Sacramento County
Biographies
ARTHUR WILLIAM STUART
ARTHUR WILLIAM STUART, orchardist on Grand Island, was born
in Maine, May 2, 1857, his parents being Daniel S. and Lydia
(Philpot) Stuart. The family came to California in
1860 and settled on Grand Island,
on what is now the McIntyre ranch of 120 acres. The flood of 1862
overflowed his place and he moved to Solano County,
near Dixon, where he now owns 240
acres. The father had come to California in 1850,
and did some mining for a year or more, when he returned to farming in Maine. He
was born about 1827, and Mrs. Stuart about 1829, and
they have eight living children, of whom three are natives of this
State. A. W. Stuart was educated in Dixon,
and took a course in the Napa Collegiate Institute. Has
done farm work since he has been of an age to labor. Mr. Stuart was
married in Sacramento March 10, 1883, to Mrs. O. P.(Phillips) Wood, the widow
of Monroe Wood, who died in 1879, leaving one child, Lillie, born in 1875, and
accidentally drowned in 1888 while crossing the river near her home. Mrs.
Stuart is a native of Illinois where her mother is still
living, near Troy, aged
sixty. The father died in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart have one child,
Daniel Everett, born on Grand Island
September 15, 1884. They own 210 acres on Steamboat Slough, of which
sixty-five are in orchard. Mr. Stuart also owns jointly with his mother
200 acres in Stanislaus County,
near Hopedale, purchased in 1887. It is all fruit-bearing land and
twenty-five acres are already in orchard.
Transcribed 9-20-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Page 762.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.