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See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
STEWART, See also:ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876) , See also:American See also:merchant, was See also:horn, of Scotch descent, at See also:Lisburn, near See also:Bel-fast, See also:Ireland, on the 12th of See also:October 1803. He studied for the See also:ministry for about two years at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, emigrated to New See also:York in 1823, and in 1825 opened a small dry goods See also:store In 1848 he built at the corner of See also:Chambers See also:Street and Broadway a store which became the wholesale See also:department upon the completion in 1862 of the large store on Broadway between Ninth and Tenth Streets. The business See also:grew to enormous proportions for those days, with See also:foreign branches in See also:Manchester, See also:Belfast, See also:Glasgow, See also:Berlin, See also:Paris and See also:Lyons. Stewartwas chairman of the See also:commission sent by the See also:United States to the Paris Exposition of 1867. In 1869 he was appointed secretary of the See also:treasury by See also:President U. S. See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, but the See also:Senate refused to confirm the See also:appointment because of an old See also:law excluding from the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office any one interested in the importation of merchandise. Grant asked See also:Congress to See also:repeal the law, and Stewart offered to See also:transfer his business to trustees and to give its proceeds while he held office to charitable institutions, but the nomination was never confirmed. Stewart sent to Ireland a shipload of provisions during the See also:famine of 1846; he manufactured and sold to the See also:government, at less than the prevailing rates, See also:great quantities of See also:cotton See also:cloth for the use of the See also:army during the See also:Civil See also:War; he took an active See also:part in the See also:prosecution of the " See also:Tweed See also:Ring " in New York; he sent a shipload of See also:flour to the See also:French sufferers from the Franco-See also:German War, and he gave $50,000 to the sufferers from the See also:Chicago See also:fire of 1871. In 1869 he bought some 7000 acres on the Hempstead See also:Plain, See also:Long See also:Island, New York, and established See also:Garden See also:City for working men. The See also:cathedral of the Incarnation (See also:Protestant Episcopal) dedicated in 1885, was erected in Garden City by Stewart's widow as a memorial to him. He died in New York on the loth of See also:April 1876,1 leaving the bulk of his great See also:fortune to his widow, Mrs See also:Cornelia (Clinch) Stewart (18oz-1886)2. His large See also:art collection was sold by See also:auction in New York in 1887.
See See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William O. See also:Stoddard, " Alexander Turney Stewart," in Men of Business (New York, 1893) ; " A Merchant See also:Prince," in Chambers's See also:Journal (1876), vol. liii. ; See also:Edward Crapsey, " A See also:Monument of See also:Trade," in The See also:Galaxy (1882), vol. ix.; " Stewart's," in The Nation (1882), vol. xxxiv. ; " The See also:Story of a Millionaire's See also:Grave," in Chambers's Journal (1888), vol. lxv.; and See also:George \V. Walling, Recollections of a New York See also:Chief of See also:Police (New York, 1887).
End of Article: STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
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