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JACOB M. WARD, who has been lo- cated for several years upon his present place in South Middleton township, has followed farming all his active life. He comes of a family which has been long identified with Cumberland county, his great-grandfather,
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William Van Buren Ward, having lived and died in the county. He reached the great age of ninety-six years.
Jacob Ward, the grandfather of Jacob M., learned and followed the trade of shoe- maker. He spent all his life in Silver Spring and Middlesex township, this county. He married Mary Feister, and to their union were born one son and one daughter, the lat- ter dying in childhood. They were Luther- ans in religious faitl.
John Ward, son of Jacob and father of Jacob M., was born April 11, 1827, and like his father and grandfather passed his life in Cumberland county. In young manhood and middle life he was engaged as a carpen- ter, but his latter years were spent at fari- ing. and his death occurred in August, 1902, in Carlisle, where he was then living retired. He married Jane Ann Garman, who was born in March, 1826, and died in the fall of 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Ward clung to the faith of the Lutheran church. They had two children, Jacob M. and Mary E., the latter dying at the age of twenty-three years.
Jacob M. Ward was born June 10, 1852, in Middlesex township, this county, near Sterrett's Gap. He received excellent edu- cational opportunities, and graduated from the Plainfield high school. Farming has been his occupation throughout his active years, and about 1898 he settled at his pres- ent home in South Middleton township, where he is successfully engaged in agri- cultural pursuits.
On Nov. 8, 1874, Mr. Ward married Miss Catherine Young, daughter of Joshua and Catherine (Hose) Young, prosperous and respected residents of York county, and to this union have been born ninc children, namely : John A., a teacher in the Boiling Springs high school, who married Emma Nailor; Ida Florence, now the wife of Will-
iam Brenneman; Minnie Catherine, wife of Harry Swarner; William A., a bookkeeper in Carlisle; Charles H., a teacher, who mar- ried Alda Hartman; Joseph B., attending high school at Boiling Springs ; and Nannie A., George B. and Wilbur H., still at home. The family holds an enviable position among the most respected residents of their section . of the county.
JOHN A. MILLER, wholesale and re- tail dealer in flour, grain, seeds, coal, salt, fertilizers, etc., conducting the Cumberland Valley Grain Elevator, is located at Oakville, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.
RIPPEY FAMILY. Hugh Rippey (died at Shippensburg early in 1750) was probably born at Maguire's Bridge, a mar- ket town on Maguire's river, near Ennis- killen, in County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was among the early Scotch-Irish emigrants to Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneers of Shippensburg in 1732-33. He brought his family with him, and was the first of the Shippensburg settlers whose cabin was en- tered by the Grim Reaper. "Hugh Rip- pey's daughter Mary," James Magaw wrote, May 21. 1733. (was) "berried yesterday ; this will be sad news for Andrew Simpson when he reaches Maguire's Bridge. He is to come over in the fall when they were to be married. Mary was a very purty girl ; she died of a faver and they berried her up on rising groun, north of the road or path, where we made choice of a piece of groun for a graveyard. She was the first berried there. Poor Hugh has none left now but his wife, Sam and little Isabel." This is the earliest story of domestic grief in the Cum- berland Valley that has come down to us. In Magaw's simple and homely language it is very sad; his eccentric orthography only
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tends to make it more pathetic. Only in Irish poetry could be found a fitting dirge for Mary Rippey's unmarked grave in this forgotten graveyard. At the time of Mary Rippey's death there were eighteen cabins in the new town afterward called Shippens- burg, but the hamlet was then without a name. We have no means of knowing where Hugh Rippey's house stood. It was prob- ably on one of the lots for which his son Samuel received deeds from Edward Ship- pen, in 1763. That he prospered is evident from the fact that among the first letters of administration granted in the new county of Cumberland were those on his estate. The date of the administration was Feb. 28, 1750; Jolin Rippey was the administrator. His wife's name is unknown. She probably died before him. He had issue :
I. JOHN (II).
2. SAMUEL (III).
3. MARY, born in Ireland, died at Ship- pensburg, May 19, 1733.
4. ISABELLA, born in Ireland, died un- married, March 10, 1778.
(II) JOHN RIPPEY (born in Ireland, probably at Maguire's Bridge, died at Ship- pensburg, October, 1758), son of Hugh Rippey, was one of the pioneers of Shippens- burg, where he settled with his father, Hugh, in 1732-33. He built his cabin near the stream, at the west end of the town. This was within the limits of what is now Frank- lin county. He was a taxable in the old township of Lurgan in 1751. It is probable that he married in Ireland, but the natal name of his wife, Mary, is unknown. His will was signed Oct. 7, 1758, with his wife Mary, and brother Samuel, as his executors. He had issue :
I. HUGH went to Lancaster county, now Dauphin, and later removed to Allegheny ·county.
2. MARGERY.
3. AGNES died before her father.
(III) SAMUEL RIPPEY (born in Ire- land. probably at Maguire's Bridge, in 1713, died near Middle Spring, Aug. 22, 1791), son of Hugh Rippey, the pioneer, came to Shippensburg with his father, Hugh, in 1732-33, when he was only twenty years old. Of his occupation in his early years nothing is known, but later in life he became a farmer, purchasing the farm that was owned by Rev. John Blair, when he was pastor of the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church. Mr. Blair's warrant for this tract, which contained 212 acres, was dated Oct. 5. 1743. It was situated adjacent to the church, in what is now Southampton town- ship, Franklin county. Mr. Rippey bought it about the time of the outbreak of the French and Indian war. He lived on it dur- ing the rest of his life. The loss of the early records of Middle Spring Church deprives us of much information concerning him, but it is clear that he was a worshipper there from the time of the erection of the first log meeting-house; he was a subscriber to the building fund of the old stone church in 1781. He was buried in the Lower Grave- yard. His name appears on the list of origi- nal purchasers of lots in Shippensburg from Edward Shippen, his deeds be- ing for Nos. 100, 101, 103 and 109. There is some uncertainty in regard to Mr. Rippey's marriage or marriages. A well-defined tradition that has been per- petuated in the Christian names of a number of his descendants is that his wife was a sister of Col. John Armstrong, the hero of Kittanning. In his will he mentioned his wife, Rachel, who survived him. According to the genealogy prepared by the late Hon. John McCurdy, of Shippensburg, he married Jane Grabil Allen. If this is correct she must
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have been his first wife, and the name of his second wife Rachel Armstrong. Samuel and Rachel Rippey had issue :
I. WILLIAM (IV).
2. ELIJAH (V).
3. SAMUEL (VI).
4. JANE married James Finley (died in Greene township in 1812), and had issue: Samuel. Jolin. James, William, Elizabeth (married Stephen Duncan), Isabel (mar- ried James (Galbraith). Mary (married Jo- seph Culbertson) and Jane (married Samuel A. Rippey).
(IV) WILLIAM RIPPEY (born at Shippensburg in 1741, died Sept. 22, 1819), son of Samuel and Rachel (Armstrong) Rippey, engaged in the hotel business at Ship- · pensburg soon after the close of the French and Indian war. The first mention of this tavern that was preserved was in a diary of David Brown, who visited the Cumberland Valley in the spring of 1769. and lodged at William Rippey's "on the run" on the night of the 27th of April. His house was known as the "Branch Inn." and was kept by him until his death. It became a famous hos- telry and had many distinguished guests. President Washington ate his Sunday dinner at Rippey's Oct. 12, 1794, when on his way to western Pennsylvania to quell the "Whis- key Insurrection." No tavern of the early days is more frequently referred to in the diaries and journals of travelers. At the outbreak of the Revolution Mr. Rippey proved an earnest and active patriot. He raised a company of volunteers in the neigh- borhood of Shippensburg and Middle Spring, of which he was commissioned cap- tain, Jan. 9. 1776. This company was at- tached to the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, Coy. William Irvine, and served in the sec- ond Canada expedition. The regiment left Carlisle on the 20th of March, with an ag-
gregate of 741, Capt. Rippey's company comprising 93 officers and men. Col. Ir- vine's battalion marched first to New York City, where it served under Gen. Greene, during the month of April, but on the 10th of May it was at Albany, and it started for Lake Champlain on the 13th, passing Lake George on the 24th, and arriving at St. John's on the 27tl1. On the 6th of June the 6th Battalion, with Wayne's and part of St. Clair's, was ordered to attack the enemy at Three Rivers. It was intended to make the attack at daybreak on the Sth, but the guides proved faithless and con- ducted the little army into a swamp instead of to the town. The expedi- tion proved disastrous, and it was said that Capt. Rippey, with Gen. William Thompson, who was in command, and Col. Irvine, was among the prisoners on that occasion, but the statement is inaccurate. It was on the 2Ist of June, while on a fishing excursion from Isle aux Noix, that he was captured by a party of Indians, who had observed and followed the fishermen. While they were at a house drinking spruce beer the Indians surrounded them, and being unarmed they fell an easy prey to the savages. Capt. Adams, Ensign Culbertson and two privates were killed and scalped and the others of the fishing party were made prisoners, but a detachment from the camp coming to their relief, Capt. Rippey and Ensign Lusk suc- ceeded in making their escape. After spend- ing the winter on the Canada frontier the regiment came home, reaching Carlisle March 15, 1777. It was then reorganized, becoming the 7th Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, but Capt. Rippey retired. He was afterward appointed sheriff of Cumberland county, and he was twice coroner, 1778-79, and 1781-83. Capt. Rippey married (first) Margaret Finley and (second) Elizabeth
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McCracken, who survived him. He had
issue :
I. RUTH (died before her father) mar- ried Dec. 9, 1791, Joseph Duncan, and had issue : William Rippey, John, Daniel, Mar- garet Chambers and Jane Stewart.
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2. SAMUEL A. married Jane Finley, daughter of James and Jane ( Rippey) Fin- ley, and they had a son, William.
3. ISABELLA married Joseph Kerr ; they had a son, William.
4. JANE married Dr. Alexander Stewart (VII).
5. CATHARINE married John Raum; they had a son, William, a physician.
6. JOHN C. became a physician.
7. MARGARET (born in 1768, died July 4. 1820) married Joseph Chambers, young- est son of Col. Benjamin Chambers, the founder of Chambersburg; they had one daughter, Margaret, who married Rev. John McKnight, the younger.
8. WILLIAM (VIII).
(V) ELIJAH RIPPEY (died in 1794), son of Samuel and Rachel (Arm- strong) Rippey, was a lifelong resident of Shippensburg. He married Elizabeth Thompson (died July 13, 1826), whose sis- ter, Nancy, was the wife of James Piper. Elijah and Elizabeth Rippey had issue :
I. SAMUEL (IX).
2. THOMPSON died unmarried.
3. ISABEL died unmarried, Jan. 25, 1859.
(VI) SAMUEL RIPPEY (born at Shippensburg, died May 6, 1804), son of Samuel and Rachel (Armstrong) Rippey, owned a tannery at Shippensburg, which he conducted for many years. He was in active service in October, 1777, as a private in Capt. Alexander Peebles' company of Col. Samuel Lyon's marching regiment. Be- sides his tanyard, Mr. Rippey owned a fine
stone mansion house, in Shippensburg, and at his death he had three farms-one on the Mt. Rock road, one on the Pittsburg road, and one, which he owned in common with Judge Yeates, near Roxbury, on the road to Strasburg. Mr. Rippey married Mary Fin- ley (died in 1836), daughter of John and Mary Finley, of Letterkenny township; and they had issue :
I. JOIN (X).
2. ARMSTRONG.
3. ISABELLA married William Bailey ; they had issue, Harriet, Isabella and Mary Finley.
4. MARGARET.
5. HARRIET married June 20, 1819, Thomas Jacobs.
6. MARY married George Hamill (XI).
7. ELIZABETH married Hugh Smith; they had a daughter, Jean.
(VII) JANE RIPPEY, daughter of Capt. William Rippey, married Nov. 17, 1801, Dr. Alexander Stewart (born in Lan- caster county, died in 1830), who began the practice of his profession at Shippensburg, in 1795, and pursued it steadily until his death. Dr. Alexander and Jane Stewart had issue :
I. WILLIAM RIPPEY (XII).
2. MARGARET ANN married Hugh Long.
3. HENRY AUGUSTUS.
4. ISABELLA married Jacob Clippinger.
5. ALEXANDER SCOTT.
6. JAMES MORRISON.
7. JOHN RAUM.
8. JULIANA DUNCAN (born May 29, 1817, died July 24, 1901), married July 9, 1833, Joseph Mifflin (born at Burlington, N. J., July 9, 1812, died Feb. 18, 1885), son of Joseph and Martha ( Houston) Mifflin, of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mifflin was
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noted for her lively and cheerful disposition and her great interest in people and affairs until the close of her life. They had nine sons and five daughters, including James Arthur, who was accidentally drowned while serving in the Civil war ; Alexander Stewart, deceased, who served through the Civil war ; Debbie, deceased ; Joseph; William Stewart; Martha, Mrs. David Tinmins; and Mrs. William E. Shappley.
9. SAMUEL.
(VIII) WILLIAM RIPPEY (died in 1821), youngest son of Capt. William Rip- pey, was a county commissioner of Franklin county, 1818-21. He married Lucy Piper ; they had issue :
I. ALLEN married Catharine Duncan, and had issue: William married Rebecca Starvalient; Duncan married Elizabeth Watts; Elizabeth married Joseph Bender ; Sarah married Peter Dock; Joseph married Mary St. Clair; Sue married Rev. Thomas Dougherty.
2. WASHINGTON married Nancy Wolf.
3. LUCY ANN married J. Wolfly.
4. JULIA married J. Immel.
5. ISABEL.
6. MARY.
(IX) SAMUEL RIPPEY (died April 8, 1829), son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Thompson) Rippey, was a tanner. He married Jane Falkner (born in 1791, died March 4, 1857), daughter of John and Jane Falkner, and they had issue:
I. ELIJAH, born Sept. 1, 1811, was drowned in October, 1830.
2. ELIZABETH ANN, born Dec. 12, 1813, died unmarried June 21, 1830.
3. MARY JANE married John McCurdy (XIII).
4. JOHN THOMPSON (XIV).
5. ISABEL, born Nov. 7, 1818, died un- married Jan. 11, 1858.
6. SAMUEL, died unmarried June 19, 1855.
(X) JOHN RIPPEY, son of Samuel and Mary (Finley) Rippey, generally known as Col. Jolin Rippey, was a prominent man in the community in which he was born and lived. He married Mary Piper." They had issue :
I. SAMUEL died unmarried.
2. ELIZABETH ANN married William Fletcher.
3. LUCINDA married Samuel Allen.
4. MARGARET married W. Danecher.
5. SARAH died before her father.
(XI) MARY RIPPEY, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Finley) Rippey, married Aug. 6, 1812, George Hamill (born in 1773, died Nov. 6, 1849), son of Robert Hamill, who came from the North of Ire- land, and died at Shippensburg about 1780. He was for many years a prominent busi- ness man and leading citizen of Shippens- burg. He was appointed by President John Adams second lieutenant, 19th Inf., U. S. A , July 10, 1799. This was at the time when a war with France was impending and prepar- ations were making to resist French aggres- sions. Under Jefferson's second administra- tion, when our relations with Great Britain were strained to a point that rendered war imminent, he was a captain in the 5th Regi- ment, U. S. Inf., and he was directed, May 23, 1808, by Gen. Henry Dearborn, Secre- tary of War, to recruit a company of fifty men, and instructed to "establish a daily practice of learning the recruits the position of a soldier, the facings, wheelings and marching, until you shall receive more par- ticular instructions in relation to the drill generally." The company was fully organ- ized and equipped, as appears from a letter dated Nov. 3, 1808, from Callender Irvine, Superintendent of Military Stores at Phila-
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delphia, by which he was informed that the balance of the annual supply of clothing for his company had been forwarded to Carlisle by direction of Gen. Wilkinson. George and Mary Hamill had issue :
I. CHARLOTTE married John Taylor.
2. ELIZABETH married Dr. Alexander Stewart (XV).
3. GEORGE WASHINGTON died unmar- ried, in 1848.
4. MARY died unmarried, in 1846.
5. SAMUEL RIPPEY practiced law at Sul- livan, Ind. He married Martha Wood, sis- ter of Surgeon General Wood, U. S. A., and left three sons and three daughters, Samuel R., Charles, Carson, Augusta, Frances, and Elizabeth. Two of the sons, Samuel R. and Carson, are practicing law at Terre Haute, Ind .; Charles is a merchant in the same place; Augusta married Rev. E. A. Abbey ; Eliza- beth married Harry E. Baker, a lawyer of Terre Haute.
6. JOHN, born in 1823, died at Ship- pensburg, Feb. 9, 1848.
7. JAMES practiced medicine for many years at Newark, Ohio, and died there, leav- ing one son, James, residing in Newark.
8. ROBERT KEARNEY died unmarried, at Sullivan, Ind.
9. ELLIOTT J.
(XII) WILLIAM RIPPEY STEW- ART (born near Shippensburg, Sept. 29, 1802, died at York Springs, March 9, 1867), son of Dr. Alexander and Jane (Rippey) Stewart, studied medicine and began the practice of his profession at Upper Stras- burg. In 1827 he removed to York Springs, Adams Co., Pa., where he remained in suc- cessful practice until his death. Dr. Stewart married, April 5, 1827, Diana Mckinney (born June 25, 1808, died Jan. 17, 1893), daughter of David and Eleanor (Quigley) McKinney, the former of whom was a jus-
tice of the peace, and owned and conducted the "Upper Hotel" at Strasburg for many years. Dr. William R. and Diana (Mc- Kinney) Stewart had issue :
I. MARY JANE (born June 21, 1828) married Rev. William A. McKee, and had issue : Dr. Edward McKee and Nina (mar- ried George Monroe, who had issue: Elea- nor Rippey and James Stewart).
2. ELEANOR ISABELLA VIRGINIA, born June 9, 1832, died March 5, 1898.
3. CATHARINE RIPPEY RAUM, was born Aug. 9, 1834.
4. WILLIAM WARREN (XVI).
5. LIBERTY McCREA, born Aug. 16, 1838, married Dr. James S. Rutter.
6. DAVID MCKINNEY was born Aug. 7, 1810.
7. ROBERT MONTGOMERY, born Nov. 21, 1844, married Mary Cole.
8. SARAH HANNAH was born Nov. 6, 1846.
(XIII) MARY JANE RIPPEY (born July 8, 1816, died Nov. 20, 1853), daughter of Samuel and Jane ( Falkner) Rippey, mar- ried March 14, 1843, John McCurdy (born June 24, 1811, died March 2, 1880), son of Samuel McCurdy (born 1780, died Jan. II, 1852) and Sarah Martin, who lived near Bushmills, County Londonderry, Ireland, of which their son John was a native. He emi- grated to Pennsylvania and settled at Ship- pensburg, where he became a leading man in the community and at one time conducted The Shippensburg News. He was a fluent writer and wrote many valuable articles re- lating to the early history of Shippensburg and its neighborhood. John and Mary J. (Rippey) McCurdy had issue :
I. SAMUEL LYCURGUS, born Jan. 22, 1844, died April 26, 1864.
2. LAURA BELL, born May 31, 1847, died Jan. 19, 1888.
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3. DELIA BELL, born May 31. 1847, died July 11, 1851.
4. HORACE GREELEY, born April 23. 1853. died Dec. 28, 1878.
(XIV) JOHN THOMPSON RIP- PEY (born Dec. 23, 1820, died Feb. 28, 1889), son of Samuel and Jane ( Falkner) Rippey, married Nov. 24. 1844. Mary Jane Donavin (born Dec. 29, 1825), daughter of Levi Kirkwood and Mary (McConnell) Donavin. They had issue.
I. ADA was born Aug. 29, 1846.
2. MYRA (born March 16, 1849) mar- ried May 16, 1878, Watson R. Sadler, of Adams county. They had issue: Isaac Lewis, born Sept. 10, 1880; Rippey, June 8, 1882; Mary Ada, Feb. 26, 1884; Isabel Trimble, Dec. 27, 1886: Gilbert Hastings, Jan. 7, 1889, and Richard Watson, Nov. 27, 1890.
3. ELIZABETH ANN (born March 5, 1851) married March 28, 1872, E. W. Hastings (died Jan. 30, 1902), and had is- sue : Mary Mellicent, born May 23, 1873. died June 21, 1889. Mrs. Hastings is in the Philippines.
4. THOMPSON (born Feb. 19, 1853) married (first) Mary Robbins, and had issue : Joseph Francis, born at Delaware. Ohio, who married and had a son, Thomp- son, born March 16, 1899. Mr. Rippey mar- ried (second ) in August, -, Grace Lourier.
5. OT110 BOSWELL TIPPET, born June 19, 1855, died Dec. 19, 1855.
6. MARY JANE (born-Nov. 29, 1856) married Sept. 19, 1878, HI. O. S. Hiestand. Major, U. S. A., serving in the Philippines.
7. NORA (born May 6, 1859, died Jan. 29, 1893) married (first) June 15, 1880, Matthew Gilbert Higgins, born June 24, 1851, died Nov. 30, 1881), (second) George
Almy, and had issue: Mary Hiestand, born. Jan. 17, 1893, who died the same day.
8. SARAH BELL (born July 11, 1861) married Aug. 8,' 1883, G. A. Kolbe, and had issue : Mary Thompson, born July 18, 1886; Florence Sheldon, April. 11, 1894 (died the same day) ; Henrietta Jane Aug. 29, 1895 (died the same day) : James Rippey, Sept. 3, 1897, and Henry Hiestand, Feb. 16, 1899.
9. JENNIE (born Jan. 7, 1864) mar- ried Oct. 5. 1882, Raymond E. Shearer, of Carlisle, and had issue : Raymond Eli, born March 6. 1884; Mary Hiestand, April 13, 1887; Rippey, June 1, 1889; Rachel Wertz, Sept. 13. 1893; Robert Pattison, July 27, 1896; Myra Saddler, Oct. 27, 1899: and Kirkwood Donavin, May 5, 1902.
(XV) ALEXANDER STEWART (born in Frederick county, Md., Sept. 28, 1809, died Jan. 5, 1894) was a son of John and Rosanna (Sheeler) Stewart, natives of Maryland, of Scotch- Irish ancestry. John was the only son of Alexander Stewart, who emigrated from county Antrim in 1773, and settled in Frederick county, Md., and was a success- ful farmer and business man. Alexander Stewart, son of John, was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, and at the age of nine- teen began the study of medicine at Emmitts- burg. He was graduated M. D. at Wash- ington .Medical College, Baltimore, in 1831. Soon after receiving his degree he came to Shippensburg, where he was in active prac- tice for nearly half a century. He was a skillful physician and enjoyed an extensive practice. To his medical skill he added an agreeable personality and was always held in affectionate professional and personal regard by his neighbors in Shippensburg and the surrounding country. In many cases he served the same family through successive
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generations. Late in life he relinquished all business cares except the presidency of the First National Bank of Shippensburg, of which he was the first president.
Dr. Stewart married (first), in 1832, Margaret Grabill, of Frederick county, Md., who died in May, 1833. without issue; (sec- ond) in 1836, Elizabeth Hamill (born May 13. 1813, died April 22, 1853), daughter of Capt. George and Mary (Rippey) Hamill, and had issue :
I. GEORGE HAMILL (XVII).
2. JOHN (XVIII).
3. ALEXANDER (XIX).
. ROBERT COCHRAN (born Dec. 9, 1850, died Feb. 10, 1899) was a physician and practiced his profession at Shippensburg. He was graduated at the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1872, and succeeded to his father's practice.
5. MARY AUGUSTA (born Dec. 8, 1845, died Dec. 3, 1900) married Dec. 27, 1873, James E. McLean (born Dec. 11, 1839, died Aug. 3, 1895), son of William McLean, of Shippensburg.
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CHARLOTTE LOUISA married John
H. Craig; they had issue: Augusta S. and Helen.
Dr. Stewart married (third), in 1858, Eunice G. Wilson (born at Chester, Vt., April 23, 1822, died at Shippensburg, June 5, 1901), who came of sturdy New England ancestry, and was an educated and accom- plished lady. In her young womanhood she engaged in teaching in Texas. There were no children by this marriage.
(XVI) WILLIAM WARREN STEW- ART (born Aug. 8, 1836), son of Dr. Will- iam Rippey and Diana (Mckinney) Stew- art, was educated at the Cumberland Valley Institute and at the Juniata Academy, Shir- leysburg. At the latter institution he gave much attention to the study of mathematics
and civil engineering with the intention of becoming a civil engineer. In 1857 he be- came a member of a corps of United States engineers, engaged in the survey of govern- ment lands in Nebraska. In 1859 he returned to his father's home in York Springs, Adams Co., Pa., and shortly afterward obtained em- ployment with the Adams Express Company at Baltimore. At the outbreak of the Civil war he returned to York Springs. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Ist Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Reserves, and upon ar- riving in camp at West Chester, Pa., two weeks later, was made first sergeant of his company. In September of the same year he was made first lieutenant of Company K, and was made adjutant of the regiment in November, 1861, and promoted to captain, June 30, 1862. At Charles City Cross Roads, during the seven days' battle of the peninsula, he was wounded by a minie ball through the left thigh. After being confined in Libby prison until September he was paroled, and when his exchange was effected he took command of his company. On March I, 1863, he was made lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, which at that time was a part of the 22d Army Corps, in Fairfax county, Va. He was made brevet colonel and brevet brigadier-general, March 13, 1865. His first brevet was for gallant conduct at the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House. He was mustered out with his regi- ment, June 13, 1864. Gen. Stewart was en- gaged in many battles, including Draines- ville, Hawkshurst Mills, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Charles City Cross Roads, Fredericksburg, New Hope Church, Mine Run, Rappahannock Station, Spottsylvania Court House, the Wilderness,- North Anna, Pamunkey River, Cold Harbor, Bethesda and Gettysburg. He was slightly wounded in the side by a piece of shell at North Anna.
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