- unitid
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{"value"=>"2887", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 2887", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"ca. 1902-ca. 1932", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1902/1932"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1902
- date_inclusive_end
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1932
- keydate
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1902
- date_start
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1902
- date_end
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1932
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"John Appleton Stewart correspondence"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.2 linear feet (4 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"John Appleton Stewart (1865-1928) was an American manufacturer and promoter. In addition to his business activities as director of various manuufacturing companies, he was well-known for his promotion of patriotic causes and his interest in U.S.-England good will. He founded with Joseph Butler the Sulgrave Institution, was president of the New York State League of Republican Clubs, and was a member or officer of numerous civic and political organizations. Collection consists of letters written to Stewart concerning his various civic and political interests. Particular focus is on his activities with the League of Republican Clubs, his promotion of the centenary of peace among English-speaking people and the bicentennial commemoration of George Washington's birthday."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>John Appleton Stewart correspondence, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Stewart, John Appleton, 1865-1928", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>John Appleton Stewart (1865-1928), a manufacturer and promoter, was born in Morrisville, New York to James Stephen and Emeline Elizabeth (Tucker) Stewart. He was educated at Cazenovia (New York) Seminary and at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. As a manufacturer he held at various times such positions as director of the Electric Purifying Company, director of the Reynolds Ice Machine Company, president of the Carbonating Company of America and director of the American Ammone Company Stewart was well-known in the northeast and Washington, D. C. for his promotion of patriotic causes and his interest over the years in \"good will between the United States and England\". He founded with Joseph Butler of Ohio - the Sulgrave Institution that had as its primary purpose friendship between the American and English people and as its secondary purpose preservation of Sulgrave Manor, George Washington's ancestral home in England. Stewart was best remembered as the president of the New York State League of Republican Clubs for twenty-six (26) years, but his political and patriotic activities extended beyond labors with the Republican Clubs and Sulgrave Institution. Most notably, he spearheaded movements for celebrations of the 100th anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples (1814-1914/15) and the bi-centennial commemoration of George Washington's birthday (1732-1932). Stewart was a member or officer of civic and political organizations for three decades. He was the vice-president of the National Council of American Patriots, Executive chairman of the American Society (an organization devoted to national unity) and chairman of the Hoover-for-President Association. His first wife, Alice Collins, died in 1900. Stewart and Ida Fassoli Stewart, his widow, had no children and resided in Brooklyn at the time of his death in November of 1928.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers consist of incoming letters typed and handwritten relating to various civic and political interests of Mr. Stewart, but particularly focusing on Stewart's activities with the League of Republican; Clubs and his promotion of the 100th anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples and the bicentennial commemoration of George Washington's birthday. Principal correspondents include Theodore E. Burton (banker & congressman), Michael Henry Butler (educator), Joseph Choate (diplomat), George B. Cortelyou (secretary of commerce & labor and secretary of the treasury), James G. Davis (secretary of labor), Simeon Fess (U. S. senator), John G. Foster (diplomat), John Hays Hammond (mining engineer), William McAdoo (secretary of the treasury), Charles Nagel (secretary of commerce & labor), T. Platt (U. S. senator), Daniel A. Reed (congressman), Elihu Root (secretary of war arid secretary of state), Jacob Schiff (philanthropist and broker), James Wilson (secretary of agriculture), and Leonard Wood (army general).</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Dec. 31, 1938, Received from Purchase from Sweet Auction House (\"Sweet Collection\")</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>April 19, 1983.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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1.2 linear feet (4 boxes)