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Show Girl with a Heritage 7 accepted baptism. He joined the Saints migrating from Illinois Valley in 1852, locating at South Willow Creek (now Draper) in the south end of the valley. A successful farmer, in 1856 at age forty-one, he married as a second wife Elizabeth White, of London, England, who had trekked across the Plains to the Salt Lake earlier in the year in the Hunt wagon train, just behind the Martin Handcart Company, whom the wagoneers assisted. The same year he was chosen to be bishop of the renamed Draper ward, which calling he held until his death in 1890. Isaac and Elizabeth had eleven children, 0.£ whom Barnard J., born in 1873, was the eighth. Bishop Isaac Stewart also served three terms as selectman (commissioner) of Salt Lake County, initiated the construction of several canals taken from the Jordan River, and fostered an excellent school system. Largely through Bishop Stewart's influ ence, John R. Park became principal of the Draper schools, and then moved on to become the first president of the University of Utah. Isaac and Elizabeth made sure that their children were well-educated and dedicated to the church. One of them, William M. Stewart, served as dean of the University of Utah College of Education and founded and directed the teacher train ing school at the University of Utah, named in his honor. A sec ond son, Samuel W. Stewart, a practicing attorney, was judge of the Third Judicial District. Charles Beakley Stewart, a third son, graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and was an attorney, director of several businesses, and a rancher. The fourth son of Isaac Stewart, Barnard Joseph Stewart, graduated from the University of Utah, attended the University of Michigan Law School, and then established a highly success fullaw practice in Utah and Idaho. He appeared before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Having grown up in the farming district in the southern end of Salt Lake Valley, Barnard was also interested in cattle and sheep raising. He and his brothers (William M., Samuel W., and Charles Beakley Stewart) purchased a large tract of range land-"Pine Valley"-at the head of Provo River, in a moun tainous region near Woodland, Utah, some fifty miles southeast of Salt Lake City-a two-day drive by white-top wagon. The |
