Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Steward, Catherine L. 1843 - living in 1917
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.org/ks/ksfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com July 21, 2005, 11:38 am

Author: B. F. Bowen

CATHERINE L. STEWARD.

    One of the highly respected and greatly admired women of Irving, Marshall
county, is Mrs. Catherine L. Steward, who was born on October 25, 1843, at
Marshall, Michigan, and is the daughter of Godwin and Delia A. Dolan.

    Godwin Dolan was born in the city of New York and was the son of John T.
Dolan, a native of Ireland. His wife was of Irish-English descent, and her
people were prominent in their home community. Godwin Dolan and his wife grew up
in New York and were there married. He became prosperous and was a man of
influence. He and his wife later located in the state of Michigan and there
their daughter, Catherine L., was born at Marshall. They resided in that state
for nine years and returned to New York, remaining there till 1869, when they
came to Kansas, where they located in Atchison county. In 1872 they came to
Marshall county and established their home at Irving, where they died some years
ago. They were held in the highest regard and esteem and they had much to do
with the general development of the district in which they lived.

    Catherine L. Dolan received her education in the schools of New York state,
and there grew to womanhood and came with her parents to Atchison, Kansas, where
she was united in marriage in 1870, to Herbert Hawk, who was born in 1837 and
died in 1878. To this union the following children were born : Delia, Emily and
Alfred. Delia is the wife of Frederick Luedke, a resident of Irving; Emily is
the wife of J. Morris Layton, a highly-respected resident of Irving, and Alfred
is also a resident of Irving, and is married to Zelda Blodgett, and to them have
been born two children, Chauncey and Ella. Herbert Hawk was a native of the
state of New York, and there received his education in the public schools and
grew to manhood and came to Kansas in the year 1857, and located in Atchison
county, where he homesteaded a farm. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he
offered his services in the defense of the flag of the Union, and enlisted in
Tenth Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Quigg. He served
throughout the war and saw much active service. At the close of the war he
returned to Kansas, and later established his home near Irving, where he engaged
in general farming and stock raising until the time of his death. He took much
interest in the local affairs of the community, and was most happy in the
environment of his home. The latter years of his life were devoted to the
interests of his family, and his greatest desires were for their comfort and
happiness. His untimely death was mourned by the people of the community, for
they knew that a good and honest man had gone from them.

    Some years after the death of Herbert Hawk, Mrs. Hawk was united in marriage
to Silas Steward, and to this union one son was born, Harry, who now lives with
the mother. Her daughter, Emily, who is the wife of J. Morris Layton, is the
mother of three children, Mary, Alice and Ida. The daughter, Mary, who is the
wife of George Williams, is a resident of Spring-side, and Alice is the wife of
Dr. Adelbert Ferguson, to whom she was married in September, 1916, and they are
now living in Michigan.

    Mrs. Steward has long been active in the social and the religious life of
the community, where she is held in high regard and esteem. She is a member of
the Episcopal church and of the Order of the Eastern Star. Her two sons are
members of the Masonic lodge, of the Eastern Star and of the Knights of Pythias
and Pythian Sisters.

    The father of Mrs. Steward, who came to Kansas from his home in the state of
New York, owing to the severe climate of the former state, was a man of pleasing
characteristics and of much force of character. He owned considerable property
in his native state, where Mrs. Steward now has large property interests. She
has a beautiful home in Irving, where she lives with her daughter.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ks/marshall/bios/steward20bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/

File size: 4.7 Kb