Stewart, Ephraim C

Stewart, Ephraim C., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Tuscarora Valley, Juniata Co., Pa., Jan. 17, 1833. He studied law and was admitted to practice, but in 1870 he commenced teaching in the Soldiers' Orphan School, Cassville, Pa. In 1871 he united with the Church, and was soon after licensed to preach. He was admitted into the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1872, but after a few months was attacked by consumption, and died at his parents' home, March 8, 1873. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 39.