SteTArart, Archibald Sinclair, a Presbyterian minister, was born at Palatine, N. V., May 3, 1823. At the age of fifteen he united with the Cluirch at Johns- town, N. Y. In the fall of 1840 he removed with his parents to Wisconsin, and received his ])reparation for college at the AVaukesha Academy. He entered Prince- ton College, from wliich he graduated in 1H,")2. After graduation, be taught sclioul at Nyack, on the Hudson, about a year and a half, ami then entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated therefrom in 185tJ. On Oct. 11 of the same year he was licensed to preach by il)(! Presbytery of Milwaukee, and in the succeeding October was ordained an evangelist. Receiving a com- mission from the Board of Donu'stic INIissions, he com- menced bis labors at Port Washington, where he was successful in gathering ami organizing a Church, and
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others at Ulva and Grafton, in the bounds of the I'res- bytery of Milwaukee. He closed his labors in that field in 1861, returned to Nyack, joined the New York Pres- bytery, and was installed pastor of the Church at Wald- burg. After a service of ten years he resigned, and removed to Pennsylvania. In 1872 he was installed pastor of the Langcliff Church by the Presbytery of Lackawanna. Here he spent the last four years of his life among a people devotedly attached to him. His last sermon — which he finished writing late on Satur- da\' night, but which he was not permitted to preach — was from the words of the Lord, " It is finished." He died Jan. 1, 187(3, in great peace and triumph. He was a man of great humility and earnest piety, and all who knew him loved him. (\V. P. 8.)
Stewart, Dugald, an eminent philosopher and writer, was born in Edinburgh in 1753, and was the son of the professor of mathematics. He was educated at the high-school and university of his native city, and attended the lectures of Dr. Keid, of Glasgow. From Glasgow he was recalled, in his nineteenth year, to as- sist his father; on whose decease, in 1785, he succeeded to the professorship. He, however, exchanged it for the chair of moral philoso|)hy, which he had tilled in 1778, during the absence of Dr. Ferguson in America. In 1780 he began to receive pupils into his house, and many young noblemen and gentlemen who afterwards became celebrated imbibed their knowledge under his roof. It was not till 1792 that he came forward as an author. He then published the first volume of the Phi- losophy of the Human Mind. He died June 11, 1828, after having long enjoyed the reputation of being one of the most amiable of men, and one of the ablest of modern philosophical writers. As a writer of the Eng- lish language; as a public speaker; as an original, a profound, and a cautious thinker; as an expounder of truth ; as an instructor of vouth; as an elegant scholar; as an accomplished gentleman; in the exemplary dis- charge of the social duties; in uncompromising consist- ency and rectitude of principle ; in unbending indepen- dence; in the warmth and tenderness of his domestic affections; in sincere and unostentatious piety; in the purity and innocence of his life — few have excelled him; and, take him for all in all, it will be difficult to find a man who, to so many of the perfections, has added so few of the imperfections, of human nature. Stewart's publications are as follows: Elements of the Philosophy of the Ilumun Mind (vol. i, 1792; vol. ii, 1814, Edinb. and Lond. 4to) : — Outlines of Moral Philosophy (Edinb. 1793, 8vo) •.—Life and Writings of Wm. Robertson, D.D. (1801, 8vo) :— /vj/e and Writinys of Thomas Reid, D.D. (ibid. 1803, 8vo) :— Philosophical Essays (1810, 4to) :— Philosophy of the A ctice and Moral Powers of Man (ibid. 1828, 2 vols. 8vo). Most of his works have been translated into other languages, and passed through several editions. For a fuller account of them, see Al- libone, Diet, of Brit, and A me?: A itfhors, s. v.
Stewart, Ephraim C, a minister of the ^leth- odist Episcopal Church, was horn in Tuscarora Valley, Juniata Co., Pa., Jan. 17, 1833. He studied law and was admitted to practice, but in 1870 he commenced teaching in the Soldiers' Orphan School, Cassville, Pa. In 1871 he united with the Church, and was soon after licensed to preach. He was admitted into the Central Pennsylvania Conference in 1872, but after a few months was attacked by consumption, and died at his ])arents' ht)me, March 8, 1873, See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, 1874, p. 39,
Stewart, Franklin, a minister of the IMethodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Wayne County, Ga., Oct. 19, 1824. His conversion took place .June 19, 1844, and he was licensed to preach Oct. 25, 1845. In 184G he was received on trial into the Florida Conference, and in 1853 was appointed presiding elder in St. Mary's District, He died July 8, 1855. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1856, p. 637,
Stewart, George, an Associate Reformed minis- ter, was born at (ireencastle. Pa., in 17X2, and graduated from Dickinson College in 1805. In November of that year he became a member of the first class tliat entered the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary in New York, untler the care of l^r. .John M. Mason. In June, 1809, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York, and in April, 1810, was settled as pastor in Bloomingburgh, Sullivan Co., in that state. He re- tained this relation till the close of his life, Se])t. 20, 1818. For several years he was the principal teacher of an academy in lUoomingburgh. Mr. Stewart had an excellent reputation as a preacher, his discourses be- ing of a deeply evangelical tone, thoroughly logical in their construction, simple and chaste in style, and every way fitted to render intelligible and impressive the mind of the Spirit, See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, ix, 135.