Robert L. Stuart

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Robert Leighton Stuart (born July 21, 1806 in New York City , † December 12, 1882 ) was an American sugar manufacturer, collector and philanthropist of Scottish descent. He was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and its president from 1872 to 1881.

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Robert L. Stuart was the eldest son of Agnes and Kinloch Stuart , who immigrated to the United States from the Scottish city of Edinburgh in 1806 and settled in New York City. In 1832, Robert L. Stuart and his brother Alexander Stuart took over their father's sugar refinery , through which he made a great fortune over the following decades.

Robert L. Stuart and his wife, Mary McCrea , the daughter of a businessman whom he married in 1835, made generous donations to social and charitable causes throughout their lives. Robert owned an impressive library and a large collection of books, art objects, stones, minerals and archaeological objects.
Robert L. Stuart was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1869 ; in 1872 he was appointed president of the museum .

Robert L. Stuart died in New York in December 1882 at the age of 76. His grave is in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery .

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  1. a b Biographical data on findagrave.com, accessed October 3, 2015
  2. Robert L. Stuart on the homepage of the American Museum of Natural History , accessed October 3, 2015