STEWART, Caroline Taylor. Memphis Tenn. 18?? — 19??. Miss. U.S. Linguist. Daughter of Rev. Jonathan Deckert Stewart (1831–1879). Studies at Kansas State University (A.B. 1892), University of Michigan (A.M. 1895) and Bryn Mawr. Further studies of Germanics in Germany. Ph.D. 1901 Berlin. From 1905 Assistant Professor of Germanics at University of Missouri, where she taught many years (still there in 1925).
Publications: Diss. Grammatische Darstellung der Sprache des St. Paules Glossar zu Lukas. 1901.
– “The Origin of the Names of the Numerals”, BB 30, 1906, 223-265 & 330f. (Sanskrit and IE); other writing on Germanic linguistics.
– The Origin of the werewolf superstition. 42 p. Columbia, Mo. 1909.
Sources: Woman’s who’s who of America, 1914-15, 782 (en.wikisource.org); findagrave.com on her sister Mary Elizabeth Stewart gives the life dates and father; stray notes in Internet (mostly just on the Werewolf book).
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