Monterey-Marin-Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Stedman, S. W. 1841 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

S. W. STEDMAN, the subject of this sketch, was born fifty-two years ago, in
Cortland, New York, from New England stock. He came to California in the year
1858, and first settled in Marin county, where he engaged in dairying. From
there he went to Contra Costa county, where he followed stock-raising and
butchering; thence to Solano county, where he engaged in butchering and
merchandising; thence, in 1869, to his present place of residence, Quinado
Cation, about six miles from Kings City, Monterey county. Here he has engaged in
various pursuits, keeping a feed yard and boarding-house, and doing a blacksmith
business, and drifting eventually to farming and stock-raising, in which he has
been eminently successful. The soil in this vicinity is especially adapted for
grain culture and fruit, and the wheat he raises is classed as A No. 1 Milling.
He owns 760 acres of land, but farms several hundred acres more belonging to
other parties.

  Mr. Stedman married Miss Griselda A. Bradley, of Sebastopol, Sonoma county,
California, October 21, 1873. The result of this union is five sons and one
daughter, namely: Alvirus, born in 1874; Maud, 1876; Albert C, 1878; Walter
Scott, 1881; Kay Bradley, 1886; and Jack, 1890.

  Mr. Stedman has held the office of Clerk of the Board of School Trustees, and
Justice of the Peace for many years. In the year 1879 he was nominated for
Sheriff on the New Constitution ticket. The ticket, being a side issue, was
defeated.

  He is a cousin of H. D. Coggswell, of San Francisco, James P. Coggswell, of
Oakland, and William Coggswell, the artist and owner of the celebrated
Madraville mines. Personally, Mr. Stedman is large, muscular, of good presence,
and stands high for his integrity in the community in which he lives.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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