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Stewart, Charles Samuel

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1795, in Flemington, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman, chaplain in the navy; and the author of Residence at the Sandwich Islands in 1822-23; Visit to the South Seas in the Ship Vincennes; Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 1832; Brazil and La Plata in 1850-63; and Personal Record of a Cruise. He died Dec. 15, 1870, in Cooperstown, N. Y.

STEWART, CHARLES SEAFORTH, soldier, was born April 11, 1823, at sea.

He served during the civil war in the corps of engineers, was made major in 1863, and was chief engineer of the middle military division in 1864-65. He was made lieutenant-colonel in 1867, colonel in 1882, and was retired in 1886.