LESTER STUART, one of the leading farmers near Eichorn, Hardin county, Ill.,
was born on the farm where he now lives, Sept. 5, 1873. He is a son of Capt.
J. G. Stuart, who was born on a farm near Hopkinsville, Ky., Oct. 4, 1834,
and there grew to manhood. While he was still a young man J. G. Stuart came
to Hardin county, bought eighty acres of land, nearly all in timber, a mile
and a quarter from Eichorn postoffice, and lived there until the beginning
of the Civil war. He enlisted in Company C, Forty-eighth regiment, Illinois
volunteer infantry, and was elected first lieutenant of the company.
Subsequently he was made captain and was mustered out with that rank after
three years and six months of service. During that time he participated in
some of the principal battles of the war, as well as numerous minor
engagements, and was once slightly wounded. After the war he returned to his
farm, married Martha Hobbs and both died on the place that the subject of
this sketch now occupies, the father at the age of sixty-six and the mother
at the age of forty-eight. Captain Stuart in his day was one of the active
Democrats of the county and filled some of the minor offices with credit to
himself and to the entire satisfaction of those who elected him. He and his
wife had the following children: Prince, deceased; Lester, the subject of
this sketch; Stapleton, who still lives on the old farm; Arvilla, now Mrs.
Dorner, of Hardin county: and Clyde, at home. Lester Stuart received his
education in the public schools and has all his life been a tiller of the
soil. The heirs of Captain Stuart own 360 acres of good land, nearly all of
which is under cultivation, the farm being one of the best improved in the
community. Lester Stuart, like his father before him, is an enthusiastic
Democrat, and has filled some of the local offices. He is one of the men who
believe in modern methods of farming and is one of the most progressive
citizens along all lines in his part of the county.
Extracted 2016 May 15 by Norma Hass from Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley, Personal and Genealogical with Portraits, published in 1905, Volume 2, page 403
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