Primary Name: Stewart, Murdock

Filed as: Stewart, Murdock

Also known as: Murdock Stewart

Occupation / Association: Carpenter; Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Men's Igloo

Associated places: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; San Francisco, California; Ketchikan, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska

Keywords: Murdock Stewart, Stewart family Juneau Alaska, Cape Breton Nova Scotia pioneers Alaska, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Men's Igloo charter members, Juneau carpenters, Ketchikan early residents, Alaska territorial pioneers

Biography

Murdock Stewart was a carpenter and a charter member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men's Igloo.

He was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In 1878, he came to the United States and settled in San Francisco, California, where he married in 1882.

Stewart first came to Alaska in 1898 during the territorial mining era. He lived in both Ketchikan and Juneau, where he worked as a carpenter and became part of the early pioneer community of Southeast Alaska.

Sources

Pioneers of Alaska Men’s Igloo No. 6 Biographical Sketch.