The Rev. Mr. Stewart was pastor of the following Baptist churches in VT: West Pawlet 1913-14, Starksboro 1917-1919, and Sheffield/Wheelock 1919-1920. His date of birth was found on his WW I Draft Registration card. Records of the First Baptist Church of Starksboro VT indicate that his membership was transferred from the First Baptist Church of Valley Falls NY.
The Rev. Buell W. Maxfield in reviewing pastors he had known while growing up in Starksboro wrote: "J. B. Stewart - what a man! An orator, a dramatist, blustery, bombastic preacher that made Bible events tremendously real. Hard to sleep while he tore through a sermon. One of the most stirring preachers I ever heard, but outside the pulpit he was in person rather vacillate, lacking emotional poise, and given to some moodiness. He had a good heart and great mind but lacked maturity. Mostly he preached on Bible characters and made them so live that they showed us up in our behavior. His sermons therefore were much criticized by us and he became increasingly sensitive to our 'sales resistance,' remarking his sermons were "only targets for you to shoot full of holes." His resignation from the Starksboro church was precipitated by the federation of the Baptist and Methodist churches in town.
He was enumerated on the January 1920 census of Sheffield VT with his wife Edith M. and three sons Lowell M., age 7; John B. Jr., age 5, and William M., age 8 mos.
His wife was Edith McLeoud, born Port Mouton, NS CAN
The Rev. Buell W. Maxfield in reviewing pastors he had known while growing up in Starksboro wrote: "J. B. Stewart - what a man! An orator, a dramatist, blustery, bombastic preacher that made Bible events tremendously real. Hard to sleep while he tore through a sermon. One of the most stirring preachers I ever heard, but outside the pulpit he was in person rather vacillate, lacking emotional poise, and given to some moodiness. He had a good heart and great mind but lacked maturity. Mostly he preached on Bible characters and made them so live that they showed us up in our behavior. His sermons therefore were much criticized by us and he became increasingly sensitive to our 'sales resistance,' remarking his sermons were "only targets for you to shoot full of holes." His resignation from the Starksboro church was precipitated by the federation of the Baptist and Methodist churches in town.
He was enumerated on the January 1920 census of Sheffield VT with his wife Edith M. and three sons Lowell M., age 7; John B. Jr., age 5, and William M., age 8 mos.
His wife was Edith McLeoud, born Port Mouton, NS CAN
The Rev. Mr. Stewart was pastor of the following Baptist churches in VT: West Pawlet 1913-14, Starksboro 1917-1919, and Sheffield/Wheelock 1919-1920. His date of birth was found on his WW I Draft Registration card. Records of the First Baptist Church of Starksboro VT indicate that his membership was transferred from the First Baptist Church of Valley Falls NY.
The Rev. Buell W. Maxfield in reviewing pastors he had known while growing up in Starksboro wrote: "J. B. Stewart - what a man! An orator, a dramatist, blustery, bombastic preacher that made Bible events tremendously real. Hard to sleep while he tore through a sermon. One of the most stirring preachers I ever heard, but outside the pulpit he was in person rather vacillate, lacking emotional poise, and given to some moodiness. He had a good heart and great mind but lacked maturity. Mostly he preached on Bible characters and made them so live that they showed us up in our behavior. His sermons therefore were much criticized by us and he became increasingly sensitive to our 'sales resistance,' remarking his sermons were "only targets for you to shoot full of holes." His resignation from the Starksboro church was precipitated by the federation of the Baptist and Methodist churches in town.
He was enumerated on the January 1920 census of Sheffield VT with his wife Edith M. and three sons Lowell M., age 7; John B. Jr., age 5, and William M., age 8 mos.
His wife was Edith McLeoud, born Port Mouton, NS CAN
The Rev. Buell W. Maxfield in reviewing pastors he had known while growing up in Starksboro wrote: "J. B. Stewart - what a man! An orator, a dramatist, blustery, bombastic preacher that made Bible events tremendously real. Hard to sleep while he tore through a sermon. One of the most stirring preachers I ever heard, but outside the pulpit he was in person rather vacillate, lacking emotional poise, and given to some moodiness. He had a good heart and great mind but lacked maturity. Mostly he preached on Bible characters and made them so live that they showed us up in our behavior. His sermons therefore were much criticized by us and he became increasingly sensitive to our 'sales resistance,' remarking his sermons were "only targets for you to shoot full of holes." His resignation from the Starksboro church was precipitated by the federation of the Baptist and Methodist churches in town.
He was enumerated on the January 1920 census of Sheffield VT with his wife Edith M. and three sons Lowell M., age 7; John B. Jr., age 5, and William M., age 8 mos.
His wife was Edith McLeoud, born Port Mouton, NS CAN
Gravesite Details
Diligent efforts to ascertain his death and burial facts have thus far been unsuccessful.
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