"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chicago:
Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1410.
 
ANDREW J. ZUMWALT

     Faithful to his early training, Andrew J. Zumwalt has followed throughout
his entire life the work which he learned under the instruction of his father,
earning his livelihood in the pursuit of farming and at the same time dispensing
the benefits of whatever talents wherewith he has been blessed. He has never
shirked any public or private duty, but has earnestly endeavored to make himself
a worthy and useful citizen of the state to which he came in early manhood.
     As one of a family of eleven children, Andrew J. Zumwalt was born in St.
Charles county, Mo., September 2, 1832, and a part of the experiences of boyhood
was an attendance at the little log school-house in, the neighborhood of his
home until he gained a fair education. In the spring of 1850, in company with
his father, Solomon, his mother, Nancy, and the remainder of the children, he
crossed the plains with two wagons and four yoke of oxen to each, eight head of
loose stock and three horses. By fall they had reached Salt Lake City, Utah, and
they there spent the winter, March 9, of the following year continuing the
journey into Oregon, where, in Benton county, the father took up a donation
claim, where he remained a year.  In 1852 he came into Lane county, and located
two miles west of Eugene, where he lived until 1872, when he moved to a farm of
four hundred and fifty acres, on the Mohawk, where he died in 1888, at the age
of eighty-one years. Andrew J. Zumwalt also took up a donation claim in 1852,
one of one hundred and sixty acres located two and a half miles west of Eugene,
and this remained his home until 1859. In the last-named year he removed to
Eugene and spent the ensuing two years there, when he purchased in the
neighborhood of Irving a farm of a hundred and sixty acres upon which he lived
until 1872. He then moved upon the farm which he now occupies and which consists
of four hundred acres, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising, being
particularly interested in the latter business in Shorthorns. He also owns one
hundred and twenty acres near Irving, fifty acres in the Mohawk valley, and one
hundred and sixty acres at Oakesdale, Wash.
     Mr. Zumwalt was first married in February 1855, to Miss Margaret Walker,
and seven children were born to them, namely: Albert M.; Samantha J.; Mary A.;
John W.; E. W.; Alfred, who is deceased; and one who died in infancy. The wife
died November 7, 1873, and Mr. Zumwalt married in April, 1875, Miss Missouri
Brown, and their four children are named in order of birth as follows: May,
Louisa, Paul and Lynn. In politics Mr, Zumwalt has been prominent and took an
active part in the advancement of the Republican principles which he heartily
endorsed, but of late years has been independent. He has held various minor
offices in his community, among them being constable and justice of the peace,
and in 1880 he was chosen to represent his party in the state legislature, where
he acquitted himself ably and honorably.  Fraternally he is a member of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, and he also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Irving.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2009 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.