steward also studied law and attained admission to the bar in 1860, but did not practice. In 1876 he was the unsuccessful Democratic and Greenback party nominee for Governor. In 1890 he was elected to the US House of Representatives and served one term, 1891 to 1893. Steward was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 and for election to the US House in 1894, afterwards returning to his farming and business interests. The Plano home, "The Homestead," is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is operated as a bed and breakfast.
Died at Bristol, Kendall, Illinois?
- US Congressman, Businessman. He attended schools in Pennsylvania before moving to Illinois with his parents in 1838. Steward was a successful farmer and landowner, and also became involved in several business enterprises, including banking and the manufacture of farm machinery. In the early 1850s he founded the town of Plano as part of an arrangement to have the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad transport his farm products and machines. He was a main financial backer of the Marsh Brothers, who invented the harvester as an improvement to McCormick's reaper, which was originally manufactured in Plano, and the town adopted the slogan "Birthplace of the Harvester, Home of the Reaper." Steward also studied law and attained admission to the bar in 1860, but did not practice. In 1876 he was the unsuccessful Democratic and Greenback party nominee for Governor. In 1890 he was elected to the US House of Representatives and served one term, 1891 to 1893. Steward was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 and for election to the US House in 1894, afterwards returning to his farming and business interests. The Plano home, "The Homestead," is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is operated as a bed and breakfast.