Famous War Veteran Dead
FAMOUS WAR VETERAN DEAD Major Robert E. Stewart, of Pittsburgh, Answers Last Roll Call. Special to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
PITTSBURGH, PA March 30, 1910, Major Robert E. Stewart, aged 69, former District Attorney of Allegheny County, ex-president of the Braddock National Bank, and nationally prominent in the United Presbyterian Church, died today after a two-week illness of pneumonia. His daughter Margaret is the wife of Alva C. Dinkey, president of the Carnegie Steel Company, the biggest subsidiary concern of the United States Steel Corporation. He was born at Stewart Station, Westmoreland County, and named for his grandfather, who settled there before the Revolutionary War.
During the Civil War Major Stewart rose to the rank of First Lieutenant in the 123d Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, and for two years after the battle of Appomattox was Major in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, United States Colored Troops, and was made commander of the sub-district of the Roanoke, with headquarters at Burkesville, VA.
He had been a member of the Allegheny County Bar for forty-three years. Major Stewart was elected District Attorney on the Republican ticket in 1904. He was a member of the Pan-Presbyterian Council of 1884 at Belfast. Ireland, and had been a trustee of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church since 1875."
Trafford Historical Society notes: This article was printed in The Philadelphia Inquirer on March 31, 1910. However, we have Robert Ekin Stewart's grandfather as John Stewart (1766-1821) who married Jane Cavett (1764-1867).
