. la ciclopedia di Appleton della biografia americana . Hood, e a Coles Farm, in North Carolina, sotto John-ston. Nel 1868 divenne professore di matematica e filosofia naturale all'Università di Mis-sissippi, e cancelliere dell'università. STEWART, Alexander Turney, Merchant, b.in Lisburn. Vicino Belfast, Irlanda, 12 ottobre 1803; d.in New York, 10 aprile 1876. Era discendenti di un emigrante scozzese a nord di Irelandand, unico figlio di un contadino, morto quando si era fatto un ragazzo di scuola. Studiò con l'intento di intrattenerlo, ma, con il consenso dei suoi guardiani, aban-donò questo scopo a.
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. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Hood, and at Coles Farm, in North Carolina, under John-ston. In 1868 he became professor of mathematicsand natural philosophy in the University of Mis-sissippi, and chancellor of the university. STEWART, Alexander Turney, merchant, b.in Lisburn. near Belfast, Ireland, 12 Oct., 1803; d.in New York, 10 April, 1876. He was the descend-ant of a Scotch emigrant to the north of Irelandand the only son of a farmer, who died when he wasa school-boy. He studied with a view to enteringthe ministry, but, with his guardians consent, aban-doned this purpose and came to New York in thesummer of 1823, without any definite plans for thefuture. He was for a period employed as a teach-er in a select school in Roosevelt street near Pearl, then one of the fashionable localities of the city, lie! urning to Ireland, he received the moderate for-tune his father had left him, bought a stock ofBelfast laces and linens, and on reaching New Yorkopened a store at No. 283 Broadway, 2 Sept., 1825, 682 STEWART STEWART. for which he paid a rent of $250 per annum, givingas a reference Jacob Clinch, whose daughter, Cor-nelia, he soon afterward married. The amount ofthe capital invested was about $3, 000. The youngmerchant had a sleeping-room in the rear of his shop, and under these humble conditions was formedthe germ of the mn-t extensive and lucrative dry-goods business in the world. In 1820 he removed to a larger storeat 202 Broadway, and soon after-ward he again re-moved to 257Broadway. Hedisplayed a ge-nius for business, met with remark-able success fromthe first, and in1848 had accu-mulated so muchcapital that hewas enabled tobuild the largemarble store onBroadway be-tween Chambersand Reade streets, which afterwardwas devoted tothe wholesale branch of his business. In 1862 heerected on the block bounded by Ninth and Tenthstreets, Broadway and Fourth avenue, the five-story iron building used for his retail business.This was said to be the largest retail
