Samuel Heywood (November 16, 1833 – May 9, 1903) was an American politician and prominent early resident of Berkeley, California.
Samuel Heywood was born on November 16, 1833, in St. Stephen, New Brunswick in Canada.
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.
Zimri established a lumber yard at a small pier at what is now the foot of Delaware Street in 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 Heywood and Jacobs Wharf.