Irvine E. Stewart papers, 1915-1956

Irvine E. Stewart was a petroleum geologist in the mid twentieth century in the United States. He worked as a consultant and spent the majority of his time doing field work in Wyoming and Montana. He traveled throughout the Western United States advising clients and giving geological reports on issues related to oil exploration and production. He was a graduate of the University of Chicago, ca. 1920, and in the 1930s he was a consultant for Peninsula Oil and Gas, based in Seattle, Washington. He owned stock in Geo-Frequenta Corporation, an oil exploration company established in 1936, and was its first treasurer. Stewart corresponded with many administrators of oil companies, oil investors, lease holders and other petroleum geologists. He kept notes on many of the oil and gas wells throughout Wyoming, Montana and the Western United States. Stewart made his home in Glendale, California.