JAMES
C. ZUCK
President of the Gilroy Bank
Bio- Pen
Pictures
SURNAMES: LINTON, HEADEN, DORLAND
was
born in Caledonia,
Marion County, Ohio, January 14, 1844. His parents were David and Maria Louisa (Linton) Zuck.
David Zuck was of Pennsylvania ancestry, and a native of Ohio. He
came to California in 1849, making the trip overland. For a time
he worked in the mines, but in the early part of 1851 gave up
mining. He then located a farm on the Honcut, about fourteen
miles from Marysville. In the fall of the same year he returned
to Ohio, and the next year brought his family to California across the
plains, and was four months making the trip. He went upon his
farm, near Marysville, and remained there until the fall of 1863, when
he removed to Gilroy with his family, and located on the San Ysidro
Rancho, where he yet resides. His wife died in 1881.
James C. was
eight years of age when his father brought him to California, and but
nine years old when he came to Santa Clara County. He was
educated at the University of the Pacific, where he took a classical
course and graduated in the class of 1867, and three years later the
degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by the same
institution. He at once began the study of law, reading at first
in San Jose and afterward at Gilroy, and was admitted to the bar by
Judge S. B. McKee, of the Third District Court, at San Jose. He
thereupon began the practice of his profession, and was soon afterward
joined by W. L. Hoover, with whom he was associated until the latter’s
decease. At that time three was quite a large Bar at
Gilroy. A short time before Mr. Hoover’s death, Mr. Zuck was
elected President of the Gilroy Bank, and thereupon gave up his
practice and devoted his time to the business of the bank exclusively
(which he had helped to incorporate) for five years, and retired from
that institution January 1, 1879.
In September, 1879, he was elected State Senator from Santa Clara
County, on the Republican ticket, and served in the regular sessions of
1880 and 1881. The session of 1880 was the first after the adoption of
the new Constitution. He was Chairman of the Committee on
Contingent Expenses at both sessions, and Chairman of the Committee on
Labor and Capital, and a member of the Committees on Claims, County and
Township Governments, Elections, City, City and County, Town
Governments, and Apportionment. He introduced the bill for the
quieting of the title of the Los Animas Rancho, which had to be
introduced as a general measure, and was so put through and passed, and
now stands as a component part of the law of partition on the statute
books of the State of California. He also took an active part in
the “debris Legislature,” being opposed to it. Before the
expiration of his Senatorial term he resigned to accept an appointment
as Consul at Tien Tsin, in China, where he remained about two and a
half years, returning home in November, 1883, and taking charge of his
father’s ranch, where he still resides. In March, 1886, he formed
a real-estate partnership in Gilroy with George T. Dunlap.
He was married to Mary L., daughter of Dr.
Headen, of Santa Clara. She died in 1873. His present
wife is Jennie P., daughter of J. J. Dorland. Mr. Zuck is a
member of the Methodist Church of Gilroy, and President of its Board of
Trustees, and is also a member of the A.O.U.W.
Pen Pictures From The Garden
of the World or
Santa Clara County,
California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1888. p. 341
Transcribed by Kathy
Sedler
Transcribers notes:
Marriage license is onfile at the San Jose Historical Museum-
http://www.historysanjose.org/research/index.html
Subject:
ZUCK, JAMES C.
Title: Marriage
License File
Author:
Location: San Jose Historical
Museum
Call #:
Source: Source Date:
2/26/1868
Volume: Page:
Note: Bride: HEADEN, MARY L.
Buried at Gavalan Hills Cemetery---Gilroy, California
James Clay
Zuck b. Caledonia, OH
Jan. 14, 1844 - Aug. 24, 1913
GILROY
SANTA
CLARA COUNTY BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
SANTA CLARA
COUNTY HISTORY