Sacramento County
Biographies
SAMUEL S. HAYWOOD
SAMUEL S. HAYWOOD.--A very experienced
and enterprising fruit-rancher who has always sought to operate in the most
scientific manner, and has therefore obtained results such as may be accepted
as a standard of the progress hereabouts in California husbandry, from year to
year, is Samuel S. Haywood, now residing on Pecan Avenue, in Orangevale. He owns some ten acres of fruit-orchard, in a
beautifully laid out home-place, eighteen miles from the state capital. He was born at Springfield,
Vt., on September 12, 1859, the only child
of Charles H. and the late Ellen (Stimson) Haywood, whose interesting lives are
elsewhere sketched in this historical work; and he was reared on his father’s
hillside ranch, while he attended the local schools. His education included good courses at the Springfield
high school, where he further prepared himself for the duties of life.
In the spring of
1884, Samuel S. Haywood was married to Miss Carrie M. Woodward, the ceremony
taking place at Saxton River. She was born in Springfield
on May 27, 1860, the daughter of George and Susan (Allbee) Woodward, natives of
Rockingham, Vt. He then took up actively both stock-raising
and dairying, in Vermont, and continued there in that
field until the fall of 1886, when they
moved to western Nebraska and settled near Cambridge. There he took a ranch of 640 acres which he
developed into land burdened with alfalfa and grain crops, and he engaged in
cattle – and hog-raising on the bottom lands of the Republican River. Three years later, his father removed to Nebraska,
taking with him some of the choice harness horses, thereby creating the
foundation of harness-horse stock in Nebraska. He owned a number of notable horses, but
“Clegg Right” was perhaps the record-holder, doing the mile in 2:30. The Haywood ranch was known far and wide for
its reliability in horse-dealing, and it was natural that our subject and his
parents should take an active part in all state and county fairs.
Early in 1901,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Haywood made a tour to and along the Pacific
Coast, and eight years later, Samuel Haywood
made a thirty day visit to the Golden
State. They were all so well pleased and stimulated
by what they saw here that in 1913 they moved out to California, the old folks
to retire in a comfortable home, and our subject to enlarge his field of
activity. He and his wife became strong
devotees of California; one result of which has been
that, although they are still deeply interested in both Nebraska
and Vermont, they expect never to
return there to live. Having acquired
their property here in March, 1913, they made the necessary improvements,
remodeling their home and adding to its comfort and beauty. A Republican in matters of national political
moment, Mr. Haywood is a popular past noble grand of lodge No. 132, I. O. O. F.,
at Cambridge.
Transcribed
by Patricia Seabolt.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 543. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Patricia Seabolt.