Contra Costa-San Joaquin-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Stewart, William B. 1832 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILLIAM B. STEWART.—The subject of this sketch, was born in Jackson county, West
Virginia, November 13, 1832, and is the son of William and Mary (Board) Stewart.
There he was educated in the common schools, after which he followed farming
until April 1, 1852, when he proceeded to New York, and sailed from there for
California, via the Isthmus of Panama, arriving in San Francisco in the first
part of May. After a few days he went to Stockton and found employment with Tom
Marshall on a farm, where he remained until the Fall. He then went to
Springfield, Tuolumne county, where he engaged in mining for two years and a
half. Mr. Stewart was one of a company that found the Table Mountain mining
district, and was afterwards one of the original owners of the Consolidated
Virginia mines, which he continued until the year 1859. In the following year he
came to Contra Costa county, and first located where the town of Somersville now
stands. He was next engaged as an expert to examine the Pittsburg mine, located
by Ezra C. Clark, Allen & Lander, and afterwards was superintendent for about
two years. In the meantime he crossed the hills and bought the Stewart mine,
located at the present town of Stewartsville, and which is now known as the
Central mine. Mr. Stewart worked the mine until 1876, when it remained idle
until 1881, when, in February of that year, he disposed of it to the present
owners. Since then our subject has not engaged in mining operations, although he
is an owner of considerable mining property adjoining the town of Stewartsville.

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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