Background
William was born on December 3, 1852 in New York City, New York, United States. His parents, Lispenard and Mary Rogers (Rhinelander) Stewart, were descendants of some of New York's oldest families.
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William Rhinelander Stewart Sr.
Edit ProfileEducation
Young Stewart was educated by tutors and in the private schools of Dr. Anthon and Dr. Charlier. He then entered the Columbia University Law School, where he was graduated in 1873.
Career
After several years' practice of law with the firm of Platt, Gerard & Buckley, he gave up the profession and devoted his time thereafter to the management of estates as executor and trustee, and to philanthropic work. Appointed by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell as commissioner for the first judicial district on the state board of charities, May 31, 1882, he served with that organization for forty-seven years; from 1894 to 1903 and from 1907 to 1923 he was president of the board.
Upon his retirement in March 1929, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "Your record is unique in the annals of the State's history, both in length of time and in the variety and scope of your activities".
He was for several years chairman of the state commission for the establishment of Letchworth Village, a farm colony for the feeble-minded. During his presidency of the state board of charities, his public duties, which included much traveling among the state institutions, occupied at least half his time and sometimes more; those who knew him and his work testified that for much of his labor he received no emolument.
In 1889 he conceived the idea of building the Washington Arch in Washington Square at the end of Fifth Avenue, New York. He was treasurer of the committee appointed to further the project, did much towards raising funds, and in 1895 formally presented the Arch to Mayor Strong in a public ceremony.
In 1894, after the Lexow Committee investigation of New York's city government, Stewart had been one of the Committee of Seventy who labored for the overthrow of Tammany Hall and the election of Mayor William L. Strong and a reform administration.
The last task which he undertook was that of completing the tomb of General Grant on Riverside Drive, and at the time of his death he had collected $100, 000 (including a substantial donation of his own) of the $400, 000 needed. Meanwhile, on the business side, he was president of the Rhinelander Real Estate Company from 1908 until 1929 and a director in two banks and several corporations.
He died on September 4, 1929 in New York City.
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William Rhinelander Stewart was elected president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and received its gold medal in recognition of his services. In 1900 he organized the New York State Conference of Charities and Corrections, of which he was elected president in 1903. Besides a number of pamphlets and magazine articles, Stewart wrote two books, The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell (1911), and Grace Church and Old New York (1924).
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According to Report of the State Board of Charities, in regard to juvenile reformatories, he believed in "abandoning a system based upon punishment and retribution" and substituting "one which would provide for proper classification, open grounds for play and exercise, proper industrial and scholastic education, and care of the boys and the girls in separate institutions".
Connections
On November 5, 1879, he married Annie M. Armstrong of Baltimore, by whom he had three children, one of whom died young. She divorced him, August 24, 1906, and was afterward twice married.
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