James Bolton Stewart & Harriotte Lee Stearns

James Bolton Stewart
James was born on November 27th, 1882 in Philadelphia, PA.

• Birth Notes
  • Baptism: South Church, Phil. PA
    

He died at the age of 86 on October 22nd, 1969.

• Death Notes
  • Burial: October 24, 1969, Crown Hill Cemetery, Denver, CO
    Graveside funeral services for James B. Stewart, former Ambassador to Nicaragua, will be at 2 pm Friday in Crown Hill.
    Stewart, who retired from the US Foreign Service in 1945, died Wednesday in Lutheran Hospital.  He was 86.  His home was at 400 Carr St., Lakewood.
    Born in Philadelphia in November 1882, he was with the US Reclamation Service from 1905 until 1915 when he was appointed vice consul to Brazil.
    He was married to the former Harriotte Stearns Goddard, sister of former University of Colorado president Robert L. Stearns, in 1920 in Denver, and served at various consulates in Mexico, Canada and the West Indies until 1928.  That year, Stewart returned to Washington, DC, and until 1933 was Director of the Foreign Service Officers training school.  In 1933, he was appointed to a post in Budapest and in 1935 was named Consul of the US Legation there.
    In 1937, Stewart was named Consul General in Mexico City, a post he held until 1940 when he was assigned to Zurich, Switzerland.  In 1943, he was named Ambassador to Nicaragua, moving to Lakewood when he retired in 1945.
    Stewart served on the Denver Commission on Foreign Relations and was a member of the American Foreign Service Association.  Until 1967, he wrote a monthly column for the American Foreign Service Journal.  He was a member of St Paul's Episcopal Church in Lakewood.
    Surviving, in addition to his widow, are two daughters, Mrs. Cecelia Kallay of Lakewood and Mrs. Mary Kleinfeld of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
    ----Denver Post--Friday, October 24, 1969
    On his Gravestone:  "Hachadog" which was the the secret password, accompanied by a specific handshake, of a club which the men in the family belonged to.
    
    
    

Harriotte Lee Stearns
Harriotte was born on February 4th, 1884 in Elizabeth, Union Co., NJ.  She died at the age of 95 in 1979.