Born in New York City in 1865, Stewart Paton graduated from Princeton (1886) and receive his M.D.
He lectured for a time at Columbia and Yale University.
He was a leading eugenicist of his day and president of the Eugenics Research Association.
Paton was a strong advocate of American entry into World War I.
[1] Paton opposed the right of Conscientious objection, arguing in an article for the New York Times that conscientious objectors suffered from "an inadequacy of neurotic constitutions".