Samuel Heywood (Berkeley)

Samuel Heywood (November 16, 1833-May 9, 1903) was a prominent early resident of Berkeley, California. Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published Year 1833 ( MDCCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. He served as the President of the Town Board of Trustees during 1889-1890.

Samuel Heywood was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick in Canada. St Stephen (2001 pop 4667 is a Canadian town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page His parents were Zimri Brewer Heywood and Hannah Cooper. The Heywood family came to California in the 1850s, settling on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in an area which became the unincorporated town of Ocean View, and later, West Berkeley. San Francisco Bay is a shallow productive Estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento West Berkeley is generally the area of Berkeley California which lies west of San Pablo Avenue, abutting San Francisco Bay. Zimri established a lumberyard at a small pier at what is now the foot of Delaware Street sometime during the 1850s. He joined with the original builder of the pier, sea captain James H. Jacobs, to improve and enlarge it into a full-fledged freight wharf, thenceforth called the Jacobs and Heywood Wharf. A wharf is a landing place or Pier where ships may tie up and load or unload

Samuel Heywood married Emma Francis Dingley May 4, 1874. They had four children: Amy H. (b. September, 1876), Henrietta (b. April, 1879), Gertrude B. (b. April, 1880), and Charles Dingley (b. May 5, 1881). His son Charles served as Mayor of the City of Berkeley from 1913 to 1915. Charles Dingley Heywood (1881-1957 was a member of a family prominent in the early history of Berkeley California.

Samuel died in Berkeley in 1903. His wife died on September 30, 1915.

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