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Dr Ferdinand Stuart Campbell Stewart

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
11 Feb 1899 (aged 83)
Pisa, Provincia di Pisa, Toscana, Italy
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Dr Ferdinand Stuart Campbell Stewart

Wills Admitted to Probate
Date: Sunday, March 19, 1899
Location: Pennsylvania
Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
Article type: Newspaper Article
Will Admitted to Probate
the will of the late Dr Ferdinand Campbell Stewart, who died in Italy, in February, was admitted to probate yesterday. The estate is valued at $223,000, and is all disposed of privately.

Left Valuable Property Abroad
Date: Saturday, September 16, 1899
Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Volume: 141
Issue: 78
Page: 9
the heirs of the late Dr. Ferdinand Campbell Stewart have been notified by J. S. Morgan and Co., bankers, of London, that the doctor was possessed of personal property in England valued at $390,615.09. The news thus received caused a supplemental inventory to be filed of the estate,l which now aggregates $685,583.09.

physician, born in Williamsburg, Virginia, 10 August, 1815. He was educated at William and Mary, and graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1837.Spent five years in professional study in Edinburgh and Paris. Practiced medicine in Williamsburg, to New York city, in Bellevue hospital, and at the same time received in his office students that had the benefits of this clinical instruction. 1847-'8 he volunteered his services during the prevalence of typhus fever. When Bellevue hospital was reorganized was appointed a member of the committee to recommend a new and improved plan, and after its adoption was made one of the visiting medical officers. 1849 hospital on Staten island in connection with the quarantine, and continued in that office until 1851 until 1855, when the death of his father led to his removal to England in order to obtain estates to which he had fallen heir. He was a member of medical societies both in the United States and Europe, and in 1847 aided in founding the New York academy of medicine. He was its secretary until his removal from New York city, held the office of vice-president three times, and on three different occasions was anniversary orator. In 1848-'9 he was chairman of the committee on typhus fever. He was active in promoting the National medical convention that held its first meeting in New York in 1846, and was secretary of the meeting in Philadelphia in 1847. A member of the committee that drafted the constitution of the American medical association in 1847. For many years the family physician of President Tyler, and refused several diplomatic appointments that were offered him by the president. He invented and introduced several instruments that have found use in genito-urinary diseases. In addition to his contributions to medical journals. he was in 1844-'5 editor of the "New York Journal of Medicine," and he published a translation of "Scoutetten on Club-Foot" (Philadelphia, 1839); "Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris" (New York, 1843); and a report on "Medical Education" to the American medical association (1849-'50), era-bracing statistics and regulations of the medical colleges of the United States, and an account of similar institutions in all parts of the world.
Dr Ferdinand Stuart Campbell Stewart

Wills Admitted to Probate
Date: Sunday, March 19, 1899
Location: Pennsylvania
Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
Article type: Newspaper Article
Will Admitted to Probate
the will of the late Dr Ferdinand Campbell Stewart, who died in Italy, in February, was admitted to probate yesterday. The estate is valued at $223,000, and is all disposed of privately.

Left Valuable Property Abroad
Date: Saturday, September 16, 1899
Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Volume: 141
Issue: 78
Page: 9
the heirs of the late Dr. Ferdinand Campbell Stewart have been notified by J. S. Morgan and Co., bankers, of London, that the doctor was possessed of personal property in England valued at $390,615.09. The news thus received caused a supplemental inventory to be filed of the estate,l which now aggregates $685,583.09.

physician, born in Williamsburg, Virginia, 10 August, 1815. He was educated at William and Mary, and graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1837.Spent five years in professional study in Edinburgh and Paris. Practiced medicine in Williamsburg, to New York city, in Bellevue hospital, and at the same time received in his office students that had the benefits of this clinical instruction. 1847-'8 he volunteered his services during the prevalence of typhus fever. When Bellevue hospital was reorganized was appointed a member of the committee to recommend a new and improved plan, and after its adoption was made one of the visiting medical officers. 1849 hospital on Staten island in connection with the quarantine, and continued in that office until 1851 until 1855, when the death of his father led to his removal to England in order to obtain estates to which he had fallen heir. He was a member of medical societies both in the United States and Europe, and in 1847 aided in founding the New York academy of medicine. He was its secretary until his removal from New York city, held the office of vice-president three times, and on three different occasions was anniversary orator. In 1848-'9 he was chairman of the committee on typhus fever. He was active in promoting the National medical convention that held its first meeting in New York in 1846, and was secretary of the meeting in Philadelphia in 1847. A member of the committee that drafted the constitution of the American medical association in 1847. For many years the family physician of President Tyler, and refused several diplomatic appointments that were offered him by the president. He invented and introduced several instruments that have found use in genito-urinary diseases. In addition to his contributions to medical journals. he was in 1844-'5 editor of the "New York Journal of Medicine," and he published a translation of "Scoutetten on Club-Foot" (Philadelphia, 1839); "Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris" (New York, 1843); and a report on "Medical Education" to the American medical association (1849-'50), era-bracing statistics and regulations of the medical colleges of the United States, and an account of similar institutions in all parts of the world.


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