California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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RICHARD STUART is a Scotchman who came to Southern California thirty years ago. first locating in 
Santa Barbara, After working on the S. P. Stow Ranch for a year, then for a year on Mr. Stock's Las 
Posas Rancho in Ventura County , and for three years on Harvey Wallbridge’s Ranch, he rented some 
land near Camarillo, and was a farmer there three years. Removing to Bardsdale in the Santa Clara 
Valley he and his brother Archibald bought sixteen acres, and soon afterwards divided it. From the 
nucleus of eight acres which he thus owned Richard Stuart developed one of the finest farms and fruit 
ranches in that section and now owns fifty-seven acres in Bardsdale. Forty-six acres are planted in 
lemons, oranges, walnuts and apricots and the rest in beans. He is also owner of 120 acres near 
Milford, Utah.
 
Mr. Stuart is an active member of the Fillmore Citrus Fruit Association, of the Santa Paula Walnut 
Growers Association, and the Ventura County Cured Fruit Association. Politically he is a republican and 
is a member of the Methodist Church.
 
He was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, December 17, 1869, a son of Dr. Charles and Georgina Stuart. In 
his native district of Scotland he attended public schools until thirteen and continued his education in 
George Watson's College for Boys at Edinburg until he was sixteen. After that he worked on several 
farms in Berwickshire until he came to America in 1887 and located in Santa Barbara.
 
At Santa Cruz, California, in February, 1892, he married Mary Evans. Mrs. Stuart is a native of Santa 
Cruz, California, and a daughter of William Evans, one of the early settlers of Santa Cruz County. During 
his life, William Evans was prominent in the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart are the parents of 
three children. Charles William, aged twenty-one, is associated with his father on the ranch. Arthur 
and Evelyn, twins, are now seventeen years of age, and the former is one of the workers on his 
father's ranch, while Evelyn is attending high school.