Biography of W. P. Steward, page 166 / 167.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   W. P.  Steward is a popular figure in business circles in the southern 
part of DeKalb County, being proprietor of the Steward Lumber & Gain 
Company at Spencerville.
   He was born in Spencer Township, formerly Concord Township, March 7, 
1887, a son of L.W. and Cora C. (Barr) Steward. His father was born in 
Jackson Township of DeKalb County in 1862, and his mother in Spencer 
Township in 1864.  She is still living.  L.W. Steward was a sawmill 
operator and a retail lumberman for many years and died in 1912.  He was a 
Methodist.  He and his wife had four children, one of whom was the late 
Fred Steward, a partner with his brother W.P. in the lumber business.  
Fred Steward was a graduate of high school and went into the army and died 
at Camp Taylor in 1918.  He married Laura Worley and left one son.  The 
three living children are Arminta, W. P. and Jennie, wife of Roscoe 
Walters.
   W.P. Steward is a high school graduate and from school entered his 
present business and has carried it on successfully for a number of 
years.  He is one of the leading men of Spencerville, being a director of 
the Farmers and Merchants State Bank, president of the Town Hall 
Association, and is a stockholder in a hardware business at Fort Wayne.
   He married Hazel Berry of St. Joe, Indiana, March 20, 1909. She is a 
graduate of the St. Joe High School.  They have two children, Ercil and 
Florence.  Mrs. Steward is a member of the Methodist Church.  He is 
affiliated with Concord Lodge of Masons, is a member of the thirty-second 
degree Scottish Rite Consistory at Fort Wayne, both he and his wife are 
members of the Eastern Star, and she is a past worthy matron and a member 
of the Grand Lodge.  He is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and 
has sat in the Grand Lodge. Politically Mr. Steward is a republican.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com