Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

DESSEAU ARTHUR STEWART

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A rancher whose experience has enabled him to advance the cause of 
husbandry in Northern California, assisting others as well as progressing 
himself, is Desseau Arthur Stewart, of West Butte, a native son who first saw 
the light in Yuba County, at Brownsville, on March 13, 1860.  His father, Allen 
Desseau Stewart, was a native of Ohio, and was married in Ohio to Miss Mary 
Arthurs, a native of Belfast, Ireland, of Irish and Scotch ancestry.  She died 
when our subject was nine years old.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stewart 
crossed the plains in 1853, by slow-going ox-teams, and made their way to 
California.  They settled in Marysville, and later removed to Brownsville, where 
Mr. Stewart mined, and then ranched and raised stock.  In 1865 he moved back to 
Marysville, and there, on the site of the present Ellis Block on E Street, he 
conducted a livery