Sacramento County
Biographies
MERLIN W.
STEWART
MERLIN W. STEWART.--Among the successful practicing lawyers of Sacramento is Merlin W. Stewart, who was admitted to the bar July 2, 1919, and has since been engaged in private practice; on February 1, 1922 he was appointed to the position of county law librarian, which he is filling to the entire satisfaction of the people of the community. He is one of California’s native sons, born in San Jose, March 19, 1895, a son of Marcus and Alice (Dunlap) Stewart. The Stewart family removed to California when Marcus Stewart was a small boy. Marcus Stewart was a painter by trade and died January 24, 1923, in Sacramento; the mother is still living.
Merlin W. Stewart was educated in the public schools and studied law in private. He took the bar examination, was admitted on July 2, 1919, to the bar of California, and then began private practice. Although a young man in years, he is steadily forging to the front in his profession and he is making a splendid record for himself in the capital city.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 994. Historic
Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.