Excerpt from History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and Its People, Vol. 1: Illustrated John H. Stewart, vice president, treasurer and manager of the Cement Tile Machinery, Company, finds in laudable ambition the incentive for 1115 persistent and indefatigable effort which, intelligently directed, is leading him continually toward the goal of success. He was born in Vermont in 1862 and when thirteen years of age accompanied his parents on their westward removal to Iowa, the family home being established in Winnebago county, where John H. Stewart was reared to manhood and attended school. His advantages were somewhat limited, however, because of the comparatively undeveloped system of education at that early day. When a youth of but sixteen years he and his brother began drilling wells and he followed that pursuit for three years, after which he learned the carpenter's trade. He was employed at the trade for three years and then began contracting and building on his own account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.