Colonel George Bush Stevenson (August 10, 1830 – June 23, 1897), originally of Woodford county, Kentucky, was a successful farmer and businessman in California and, after 1881, in Texas.

[3] At St. Joseph the company purchased mules, having brought their wagons from Kentucky, laid in provisions, and about May 7, 1849, crossed the Missouri river and started on their long and difficult journey.

[4] In 1850, having accumulated some money, he settled in the Suisun Valley, Salano county, and engaged in farming and stockraising, in which he was also successful, but the State needed more stock.

[4] In 1853 Stevenson purchased a large flock of sheep about Jacksonville, Illinois, and hiring sufficient help he drove them across the plains to his valley farm in California.

[4] Stevenson was an energetic and adventurous man, stood about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, slim and straight, and was very successful in accumulating about him a considerable fortune.