Stephen first married Olive Dexter on 4 October 1835. He second married Caroline Stevens. Stephen was killed 18 December 1867 in the horrible railroad accident in Angola, NY.
Stephen W. Steward and Olive Dexter had the following child: Olive Maria Steward
Stephen W. Steward and Caroline Stevens had the following children:
William H. Steward. He married Emeline S. Murray.
Dorlisca M. Steward.
Dudley Steward. Dudley died 1868.
Richard P. Steward. He died before 1875.
Stephen W. Steward did mercantile business here before founding the First National Bank of Corry. It is a prosperous agricultural town, and the railroad and the building up of the City of Corry, eight miles distant, have given it a good market and prosperity. It has an excellent soil and contains many splendid farms. John Steward, Jr., settled in Harmony in 1821 and had a large family; his sons were, John, Stephen W., Eliphalet, and Alfred W. Stephen W. was for some years a. merchant in Clymer and was later one of the most prominent in founding the First National Bank in Corry, Pennsylvania. Alfred W., a farmer and cattle dealer, resided in the village.
(Town of Clymer history)∼Steven was one of the victims of one of the worst railroad accidents in 19th-century America—the "Angola Horror," as newspapers subsequently dubbed it. At a little past 3 in the afternoon, while crossing over a high railroad bridge in the western New York village of Angola, the last two cars of the Buffalo-bound express jumped the tracks and tumbled 30 to 50 feet into the icy, treacherous gorge below. Both cars burst into flames, trapping passengers inside.
He was the most prominent figure on the express that day; president of the Oil Creek Railroad, he had founded a bank in Corry, Pa.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happend to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
Stephen W. Steward and Olive Dexter had the following child: Olive Maria Steward
Stephen W. Steward and Caroline Stevens had the following children:
William H. Steward. He married Emeline S. Murray.
Dorlisca M. Steward.
Dudley Steward. Dudley died 1868.
Richard P. Steward. He died before 1875.
Stephen W. Steward did mercantile business here before founding the First National Bank of Corry. It is a prosperous agricultural town, and the railroad and the building up of the City of Corry, eight miles distant, have given it a good market and prosperity. It has an excellent soil and contains many splendid farms. John Steward, Jr., settled in Harmony in 1821 and had a large family; his sons were, John, Stephen W., Eliphalet, and Alfred W. Stephen W. was for some years a. merchant in Clymer and was later one of the most prominent in founding the First National Bank in Corry, Pennsylvania. Alfred W., a farmer and cattle dealer, resided in the village.
(Town of Clymer history)∼Steven was one of the victims of one of the worst railroad accidents in 19th-century America—the "Angola Horror," as newspapers subsequently dubbed it. At a little past 3 in the afternoon, while crossing over a high railroad bridge in the western New York village of Angola, the last two cars of the Buffalo-bound express jumped the tracks and tumbled 30 to 50 feet into the icy, treacherous gorge below. Both cars burst into flames, trapping passengers inside.
He was the most prominent figure on the express that day; president of the Oil Creek Railroad, he had founded a bank in Corry, Pa.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happend to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
Stephen first married Olive Dexter on 4 October 1835. He second married Caroline Stevens. Stephen was killed 18 December 1867 in the horrible railroad accident in Angola, NY.
Stephen W. Steward and Olive Dexter had the following child: Olive Maria Steward
Stephen W. Steward and Caroline Stevens had the following children:
William H. Steward. He married Emeline S. Murray.
Dorlisca M. Steward.
Dudley Steward. Dudley died 1868.
Richard P. Steward. He died before 1875.
Stephen W. Steward did mercantile business here before founding the First National Bank of Corry. It is a prosperous agricultural town, and the railroad and the building up of the City of Corry, eight miles distant, have given it a good market and prosperity. It has an excellent soil and contains many splendid farms. John Steward, Jr., settled in Harmony in 1821 and had a large family; his sons were, John, Stephen W., Eliphalet, and Alfred W. Stephen W. was for some years a. merchant in Clymer and was later one of the most prominent in founding the First National Bank in Corry, Pennsylvania. Alfred W., a farmer and cattle dealer, resided in the village.
(Town of Clymer history)∼Steven was one of the victims of one of the worst railroad accidents in 19th-century America—the "Angola Horror," as newspapers subsequently dubbed it. At a little past 3 in the afternoon, while crossing over a high railroad bridge in the western New York village of Angola, the last two cars of the Buffalo-bound express jumped the tracks and tumbled 30 to 50 feet into the icy, treacherous gorge below. Both cars burst into flames, trapping passengers inside.
He was the most prominent figure on the express that day; president of the Oil Creek Railroad, he had founded a bank in Corry, Pa.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happend to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
Stephen W. Steward and Olive Dexter had the following child: Olive Maria Steward
Stephen W. Steward and Caroline Stevens had the following children:
William H. Steward. He married Emeline S. Murray.
Dorlisca M. Steward.
Dudley Steward. Dudley died 1868.
Richard P. Steward. He died before 1875.
Stephen W. Steward did mercantile business here before founding the First National Bank of Corry. It is a prosperous agricultural town, and the railroad and the building up of the City of Corry, eight miles distant, have given it a good market and prosperity. It has an excellent soil and contains many splendid farms. John Steward, Jr., settled in Harmony in 1821 and had a large family; his sons were, John, Stephen W., Eliphalet, and Alfred W. Stephen W. was for some years a. merchant in Clymer and was later one of the most prominent in founding the First National Bank in Corry, Pennsylvania. Alfred W., a farmer and cattle dealer, resided in the village.
(Town of Clymer history)∼Steven was one of the victims of one of the worst railroad accidents in 19th-century America—the "Angola Horror," as newspapers subsequently dubbed it. At a little past 3 in the afternoon, while crossing over a high railroad bridge in the western New York village of Angola, the last two cars of the Buffalo-bound express jumped the tracks and tumbled 30 to 50 feet into the icy, treacherous gorge below. Both cars burst into flames, trapping passengers inside.
He was the most prominent figure on the express that day; president of the Oil Creek Railroad, he had founded a bank in Corry, Pa.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happend to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
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