Background
Reginald R. Stuart (1882-1975) was a California realtor, teacher, historian, book
collector and author. From 1956 until 1965 he was Director of the California History
Foundation and the Center for Western Studies at the University of the Pacific. He
published How Firm a Foundation; a centennial history of the First Methodist Church, San
Leandro, California (1953), A History of the Fred Finch Children's Home, oldest Methodist
home for children in California (1955), Tully Knoles of Pacific (1956), Calvin B. West of
the Umpqua (1961), and Corridor Country: An Interpretive History of the Amador-Livermore
Valley (1966).