Solano-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Stewart, Charles 1850 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CHARLES STEWART, tanner at Benicia, has been a resident of this place since
1871, except five years in Napa, as a member of the firm of McBain & Co., and
sixteen months' ranching near Suisun. He was born at Rogers' Hill, Pictou
County, Nova Scotia, in 1850, where he learned his trade of an uncle. At the age
of nineteen years he came to California, after the opening of the overland
railroad, and located in Solano County. For the first sixteen months he worked
on a ranch near Suisun, and then returned to his trade at Benicia. Four years
afterward he went to Napa and purchased an interest in the tannery of McBain &
Co., where he continued about five years. In 1880 he sold out there and returned
to Benicia, and here he worked for eight years as head tanner for McKay &
Chisholm, and in March, 1888, in partnership with James W. McBain, he purchased
the establishment known as Brown's tannery. In the summer of 1890 he purchased
McBain's interest, and now enjoys a successful and increasing trade. On two
additional lots he has put up new buildings and introduced new appliances,
enabling himself, to do first-class work. His specialty is sole leather, and his
market is San Francisco. Mr. Stewart has by his own exertions, good management
and economy built up a position for himself among the manufactured interests of
California which is permanent. He is a member of Benicia Lodge, No. 94, A. O. U.
W., and of the Congregational Church since 1887, and totally abstains from the
use of tobacco and intoxicating liquors. He was married January 10, 1877, to
Miss Mary McPhail, a native of Ontario, Canada, and they have live children:
Margaret J., William, Janet A., John and Charles A. Margaret was born February
3, 1878; William, December 7, 1879; Janet Ann, March 3, 1882; John Logan,
September 8, 1884; and Charles A., March 5, 1887. Mr. Stewart's parents, William
and Jane (Logan) Stewart, are natives of Nova Scotia, of Scotch parentage, and
came to California, where they spent the remainder of their days; his father was
a farmer. Mrs. Stewart's parents, John and Margaret (McDonald) McPhail, were
natives of Canada, whose parents came there from the Highlands of Scotland.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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