Volume 029-2 - April 1975 (6 pages)

ital should remain permanently in Sacramento. It had been moved a number of times and there had been talk of moving it again. After serving as attorney general he went to San Francisco and joined the law firm of Foote, Aldrich and Lee. In less than a year he married the senior partner’s daughter Annie Elizabeth Foote and in 1855 returned to Nevada City where he built the Stewart Home on Zion Street (see photograph) and returned to practice with his former partner John Mc Connell, WM. MORRIS STEWART HOME IN NEVADA CITY. From 1856 to 1859 the Stewarts lived in Downieville where he practiced law for the last time in California. In November 1859, Stewart joined the rush to the Comstock setting up a law office in Genoa then part of Carson County, Utah Territory. It was probably in Downieville that Stewart joined E Clampus Vitus and helped establish the Order in the soon to be formed state of Nevada. Briefly William Morris Stewart played a large role in forming Nevada as a State, locating the capital in Carson City, framing the state constitution, establishing the mining laws in the new state, helping settle many mining disputes, served in the United States Senate 1865-76 and again from 1887 to 1905, authored the 15th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, was a great champion for western mining and silver, 4. returned to practice law in the desert town of Rhyolite, Nye County, Nevada 1905-09. At the age of 81, William Morris Stewart became ill and went to the Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D.C. He failed to recover from . = operation and died there on April 23, 1908, ABOUT THE CHAPTER The William Bull Meek Chapter #10 Ancient and Honorable Order of F Clampus Vitus was ‘‘officially’? chartered in 1936. In 1939 it placeda plaque on the old fire house in North San Juan during the celebration of the arrival of electricity to the ridge con ty: This plaque has long-since disappe 4areG and a replacement may be forthcoming this year, The William Morris Stewart Chapter #8591, Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus was chartered in 1958 and placed its first plaque in 1960 at the Donner Cabin site at Alder Creek near Truckee. Joining in the dedication were the Nevada County Historical Society,, Tahoe National Forest and other civic groups. The two chapters combined in 1962 to become the Wm. Bull Meek-Wm. Morris Stewart Chapter #10,ECV, Nevada City and have since placed more than a score of bronze tablets throughout the western half of the county commemorating historic spots and events. Twice they have joined forces with the Department of Parks and Recreation, State of California in marking important places (Bridgeport Covered Bridge and the Malakoff Diggins). The chapter was a leader in establishing the Malakoff Diggins as a State Historic Park and has played a large role inthe restoration of North Bloomfield. For these and many other unselfish activities, the Society will honor the Chapter at it’s annual Awards Dinner on May 10 with a citation for their work in historical restoration and preservation. oe CLAMPER SQUARE, NEVADA Sone DEDICATED BY CITY COUNCIL IN APPRECIATION OF WORK DONE BY LOCAL CLAMPERS. ‘0 000 R08 UR m0 RR Ree E CLAMPUS VITUS HOW AND WHY IT CAME TOCALIFORNIA INCLUDING SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF NEVADA CITY‘S PATRON CLAMPERS AND BRIEF EPISODES IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE WM. BULL MEEK WM. MORRIS STEWART CHAPTER #10, E.C.V. By Robert M. Wyckoff, X-NGH His name was Joseph Zumwalt and he came on horseback from Missouri across the plains and mountains to the California gold diggin’s. Zumwalt was ashort man of medium build with a ruddy complexion. He wore a high black silk hat which added to his height. The hat was dirty and crumpled at the crown butit was nevertheless silk. He wore it with a dignity befitting royalty because he was ‘‘royalty.’? His suntanned face and straight razor had not clashed for months. The rest of his clothes identified him as a gold miner; a faded red flannel shirt, open at theneck, revealeda mass of curly black hair while around his waist a length of cotton rope held his coarse denim trousers a few inches above a pair of well-worn leather boots. The silk hat was no accident; it was a badge of office, so was the eight-foot pine staff topped by a golden phallic symbol which he gripped tightly in his right hand. The year was 1850 andJoe Zumwalt was the Noble Grand Humbug of Mokelumne Hill Lodge #1001, Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, the most fantastic fraternal spoof that ever proposed a toast or performed a good deed. His lodge hall, known as the Hall of Comparative Ovations, was a rocky piece of ground in the canyon of the Mokelumne River in the gold rich Sierra Nevada foothills of Calaveras County in California’s Mother Lode. Standing in a semi-circle facing their Humbug were some twenty or so active members of the boisterous bro5.

ital should remain permanently in Sacramento. It had been moved a number of times and there had been talk of moving it again. After serving as attorney general he went to San Francisco and joined the law firm of Foote, Aldrich and Lee. In less than a year he married the senior partner’s daughter Annie Elizabeth Foote and in 1855 returned to Nevada City where he built the Stewart Home on Zion Street (see photograph) and returned to practice with his former partner John Mc Connell, WM. MORRIS STEWART HOME IN NEVADA CITY. From 1856 to 1859 the Stewarts lived in Downieville where he practiced law for the last time in California. In November 1859, Stewart joined the rush to the Comstock setting up a law office in Genoa then part of Carson County, Utah Territory. It was probably in Downieville that Stewart joined E Clampus Vitus and helped establish the Order in the soon to be formed state of Nevada. Briefly William Morris Stewart played a large role in forming Nevada as a State, locating the capital in Carson City, framing the state constitution, establishing the mining laws in the new state, helping settle many mining disputes, served in the United States Senate 1865-76 and again from 1887 to 1905, authored the 15th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, was a great champion for western mining and silver, 4. returned to practice law in the desert town of Rhyolite, Nye County, Nevada 1905-09. At the age of 81, William Morris Stewart became ill and went to the Georgetown Hospital in Washington, D.C. He failed to recover from . = operation and died there on April 23, 1908, ABOUT THE CHAPTER The William Bull Meek Chapter #10 Ancient and Honorable Order of F Clampus Vitus was ‘‘officially’? chartered in 1936. In 1939 it placeda plaque on the old fire house in North San Juan during the celebration of the arrival of electricity to the ridge con ty: This plaque has long-since disappe 4areG and a replacement may be forthcoming this year, The William Morris Stewart Chapter #8591, Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus was chartered in 1958 and placed its first plaque in 1960 at the Donner Cabin site at Alder Creek near Truckee. Joining in the dedication were the Nevada County Historical Society,, Tahoe National Forest and other civic groups. The two chapters combined in 1962 to become the Wm. Bull Meek-Wm. Morris Stewart Chapter #10,ECV, Nevada City and have since placed more

than a score of bronze tablets throughout the western half of the county commemorating historic spots and events. Twice they have joined forces with the Department of Parks and Recreation, State of California in marking important places (Bridgeport Covered Bridge and the Malakoff Diggins). The chapter was a leader in establishing the Malakoff Diggins as a State Historic Park and has played a large role inthe restoration of North Bloomfield. For these and many other unselfish activities, the Society will honor the Chapter at it’s annual Awards Dinner on May 10 with a citation for their work in historical restoration and preservation. oe CLAMPER SQUARE, NEVADA Sone DEDICATED BY CITY COUNCIL IN APPRECIATION OF WORK DONE BY LOCAL CLAMPERS. ‘0 000 R08 UR m0 RR Ree E CLAMPUS VITUS HOW AND WHY IT CAME TOCALIFORNIA INCLUDING SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF NEVADA CITY‘S PATRON CLAMPERS AND BRIEF EPISODES IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE WM. BULL MEEK WM. MORRIS STEWART CHAPTER #10, E.C.V. By Robert M. Wyckoff, X-NGH His name was Joseph Zumwalt and he came on horseback from Missouri across the plains and mountains to the California gold diggin’s. Zumwalt was ashort man of medium build with a ruddy complexion. He wore a high black silk hat which added to his height. The hat was dirty and crumpled at the crown butit was nevertheless silk. He wore it with a dignity befitting royalty because he was ‘‘royalty.’? His suntanned face and straight razor had not clashed for months. The rest of his clothes identified him as a gold miner; a faded red flannel shirt, open at theneck, revealeda mass of curly black hair while around his waist a length of cotton rope held his coarse denim trousers a few inches above a pair of well-worn leather boots. The silk hat was no accident; it was a badge of office, so was the eight-foot pine staff topped by a golden phallic symbol which he gripped tightly in his right hand. The year was 1850 andJoe Zumwalt was the Noble Grand Humbug of Mokelumne Hill Lodge #1001, Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, the most fantastic fraternal spoof that ever proposed a toast or performed a good deed. His lodge hall, known as the Hall of Comparative Ovations, was a rocky piece of ground in the canyon of the Mokelumne River in the gold rich Sierra Nevada foothills of Calaveras County in California’s Mother Lode. Standing in a semi-circle facing their Humbug were some twenty or so active members of the boisterous bro5.