William S. Stewart papers

Collection

Identifier: MSD-1856-001

Staff Only

Collection Statement

This collection consists of Philological Society Orations and Essays, Rostrum Essays, class work, Anti-Slave Orations, letters by William as a student, miscellaneous letters, civil war letters, and a bound letter of the WILLIAM S. STEWART LETTERS from 1861-1862.

Dates

1831 - 1897

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Usage Restrictions

Biographical Sketch

William S. Stewart was born in October, 1831, in Franklin County, Indiana, the second of four children of Samuel and Margaret (Earhart) Stewart. William attended college at Indiana Asbury (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Indiana, where he was graduated on July 17, 1856. Preserved with his letters are certain papers written during his college years, some being class assignments and others being compositions apparently for deliverance as speeches before one of the college literary societies. From 1856 to 1858, William studied law in Cincinnati, in all probability at the Cincinnati Law School. This is somewhat unusual because, at this time, most lawyers were prepared for their profession by reading under the supervision of a practicing lawyer.