Stewart, Urban Van, a Utah pioneer of 1847, was born Nov. 9, 1817, in Overton county, Tennessee, the son of Wm. Stewart and Elizabeth Van Hooser. When five years of age he moved with his parents to Madison county, Illinois, where he lived till 1835, when he went to Missouri, where he, as a convert to "Mormonism," was baptized July 15, 1836, by Seymour Brunson in Log Creek, near Far West, Missouri.
He was married in the same place to Lydia Gage Jacobs in 1837. At this time the mob was very hostile and by the advice of the Prophet Joseph Smith [p.527] the family moved into Far West where Bro. Stewart stood guard during those troublous times. In the early spring of 1839 he moved to Quincy, Illinois, and in 1840 he located on Sugar Creek, Iowa, where his house and nearly everything he had was destroyed by fire. In the spring of 1841 he moved to Nauvoo, working much of the time on the Nauvoo Temple until 1843.
[Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p.526.]
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Urban Van Stewart
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