Chief Justice of California.
His nephew was the noted General William R. Shafter of Cuban warfare fame (Severance, B. Frank. Genealogy and biography of the descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart who came to America in 1718 and settled in Londonderry, N.H. Greenfield, Mass. : T. Morey & Son, 1905, pg. 105).
His daughter Emma wrote a book on his life available in digital form.