FROM DENNIS BRANDT, #47232334
The son of Dr. Alexander & Elizabeth (Hammill) Stewart, in 1860 he was a law student living with his family in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg July 28, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. A, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, promoted to regimental adjutant August 16, and honorably discharged with the regiment May 20, 1863.
He married Jane Holmes Larmour and fathered Mary Larmour (b. @1864), Alexander (b. 02/07/66), Ann Worrall (b. @1868), Elizabeth Keith (b. @1876), Helen Montgomery (b. ?), and Janet Holmes (b. @1879).
After the war, he served in the Pennsylvania state senate 1881 - 1884 and then ran for governor as an independent Republican in a three-way election that put Democrat Robert E. Pattison in the governor's chair. A twice-elected judge in Franklin County, in 1902 he took a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was to have assumed the position of chief justice in January 1921. Instead, on his way from Thanksgiving dinner with his family, he inexplicably stepped in front of a moving trolley car that had no possibility of stopping. Death reportedly occurred instantaneously due to a fractured skull.
The son of Dr. Alexander & Elizabeth (Hammill) Stewart, in 1860 he was a law student living with his family in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg July 28, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. A, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, promoted to regimental adjutant August 16, and honorably discharged with the regiment May 20, 1863.
He married Jane Holmes Larmour and fathered Mary Larmour (b. @1864), Alexander (b. 02/07/66), Ann Worrall (b. @1868), Elizabeth Keith (b. @1876), Helen Montgomery (b. ?), and Janet Holmes (b. @1879).
After the war, he served in the Pennsylvania state senate 1881 - 1884 and then ran for governor as an independent Republican in a three-way election that put Democrat Robert E. Pattison in the governor's chair. A twice-elected judge in Franklin County, in 1902 he took a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was to have assumed the position of chief justice in January 1921. Instead, on his way from Thanksgiving dinner with his family, he inexplicably stepped in front of a moving trolley car that had no possibility of stopping. Death reportedly occurred instantaneously due to a fractured skull.
FROM DENNIS BRANDT, #47232334
The son of Dr. Alexander & Elizabeth (Hammill) Stewart, in 1860 he was a law student living with his family in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg July 28, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. A, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, promoted to regimental adjutant August 16, and honorably discharged with the regiment May 20, 1863.
He married Jane Holmes Larmour and fathered Mary Larmour (b. @1864), Alexander (b. 02/07/66), Ann Worrall (b. @1868), Elizabeth Keith (b. @1876), Helen Montgomery (b. ?), and Janet Holmes (b. @1879).
After the war, he served in the Pennsylvania state senate 1881 - 1884 and then ran for governor as an independent Republican in a three-way election that put Democrat Robert E. Pattison in the governor's chair. A twice-elected judge in Franklin County, in 1902 he took a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was to have assumed the position of chief justice in January 1921. Instead, on his way from Thanksgiving dinner with his family, he inexplicably stepped in front of a moving trolley car that had no possibility of stopping. Death reportedly occurred instantaneously due to a fractured skull.
The son of Dr. Alexander & Elizabeth (Hammill) Stewart, in 1860 he was a law student living with his family in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Chambersburg July 28, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 11 as 1st lieutenant of Co. A, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry, promoted to regimental adjutant August 16, and honorably discharged with the regiment May 20, 1863.
He married Jane Holmes Larmour and fathered Mary Larmour (b. @1864), Alexander (b. 02/07/66), Ann Worrall (b. @1868), Elizabeth Keith (b. @1876), Helen Montgomery (b. ?), and Janet Holmes (b. @1879).
After the war, he served in the Pennsylvania state senate 1881 - 1884 and then ran for governor as an independent Republican in a three-way election that put Democrat Robert E. Pattison in the governor's chair. A twice-elected judge in Franklin County, in 1902 he took a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was to have assumed the position of chief justice in January 1921. Instead, on his way from Thanksgiving dinner with his family, he inexplicably stepped in front of a moving trolley car that had no possibility of stopping. Death reportedly occurred instantaneously due to a fractured skull.
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