Sacramento County
Biographies
EDWARD R. ZEIGERST
E.R. ZEIGERST.--An expert plasterer, thoroughly familiar with the latest methods in modern construction, who has been in growing demand as a contractor, is E. R. Zeigerst, a native of New York, where he was born on March 1, 1870, the son of Joseph and Hattie Zeigerst, worthy folks who are now deceased. They belonged to the good, old-fashioned school, and prided themselves on their relations as citizens, neighbors and friends; and while ordinarily most people do not fare as well, it may safely be said of them that they did not have an enemy, were esteemed in their day, and mourned when they were gone.
E. R. Zeigerst attended the ordinary primary and the secondary schools, and then, when ready to go to college, matriculated at the famous University of Pennsylvania, after which he took up mechanical engineering as a profession, and worked at that in various states. He set before himself, when a young man, the practical ideal of always doing whatever he undertook as well as he could, regardless of the immediate financial or other results; and with such an ideal as that, he was sure to win out. When he was ready to move westward, he had a valuable equipment of professional accomplishments, experiences, connections and references, and was unafraid of the exacting life among a new and ambitious people. He has mastered more than one specialty in building.
In 1904, Mr. Zeigerst came out to California, and for some years he settled in and around Los Angeles, where he added to his experience. In 1917, however, he moved north to Sacramento, and established himself at the capital as a contractor of the sort that the center of government needed. He confined himself first largely to homes, although he is now engaged in the full line of plastering, with many of the largest buildings of recent construction; and he is kept in such demand by an appreciative public, that he is able to employ regularly about fourteen men. He belongs to the Builders' Exchange, and believes in the platforms of the Republican party as best for trade. He never loses an opportunity to say a good word, or do a good deed, for the benefit of the section in which he lives, operates and prospers; and it is not surprising that in many ways the people of Sacramento and vicinity have proved his stanch patrons.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 825-826. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.