Ewart, Matt

EWART

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Date: 11/16/2012 at 14:52:08

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

PLEASANT TOWNSHIP

Page 777

EWART, MATT--Of the firm of Ewart Bros., agriculturalists and stock-raisers. Was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1839, and came to this county in 1866. Himself and brother Robert own about 2,500 acres of land in Poweshiek county; the town of Ewart, on the Grinnell and Montezuma Railroad, was laid out by them, and their lands surround it. Ewart Bros. are well and popularly known throughout this district, and are numbered among the leading stock-men of the West.