Stewart family

Ralph Randles Stewart, his first wife, Isabelle Darrow Stewart, and his second wife, Hladia Porter Stewart, were teachers and missionaries to that portion of the Indian sub-continent which became Pakistan in 1947. Ralph and Isabelle Stewart were both botany teachers and both functioned as amateur botanists, identifying and collecting examples of the flora from various regions of northern India and Pakistan. Hladia Stewart was an English teacher/missionary who wrote numerous stories, plays, travel articles and poems reflecting the lifestyle of northern India.

Ralph Stewart was born in upstate New York in 1890 and received his undergraduate degree in botany from Columbia University in 1911. Immediately after graduation, he accepted a teaching position in botany at Gordon College in Rawalpindi, northern India near the Afghanistan border.

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