Rodney Long Stewart, youngest son of Clement and Harriet Heist (Drinkhouse) Stewart, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1881. He completed courses in the public schools with graduation from the high school in the class of 1899, then entered Lafayette College, being graduated C.E. in the class of 1903. After graduation he was for one year in the employ of the R. T. and C. D. Stewart Construction Company, then becoming superintendent in charge of the construction of the South Side power plant of the Easton Power Company. Until June, 1907, he was engineer in charge of construction with the Edison Portland Cement Company, superintending the construction of one of the first reinforced concrete power plants, reinforced concrete a method of building then in the first stages of its development. In June, 1907, he returned to the employ of the R. T. and C. D. Stewart Construction Company, remaining with the firm, of which he is now a member, for about eighteen months on general construction work, then taking charge of the erection of the Hercules Plant at Stockertown, Pennsylvania. He subsequently became construction engineer for the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company at Philadelphia, where he erected a citric acid plant, a sulphuric acid plant, and several furnaces used in the industry. During the year and a half of his continuance in this position he made frequent trips to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to inspect furnaces being shipped to all parts of America and Europe. Afterward he went to Tennessee in the service of his brothers and erected the Clinchfield Portland Cement Company's plant at Kingsport, Tennessee, in the heart of a mountain wilderness. Returning to the employ of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, he remained in Philadelphia until 1913, when he directed work on the Central Railroad at Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the interests of his brothers. Upon the death of C. D. Stewart, in December 1914, he became a member of the firm of the R. T. and C. D. Stewart Construction Company in the office of secretary, which he fills at the present time (1919). He is a member of the Rotary Club, interested in the other business organizations of the city, and also belongs to the Sons of Veterans, the Zeta Psi fraternity, and the Brainerd Union Presbyterian Church. His sports are those of the open, hunting and fishing his favorite recreations.