John W. Stewart

A very distinguished non-resident member was John Wolcott Stewart, whose ninety years of life were passed in health and well-being, and to whom death came as the stopping of a clock that has run down. He had represented the State of Vermont in both houses of Congress; yet was always called Governor from the office which he filled at the time of the Civil War. Although a sturdy partisan like the late Tom Reed, whom in some respects he resembled, his affability won him friends in every party, while his integrity commanded universal respect. A remarkable memory, combined with observation and humor, enabled him to reproduce the Vermont pioneers with most entertaining fidelity, and give details of their picturesque habits. Through the death of this genial old gentleman, a compendium of history and anecdote has passed away.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook