Stewart, ALEXANDER TURNER

Stewart, ALEXANDER TURNER, millionaire, was born of Scottish stock at Lisburn, near Belfast, in 1803, emigrated to New York in 1823, and two years later opened his first dry-goods store in Broadway, with a rent of 250; his retail store built in 1862 cost nearly 2,750,000. His charities were numerous and bountiful; yet at his death, 10th April 1876, he left some $40,000,000, which there were no blood relatives to share. See RESURRECTIONISTS, and GARDEN CITY.