STEWART, James, physician, born in New York city, 7 April, 1799; died in Rye, New York, 12 September, 1864. He was educated at Queens (now Rutgers} college, and then, after studying medicine with Dr. Valentine Mott, was graduated at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York city, in 1823. Dr. Stewart began practice in New York city, and made a specialty of pulmonary complaints and diseases of children. He was one of the founders of the northern dispensary and its second consulting physician. For more than twenty years he was medical examiner of the Mutual benefit life insurance company, and during the four years previous to his death held a similar place with the Home life insurance company. In 1857 his essay on "Cholera Infantum" received the prize that was offered by the New York academy of medicine. He published anonymously "A Few Remarks about Sick Children in New York and the Necessity of a Hospital for them" (1852), and collected funds for a church hospital for children, to be conducted on the same plan as St. Luke's hospital and to be called Christ's hospital for children. He also published a translation of Charles M. Billard's "Treatise on the Diseases of Children," with an appendix (Philadelphia, 1839); "A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children" (New York, 1841); and " The Lungs " (1848).