Colusa
County
Biographies
IVY G. ZUMWALT
I. G. Zumwalt
is one of California’s native sons, his birth having occurred in Colusa County,
which is still his home, on the 24th of January, 1872. His father, John R. Zumwalt, was born in
Illinois, on January 27, 1826, and in 1870 came to California, where he spent
the remainder of his life. He was
educated for the practice of medicine but abandoned this profession on account
of ill health, and for a number of years engaged in the manufacture of wagons,
but spent the last years of his active business career as a farmer. His wife, Sarah Phebe Zumwalt, was born in
Pike County, Missouri, on February 20, 1842, and is still living in Colusa.
The enterprising
lawyer of whom we write spent the first sixteen years of his life on a farm,
and acquired a good education to prepare him for the responsible duties which
daily come to one who is in business life.
He was for two years a student in the high school in Colusa, graduating
in 1890, after which he entered Pierce’s Christian College, and on leaving that
institution, in May, 1892, he took up the study of law, under U. W. Brown, in
Colusa. In 1894 he was admitted to the
bar. He has since been engaged in active
practice, and his advancement toward the front rank of the legal profession has
been continuous and rapid, until now he has one of the largest criminal and
civil practices in the northern part of the state of California. In 1898 he was elected district attorney and
is now capably filling that office. He
is well versed in the principles of jurisprudence, and, having a good command
of language, his arguments are forceful, logical and convincing.
In the last few years, aside from his
reputation as a lawyer, he has become noted as a businessman of keen foresight
and sterling worth. He is now secretary
and a director of Cook’s Springs Mineral Water Company, one of the largest
mineral water companies in the state of California, which bottles and ships
natural mineral water from this famous resort all over the Pacific coast.
Mr. Zumwalt is an ardent Democrat and
has, during the last two presidential campaigns, made numerous speeches in
behalf of the leaders of his party. He
belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his people are members. He is a favorite in social circles, being one
of the popular residents of Colusa, where he enjoys the friendship of many of
the best people of the locality.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 85-86. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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