Stewart, Jr.), beginning with his 1922 Ph.D. His scholarly works on the poetic meter of ballads (published under the name George R. He wrote three other books on names: A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names (1970), Names on the Globe (1975), and American Given Names (1979). His best-known academic work is Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (1945 reprinted, New York Review Books, 2008).

He once served as an expert witness in a murder trial as a specialist in family names. Stewart was a founding member of the American Name Society in 1956–57. After his father died, he dropped the 'Jr.' from his name. He accepted a position in the English department at Berkeley in 1923. in English literature from Columbia University in 1922. The younger Stewart earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1917, an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D.

(died 1937), who designed gasworks and electric railways and later became a citrus 'rancher' in Southern California, and Ella Wilson Stewart (died 1937). was the son of engineer George Rippey Stewart Sr. His 1949 post-apocalyptic novel Earth Abides won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951.Įarly life and university career īorn in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, George Rippey Stewart, Jr. His 1959 book, Pickett's Charge, a detailed history of the final attack at Gettysburg, was called 'essential for an understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg'. George Rippey Stewart (– August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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