Frank H. Stewart

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Frank H. Stewart

1873–1948

Remembered as a businessman, collector, and local historian, he turned a deep interest in southern New Jersey and early American history into books that still circulate today. His work ranges from Gloucester County records to the story of the first U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

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Ye Olde Mint Being a brief description of the first U.S. Mint, established by Congress in the year 1792, at Seventh Street and Sugar Alley (now Filbert Street) Philadelphia

Ye Olde Mint Being a brief description of the first U.S. Mint, established by Congress in the year 1792, at Seventh Street and Sugar Alley (now Filbert Street) Philadelphia

by Frank H. Stewart

About the author

Born in 1873, Frank H. Stewart was a Philadelphia-area businessman who owned an electrical supply manufacturing company and later retired to Woodbury, New Jersey. He was also an active collector and researcher whose papers and materials became the large Frank H. Stewart Collection.

Stewart is especially associated with local and regional history in southern New Jersey. Sources describe him as an amateur historian and a long-time president of the Gloucester County Historical Society, and his books include Notes on Old Gloucester County, New Jersey, Stewart's Genealogical and Historical Miscellany, and Gloucester County in the Civil War.

He also wrote about early American numismatic history, most notably Ye Olde Mint and History of the First United States Mint. He died in 1948, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both careful historical curiosity and a strong attachment to the places and institutions he studied.