Thomas C. Stewart
Thomas C. Stewart, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Franklin Township, this county, March 1, 1826; son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Clement) Stewart, former a native of Allegheny County, Penn., latter of Washington County, Penn. The mother came to this county in 1811 with her eldest brother, Thomas Clement, and located in Ravenna Township. She is now (1885) living, in her eighty-sixth year, and is hearty. Jonathan Stewart came to the county when a young man, and after his marriage in 1819 settled in Franklin Township on the farm now owned by Nicholas Knapp. He afterward settled in Ravenna Township on the farm now owned by his nephew. Alex Clement, and lived thereuntil his death in 1832, in his thirty-third year. He left a family of six children: Uziah (deceased); Alexander (deceased); Jonathan, who enlisted in the Eighty-eighth Indiana Regiment from DeKalb County, Ind., and after participating in several battles in Kentucky, died of exhaustion at Lebanon, Ky., during the late war; Thomas C. ; Margaret A. (Mrs. F. D. Reese) and William (deceased). Our subject was reared in Ravenna Township, and received his education in the common schools, the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, and high school at Jefferson, after which he taught in the common schools for four winters following. He was married, March 14, 1854, to Adeline, daughter of Homer W. and Mary (Knowlton) Hart, pioneers of Solon Township, Cuyahoga County, and later of Franklin. The issue of this union is six children, all living: William, in Iowa; Addie E.; Homer J., in Iowa; Mary (Mrs. E. W. Talcott); Clara (Mrs. J. C. Yeend), and Julia E. After his marriage Mr. Stewart settled in Streetsboro, and lived there up to 1861, when he located in Franklin Township, where he now resides on what was formerly known as the Latimer farm. He has been elected Trustee of Franklin Township three terms in succession. Assessor one term, and on the Board of Education one term. In politics he is a Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885