Alameda County
Biographies
EUGENE H. STEVENSON
EUGENE H. STEVENSON. A prominent rancher of Alameda county is Eugene H. Stevenson, who is
located in Washington township, near Centerville, upon the
ranch where his birth occurred August 21, 1877. He is the son of John
Stevenson, whose sketch will be found elsewhere in this work. His boyhood years
were spent upon the paternal ranch, interspersing home duties with an
attendance of the public and high schools. After completing the course in his
home schools he entered Heald’s Business College of San Francisco and took a
commercial course which has proved of inestimable value to him. Upon returning
home he assumed control of the home ranch, which he conducted successfully
until 1903, the death of his father having left himself and mother heirs to the
large estate. In the last named year he purchased his mother’s interest. He now
rents one hundred and ten acres to the California Nursery Company, while the
remainder—two hundred and eighty acres—is given over to the cultivation of
garden vegetables and hay. He also owns fifty acres near Mowry Station which he
purchased, and which is devoted to pasture and hay. This ranch is justly
considered one of the most valuable in this vicinity both in improvements and
cultivation, and Mr. Stevenson is widely known as a progressive and
enterprising farmer.
The marriage of Mr. Stevenson united him with Leola
Vera Halpin, a native of Toledo,
Ohio, and they are the parents of
one son, Maxwell. In his political convictions Mr. Stevenson is a stanch
adherent of the principles advocated in the platform of the Republican party,
and has served as a delegate to the county convention. He is a member of
Centerville Parlor No. 169, of the N. S. G. W., and belongs
to the U. P. E. C. society of the same place.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 22 September 2015.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Page
777. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2015 Marie
Hassard.
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