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ALBERT F. STEWART
Vol. 3, p. 963

Senior member of the representative firm of STEWART & WILDERSON,
architects and building contractors who have done much to further the
material upbuilding and physical attractiveness of Oklahoma City, M.
Stewart is known as a progressive, successful and substantial
business man and as a citizen of marked public spirit. The firm of
which he is a member has given special attention to the designing and
erecting of residence buildings of the better order and has been
concerned with the development of various fine residence sections of
the Oklahoma metropolis and capital city, besides which the
operations of the firm have extended into other parts of the state.

Albert F. Stewart was born in Edgar County, Illinois, on the 3d of
December, 1874, and is a representative of one of the sterling
pioneer families of that fine commonwealth. He is a son of Samuel and
Rosaline (BATES) Stewart, his father having been a native of Ohio and
having become a resident of Illinois in an early day, there having
reclaimed a fine farm from the virgin prairie and having continued
his identification with agricultural pursuits until his death, which
occurred in 1896, his widow being still a resident of Illinois.

Reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and afforded the
advantages of the public schools of his native county, he continued
to be associated with his father in the work and management of the
farm until he had attained to the age of seventeen years, when he
established his residence at Waterloo, Iowa, and entered the employ
of the firm of William ZITTRELL & Company, which was there engaged in
contracting and building. In this connection he gained a
comprehensive knowledge of the business and well qualified himself
for independent work along the same line of enterprise.

In 1901 Mr. Steward came to Oklahoma Territory and at Oklahoma City
engaged in general contracting and building, in partnership with Mr.
Wilderson, with whom he has continued to be associated, under the
firm name of Stewart & Wilderson. The firm has been prominently
identified with the development of the better residence houses
ranging in price from $6000 to $30,000. The firm has amplified its
scope of business by the purchasing of property and by erecting
excellent residences on the same and then placing the houses of the
market, this progressive enterprise having been fruitful in advancing
the substantial upbuilding of the capital city. Stewart & Wilderson
platted and opened Stewart's Addition to Oklahoma City, and among the
many fine residences erected in Oklahoma City by the firm may be
noted those of J.P. LANKFORD, John R. COTTINGHAM, S.T. BLEDSOE,
Joseph B. THOBURN, C.R. HOFFER, Max HERSKOWITZ, Dr. Robert L. HULL,
besides which the firm erected the warehouse of the BASS-BARBER
Company, one of the largest structures of the kind in the state.
Stewart & WILSON [sic] have built many excellent residences in other
section of Oklahoma and through the fair and honorable methods and
marked technical ability that have been brought to bear at all times,
the business has become of broad scope and importance, the while the
high reputation of the firm constitutes its best business asset. The
offices of the firm are in the American National Bank Building and
the attractive residence of Mr. Stewart is at 2230 West Sixteenth
Street.

On the 17th of April, 1902, Mr. Stewart wedded Miss Mattie B.
MERCER, daughter of James Mercer, one of the prominent and extensive
fruit-growers of Southern Missouri, and the three children of the
union are Lawrence, Albert F., Jr., and Maurice.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Linda December 21, 1998.