Jessica Stewart was born a child of privilege in Middlebury and used that privilege to greatly enrich her home community. In her long life she brought together some of the most prominent family lineages in Middlebury history — Seymours, Battells, Stewarts and Swifts — adding to their achievements her own record of persistence, cosmopolitanism and significant philanthropy. Transcending the bounds of the conventional role her family had ordained for her, she independently exercised a sense of responsibility t … (read more)
