James Stewart
James was born on February 17th, 1843 in
Killymuck, Tamlaght O'Crilly Parish, Co. Londonderry, Ireland.
- Birth Notes
- Baptism: March 23, 1843, Churchtown Presbyterian Church, Tamlaght, Co. Londonderry, Ireland (Source: Churchtown Presbyterian Church records, Tamlaght, Co Londonderry.)
He died at the age of 77 on November 6th, 1920 in
Pinebrook Farm, Colmar, Pennsylvania. His burial was on November 9th, 1920 in
Lot 647 Everglade,West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala-Cynwyd, PA.
- Death Notes
- (Obituary)
(Headline) James Stewart Dies at Colmar--Was Director of Public Health and Charities in Mayor Fitler's Administration--Once a Power Downtown--Born in Ireland, He came to Philadelphia 60 Years Ago. Funeral Tuesday.
James Stewart, director of the Department of Public Health and Charities under Mayor Fitler, and for many years a member of the old Board of Guardians of the Poor, died yesterday, the second anniversary of the death of his wife. Death came at the farm of his son, Edwin Fitler Stewart, near Colmar, Bucks County, where he had made his home for the past year.
In his old home at Fifth and Greenwich streets, Mr. Stewart was long a political power in the First ward before the ascendancy of the Vare brothers. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, member of Washington Lodge, a Knight Templar, and for thirty-five years of the Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church.
Born in County Derry, Ireland, he came to Philadelphia sixty years ago, and has lived here nearly all the time since then. Ten of his twelve children reached maturity. Nine are married. They are Dr. William T. Stewart, Camden, S.C.; Mrs. William C. Proctor, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. Henry J. Gibbons, Cynwyd; Mrs. George E. Bean, of Cynwyd; James Bolton Stewart, United States consul at Chihuahua, Mexico; Mrs. Nathaniel Gildersleeve, Lansdowne; Edwin Fitler Stewart, of Colmar; Miss Nancy R. Stewart, Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. Henry A. Hoyt, Fallon, Nev.; and Mrs. Howard A. Stockwell, Belmont, Mass.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Bean, 330 Bryn Mawr road, Cynwyd. Dr. J. Gray Bolton, Mr. Stewart's cousin, and the Rev. Victor Lukens, pastor of the Old Pine Street Church, will be in charge of the services.----Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1920
William Thomas
William was born in 1872. He died at the age of 81 in 1953.
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.
James Stewart & Sarah (Sally) Jane Stewart 
Sarah (Sally) Jane Stewart
