Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES
H. HAYWOOD
CHARLES
H. HAYWOOD.--A rancher well known to have long borne the burden and the
heat of the day is Charles H. Haywood, whose many friends rejoice that he is
now able to live in well-earned, comfortable retirement. He was one of the most practical of California
agriculturists, from youth very fond of the harness horse, on which he has
become one of the best authorities in America.
A
native of Vermont, he was born at Springfield
on December 15, 1832, the youngest son of the late Paul and Lucy (Martin)
Haywood, both born in Vermont; and he was reared in his
native state on a stony hillside farm near the old Crown
Point road. He
received a good public school education, and married Miss Ellen Stimson of Vermont,
by whom he had one child, S. S. Haywood.
The family continued to farm, our subject owning his ranch and raising
sheep and wool on an extensive scale. He
also later had a fine dairy near Springfield.
In
1877 he bought his first harness horses, from the Morgan horse stable in Vermont. For many years, in both Vermont
and Nebraska, father and son were
closely associated in their business dealings.
They never trotted these horses, their interest being solely in the
rearing of them, and choice blooded stock.
The natural result followed, that our subject became an authority on
harness horses, and was conceded to be in his day the authority in Nebraska,
and widely known as the man who developed the splendid strain of western Nebraska
horses.
Mr.
and Mrs. Haywood had long desired to live in the Golden
State, but it was not until 1913 that they took
up their residence at Orangevale, where they were
permitted to live just two happy years before Mrs. Haywood passed away. She was deeply mourned, as she had been
widely esteemed and loved, and her devoted son took her ashes to Vermont
for pious burial in her native state.
Mr. Haywood continues to enjoy the helpful climate and the unique
pleasure of picking oranges off his own trees at the age of ninety, passing his
days quietly in the home circle of his son, who cares for his father as only a
son can do. Known as a man of sterling
worth, and of inflexible, high principles, he is a typical down-East Yankee,
always welcome among the Masons, with whom he has been affiliated since 1872.
Transcribed by Barbara Gaffney.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 704.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles,
CA. 1923.
© 2007 Barbara Gaffney.