He had been made an honorary member of the Westchester County Medical Society at its annual meeting in 1869, and at the meeting in 1872, at White Plains, he met his brother members for the last time. On the day of his funeral, business was suspended in New Rochelle, flags hung at half-mast from the public and many private buildings, the church, school and engine-house bells were tolled, the schools were dismissed and the scholars stood bareheaded in the street as the cortecje passed. No such honors had ever been paid to any private citizen of the town.

Dr. Philander Stewart' was born in Dan bury, Connecticut, June 20, 1820, and in 1840 began to study for the profession in Brookfield, the adjoining town. At the medical institution of Yale College he attended his first course of lectures and graduated at Jeffierson College, Philadelphia, in 18-14. After two years of practice in Roxbury, Connecticut, he came to Peekskill, and although in three years he had established remunerative professional connections there, he returned to Philadelphia to avail himself of another course of lectures and clinical observations under Prof Pancoast. Then he resumed his field of labor at Peekskill and cultivated it for upwards of thirty years, hi the year 1857 he made a trip to Europe and pursued his investigations for some time in the hospitals and medical schools of the United Kingdom and the Continent. He early attached

' Biographical sketch by Dr. James Hart Curry, read before the Westchester County !k[edical Society at its annual meeting, June IG, 1874.