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728 Acadia college, Horton, Nova Scotia, where, after teaching in Providence, R. I., and North Danvers. Mass., he returned in 1853 as professor of mathe- iii.-itii < and chemistry, but in 1858 he resigned and for three years studied chemistry at GSttingen and Heidelberg. On his return he was called to the charge of the Worcester academy, and later became a~-i<tant instructor of chemistry in the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard. In 1868 he accepted the chair of chemistry in Illinois industrial uni- versity, where he remained until 1874. Prof. Stuart has since resided chiefly in Lincoln. Neb., where he is interested in various financial institu- tions. He is a member of the Chemical society of Berlin, a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and a corresponding member of the New York academy of sciences. His chemical researches have been published in the transactions of societies of which he is a mem- ber and in technical journals.

STUART, Charles, author, b. in Jamaica, West Indies, about 1783; d. near Lake Simcoe, Canada, in 1805. His father was a British officer, who fought at Bunker Hill and in other battlrs of the Revolution, and was subsequently stationed in the West Indies. The son at the age of eighteen, when living at Belfast, Ireland, received a lieuten- ant's commission in the Madras army. He was promoted captain, received a severe wound in an encounter with native insurgents, and after thir- teen years' service, returned to England, and was retired with a pension. Some time later he re- ceived a grant of land on Lake Simcoe, and was commissioned as a local magistrate. About 1822 he settled in Utica, N. Y., as principal of the acad- emy, which he taught for several years. From that period he spent much of his time in the United States. He was one of the early emancipationists, and took part with Gerrit Smith in anti-slavery meetings. Capt. Stuart was the author of several pamphlets that were published by the British and foreign anti-slavery society, the most effective of which was "Prejudice Vincible," which was re- printed in this country. He published a volume of short poems, and a religious novel entitled " Par- raul of Lum Sing, or the Missionary and the Mountain Chiefs." His principal other work- were "The Yst India Question : Immediate Emancipa- tion would be Safe and Profitable " (New I la en. 1833) ; " Memoirs of Granville Sharp " (New York, 1836); and "Oneida and Oberlin : the Extirpation of Slavery in the United States " (Bristol, 1841).

STUART, Charles Beebe, engineer, b. in Chit- tenango Springs, N. Y., 4 June, 1814 ; d. in Geneva, N. Y., 4 Jan., 1881. He entered upon the profes- sion of civil engineering, was for some time state engineer of New York, entered the service of the U. S. government, and completed the Brooklyn dry- docks. He was appointed engineer-in-chief of the U. S. navy on 1 Dec., 1850, and resigned on 30 June. 1853. He published " The Naval Dry-Docks of the United States " (New York, 1851) ; " The Naval and Mail Steamers of the United States " (1853); " Rail- roads of the United States and Canada" (1855); "Water- Works of the United States" (1855): and " Civil and Military Engineers of America" (1871).

STUART, Charles E., senator, b. in Columbia county, N. Y., 25 Nov., 1810; d. in Kalamazoo, 19 May, 1887. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and settled in Kalamazoo, Mich. From 1841 till 1846 he was a member of the state legis- lature, after which he entered the National house of representatives as a Democrat, serving from Dec., 1847, till 3 March, 1849. He was defeated in 1848, but at the next election was again successful, and at the close of his second term was elected to the U. S. senate, serving from 4 March. 1853, till 3 March, 1859. In the senate he was chairman of the committee on public lands. He attended the National Union convention at Philadelphia in 1866.

STUART, George, educator, b. in Saratoga county, N. Y., about 1834. He was taken to Phila- delphia at the age of six years, passed through the public schools of that city, and after graduation at the high-school in 1852 engaged in teaching. He was assistant professor of mathematics in the high- school in 1853-'6. tutor of Latin and Greek in Haverhill college in 185(>-'9, professor of English branches in Girard college in 1859-'62, then prin- cipal of a grammar-school till 1866. and since that date has been professor of Latin in the high-school. As co-editor of the " Chase and Stuart Classical Series" he has published, with Prof. Thomas Chase. elementary Latin books and school editions of Caesar's " Gallic War " ; Cicero's " Select Orations " ; and works of Sallust, Cornelius Nepos, Tacitus, Virgil, and Ovid. He is also the author of an edu- cational tract on " The Raison d'etre of the Public High-School."

STUART, George Hay, philanthropist, b. in County Down, Ireland, 2 April, 1816; d. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 11 April, 1890. He came to Philadel- phia in 1831, and was a merchant. During the civil war he was president of the U. S. Christian commission. He presided over the international conventions of the Young Men's Christian associa- tions in 1859 and 1861, and over the Presbyterian national convention in Philadelphia in November, 1867, was an officer in the American Sunday-school union, the American Bible society, and the Ameri- can tract society. He twice declined a seat in President Grant's cabinet, but consented to serve on the first board of Indian commissioners, and was chairman of its purchasing committee. Mr. Stuart was a munificent giver to foreign missions and other religious and charitable objects.

STUART, Gilbert, artist, b. in Narragansett, R. I., 3 Dec., 1755; d. in Boston. Mass.. 27 July, 1828. The name Charles was given to him by his father, an ardent Jacobite, but Stuart dropped it, and used only his first name. He at- tempted portrait- ure when a mere boy, and produced several pictures which, if not re- markable as paint- ings, were at least good likenesses. Two of these early attempts, portraits of Mr. and Mrs. John Bannister, are now in the Red- wood library, New- port. He had no regular inst ruct ion until he became, in 1770, the pupil of Cosmo Alexander, a Scotchman. When Alexander returned to his native land, about two years later, he took his young pupil with him. Unfortunately for Stuart, his master died soon after arriving in Edinburgh, and left his protege in charge of Sir George Chambers. The latter did not long outlive Alexander, and Stuart was thus thrown on his own resources. It is said that he worked his passage home on a "collier bound to Nova Scotia." and while on board he semis to have experience.]