Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-01
FAITHLESS STEWART.


Merchant Kins's Life-Engsged to .
Cleveland Girl, He Fails to Complete
the Conuaot-She Dies Unmarried AZ
ter Many Years Of Patient suffering.
cleveland Leader.]
In the village of Chenille, six miles from
this city, was laid the scene OF one Of the most
interesting of the unwrItten chapters OF A. T.
Stewards life history, and little mound In
the township cemetery of East Cleveland
marked by modest marble slab contains the
ashes Of the heroine of the romance. The
story has meyer been given to the public, and
would not BE- presented now, were not all the
principal actors in the melodrama past car
ing for newspaper accounts OF their doings
when tenants OF earthly frames. From Mrs.
Morrow, slster-inlaw of the lady whose name
appears in the following, Leader reporter
obtained the facts which are given, and OF the
reliability of her statements there can not
exist the shadow Of doubt. The story In
brief as related by Mrs. Morrow Is as follows:
In the latter part of 1918 the future mer-
chant prince of this country, then boy Of
sixteen years of age, left Belfast, Ireland, the
place of his birth, and landed In New York
Being possessed of fair classical education,
obtained at Trinity college, Dublin, he found
ready employment as teacher in private
school. A few months later, he invested his
ready money in mercantile business, becom-
ing silent partner only in the concern and
not fOrsaking his educational calling. In this
manner he continued for two years. when by
the sudden departure of his partner, the
youthful Stewart was forced to the ranks of
trade himself, although he still continued to
teach school. In 1922, leaving his clerk In
charge of the business, Ste wart started on
return trip to Ireland for the purpose of set
ting up an estate at Belfast, left him by his
grandmother. Near Belfast lived fsmiy
named Morrow, whose residence was
chaarmiDgly located near the coast :3Ts.
Knock" With these people the Stewart
family had been intimate, and on his return to
the home of his childhood Alexander I. re-
newed the friendship and took up his resi-
dence with the Morrows, living with them
the entire winter and going into Belfast when
ever his business demanded.
One of the members of the family was Miss
Abby, fresh-faced, bright-eyed Irish lass OF
some eighteen years. Thrown constantly In
her society, Stewart fell victim to the young
lady's manifold charms, and was soon an &C.
cepted sutton. In the spring, the young man
having sold out his interest in the elder Stew
arts property, began preparing for his return
10 AmeEica, and suggested that the family OF
his betrothed accompany him. Miss Abby
ADDED her solicitations, and the move was de-
cided upon, and Mrs. Morrow, the mother,
William, Davy, and Abby disposed of "lhe
Knock" and came over on the same boat with
Stewart. They arrived at New York in the
spring of 1925, and the Morrows, who had
friends in Northern Ohio, pushed on to this
place. Stewart, who had invested his patri-
mOny, which amounted to f500 In Irish laces
and linens, moved his former stock to store
on Broadway, and with his imported stuffs
laid the foundation for the largest dry goods
house in America.
The family of his bethrothed lived in Cleve-
land, st that time small village, for two
years, and then bought q small farm seven
miles out on the Erie road, now known as st.
Clair street. Here they lived and died. For
the first year Abby received the usual number
of letters from her lover, and at the end of ten
months her life was rendered brighter by brief
visits from him. He, so is said, was all ten
derness and affection on this OCCASION, but 1t
was the last tlme the girl Saw her commercial
hero. From the first he had met with more
than moderate success in his business, and
with his improved condition he forgot his
earlier friends. After his return to New York
his letters grew infrequent, and ultimately
ceased. Shortly after, Miss Morrow re- eived
tldlngs OF Stewards marriage. The news
Frustrated her completely, and after her rec0v-
cry from the illness which ensued she was en-
tirely changed. Before that time she had
been iight-hearted and cheerful. After
ward she was never known to speak
above an ordinary tone, and smiled only
manently left her checks, and she became
prematurely aged. Her mother died the year
following Abby's sickness, and for thirty
years she kept house for her two brothers.
In the early years she did not lack for suit
Ors, for attractive girls were even fewer In
proportion in those days than now. None Of
them succeeded in awakening any responsive
emotion in her breast, and in 1856 she died,
and with her griefs and blighted affections
was laid away in grave dug by her brothers
in front of their cottage home.
They dared not inter her in the cemetery
fearing that the grave would be desecrated for
scientific purposes by certain ambitious medi-
cal students belonging to the college OF the
city, and who were the terror of the people OF
ths-vicinity. The grave, fenced in with wire
palings, was tenderly cared for by the BROTH
ers, and remained to excite the comment and
curiosity of travellers along the Silverthorn
road for period of twenty years.
Two years after his marriage A. 7. Stew
art sent to his former afianced silk dress
pattern, with the attendant trimmings. Each
following year until the time of his death
SliSS nOiIOW ICCCltCu OACIlIS HUN
her faithless, and possibly remorse-
full, lover. All the presents she
received without remark, and all were care
fully laid away and never worn. In 1861 Davy
Morrow, the younger of the two brothers,
then sixty-seven years of age, took to him
self young and blooming wife, to comfort
his declining days. The other brother, VIII
liam, never married, and died in 1874. Ia ac-
cordance with his last wish he was buried in
the cemetery at Glenville by the side of his
mother. The following year the surviving
brother built new house, and caused his Sis
tsr's coffin to be exhumed and placed in the
family burial plot. In 1876 Davy himself
paid the debt due his Maker, and was inferred
in the East Cleveland cemetery, opposite Lake
View. Shortly after his widow caused the
remains of the other members Of the family to
be placed beside her husbands, and side by
side they sleep the eternal sleep. After his
marriage, Miss Morrow was never known to
refer to Stewart in any manner, and after her
death her brothers rarely spoke of the man
who broke their sster's heart, except on one
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