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CHASE STEWART.
The name of Chase STEWART is well known throughout Clark County as that
of her Prosecuting Attorney, and his reputation as a rising young lawyer is not
confined to the county in which he lives. He
was born in Yellow Springs, Greene County, October 26, 1858, and is therefore
but little more than thirty years old. In the paternal line he is of Scotch-Iris extraction, his
remote ancestors having left Scotland in the times of persecution and settled in
the Emerald Isle, intermarrying with natives of that land.
His grandfather, John T. STEWART, settled in Clark County in 1805 and is
numbered among its sturdy pioneers. Here
his son Samuel was born and became a prominent farmer and dealer in live stock.
In 1860 he removed to Hardin County, where he settled on a farm and lived
the rest of his days. His death
took place about the year 1888. For
a time he filled the office of County Commissioner.
His wife, Mary A. MARSHALL, was a daughter of William MARSHALL, an early
settler in Clark County, where she was born in 1825, and reared to womanhood.
She bore her husband two sons and four daughters, all yet living in their
native State. The MARSHALL family to which she belonged were remotely
connected with the late Chief Justice MARSHALL.
The early schooldays of Chase STEWART, who
was the third of the parental family, were passed in the log schoolhouse in
Hardin County, and during the intervals of study he assisted his father on the
farm. After leaving the common
school, he entered the Wesleyan University, at Delaware, where he pursued his
studies about three years. He then
entered Chicago University, from which he was graduated in the class of ’80.
His taste leading him to the study of law, he went to Washington, D. C.
and became a student under Judge William LAWRENCE, at that time Comptroller of
the Treasurey.
Mr. STEWART was graduated from the National Law University in the Capital in 1882, and in October of the same year was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He began his practice in Springfield the following year, since which time he has devoted his attention entirely to his professional duties. In 1888 he was nominated and elected Prosecuting Attorney for a period of three years and assumed the duties of his office on New Year’s Day, 1889. The fine classical education which preceded his law studies, added to the brilliancy of a mind naturally acute, gave Mr. STEWART a command of language which proves valuable in his chosen work. Not only is he well grounded in the principles of law and equity, but he possess the knowledge of law and equity, but he possesses the knowledge of men and the power to move them, which, when exercised properly, are among the best qualifications for success in the legal arena. His social nature has led him to become a member of Clark Lodge, No. 101, F. & A. M., and of Moncieffe Lodge, No. 33, K. of P. He is popular in society and bids fair to attain a position of eminence in his profession if life and health are spared him.
transcribed by Deborah Brownfield Stanley