- Stewart Hood, the son of Andrew Hood and Ann Scott, was born September 13, 1883 in Howick Twp, Huron County (Lot 33, Concession 13). In 1893 Stewart moved to Wingham, Ontario (perhaps with his parents?) and worked for three years as a "printers devil" to learn the trade. In 1902 when Stewart was still 18, he moved with his parents and younger sister Margaret Janet (who he was very close to) to Devil's Lake, Ramsey County, North Dakota, where his parents ran a boarding house for one year. His older siblings had already moved to Cass County, North Dakota several years earlier.
In 1905 Stewart revisited his future wife Pearl in the Harriston, Ontario area. Pearl who was the daughter of John Millar/Miller and Ann Hanly,was born February 15, 1886 in Harriston, Minto Township, Wellington County. She was one of five girls and three boys. John Miller, his wife Ann and their children show up on the 1881 census in Harriston. John and Ann were Irish and John was listed as a merchant by trade. Their religion was Methodist. Pearl was not yet born when this census was taken. On the 1901 census, John is working as a carpenter, and his daughter Pearl is 15 years old. John and Ann were still living in Harriston on the 1911 census, where John, age 68, was still a carpenter. Stewart married Pearl Amelia Millar on Mar. 12, 1908 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The newlywed couple then went to Jamestown, North Dakota where Stewart edited "The Daily Capitol." In September 1909 the family moved to Minneapolis with the McCellan Paper Company and then settled in Duluth. Stewart shows up on the 1910 U.S. Federal Census as living in St. Louis County, Minnesota with his family.
Plagued with ulcers, the family moved to Winnipeg in the spring of 1912 and sold lithography work. The family never lived in the United States again. After a miraculous healing of his ulcers in June 1916 through what was said to be the Christian Science religion, they moved to Toronto, Ontario with Rolfe Clark Lithographers, then to Montreal, Quebec in 1934 with the Montreal Lithographing Company. Stewart and Pearl had two children: Donald S. born Dec. 27, 1908 in Jamestown, ND, and Norah Louise born Nov. 14, 1914, in Winnipeg. Stewart died Sep. 4, 1951 and Pearl on Sep. 8/11, 1964 in Montreal. They are buried at York Cemetery, Section 6, Site 293, Willowdale (right by Toronto), Ontario.
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1883 - 1951 (67 years)
