Sacramento County
Biographies
DANIEL E. STUART
DANIEL E. STUART.--It is unusual in these days of many changes to find a man,
even a native son, operating the home ranch, on which he was born and reared;
and when we do find him so-engaged it goes without saying that he has made a
success of agriculture and has brought the pioneer acreage to a high state of
cultivation. Born on what was known as the Woods Ranch, four and a half miles
from Courtland, on Grand
Island, September 15, 1884. Daniel E. Stuart is the son of Arthur W. and Olive Pauline
(Phillips) (Woods) Stuart, the father a native of Maine and the mother a native of Wisconsin. Arthur W. Stuart came with his parents to California when only two or three years old. His parents settled near
Dixon, Solano County, and he was reared and educated in Yolo and Solano Counties, later coming to the delta country of Sacramento
County. A widow at the time of her marriage to Mr. Stuart, the
mother inherited the ranch of 200 acres which has since been the family home.
Daniel E. was the only child born of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart's union. A
step-sister, Lily Woods, was drowned in 1888.
Daniel E. Stuart was educated at the Grand Island district school, and finished his schooling with an
academic course at the University of the Pacific at San Jose. With the exception of five years in the employment of the
Griffin & Skelly Canneries of Grand Island and at
their Oakland plant, Mr. Stuart has devoted his entire time to operating
the home ranch for his mother. One-half of the two hundred acres is at present
in orchards, principally of pears and shipping prunes, and the remaining
acreage is in beans and vegetables; but he is gradually developing the entire
property to orchards, setting out trees every year, so that in time the ranch
will blossom as 200 acres of fruit in one body, a large holding in this day of
small ranches.
The marriage of Daniel E. Stuart, at Fairfield, Solano County, on October 19, 1905,
united him with Miss Elsie Crow, the daughter of Abe and Cecelia Crow, and the
third in a family of eight children. The sixth child, Lelland
Crow, died during the late World War; he was on board ship for France when the
influenza broke out on the vessel, and the troops were returned to America and
taken to hospitals at the port; out of the entire company only fourty survived the epidemic, and Lelland
Crow was among the boys who gave their lives for their country - no less so
than those who reached the battle-grounds and died while serving "over
there." Mrs. Stuart was reared and educated at Rio Vista, where her father
was a rancher. He is now deceased, but the mother is still living. Mr. and Mrs.
Stuart have adopted two children and made a place for them at the family
hearth: Lelland and Wanda. In political belief, Mr.
Stuart is a Republican; and in all matters he is a true Californian and a firm
believer in the future possibilities of his native state.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento
County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 315.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.