John Hardin Stewart was born In Exeter, Illinois, December 17, 1878. He was the son of Dr. John and Kathleen Reid Stewart. From the Exeter grade schools, he went to Jacksonville where he finished and entered the University of Illinois. In his sophomore year he left the University and enlisted in the “5th Illinois” as a recruit, in the Spanish-American war. In 1907 he was married to Winifred Hubbard of Winchester and to this union was born one son, James Horace. In 1908 as a medical student, he finished at the Northwestern University, passed his state board examination in Illinois, Tennessee and Oklahoma but returned to his home town, Exeter, where he practiced in the same vicinity where his father and grandfather has practiced. Giving up his practice, he moved to Plainview, Texas, where he engaged in farming for six years. Leaving Plainview he took a post graduate course at Tulane University In Louisiana, and returned to Bluffs. In 1926 he returned to Plainview, where he lived, until this last visit to Illinois when his health failed entirely and he passed away at Our Saviour’s Hospital, September 25th, 1947, leaving behind a devoted wife, a son, James and two sisters, Mrs. Stuart Hubbard and Rachel Stewart Miner.