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Authenications:
Brands, Trademarks and Goodwill by Arthur F. Marquette, Pub.1967
McGraw-Hill, New York, Toronto, London. First Edition Library of Congress
Catalog # 66-28510 (Printed in USA)
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John STUART Household
Male
Other Information:
Birth Year <1877>
Birthplace IA
Age 3
Occupation
Marital Status S
Race W
Head of Household Robert STUART
Relation Son
Father's Birthplace CAN
Mother's Birthplace IL
Source Information:
Census Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Family History Library Film 1254186
NA Film Number T9-0186
Page Number 206A
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JOHN STUART, QUAKER OATS DIRECTOR, DIES
Rose to Chairman from Floor Sweeper
Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file) - Chicago, Ill.
Date: Dec 27 , 1969
Start Page: A16
Section: 2
Document Types: article
Text Word Count: 298
Abstract (Document Summary)
John Stuart, 92, who rose from a floor sweeper in the Quaker Oats company plant in Cedar Rapids, Ia., to chairm an of the company,
died last night in Lake Forest hospital. He lived at 1291 Elm Tree rd., Lake Forest.
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John Stuart, (my grandfather), married to Ellen Bouton Shumway (my grandmother called 'Gaga') He attended University High in
Chicago before going to Princeton, class of 1900. He was the first in the family to go to college, and he established a Princeton
tradition. During the summers when John was a teenager, he went to work at the mills in Cedar Rapids. After graduating
from Princeton he joined the company, becoming a director in 1907, when he was just 30 years old. When he became president at
age 43, Quaker Oats was in trouble because the government refused to accept a lot of pruduct that it had ordered. When John and
Ellen Bouton's children were growing up, he offered each of them a penny for every oat hull that they
found in their oatmeal cereal.
John met Ellen Bouton Shumway in Charlevoix, Michigan where both their families summered. Every year all the Stuarts and
Macdonalds would go to Robert Stuart and his wife Margaret Jane Sharrar's house for Christmas. They lived on the
South Side of Chicago at 4850 Woodlawn. They owned the corner. John and Ellen Bouton's children loved to play hide and seek
there. Robert was full of pep and fun and Margaret was cute. She loved her grandchildren.
During World War II, John Stuart, son of Robert and Margaret moved moved his mother out of the South Side house and up to
Hubbard Woods where she stayed until she died.
Favorite memories :
Playing golf with Grandpa in Charlevoix, Michigan on weekends when he came up from work on weekends. He bought my first set of
golf clubs, which I stil l have. I would often meet him at the train station below the Chicago Club, putting a penny on the tracks to see
how big it would get. In the little train station I could buy 1cent bubble gum.
I would always know when Grandpa was irritated. He would look over the top of his glasses down at you! When I was 5 yrs old and
my brother 3, he spotted smoke coming out from under a cedar tree on the way up to the club house for breakfast. (At that time cottages there didn't have full kitchens). He said nothing until a few days later, in front of their guests. He picked up a silver cigarette case,
opened it, and asked if I would like a cigarette. Immediatedly saying "Oh, I'm sorry, these aren't your brand"!
I always sat to his right at the dining table. Table ma nners were of utmost importance. One time, and
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