According to the Political Graveyard at http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stewart.html Stewart, William Morris (1827-1909) Born in Galen, N.Y., August 9, 1827. California state attorney general, 1854-56; delegate to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863; U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1864-75, 1887-1905. Died April 23, 1909. Cremated; ashes originally interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.; reinterment to unknown location. (See also his congressional biography.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:46:36 -0400 >From: Scott Monje <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: New York Sons and Daughters >Regarding New Yorkers who went west: >William Morris Stewart was born in the town of Galen in Wayne County, N.Y., in the 1820s. >His family then moved to Ohio, but he returned to Wayne County, became a high school >math teacher in Lyons, and began studying law in the office of a local attorney. After a stint >at Yale Law School (which he didn't finish), he followed the gold rush out west, studied some >more law, and ended up a prominent lawyer associated with corporate mining interests, first >in California and then in Nevada. In 1864 he was elected as one of Nevada's first U.S. >senators. Yet, for all his prominence, no one seems to know the precise year in which he >was born. Perhaps, someone in Wayne Co. could look it up.