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- George Hume Steuart was a physician from Maryland who occupied a number of leading medical positions. He served at various times as superintendent of the Maryland University Hospital, chief medical director at the Rosewood Training School at Owings Mills, Maryland, and superintendent of the Lewis Gundry Sanitarium at Relay, Maryland. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Lancaster County Board of Supervisors, serving his third term.
Early life
Steuart was born in West River, Maryland, on April 10, 1865. He was the son of Captain George Biscoe Steuart. Steuart's grandfather was Dr Charles Calvert Steuart, a physician from Prince George's County, Maryland who married Ann Fitzhugh Biscoe on November 1, 1814.
On October 19, 1903, Steuart married Irene Blakemore in Baltimore. The couple had two children, Virginia Louise Steuart, born on April 8, 1905, and George Hume Steuart, born November 3, 1907.
Career
In 1898 Steuart graduated from the Medical School of the University of Maryland in Baltimore, soon becoming superintendent of the University Hospital. In 1902 Steuart was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital in Baltimore. Later, in 1918, he became assistant superintendent and chief medical director at the Rosewood Training School (as it was then known) at Owings, Maryland, where he remained for six years, until 1924. Rosewood was founded in 1898 to "receive, care for and educate all idiotic, imbecile and feeble-minded persons". In 1924 Steuart became superintendent of the Lewis Gundry Sanitarium at Relay, Maryland, a private sanitarium founded in 1900 for the "care of nervous disorders of women that required treatment and rest away from home". After two years his health began to decline and he returned to his home in Ottoman, Virginia, where he developed a local medical practice.
Steuart was a charter member of the Northern Neck Electric Cooperative. He also helped to organise the Corrotoman Farmers Cooperative, and was elected its president. Steuart served three terms as a member of the Lancaster County Board of Supervisors, and was chairman at the time of his death.
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Obituary: Rappahannock Record, Volume TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, Number NUMBER 14, 11 January 1945
FUNERAL RITES FOR DR. STEUART
Physician And Chairman Of Board Of Supervisors Dies In Hospital
Dr. George Hume Stewart died in a hospital in Richmond on the morning of Jan. 6th, 1945, where he had been taken ten days previous, suffering with a heart complication. He passed away quietly in his sleep. He had been feeling so much better that he planned to return to his home in Ottoman the following Sunday; so his demise was a great shock to his family and friends.
Dr. Stewart was horn April 10, 1865 at West River, Maryland, near Annapolis, the son of Captain George Biscoe Steuart, C.S.A., and his wife, Louisa Darnall Steuart.
He was a student at the Maryland Agricultural College, now University of Maryland, later entering the Medical School of the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He graduated in 1898, becoming Assistant Superintendent for two years and Superintendent of the University Hospital, and for several years was on the staff of Associate Surgeons. In 1902 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital in Baltimore and was sent to various places for special work, among them to Hamburg. Germany.
On account of the ill health of Mrs. Steuart whom he married in 1904 in Baltimore, lie decided to locate near her home in Virginia and served his adopted community, professionally, with great loyalty and skill for many years.
In September 1918, he offered his services to the country in the First World War in his native state, Maryland. Hospital and Institutional physicians were much needed, so he was appointed Assistant Superintendent and Chief Medical Director at the Rosewood Training School at Owings Mills. Md. where he remained for six years, after which he was Superintendent of the Lewis Gundry Sanitarium at Relay, Md. 'for two years His health failing him he returned to his home at Ottoman where he soon again became actively engaged in practice.
He always too the keenest interest in the political and civic affairs of the county -- looking to its betterment and progress.
Dr. Steuart was a charter member of the Northern Neck Electric Cooperative and also helped to organise the Corrotoman Farmers Cooperative, and was elected its president during the seven years of its existence.
He was serving-his third term as a member of the Lancaster County Board of Supervisors at the time of his death and was chairman of the Hoard.
He was a member of the Maryland University Alumni Association, Medical and Chirurgical, Virginia Medical and the Northern Neck Medical Association. and until recent years was a member of the Southern Maryland Society.
Dr. Steuart in 1904 married Miss Virginia Irene Blakemore who survives him. He leaves two children, Mrs. Eyjolf Hjornsson of Denver, Colorado and Mr. George Hume Steuart of Richmond; a sister. Miss Rosalee Steuart, and a brother, Mr. Estep Steuart of Chancy. Md; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
He was buried on Monday, January 8 in the cemetery of St. Marys White Chapel, with Rev. Dorsey Smith officiating.
Dr. Steuart comes of a long and distinguished ancestry dating back to Kenneth II who was crowned King of Scotland in 854. His first ancestor in this country was Dr. George Hume Steuart, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, who settled near Annapolis. Md. in 1721 on a large grant of land.
He was the first of the family to change, the spelling of the name from Stewart to Steuart in compliment to the unhappy fate of the sister of King Charles II of England who escaped to France in those troublesome times.
The late Dr. Steuart was the eighth doctor of medicine in the past 200 years of this family.
His active pallbearers were Mr. Willie George, Mr. John D. Smith, Mr. Otiss Kirkham, Mr. Vivian Chowning.
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1865 - 1945 (79 years)
