Willis T. Stewart, of whom our Lodge is named after, was a prominent businessman in Louisville, Kentucky, and also was one of the members of the old Texan Emigration & Land Company organized in the early 1850’s to make extensive purchases of land and establish colonies in Texas. It was the successor of the Peters Colony, well known to old pioneers, which was proprietor of a large tract of land in western Texas. It was also in the 1850’s that Willis T. Stewart acquired as his interest in the company the large body of land in Jack County, deeded him by the state of Texas.

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