{{Short description|American writer and politician (1809–1861)}} {{More citations|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Isaac William Stuart | image = | alt = | caption = | order = | state_senate = Connecticut | district = 1st | term_start = 1845 | term_end = 1846 | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year|1809}} | birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1861|10|2|1809}} | death_place = Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | resting_place = Zion's Hill Cemetery | party = Whig | spouse = Caroline Bulkley | father = Moses Stuart | children = | education = Yale College | occupation = {{hlist|Writer|historian|educator|politician}} | signature = }} '''Isaac William Stuart''' (1809 – October 2, 1861), also known as '''Scaeva''', was an American writer, historian and politician from Connecticut.
==Early life== Isaac William Stuart was born in 1809 in New Haven, Connecticut, to Abigail (née Clark) and Moses Stuart. His father was pastor of the Centre Church in New Haven. Stuart graduated from Yale College with a bachelor's degree in 1828.<ref name="yale">{{Cite web |url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1861-62.pdf |title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College |date=July 30, 1862 |page=68 |access-date=2025-06-20 |via=Archive.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619234234/http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1861-62.pdf |archive-date=2022-06-19 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-death-of-scaeva-4-oct/174885382/ |title=Death of Scaeva |date=1861-10-04 |newspaper=The Daily Courant |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-06-20}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref name="hartford">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialhistoryo01trum_0/mode/2up |title=The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut (1633–1884) |volume=1 |editor-last=Trumbull |editor-first=J. Hammond |year=1886 |page=168 |via=Archive.org |access-date=2025-06-20}}{{Open access}}</ref>
==Career== Following graduation, Stuart taught at Hopkins Grammar School in Hartford. When he was not teaching he studied hieroglyphics and Asian literature.<ref name="yale"/>
In 1830, Stuart published a translation, with notes, of Jean-Gabriel-Honoré Greppo's ''Essay on the Hieroglyphic System of Champollion'' (Boston, 1830, 12mo.). He was elected professor of Greek and Latin at the College of South Carolina and moved to Columbia, South Carolina. He published in 1837, an edition with notes of the ''Oedipus Tyrannus'' of Sophocles (New York, 12mo.).<ref name="yale"/>
Stuart returned to Hartford and was proprietor of the Wyllys Estate on which was standing the famous Charter Oak.<ref name="yale"/> He was a supporter of Henry Clay and held conservative political opinions about slavery.<ref name="obit"/> He was a Whig. In 1845, he was elected to the Connecticut State Senate to represent district 1, defeating Leonard R. Welles.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-official-vote-for-senat/174886560/ |title=Official Vote for Senators |date=1845-04-28 |newspaper=Hartford Courant |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-06-20}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://electionhistory.ct.gov/eng/candidates/view/Isaac-W-Stewart |title=Isaac W. Stewart |website=Connecticut's Office of the Secretary of the State |access-date=2025-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://electionhistory.ct.gov/eng/candidates/view/Isaac-W-Stuart |title=Isaac W. Stuart |website=Connecticut's Office of the Secretary of the State |access-date=2025-06-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-hon-isaac-w-stuart/174886288/ |title=Hon. Isaac W. Stuart |date=1861-10-06 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-06-20}}{{Open access}}</ref> He was re-elected in 1846.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-official-vote-25-apr-1/174886643/ |title=Official Vote |date=1846-04-25 |newspaper=Hartford Daily Courant |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-06-20}}{{Open access}}</ref>
Stuart published in 1856, a ''Life of Nathan Hale, the Martyr Spy of the Revolution'' (Hartford, 1856, 8vo.), a volume of local historical sketches entitled ''Hartford in the Olden Time'' by "Scaeva" (Hartford, 1853, 8vo.), and an elaborate ''Life of Governor Jonathan Trumbull'' (Boston, 1857, 8vo. pp 700.).<ref name="yale"/><ref name="obit"/> He was a contributor to the ''Hartford Courant'' and signed some of his writings as "Scaeva".<ref name="obit"/><ref name="hartford"/> He was judge advocate of The Putnam Phalanx.<ref name="obit"/>
==Personal life== Stuart married Caroline Bulkely.<ref name="yale"/> He died on October 2, 1861, aged 52, in Hartford.<ref name="yale"/><ref name="obit"/> He was buried in Zion's Hill Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-the-funeral-of-hon-i/174885718/ |title=The Funeral of Hon. I. W. Stuart |date=1861-10-07 |newspaper=The Daily Courant |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-06-20}}{{Open access}}</ref>
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