Arthur Stayner (29 March 1835 – 4 September 1899) was an English horticulturist who emigrated to the United States and became important in the founding of the sugar beet industry in Utah.
The first entrepreneurs to try to make sugar from beets in Utah were the Mormon pioneers in the early 1850s, who used machinery shipped from Liverpool, England, but their attempts to produce granulated sugar failed because they could not overcome the problems created by growing beets in alkali soils.
In 1887, he produced the first 7,000 pounds of commercial sugar in Utah and received a $5000 award from the legislature.
This company was ultimately instrumental in building a $400,000 beet sugar factory constructed by E. H. Dyer in 1891 at Lehi.
Although a physician considered amputation of his limb, the infection had permeated his body, and it was too late to save him.