Sutter
County
Biographies
LOYD E. HEWITT
Loyd
E. Hewitt, who is recognized as one of the able and forceful members of the
Sutter County Bar, is also one of the community’s progressive and influential
citizens. He was born in Yuba City, on
the 8th of December, 1898, and is a son of the late Judge A. H. and
Marietta (Metteer) Hewitt. His father,
for many years a prominent lawyer at Yuba City, was a native of Vermont and
came to California in young manhood. He
served in the state legislature, and was speaker of the house during the
session of 1911. He died at the age of
seventy-one years. His widow, who passed
away December 8, 1930, was a daughter of the late Charles and Mary J. Metteer,
who were numbered among the pioneer settlers of Live Oak, Sutter County.
Of
the four living children of Judge and Mrs. Hewitt, two sons and two daughters,
Loyd E. is the youngest. He attended the
grammar school of Yuba City and the high school of Marysville, graduating from
the latter in 1917. He then entered the
Hastings College of Law of the University of California, in which he took a
six-year course, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1923. He successfully passed the state bar
examination, was admitted to practice, and returned to Yuba City, where he
entered upon the work of his profession Independently, though sharing his
father’s office. During the past seven
years he has forged to the front as a capable and successful practitioner in
both civil and criminal law and is closely devoted to his profession.
On
August 25, 1924, in Oakland, California, Mr. Hewitt was united in marriage to
Miss Helen McArthur, of Oakland, whose grandfather, Captain McArthur, commanded
the whaleback passenger steamer “Christopher Columbus” on the Great Lakes
during the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt are the parents of a son,
Daniel Loyd.
Politically,
Mr. Hewitt has always supported the Republican Party, in the councils of which
he has been prominent, being a member of both the county and state central
committees. He belongs to the Free and
Accepted Masons, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the American
Legion, of which he was formerly a member of the state executive
committee. He is also a member of the
Bachelorden Club, of Berkeley, and the Kiwanis Club, and a life member of the
University of California Alumni Association.
He is fond of the game of golf, as well as of motoring and fishing, and
spends as much times as possible in the open.
While at the University of California he won recognition as a football
player under the great coach, Andy Smith, and played on the varsity teams of
1917, 1918 and 1919, playing the position of right tackle in 1918, when his
team won the inter-collegiate coast championship. Mr. Hewitt is a veteran of the World War,
having enlisted in the naval aviation service.
He was in the officers training school at
Berkeley, and was in line for a commission as ensign, but the Armistice was
signed before his commission was issued.
Loyal and true in citizenship and an able and successful lawyer, he is
numbered among Yuba City’s prominent and worthy men.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 69-70. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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