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Robert was born on January 31, 1839 in Sidney, Ohio, United States, the son of Dr. James Harris and Jane Abigail (Fuller) Stewart, and a descendant of George Stuart who settled in Pennsylvania at Marietta on the Susquehanna about 1717.
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Robert was born on January 31, 1839 in Sidney, Ohio, United States, the son of Dr. James Harris and Jane Abigail (Fuller) Stewart, and a descendant of George Stuart who settled in Pennsylvania at Marietta on the Susquehanna about 1717.
Robert attended the public schools of Allegheny and the academies of Shirleysburg and Glade Run, Pennsylvania. In 1859 he graduated with first honors from Jefferson College, and in 1865 completed the course at the Allegheny United Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
For some time after studies Stewart served churches of his denomination at Ashland, Savannah, and Dayton, Ohio, and at Davenport, New York; from 1872 to 1878 he was professor of exegetics and homiletics in the Newburg (New York) Theological Seminary; and from June 1879 until November 1880 he edited for his Church the Evangelical Repository and Sabbath School Helps.
As a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church he visited India and Egypt in 1880 as a special commissioner, and decided to join the India Mission.
Returning to the United States, he was commissioned by the Board the following year and set sail for India on November 5, 1881. From 1883 until 1892 he was in charge of the Christian Training Institute and principal of the Theological Seminary in Sialkot, Punjab, teaching in the latter institution Biblical languages, theology, and church history, and preparing translations for educational use.
From 1892 until the latter part of 1900 he was in the United States engaged chiefly in writing. In November 1900 he returned to India, and at Jhelum, Punjab, where the Seminary was then located, he remained, except for a brief furlough in 1909-10, during the rest of his life, serving as senior professor and carrying forward the work of translation.
By 1891 he had ready for the press translations into Urdu (Punjabi) of Philip Schaff's Ante-Nicene Christianity, W. D. Ralston's Talks on Psalmody, R. H. Pollock's The Saviour's Claim, and other works.
His death, in his seventy-seventh year, occurred at Sialkot.
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In Cairo, Egypt, on December 1, he was married to Eliza Frazier Johnston, of St. Clairsville, Ohio.