First U.S. Senator from Nevada William M. Stewart Autograph

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FIRST U.S. SENATOR FROM NEVADA WILLIAM M. STEWART AUTOGRAPH
Signature "Wm. M. Stewart" on a 1" x 4" slip of paper
In very good
condition
William Morris Stewart
(August 9, 1827 – April 23, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1964, he was inducted into the
Hall of Great Westerners
of the
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Stewart was born in Wayne County, New York, on August 9, 1825. As a child he moved with his parents to Trumbull County, Ohio. As a young man he was a mathematics teacher in Ohio. In 1849 he began attending Yale University but left in 1850 to move to California. He came to California because of the Gold Rush. He arrived in San Francisco, California and soon left to begin mining near Nevada City, California.
In 1903 he was reputed to be one of the richest men in the Senate (with a fortune of some million and ownership of silver mines) and the oldest member of that body.
Marriages
Stewart was married to Annie Elizabeth Foote, daughter of his law partner, Henry S. Foote, on May 31, 1855.[2]: 8
His second wife was May Agnes Cone, widow of Theodore C. Cone. They were wed on October 26, 1903, in the Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. Judge Thomas M. Norwood, who had served with Stewart in the U.S. Senate was the best man.[3]
According to the book Reminiscences of William M. Stewart (1908) in May 1905 he moved with his new wife and her daughter to the Bullfrog Mining District (Nevada), where he started a law firm and law library.
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