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Rh sevi -nicei! years. On '1 May. 1805. his daughter, >i:(, Triioit, iimrriril Charles Henry Parnell, and -In' Invame the mother of Charles Stewart I'anirll, the Irish home-rule leader in the lintish parliament.

STEWART, Charles James, Canadian Angli- can bishop, b. at Galloway House, Wigtonshire, Scotland, 13 April. 1775; d. in London, England, 10 July, 1>:!7. Hi? was the third son of John, seventh Earl of Galloway, was educated at home and at Oxford, where he was graduated in 1799, and the same year was ordained in the Church of England. He was first settled as a pastor at Orton Longueville and Botolph Bridge, near Peterbor- ough, in 1799, where he remained eight years, and soon afterward, having offered himself to the Soci- ety for the propagation of the gospel, he was ap- pointed to the mission of St. Armand, Eastern town- ships, Lower Canada. There was no church in his mission, but he erected one at his own expense. In 1819 he was appointed a visiting missionary in the diocese of Quebec, which then included the whole of Canada, and suffered much hardship in travelling over a vast extent of sparsely settled country, with- out roads or adequate means of conveyance. On the death nf Bishop Mountain in 1825, Dr. Stewart was nominated to the see of Quebec as his suc- cessor, and he was consecrated on 1 Jan., 1826. by Archbishop Sutton, at Lambeth palace. In May, 1827, Bishop Stewart returned to Quebec and was installed in the cathedral of that city. Henceforth till his death he was unwearied in advancing the interests of his church and the cause of Christianity in general. While he was in Canada he spent the whole of his private fortune in the service of the church and in charity, and promoted the erection of many churches in various parts of the country. In 1816 Oxford gave him the degree of D. D. He published " Short View of the Eastern Townships in Lower Canada" (London, 1817). See "The Stewart Missions, a Series of Letters and Journals, with a Brief Memoir of Bishop Stewart," edited by Rev. W. J. D. Waddilove, A. M. (London, 1838), and "Life of Bishop Stewart," by the Rev. John N. Norton (1859).

STEWART, David, senator, b. in Baltimore, Md., 13 Sept., 1800 ; d. there, 5 Jan.. 1858. He was graduated at Union college in 1819, and, after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1821. Mr. Stewart had a large practice, and acquired reputa- tion as a successful lawyer. In 1838 he was elected to the Maryland senate, and subsequently he was appointed to succeed Reverdy Johnson in the U. S. senate, where he served from 8 Dec., 1849, till 14 Jan.. 1850. For some, time he held the office of commissioner of public buildings for the District of Columbia. He was one of the contributors to an ephemeral publication called " The Rainbow," that was issued during 1821 in Baltimore.

STEWART, Electra Maria Sheldon, author, b. in Le Roy, Genesee co., N. Y., 6 Sept., 1817. She was educated in Detroit, Mich., whither she removed with her parents when she was very young. She edited the "Literary Cabinet" in Detroit in 1853-'4, contributed ten sketches to the state pioneer collections of Michigan, and is the author of several Sunday-school books, under the name of Electra Maria Sheldon : and "The Early History of Michi- gan " (New York. 1858).

STEWART, Ferdinand Campbell, physician, b. in Williamsburg, Va., 10 Aug., 1815. He was educated at William and Mary, and graduated at the medical department of 'the University of Pennsylvania in 1837. Subsequently he spent five years in professional study in Edinburgh and Paris. On his return he began the practice of medi- cine in Williamsburg, but was encouraged by his success to remove to New York city, where he was active until 1849. Be obtained charge of medical and surgical wards in Bellevue hospital, and at the same time received in his office students that had the benefits of this clinical instruction. In 1847-'8 he volunteered his services during the prevalence of typhus fever, and prescribed daily for two hundred d'angerously ill patients. When Bellevue hospital was reorganized Dr. Stewart was appointed a mem- ber of the committee to recommend a new and im- proved plan, and after its adoption was made one of the visiting medical officers. In 1849 he was appointed the first physician of the marine hospital on Staten island in connection with the quarantine, and continued in that office until 1851, meanwhile reorganizing that institution. Dr. Stewart con- tinued to reside on Staten island until 1855, when the death of his father led to his removal to Eng- land in order to obtain estates to which he had fallen heir. He was a member of medical societies both in the United States and Europe, and in 1847 aided in founding the New York academy of medi- cine, whose success was principally owing to his exertions. He was its secretary until his removal from New York city, held the office of vice-president three times, and on three different occasions was anniversary orator. In 1848-'9 he was chairman of the committee on typhus fever, when the dis- ease had almost caused a panic in the city. He was active in promoting the National medical con- vention that held its first meeting in New York in 1846, and was secretary of the meeting in Phila- delphia in 1847, and he was also a member of the committee that drafted the constitution of the American medical association in 1847. Dr. Stewart was for many years the family physician of Presi- dent Tyler, and refused several diplomatic appoint- ments that were offered him by the president. He invented and introduced several instruments that have found use in genito-urinary diseases. In addition to his contributions to medical journals, lie was in 1844-'5 editor of the " New York Journal of Medicine," and he published a translation of "Scoutetten on Club-Foot" (Philadelphia, 1839); " Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris " (New York, 1843); and a report on "Medical Education" to the American medical association (1849-'50). em- bracing statistics and regulations of the medical colleges of the United States, and an account of similar institutions in all parts of the world.

STEWART, George, Canadian journalist, b. in New York city. 2(i Nov., 1848. At an early age he removed with his parents to Canada, settled in St. John, New Brunswick, and was educated in the grammar-school there. He began the publication of the " Stamp-Collector's Monthly Gazette " in 1865, but relinquished it in 1867 and founded " Stewart's Literary Quarterly Magazine." which he published and edited for five years. He was for a short time city editor of the St. John Daily News," for two years literary editor of " The Weekly Watchman," and for one year of " Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly." whirh he left in 1879 to become editor of the Quebec " Morning Chronicle," from which he retired in 1898 to become editor of the " Daily Mercury." In 1882 he was named one of the original members of the Royal society of Canada by the Marquis of Lome. After 1885 he was several times elected president of the Literary and historical society of Quebec, and in 1885 he became a fellow of the Royal geographical society of England. In 18SO the degree of D. ( '. L. was conferred on him by King's university, Nova Scotia, and by the University of bishop's college