Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Zimmerman, Marcia E. 1857 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

MRS. MARCIA E. ZIMMERMAN

    The ability of women to carry forward important undertakings in agriculture
or business has been recognized for so many recent years that proofs of the fact
are unnecessary, but were further evidence called for the same could be found in
the successful activities of Mrs. Zimmerman, who subsequent to the death of her
father and of her husband assumed the management of large landed interests and
has superintended them with recognized skill. More recently she has given over
to the charge of her only son a valuable property south of Cache creek,
comprising three hundred and twenty acres, and also an improved and valuable
ranch consisting of two hundred and seventy acres, both of which formed a part
of the original Woodard estate.

    The name of Woodard is intimately associated with the pioneer era of Yolo
county, for as early as 1854 George W. Woodard came to this then undeveloped
region and cognizant of its possibilities, decided to cast his fortunes with
those of the county. He was a native of Vermont and in early life had migrated
as far west as Michigan, settling in Berrien county, where later he married Miss
Lauretta Bryant, a native of New York state. For a time he followed his trade as
wagon-maker in Michigan, but as previously stated, in 1854 he came to the west
and settled at Yolo, then called Cacheville, where he put up a large building
and started a hotel. During 1856 he was joined by his family and in 1857 his
wife died at their new home in the west. During the early period of his
residence in the county he had acquired the title to one hundred and sixty acres
a mile and a half west of Yolo, and in 1858 he began the improvements. This
property is now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Zimmerman. At different times he
owned other lands. One of his specialties was the raising, buying and selling of
horses, carrying on an extensive business in this line. When he died, in
December, 1894, he was survived by his second wife, formerly Miss Mary Bemmerly,
and by Mrs. Zimmerman.

    After having completed her education and graduated from Mills Seminary, Miss
Marcia E. Woodard returned to the parental home in Yolo county and there in 1873
became the bride of Dr. George W. Zimmerman, who was born in West Virginia near
the historic site of Harper's Ferry. Given fair classical advantages in eastern
schools, he later entered a medical college and pursued the regular course of
study, graduating with high standing. Later he took a post-graduate course in
some of his specialties. For a brief period he engaged in practice in Yolo
county, but in 1874 he returned as far east as Indiana, where he engaged in
professional work for ten years. Upon disposing of his interests in Indiana he
returned to California and embarked in the drug business at Woodland, where he
continued as proprietor of a store for twenty years. He was a man of scholarly
attainments, very fond of his profession, and at all times and under all
circumstances stood for what was just and right. His last days were spent at
Woodland and here he died in January of 1906. Surviving him are his widow and
two children, Laura and George D. The son, a successful rancher and
superintendent of his mother's ranches near Yolo, is married and has one son,
Leroy Zimmerman. Laura is the wife of I. Leroy Brownell, of Glenn county, and
they have a daughter bearing the name Phebe Brownell, which for seven
generations has been borne by some member of the family.

    Possessing versatile mental activities, Mrs. Zimmerman has not limited her
energies to the management of her financial and landed interests. In addition
she has been among the most prominent workers in the Woodland Congregational
Church and officiated with resourcefulness and tact as president of the Young
Women's Christian Temperance Union and is superintendent of the Sunday School.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union has enjoyed the benefit of her warm
co-operation and firm espousal of the temperance cause. For a number of years
she has been an influential member of the lodge of Rebekahs in Woodland and has
contributed to the usefulness and social successes of that organization. In her
own private circle of friends she is respected and admired for the energy of
will, determination of character, dignity of demeanor and kindness of heart that
are among her most conspicuous traits of temperament.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]




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