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Interview with R. B. Stewart
Monday, March 28, 1977
Dr. S. No, Beese did not build the place. When we moved
out to what is Westwood, we bought the tract from the McCormick
family. Tnis, of course, is tne record as in the deeds. I think
we were the fourth owners of that place since it came from the
United States Government.
Mrs. F. You bought forty acres.
,~ Dr. S. Forty acres and a fraction, and I finally rounded
~ out--at one time I had 52 or 53 acres out there. The part adja -
cent and directly east of Beese's house I gave to the church or
I gave to something, and then the Foundation bought it from tnose
people; in that way I dispersed the gifts and yet made sure the
University got the land. The people south of Westwood when we
moved were named Miller, and they used to run a dairy there, I
think it was, and they built this big house, and that big house
has the attic which was all finished off and they used to give
big parties there in the old days. When it got too much for them,
they had a son and a daughter, and the daughter was in foods and
she ran the food section at Lincoln Lodge on the North River Road,
and her nusband, named Howey, is now here. She died and he has
remarried and lives down here, and we were at dinner with them
not long ago. Well, when they were out at Lincoln Lodge, they
had next door, so they built a little house for their parents,
and the Millers wanted to move out there and wanted to sell their
property. And at that time we had gotten Beese to come out, and
he and Potter and I together had worked hard to convince Beese to
Object Description
| Title | R. B. Stewart Interview |
| Creators | Stewart, Robert Bruce |
| Date | 03/28/1977 |
| Decade | 1970-1979 |
| Collection Title | Purdue University Office of Publications Oral History Program collection |
| Series Title | Interviews |
| Description | Oral history interview with R. B. Stewart. |
| Notes | Date of interview and interviewer is unknown. |
| Language | English |
| Subjects (Library of Congress) | Purdue University |
| Physical Description of Original Materials | 1 transcript: 289 pages |
| Form/Genre (Art and Architecture Thesaurus) |
Oral histories (document genres) Transcripts |
| Digital Resource Type | Sound |
| Digital Format | Uploaded as PDF/Displayed as PDF |
| Purdue Identification Number | MSO2i041_04_stewart |
| Digital Publisher | Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries |
| Rights Statement | Rights held by Purdue University Libraries. |
| Preferred Citation | [Title], [Purdue Identification Number], MSO 2, Purdue Office of Publications Oral History Program collection, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Purdue University Libraries |
| Purdue University Unit, Department, or College | Purdue University Office of Publications |
| Audio-Visual Source | http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/oralhistory/mso2/MSO2i041_04_stewart.mp3 |
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| Transcript | ~~ - 8 - Interview with R. B. Stewart Monday, March 28, 1977 Dr. S. No, Beese did not build the place. When we moved out to what is Westwood, we bought the tract from the McCormick family. Tnis, of course, is tne record as in the deeds. I think we were the fourth owners of that place since it came from the United States Government. Mrs. F. You bought forty acres. ,~ Dr. S. Forty acres and a fraction, and I finally rounded ~ out--at one time I had 52 or 53 acres out there. The part adja - cent and directly east of Beese's house I gave to the church or I gave to something, and then the Foundation bought it from tnose people; in that way I dispersed the gifts and yet made sure the University got the land. The people south of Westwood when we moved were named Miller, and they used to run a dairy there, I think it was, and they built this big house, and that big house has the attic which was all finished off and they used to give big parties there in the old days. When it got too much for them, they had a son and a daughter, and the daughter was in foods and she ran the food section at Lincoln Lodge on the North River Road, and her nusband, named Howey, is now here. She died and he has remarried and lives down here, and we were at dinner with them not long ago. Well, when they were out at Lincoln Lodge, they had next door, so they built a little house for their parents, and the Millers wanted to move out there and wanted to sell their property. And at that time we had gotten Beese to come out, and he and Potter and I together had worked hard to convince Beese to |
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