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JAMES C. STEWART
Vol. 5, p. 1763

The profession of education has no worthier or more efficient
representative in Grady County than James C. STEWART of Rush Springs,
superintendent of city schools and a man who has passed practically
his entire career in the calling to which he is now devoted.  His
advance has been steady and consistent and has come as a result of
personal merit and close application, inherent and peculiar talent
for imparting to others his own broad knowledge, and a deep and
comprehensive sympathy that attracts his pupils to him and make easy
their control.  He has likewise displayed the possession of marked
executive ability and in the management of the affairs of his office
has shown no little business acumen.

James C. STEWART was born at Russellville, the county seat of Pope
County, Arkansas, July 14, 1884, and is a son of T.B. and Margaret
(ALLEN) STEWART.  As the name would suggest, the family originated in
Scotland, James C. STEWART, the grandfather of James C. of this
notice, and for whom he was named, having been a native of Scotia and
an emigrant to the United States from the City of Edinburgh.  On his
arrival in this country the grandfather became a pioneer planter and
lumberman in Tennessee and through a long life of industry rose to a
place of prominence and financial independence, and died at Franklin,
Tennessee, well advanced in years, and standing high in the esteem of
his fellow-citizens.

T.B. STEWART, father of James C. STEWART, was born at Stephensville,
Alabama, in 1852, and as a young man removed to Winchester,
Tennessee.  In 1881 he removed to Russellville, Arkansas, where he
remained until 1886, then going to Pottsville, Arkansas, where he
followed his vocations of farmer and lumberman until 1906.  In that
year he retired from active participation in business and
agricultural life and moved to South Pittsburg, Marion County,
Tennessee, where he still resides.  Mr. STEWARTis a deacon in the
Baptist Church, and in political matters is a democrat.  He married
Miss Margaret ALLEN, who was born at Winchester, Franklin County,
Tennessee, in 1853, and she died at Russellville, Arkansas, in 1906.
They became the parents of four children, as follows:  John, who died
at the age of two years; Jack, who married T.B. LAX, superintendent
of schools of Mulberry, Arkansas; Minnie, who is the wife of John
DANE, a farmer of Russellville; and James C.

As a youth, James C. STEWARTattended the public schools of
Pottsville, Arkansas, where he was graduated from the high school
with the class of 1900.  During the next two years, desiring to see
something of the country, he traveled extensively from Canada to the
gulf of Mexico in all the states east of the Rocky Mountains, and not
only derived much pleasure from his travels, but also an education
which could have been gained in no other way, and experience that has
proved of immeasurable value to him since that time.  For one year,
also, he was in the service of the Iron Mountain Railroad.  In 1903
Mr. STEWART enrolled as a student at Washita College, Arkansas, and
graduated therefrom in 1907.  He next spent one year at the
University of Chicago, which he left in 1908, and this training was
later supplemented by a full course at the Central State Normal
School, from which he was graduated in 1914.  In the meantime, he had
started upon his educational career in 1902, when he began to teach a
summer school near Russellville.  He rose steadily in his calling
from that time on, and in 1907 was appointed principal of Willow
Point (Oklahoma) School, two years later being made principal of the
high school at Comanche, where he remained two years.  In 1910 he
received the appointment as superintendent of schools at Loco and
retained that office until the fall of 1915, when he was given his
present position as superintendent of city schools of Rush Springs.
He bears an excellent reputation as an educator, and while a strict
disciplinarian has always had the esteem and friendship, as well as
the confidence, of his teachers and pupils.  Mr. STEWART is a
democrat in politics.  He belongs to the Baptist Church, and is
fraternally affiliated with Loco Camp, Woodmen of the World, in which
he is past consul commander, and Loco Lodge No. 3561, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is past grand.  He has numerous
friends in both orders, as he has also in professional life.

Mr. Stewart was married in 1908, at England, Lonoke County,
Arkansas, to Miss Alma SWAIN, daughter of the late J.H. SWAIN
deceased, who was a merchant, banker and oil man of England,
Arkansas.  To Mr. and Mrs. STEWART there have come two children:
Pearl, born June 8m 1910; and ruby, born May 5, 1911.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916)