Contra Costa-Amador County CA Archives Biographies.....Stewart, James 1825 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JAMES STEWART.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found in this
History, is a native of County Down, Ireland, born April 6, 1825. When
twenty-two years of age he emigrated to America, where, on his arrival in New
York, he immediately proceeded west to Bond county, Illinois, where he found
employment for one year, when, in the Spring of 1849, he returned to his native
land, and there sojourned until the Spring of 1851, when he once more crossed
the Atlantic, this time arriving in New Orleans, where he sojourned a short time
and then came to St. Louis, and there resided until March, 1853. He then joined
a wagon-train, paying one hundred dollars as passage-money, and after many
hardships incident to a trip across the mountains at that early time, he arrived
in Volcano, in August of the same year. He then embarked in mining, which he
continued until 1856, when he came to Contra Costa county, and first located in
Rodeo valley, on land now part of the Tormey estate, and engaged in agricultural
pursuits, until his more recent purchase of his present farm in that valley,
consisting of three hundred acres of well-improved land, and to which he has
since added some three hundred acres more. He prosecuted farming until 1879,
when he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, locating in Martinez, where
he opened his present general grocery and fruit store, on the corner of Locust
and Castro streets. Mr. Stewart was united in marriage, in Rodeo valley, to Mrs.
Gertie McClelland, a native of Wisconsin, by which union he has one child,
Lizzie, and two step-children, Mary Ann and James McClelland.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.



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