Page 2..Friday, March 10, 1933 The Halifax Chronicle, Halifax, N.S. Dr. Stewart Passes Away In New York Famous United States Surgeon Was Native of Cumberland County and Educated at Truro. NEW YORK, March 9 - Dr. George David Stewart, native of Cumberland County, N.S., who lived to become one of the leading surgeons of the United States, died at his home here tonight. He celebrated his 70th birthday last December. Dr. Stewart was a former President of the New York Acadamy of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons and he had held many other positions in importment groups organized by medical men. He did his greatest work, however, as head of the Department of Surgery at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College where his abilities in training young surgeons led the late George F. Baker to give $1,000,000 to New York University in 1929 to found the George David Stewart Endowment for Surgery. As a young Dr. Stewart received the basis of his ultimately vast learning at Truro, in his native province. Then he came to New York and studied at St. Xavier's College, taking next the course at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he obtained his M.D. Degree in 1890. He served his intership at Bellevue Hospital and had remained there ever since, becoming Professor of Surgery at the college and surgical director of the hospital, Dr. Stewart continued, and in 1916, as head of the surgical department. Among those surviving are his wife, the former Ida M. Robb, who Dr. Stewart married in 1890, and two daughters, Dorothy, the wife of Edward Hope Coffey, former columist of the New York Herald Tribune, and Miss Mary Leslie Stewart. - - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3092507.Edward_Hope "Edward Hope Coffey Jr. was born in New York City in 1896 and eventually arrived at Princeton, an American college which he was to glorify in She Loves Me Not. He served as a balloon and dirigible pilot in the U. S. Naval Air Corps during the first World War, and in the Army Signal Corps in the late war. >From 1920 to 1925, Mr. Hope worked for an advertising agency. He then became a humorous columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, subsituting for Don Marquis. At the same time, he began writing a series of gay, satirical novels, of which the first was Alice in the Delighted States. (Following it were She Loves Me Not in 1933, Calm Yourself! in 1934, Spanish Omelette in 1937, and Ask Me No Questions in 1938." [his 1958 obituary is online]