Background
Stewart, Alexander Mair was born on October 2, 1857 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Son of James and Martha (Lyall) Stewart.
Stewart, Alexander Mair was born on October 2, 1857 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Son of James and Martha (Lyall) Stewart.
Education public and high schools, Saint Louis.
Of West. West. Peabody, president O.&M. and Bang and Olufsen Southwestern rys., April 5, 1887. Began studying architecture, 1878, under father and later went into contracting business. Junior member James Stewart & Company, 1886.
Until retirement of James Stewart, 1892, when became senior member firm (name unchanged) with headquarters in New York, 1903, now Chairman of the Board Rebuilt the entire water front of Galveston after storm of 1899.
Did large work in England, including British Westinghouse Electric Works, Manchester. Midland Railway Company’s Hotel, Manchester.
Savoy Hotel, London. Naval Training School for Admiralty at Osborne, Isle of Wight.
Many skyscrapers, banks and monumental buildings, including Interstate Commerce Building, Department of Labor Building with Connecting Auditorium, largest building in Washington. Federal Court House, Federal Office Building, Vesey Saint, New York City.
A banking building in Tokio for the Mitsui Gomei Kaisha with largest banking room in the world (80 x 357 feet). The Union Terminal Station, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hot and cold strip mills for Lackawanna Steel Company, Buffalo, New York, capitols at Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho, Oklahoma City, and Jefferson Memorial at Saint Louis, also dredging 65 miles of the New York Barge Canal, and at Toronto, Ontario, reclaiming by dredging and filling a one thousand acre industrial territory adjoining the harbor, involving the removal of forty million yards of material, construction of over 12 miles of concrete sea walls and wharves.
Etc. During war built many government buildings in the United States and France, also established a shipyard at Bordeaux. Supplied and erected large tanks in many places in France for furnishing gasoline and oil for the United States forces, employing 6,500 mentor Chairman board James Stewart & Company, of New Jersey.
President Canadian Stewart Limited company, The Inland Waterways Equipment & Dredging Company (New York), The Stewart Realty Company, Stewart Land Company of Pittsburgh.
Vice president 49 East. 79th Saint Corporation.
Member James Stewart & Company Member firm (name unchanged) with headquarters.
Married Emily Elizabeth Peabody, daughter
