Kilton Riggs Stewart was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 29, 1902. He grew up and attended Franklin Elementary, Provo Jr. High, and Provo High school in Provo, Utah. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to French Canada then attended the University of Utah. He traveled between Honolulu, France, Japan, the Philippines and Hong Kong between 1928-1929. In 1931 he achieved a Masters in Psychology from the University of Utah. In the early 1930s Stewart traveled to Japan, the Philippines, and Malaya to do field work in the the study of dream psychology. In the late 1930s he spent time in India, Iran, England and France. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and Stewart was shipped home from France by the U.S. State Department. From 1940-1941, Stewart performed unlicensed psychotherapy in New York and was then drafted into the U.S. Army to help train prisoner of war interrogators, but was honorably discharged in 1943. He worked as a psychotherapist in New York until he moved to England where he completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the London School of Economics in 1948. Upon completing on his Ph.D. he became a New York State licensed phychotherapist and maintained offices in Philadephia and New York City. During the 1950s he associated with The Psychological Foundation later renamed the American Mental Health Foundation. He married his wife, Teri, in 1954 and they had a daughter named Pamela. In 1960 Kilton became ill and created a The Stewart Foundation of Creative Psychology. After hospitalization in 1965, Kilton Stewart died of Cancer on May 18, 1965.
Biographical information was obtained from Box 1, Folder 1, "Chronology of Life."
The Kilton Riggs Stewart papers (1902-1993) are divided into two parts. The first part, Personal Materials, contains biographical information, family and professional correspondence, included in this correspondence are letters from after Kilton's death to/from Omer Stewart and colleages about gathering information on Kilton's work to write a book. This section also contains quit claim deeds and his trust. The second part, Professional Materials, contains articles/news clippings written about Kilton Stewart, professional writings including his thesis for his Masters in Psychology, dissertation for his PhD in Anthropology, field notes, manuscripts that later went to publication, and publications of others that referenced Kilton Stewart's work.
The collection is arranged into three series: Personal Materials and Correspondence, Professional Writings, and Publications Referencing Kilton Stewart Research. All Correspondence is separated by person (i.e. Correspondence with Omer Stewart) then chronologically within folders. Within each series folders and publications are arranged chonologically. In title and folder headings, Kilton Riggs Stewart is referred to as KRS.
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Collection donated by Heather Stewart Dorrell, ancestor to Kilton Riggs Stewart, in 2014.
Processed by Chelsea Olsen in 2014.
Photographs (including family photos and photos of Kilton Riggs Stewart travels) and film strips entitled "Vagabondage and Claudia Parsons, 1941" have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
See also the Omer Call Stewart papers (MS 0612). Omer Call Stewart was Kilton Riggs Stewart's brother who worked as an Anthropology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Earned Masters of Psychology from University of Utah
Records/daily entries of observations, stories, cultural traditions and rituals of the the Yami people in the Philippines.
Written to obtain a Ph.D. in Anthropology earned at the London School of Economics, copyrighted by the University of London Library.
Assembled by Omer Stewart.
These Publications contain references to Kilton Stewart and his work as an anthropologist. The small white pieces paper between the pages mark references to Kilton Riggs Stewart's work and should stay in place.
Referenced on page 115.
"Dream Theory in Malaya" by KRS, page 159
"A Source of Power" by KRS page 191.
"The Universe of Dreams" by KRS page 192
"Integrating the Self" by KRS page 202
Referenced KRS on pages 211, 225, 394, 417.
Handwritten information on microfilm box:
1/2 about Kilton Stewart
Omer C. Stewart Box 233 Department of Antropology, University of Colorado Boulder, 80309
Handwritten information on microfilm box: 1/2 about Kilton Stewart
Handwritten information on microfilm box: 1/2 about Kilton Stewart