The history of William Lyle Stewart, a short biography.
As an Archibald Stewart Electronic Heritage Project, I have scanned and OCR'ed one of William Lyle Stewart's diaries into a word processor document. It covers the time frame from 1894 to 1916. There are three diaries and this is the mostly personal one that also covers his mission to Scotland. WLS was involved in a lot of things and he gets into the nitty gritty parts of pioneer life. I appreciate the life that I was provided with much more after reading about what they all went through to provide it. These diaries are all on the order of 100 typed pages long. The original format was on the 8.5" x 14" paper and this adds about 25% to the original length. There were numerous typographical errors, strikeovers and etc., which have been corrected as they were checked. Many more probably remain because the OCR program had a tendency to convert the number zero (0) to the letter "O". There were other letters that the OCR program did not pick up very well. These errors have to be hand corrected and that takes time.
I have it on my web server now. You have to download it in three parts. I haven't had the time to combine the three .pdf's into one large .pdf. So, you have the William Lyle Stewart Diary, the Family Group Sheet, and the Family Pedigree Chart. The are blank pages where the group sheet and the pedigree go. I need to add one more blank page so that they replacements are one to one. I don't think the group sheet or the pedigree charts will change but the diary is in rough condition for a published works. Part of it is single space and some is double spaced. Converting a 110 page double spaced document to a single spaced document takes time. I just finished converting it from a WordPerfect document into an Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Document. It is also going to print as an 8.5" x 11" document. Adobe will allow me to set it up in the long format for those that like the original format.
I have a number of William Lyle Stewart photos. They are located at my "Stewart Gallery". They are typically large and will load slowly. They should be good enough to print something very close to the original.
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