The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-12-30
MRS. A. T. STEWART.

Mrs. Cornelia III. Stewart, widow of
the merchant prince vino died recently,
was prominently brought before the
public several times since her husbands
death by her labors in connection with
. Garden City, which was one of her hus-
bands pet projects. The most prom
lnent feature of the place is the memori-
al cathedral which she built The cor
ner~stone was laid Thursday, June Is.
1877, and the Cathedral of the Incarna-
ton, as II is called, was opened April 8,
1885. Mrs. Stewards maiden name IVES
Corneiia NJ. Ciinch. She was born in this
city. She WAS the daughter of Jacob
Ciinch, well-known shipchandler, and
her brother. Charles P Cinch, was at
one time Assistant Customs Collector of
his port. Mrs Stewart was married to
he famous merchant in 1925. They
had three children, all of whom We're
at rest in St. Marks churhyard before
MIR. Stewart died, April 10, 1876.
During Mr. Stewards long career as a
businessman he frequently said that
Mrs. Stewart was his partner as well as
MS wife.
1t is said to Mrs. Stewards keen busi-
ness sense her husband owed much of his
success. She saw az soon as he did
that mercantile prosperity lay uptown,
and together they selected the site of
he great store at Broadway, Fourth
avenue. Ninth and Tenth streets. The
building erected there cost about S.
100000. As Mr. Stewards fortune in
creased he made his domestic arrange
ments keep pace with it, and several
l., l.. l. J
Ia the palatial residence at Fifth avenue
and Thirty-fourth street His fortune
at the time Of his death WAS estimated
at from S40,000.000 to $4,000. 600.
Since her husbands death Mrs. Stewart
mas lived very quietly in the mansion at
Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street,
and her name has not appeared fire.
quently in public prints OF late years.
Some prominence was gwen to it by the
mysterious disappearance of Mr.. Stew
arts body from It's last resting-place,
aud two or three times her name has
been brought before the public in con-
nectlon With suits Dy claimants against
.ae estate. She always dreaded pub
l'cIty or display. and the sensation and
comments caused by the grave robbery
we're entirely distast.iui to her. During
her closing wears she was convinced
that her husbands body had been re-
covered and that her last resting-place
would be beside his.
Ii used to be said that Mr.. Stewart
r,as disp.eased because his wife reared
nim no sons to share his name and
fortune; that his love for her had van
,sned; that he had gone out to other
women and lavisned MS devotion and
wealth upon them; that children were
growing up that might claim hIm rs
father, but not his wife as mother, and
80 on.
Those who knew the Stewards well
Knew well that while the quiet. almost
grim, little old man was as cold as ice
and hard as flint IN his business rela-
ions, and while to the world he showed
tow sympathetic traits, toward his wife
nis manner was always chivalrous. de-
voted, tender. Two days in every year
the anniversaries of their engage
inent and of their marriage-they never
- the end of their welded life failed TO
remember and commemorate with ten
der love tokens To the day of his
death he regarded her as the loveliest
of women, and to her last day she
thought of him only as the truest and
nobiest Of men, whose like she would
not seen again.
The death of her husband was ter
r.ble blow to Mrs. Stewart. Having 10
children, and but few kindred even of
rsmote degree, she felt herself rllone in
The world. She gave up the remainder
Of her life to two objects-to cherish his
memory and to complete the work that
NJ had left unfinished. The former she
did with All her heart; the latter she
sadly failed to do, because she trusted
100 much 10 man who mas shown him
self unequal 10 the task.-N. /. Dispatch.