Bio: Stewart, Alexander (1881)
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Surnames: Stewart, Gray

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 568

ALEXANDER STEWART, Wausau, was born in York Co., Province of New Brunswick, Sept. 12, 1829, and came to Wisconsin in 1849, locating in Wausau in May of that year, and engaging in lumbering and logging. He commenced the manufacture of lumber in 1871. His mills had about the same capacity as his present mills, except the addition of a planing-mill, in 1874, and a shingle-mill, in 1875. The capacity of the mills is 70,000 feet in eleven hours. The amount cut in 1879 was 19,000,000; in 1880, 16,000,000; in 1881, it will be from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000. They employ from 140 to 150 men, in all departments, and manufacture from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 shingles. John Stewart, who is a partner in the business, was born in York Co, New Brunswick, Aug. 10, 1825, and came to Wausau in 1849, residing here until 1856, when he moved to the town of Campton, Kane Co., Ill. Walter Alexander is a partner, who came to Wausau in 1856. Mr. Alexander Stewart was married, in Chicago, to Margaret Gray, a native of York Co., N. B. They have three children, Margaret J., Mary E. and Helen G.