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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 9/30/1944
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 23 (1890)
Home County: Polk
William John Stewart
Polk County

WILLIAM J. STEWART, banker, business man and legislator, died at his home at Grimes, Iowa, September 30, 1944; born on a farm near Rockford, Illinois, in 1856, the eldest of eleven children; removed with his parents when thirteen years of age to a farm fifteen miles northwest of Des Moines, later moving to Grimes where he resided the remainder of his life. He has been active in business pursuits all his life and with a Dr. Drover established the first drug store in Grimes; later organized a creamery company and in 1895 organized a company manufacturing a tablet used in keeping milk sweet for test purposes; in 1890 was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives, and for some years from 1910 conducted a banking business there. Mr. Stewart’s wife and two sons preceded him in death and he is survived by two grandsons, John A. Stewart of New York, N. Y. and Robert E. Stewart now in the U. S. navy.

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House District 37
Committees
23rd GA (1890)
Legislation Sponsored
23rd GA (1890)