Stuart Whitney French
Bisbee, Douglas
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

As general manager of the Copper Queen Mining Company, in 
Douglas, Mr. French occupies a position of distinction in 
mining circles of the state.  He was born in Dansville New 
York, February 12, 1867 and is a son of Byron and Martha G. 
(Brown) French, also natives of the Empire State where the 
father was engaged in business for a number of years.  In 
their family were five children: Stuart Whitney of this 
review, Minerva who married H.A. Dunbar of Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts; Howard D., a Congregational minister of 
Jacksonville, Illinois; and Harry P. who is in business 
in Chicago.

When Stuart French was still a child the family removed 
to Chicago and there he grew to manhood acquiring his 
education in the public schools.  At the age of eighteen 
he entered Amherst College at Amherst, Massachusetts, 
graduating with the class of 1889.  He was  well known 
and popular at college, holding membership in the Alpha 
Delta Phi fraternity, an interest which he still maintains.  
After leaving school, Mr. French became identified with the 
insurance business and continued in it for many years, each 
of which added materially to his prominence in the business 
world.  He began in the office of the Home Insurance Company 
of Chicago and after three years was appointed as special 
agent for the London Insurance Company of Chicago.  He later 
embarked in the business for himself.

Mr. French came to Arizona in 1899 and located at Bisbee as 
assistant superintendent of the Copper Queen Consolidated 
Mining Company. He has since continued his connection with 
this concern, holding his original position until the 
reorganization of the company, when in 1904 he was promoted 
to the position of assistant general manager.  In the same 
year he took up his residence in Douglas where the general 
offices are located.

On December 27, 1894 he married Miss Helen S. Stevison, a 
native of Peoria, Illinois and a daughter of Josiah H. and 
Sarah (Swain) Stevison both of whom were born in Philadelphia.  
In their family were two children:  Helen S. and Dudley J. of 
Chicago.



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