[196-324] MATILDA MIXSELL SEITZ, b July 26, 1863; dau Charles and Catharine S. (Innes) Seitz [196-227]; m Jan. 21, 1885, HON. RUSSELL CHIDSEY STEWART, b Sept. 2, 1859; s Charles and Anna Eliza (Chidsey) Stewart. President Judge of Third Judicial District, Pa.; res., Clinton Terrace, Easton, Pa. (1919.)
Russell Chidsey Stewart was the first Republican District Attorney elected in Northampton Co. He served from 1886 to 1888. In 1906 he was appointed Judge of Northampton County by Gov. Pennypacker; in 1907 he was elected for the term of ten years; in 1917 he was re-elected for another term, re-
ceiving the largest majority ever given a judge in Pennsylvania in a contested election. In 1917 he also received the degree of LL.D. from Muhlenberg College.
One child: {196-352] Anna Katharine, b May 4, 1886; m Frederick Raymond Wood:
Parents’ family: [196-227] Catharine Shilp Innes and Charles Seitz