From The Herald-Journal (Logan, UT) - Monday, July 23, 1951:
A heart attack proved fatal Saturday to Dr. Ernest Israel Stewart, 69, prominent Logan dentist, civic worker, and horseman. He died suddenly at his home.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, 1 p.m. in Logan LDS First Ward Chapel, but Bishop Harold S. Nelson. Burial will be in Logan City Cemetery.
Dr. Stewart was born in Logan, June 8, 1882, a son of James Z. and Julia Ann Fitzgerald Stewart. His father was the first president of Brigham Young College in Logan. He married Sarah Walters September 28, 1910 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died January 18, 1948 and he married Eva Mayne, August 11, 1950 in Logan Temple.
Dr. Stewart received his education in Logan City Schools, the BYC, Utah State Agricultural College, and was graduated from the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 1909.
He served an LDS mission in the Southern States from 1902 to 1904, and was active in church work, having been in Logan First Ward Sunday School superintendency, in Logan Stake High Priest Quorum, and in the other auxiliary positions.
Immediately following his graduation from dental college, he started practice in Logan. Dr. Stewart was appointed by the governor to the state board of dental examiners June 26, 1931 and held that position five years. He was named a director of the First Federal Building and Loan Co. of Ogden, was a member of the American Dental Assn. and of Utah State Dental Assn. He had served several terms as president of the First District Dental Society, and was on the Utah State Dental Council during 1937 and 1938.
Dr. Stewart was recognized as an ardent horseman and sportsman. At the time of his death, he was president of the Cache Valley Peace Officers' association, and was a charter member, and first president, of Logan Mounted Police. A member of the Cache Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Stewart had served as chairman of several important committees.
Surviving are his widow, Logan; one son, Dr. E. I. Stewart Jr., New York City; two grandchildren, Susan Kay and Sally Ann Stewart, New York City; two sisters and four brothers, Mrs. Carrie J. Humpherys, Mrs. Jessie S. Reese, Dr. Isaac Perry, Willie H., Royal A., and Eugene F., Stewart, Logan.