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Early Life:

James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908 in the small town of Indiana, Pennsylvania. His parents, Elizabeth and Alexander Stewart, were of Irish and Scottish descent and both church-going Presbyterians.

His father ran a successful hardware store and was a well-known and respected citizen in town. He instilled in his son a sense of hard work, frugality and responsibility. From his mother, who was an excellent pianist, Stewart inherited artistic talent, as did both his younger sisters, Mary and Virginia.

Stewart had two childhood passions that would later help define his life: performing and aviation.

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As a boy, he learned to play the accordion, and put on plays at home and at school. He also spent many hours building model airplanes and dreaming of becoming a pilot.

When he was 15, Stewart attended the all-boys prep school, Mercersburg Academy.

After graduating in 1928, he enrolled in Princeton University, his father’s alma mater, where he studied towar