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John Stuart Jr. (1912–1997) was one of the heirs of the Quaker Oats Company fortune.


Biography

John Stuart Jr. was born in 1912, the son of John Stuart and his wife Ellen. He was educated at the
Asheville School Asheville School is a private, coeducational, university-preparatory boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina founded in 1900. The campus sits on amid the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains and currently enrolls 295 students in grades nine throug ...
. He then attended
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
, graduating in 1936. While at Princeton, he was a member of the
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. After college, Stuart went to work for the Quaker Oats Company, mainly focusing on the company's international business in
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and
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. For 20 years, he lived in
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, the location of the main Quaker Oats facility in Canada. On Old Orchard Farm, his estate outside of Peterborough, he raised prize
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. Stuart and his first wife, Nancy (née Whiting, Chicago IL) had two children, Stephanie and John III. With his second wife, Norma (née Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Canada) he had one daughter, Joan. His third wife was named Wihla. In retirement, Stuart lived first in Sarasota, Florida, then
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, then in
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, where he was a member of the Sarasota
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. He died on April 25, 1997.


References


Memorial on Princeton website
1912 births 1997 deaths Princeton University alumni 20th-century American businesspeople {{US-business-bio-1910s-stub