Born: July 12, 1837, Pennsylvania.
Died: February 28, 1921.
Buried: Old Dutch Burying Ground of Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, New York.
Coe was the son of Thomas Stewart and Esther Porter.
A pupil of Lowell Mason, he became music director for the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869.
This was just an administrative position: He had to teach the teachers how to teach music. At the first high school commencement after he was appointed he electrified the audience by producing the Hallelujah Chorus and excerpts from Elijah.
Stewart was later president of the Music Teachers Association, and in 1881 organized and began conducting the Central Musical Association choral group.
Just before the turn of the century, he directed the Star Course concert series, which in 1892 featured the New York Symphony’s first performance in Cleveland.
If you know Stewart’s place of death,