History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . e removed to Helena, Mont., where he maintained a law office for another sixyears. He was a member of the legislature in Nevada, and also Montana, and in thelatter state he was the speaker of the house. He was a well-posted lawyer and had alarge clientele. Then he moved back to Carson City, and later on went to San Diego,where he opened a law office and practiced there until he went to
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . e removed to Helena, Mont., where he maintained a law office for another sixyears. He was a member of the legislature in Nevada, and also Montana, and in thelatter state he was the speaker of the house. He was a well-posted lawyer and had alarge clientele. Then he moved back to Carson City, and later on went to San Diego,where he opened a law office and practiced there until he went to Washington andsettled at Seattle, and there he died at the age of eighty. He was born at PaintedPost, Steuben County, N. Y., and was married in Indiana to Miss Sarah Barnhart,a native of Pennsylvania, who died in Carson City, Nev., at the age of sixty-nineyears. They had six children, O. A. Stewart being the third in the order of birth,five of whom are still living. O. A. Stewart attended the public schools in Carson City, Nev., where hegrew up, fortunate in being in that town when the great Comstock Lode was 1870 he went to San Diego, Cal, at the beginning of that city, and having studied. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 493 law in his fathers office, he was admitted to the bar in San Diego County. Henever practiced law there, however, but for a number of years taught school in thatcounty, at Encinitas, San Luis Rey. Julian and Temecula. While at Encinitas hemet Miss Florence Ada Foss, the acquaintance being continued while teaching at SanLuis Rey, ripened into love and resulted in their marriage at San Diego on Febru-ary 3. 1874. She was a native of Jackson, Maine, but came to California with herparents, David R. and Rebecca A. (Libby) Foss in 1861 via the Isthmus of engaging in dairying in Marin County, and later he was in business in SanFrancisco. In 1869 they came to San Diego County where he farmed, residing thereuntil his death in 1886 at the age of
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