Elliot Willilam Stewart (1817 - 1897)

Born 14 Jul 1817 in New York

Ancestors

Died 27 Oct 1897 at age 80 in Lake View, Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States

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Biography

Elliot was born in 1817. He was the son of Philetus Stewart and Susannah Ballard. He passed away in 1897. ^[1]

Elliodtt Stewart and "The Round Barn Movement" stretched from New York to Kansas, and dozens of the barns still exist farther west as well. The late 19th-century origins can be traced to a “gentleman farmer” from Hamburg. “The direct father of the movement seems to be Elliott W. Stewart, a wealthy farmer from Erie County, New York,” according to The Round Barns of Kansas by James R. Shortridge.1. Elliott Stewart was an 1835 graduate of Cazenovia Seminary where he majored in legal studies and was an attorney in Buffalo from 1846-1853.  Due to poor health, he retired to his farm on a large tract of land at the mouth of the 18-Mile Creek in the Town of Hamburgh.  Here he carried out notable experiments in the care and feeding of animals, published several books and became a non-resident professor at Cornell University.  His inventions included a "self-cleaning stable" and his famous octagonal barns.  He was also a member of the school board and the Lake View postmaster from 1872-1885. 

Ellitt Stewart and "The Round Barn Movement" stretched from New York to Kansas, and dozens of the barns still exist farther west as well. The late 19th-century origins can be traced to a “gentleman farmer” from Hamburg. “The direct father of the movement seems to be Elliott W. Stewart, a wealthy farmer from Erie County, New York,” according to The Round Barns of Kansas by James R. Shortridge.

“When Stewart’s barn was completed in 1875, he was so proud of his accomplishment that he wanted farmers everywhere to hear of his barn’s superior design,” according to Richard Triumpho’s Round Barns of New York. And he had the means to spread the word.

Stewart was a nonresident professor of agriculture at Cornell University and editor of the monthly Buffalo Livestock Journal. He wrote an article with engravings of his octagon barn for the January 1876 issue.

Stewart was born July 14, 1817, in Madison County. He arrived in Buffalo in 1846 after being admitted to the bar. But health problems prompted him to give up his law practice and purchase 209 acres close to Eighteen Mile Creek near Lake View. “Here Mr. Stewart became both a ‘gentleman’ farmer and a very practical ‘dirt’ farmer,” according to a newspaper article at the time. “In fact, he became a ‘Farmer of the Future,” since he not only improved farm methods but initiated new techniques as well.”

Marriage

Married Nov 13 1845 in Camden Ny to Marion Jamieson was was born in Scotland Stewart Clan Magazine (google books page 26)

Death

Note: Stewart Clan Magazine has his death as 1894 in Lakeview, New York. Google book

reference under marriage information. This information is on page 30. Death Date unconfirmed.

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by family of Sara Schafer, Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

• <rehttp://www.seiz2day.com/lakeviewny/TOC-FormativeYears.pdf (provided by Gary Pericak)ferences />

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCYH-Y2X : 9 November 2014), Elliot W Stewart, Buffalo, ward 2, Erie, New York, United States; citing family 474, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCQV-2C1 : 19 March 2020), Elliot W Stewart, 1860.

• "New York State Census, 1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVNN-GZWH : 10 March 2018), Elliott Steuart, , Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States; citing Census, p. 19, citing multiple county Clerks; Warren and Lewis County Board of Supervisors; multiple counties in New York; Utica and East Hampton Public Libraries, New York.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8FR-W45 : 19 March 2020), Elliot W Stewart, 1870.

• "New York State Census, 1875," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNK9-PDS : 3 April 2020), E W Stewart, Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States; citing p. 33, line 1, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 825,690.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZZR-Z32 : 9 September 2017), Elliott Stewart, Hamburgh, Erie, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 94, sheet 392C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,827.

• "New York State Census, 1892," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ9Q-R57 : 19 August 2019), Eliott W Steward, 1892; citing Hamburg, E.D. 04, county offices, New York; FHL microfilm 825,696.

• "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2D-H35N : 20 October 2019), Elliott W Stewart, 1894.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M7XC-SD7 : accessed 2017-02-13), entry for Elliott William STEWART.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:S1CV-V4L : accessed 2017-02-13), entry for Elliott William /Stewart/.

• Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York, Volume 2 pg. 818

edited by Truman C. White See also:

• https://buffalo.com/community/the-barn-that-launched-a-nationwide-movement/article_f2421a9a-963c-11ec-bca3-5f8050dd9c1d.html