Fresno County Biographies

A. D. Ewing

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, January 2007

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	A. D. and D. S. Ewing, gentlemen well known throughout Fresno 
County, California are natives of Callaway County, Missouri. Their father, H. N. 
Ewing, is a farmer by occupation. He visited the gold mines of California in 
1852, but returned to Missouri and remained there until April, 1882, when he 
brought his family to this State and settled in Fresno. A. D. Ewing was educated 
in the common schools of Missouri, and graduated at Spaulding's Commercial 
College, Kansas City, in 1880. He then gave his attention to the hay and grain 
business in that city, continuing there about two years. He sold out in January, 
1888, and came to California, purchasing twenty acres of land in the Fresno 
Colony and devoting his time to cultivating it in fruit, vines, and alfalfa. In 
1887 he sold out, went to San Francisco and took a course of study in the 
Pacific Business College. Returning to Fresno, he accepted a deputyship under B. 
A. Hawkins, Superintendent of County Schools. In the fall of 1888, Mr. Ewing was 
elected County Tax Collector, assuming the duties of the office on January 1, 
1889. For two years he has performed the work of this office in a manner that 
has reflected much credit on himself. He was married at Kansas City June 2, 
1890, to Miss Mollie W. Mundy. Socially he is connected with the I.O.O.F., 
Fresno Lodge, No. 186. D. S. Ewing was educated in the ward schools of Missouri, 
and came to California with his parents in April, 1882. He remained on the ranch 
with them until 1888, when he entered the Pacific Business College of San 
Francisco and pursued a course of study. Returning to Fresno in the fall of that 
year, he was appointed Deputy City Tax Collector, and on January 1, 1889, he 
received the appointment of Deputy County Tax Collector by his brother A. D. 
Ewing. He is a member of Fresno Lodge, No. 409, I.O.G.T. The brothers have 
recently purchased a forty-acre ranch in the Nye-Marden Colony, near Fowler, 
which they are planting in vines.  

Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, 
Tulare, and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, pp.336-337.