Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1911-01-26
PIONEER
SUCCUMBS
DR.. A. S. Stewart Died at His
Home Here Sunday
AN EARLY SETTLER
Prominent in State and County
Politics--Funeral Held Tues
day Afternoon.

FoltlcS--f uneral Held lueS.
day Afternoon.
One by one the men who blazed the
trail into the Black Hills, are being
called to join the ranks in the great
beyond. DR.. A. 8. Stewart was one of
these and answered the final summons
Sunday afternoon, January 22nd. at
about five O'Clock at his home on Col
lege Hill, after an extended illness
covering period of several months.
DIR. Stewart was seventy-one years old
at the time of his death. and was one
Of the best known and most highly re.
spected citizens in the entire Black
Hills. A brief review of his life is as
follows:
He was born on August 2, 1889, in
Switzerland county, Indiana, and in
1850 removed with his parents to Iowa,
locating at Winterset, the county seat
of Madison county. Here he attended
the public schools, in the meantime
learning the printers trade in the Of
flee of the Madisonian. Graduating
from the public schools of Winterset,
he afterwards attended Wesleyan Iowa
University at Mt. Pleasant. Shortly
after leaving this school he went to
Kansas, oeing resident of Kansas
Throughout the border war. He re.
turned to Iowa in 1867 and took up the
study of medicine. In 1859 he located
at Pawnee, Nebraska, where he COM
menced the practice of his profession,
being at the time only about 20 years
of age.
DR.. Stewart resided at Pawnee for
a period of fourteen years, during all
of which time he enjoyed the most
lucrative practice of any physician in
all the new country. During his resi-
dence he was elected vice president of
the Nebraska Medical Association,
serving as such officer for period of
two years. At the outbreak of the
war Of the rebellion he enlisted in the
Second Nebraska cavalry, serving un-
til the close of the war. After being
mustered out of the service of his
country, he was appointed physician
to the Otoe and Missouri tribe of In
dians, which position he held for sew
eral years. During his residence in
Nebraska, the doctor took quite an
important part in the political affairs
in the territory and state, havin 9
been member of the last territorial
council of Nebraska and member OF
the first state senate of that state.
He was q member of the lower house
of the first Legislature held in the new
capital, Lincoln, and was also nom.
Der Of the constitutional convention
held in 1871. In 1873 he removed to
Tecumseh, Nebraska, where he pur
chased drug store and also practiced
medicine. During the alliance Graz,
in that state, he was chairman Of th,
republican county central committee
OF johnson county, and during this
period he purchased controlling in
terest in the Tecumseh Chieftain 70,
the purpose of aiding and strengthen
) ing the republican cause in that por
tion Of the state.
In the spring of 1877 he was appoint
ed register of the United States lane
Office for the Black Hills, and in Ma,
of that year, he removed to the Hills
The land Office was opened at Dead
wood on July End of that year, an,
the doctor presided over the office a
register for period OF four years an,
3 a half. In 1882 he removed to Ho
! Springs, where, in company with Dl
I Jennings, he purchased the Minnekah
ia Springs. Afterwards associated
! ! with him in this property, we're Free
Z T. Evans. Erwin G. Dudley and Leon
I ard X. Graves, the gentlemen formin
! q co-psrtnership known as the Ho
! Syringe Company. This company sc
\ cured title to all the land where tn
: springs are located, with the exception
Of the Catholiosn.
Hot Springs was then part of Custe
! county, but was formerly known a
Forsythe county. Through the effort
! of Dr. Jennings and himself the count
OF Fall River was formed and organ
I ICED as it stands today. In 1885 Stew
: art & LaFeiche started the Ho
) Springs Star, of which the Doctor wa
: the editor and his partner was put
: Usher, the arm conducting the pape
: for number of years In 1886 th
\ doctor was elected Q member Of th