Donald Stewart, born around 1832 in Scotland[4][5] was a politician who served in the North Dakota House of Representatives.

[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] He was at one point an assisting county surveyor[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] and later became a twice elected as a territorial legislator in Bismarck.

[24][25] Stewart originally emigrated from Scotland to Ontario, Canada and then to North Dakota.

[26] He was married to an English woman named Elizabeth Curtis, they had three children,[27] one of them named Elizabeth (born 1878),[28] who went on to marry Edward Hart, thus making Stewart the maternal grandfather of Stewart "Stu" Hart, professional wrestling great and patriarch of the Hart wrestling family.

[29] Edward and Elizabeth would work for Stewart on his farm in Saskatoon for a few years before moving to Alberta.