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AMES SPIERS, who ranks among his contemporaries as one of the most dis- tinguished mechanical engineers of the Pacitic coast, and is one of San Francisco's most successful business men, is a native of the land of Walter Scott and •'Bobby" Burns, and embodies in bis composition the strength and elasticity of liber, the intellect- ual breadth and equipoise, and the sturdy manhood for which the representative sons of Scotland are famous. He sprang from Prot- estant ancestors, his father's people belong- ing to the Armenian school of religious belief, and noted as thinkers, while his mother's family were of the Calvinistic Pres- byterian faith.
He was born on a farm in Renfrewshire, he and one sister, who resides in Scotland, being the only children. Endowed with a genius for mechanics, young Spiers resolved in early boyhood to learn a trade and bent all his energies to that end. At twelve years of age he left scliool, and, improving every op- portunity to learn the use of tools, before he was fifteen years old he could cut all the the stone tor the jams, tire-places, lintels etc., of a cottage his father was building. This house is still standing, and on one of its iams are carved the initials '^J. S. 1851,"
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There seeming to be no opening accessible to him in his favorite trade, that of machin- ist, near his paternal home, he went to Liver- pool and spent a year and^a half as clerk in a book-store. Taking advantage of the oppor- tunities thus afforded for reading and study, he learned much about the Western World, and became infatuated with the idea of com- ing to America. Upon learning of this desire of the young adventurer, his father sent him a j»eremptory order to come home. Young James next obtained employment as clerk in in mill near the homestead, which position, however, he terminated nine months later by the financial failure of the firm. After work- ing a few months for a ship and forwarding agency in Glasgow — still determined to go to a trade — he sailed, unknown to his parents, for Calais, France, arriving there just in time to witness the emperor review the troops on their leaving for the Crimean war.
Meeting with, no opening to enter upon a steady trade, and with the thought that he might become a captain, he shipped on board the schooner ''Tidy," of Yarmouth, engaored in the coasting trade, where he had a few months' experience in seafaring life. Finding
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it distasteful, he yielded to the advice of friends and returned to Glasgow, and there with some difficulty secured work in a small millwright shop, of which John Oaig was proprietor, at a salary of three shillings per week. Thus was taken the iirst step toward gratifying his long-cherished ambition. After remaining there two years and four months, the dour opened for him to take a step higher in the way of apprenticeship in the machine shop of the Barrhead foundry, John Cochran, pro- prietor. While working there young Spiers lived two miles and a half from the shop^ which distance he walked twice a day. Eager to acquire a technical scieutiiic knowledge of his chosen calling, as well as nkill in the use of tools, he spent all his leisure time in study- ing the principles of mechanics and mechan- ical drawing. His superior natural talent, industry and zeal 'enabled him to advance rapidly, and also won for him the good will and esteem of the foreman, who formed a strong attachment to the faithful and studious young apprentice.
When Mr. Spiers had been in the establish- ment about a year, the foreman, Mr. Whitford, accepted a situation in Edinburgh, and at his solicitation, and with the prospect of more wages than eight shillings per week, which he was then receiving, Mr. Spiers joined him, though strongly opposed by his former em- ployer, who used every means in his power to induce Mr. T. M. Tennant, the Edinburgh proprietor, not to employ the young man, but without avail. About a year after mak- ing this change, Mr. Whitford resigned the foremanship; and although young Spiers had not completed his apprenticeship, the pro- prietor, Mr. Tennant, recognizing his ability and tru8tworthines8,tendered the boy mechanic the management -of his manufactory. The position was an extremely critical one for a youth of his years to undertake, for in ad-
dition to the great responsibilities of prepar- ing and supervising the work in a large estab- lishment, employing many skilled workmen, the fact that a mere youth was placed in authority over men much older and of larger experience was calculated to excite their envy and breed discontent. However, with some misgivings, Mr. Spiers accepted the proffered honor. With the prudence and forethought of a philosopher he decided to avoid as far as possible everything which would tend to fos- ter jealousy, or to humiliate his older co- laborers by unnecessary display of authority over them. To this end his skill as a me- chanical draughtsman served him a good purpose, as well as to demonstrate to them his capabilities for managing the establish- ment. Instead of giving oral instructions upon any piece of work, he made complete detailed drawings of everything and gave them to the workmen to execute. His in- structions were always in the forni of requests rather than commands. Besides thus evin- cing his knowledge and skill as a master of his trade, and his consideration for the feel- ings of the men under his control, he also voluntarily organized the young men of the manufactory into a class, and for three win- ters taught them mechanical drawing free ot charge. This thoughtful and unselfish course rapidly won the confidence and esteem of both employes and employer, and made his victory complete. Under his energetic and efficient control, the works experienced an era of great prosperity, the number of laborers and the volume of business being more than doubled during his administration.
Mr. Spiers's fervent desire to come to America had not abated, and to gratify this thirst for adventure he resigned his position in the spring of 1864. On learning of his intention, he was urgently solicited by the proprietors oi the Paragon Machine Works,
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of South Qiieenaburg, to abandon it and ac- cept the management of that extensive con- cern; but, having determined to see the new world, be declined the tempting offer. Messrs. Tennant & Co., whom he had so ably served, gave hirn liighlj complimentary testimonial letters; and the -entire force connected with the manufactory, including proprietore and employes, joined in -tendering him a grand reception and farewell banquet, on which oc- casion 200 guestB were present, and speeches were made strongly eulogizing their depart- ing friend, for his honorable, gentlemanly qualities, his snperior talent and skill ae a mechanical engineer, and his fine executive and administrative powers as a manager. A number of elegant presents accompanied these expressions of uppreciatien and regard as tangible souvenirs of the friendship of his associates. The writer of this article has read the published proceedings of this (to the actors) memorable event, with much interest, as a worthy tribute to sterling manhood.
On leaving Europe Mr. Spiers brought away numerous highly complimentary letters frotn prominent business men and distin- guished persons with whom he had been in- timately connected. His objective point on this continent was Vancouver's Island; but meeting Mr, Risdon, one of the founders of the Risdon Iron Works, en route, that gen- tleman induced Mr. Spiers to stop off at San Francisco. Being offered a position in the Miners' Iron Works, he first took three months to familiarize himself with the char- acter of the machinery manufactured on the Pacihc coast and then entered the works as general foreman, remaining in that capacity three years, when he resigned to embark in business as a member of the firm of McAfie, Spiers & Co. Subsequently he bought bis partners' interests and consolidated the business with the Pulton Iron Works;
and under Mr. Spiers' laaaterly management the growth of this great manufactory has been almost phenomenal. Through his supe- rior qualifications as a mechanical and con- structive engineer, and his remarkable execu- tive ability, it has become one of the greatest productive industries on the Pacific side of the continent, giving employment to a small army of skilled mechanics and distributing many thousands of dollars per month among the families of the laboring men of San Francisco.
In spite of the expenditure of time and nerve -force necessary in building up such a mammoth business enterprisej Mr. Spiers has found opportunity to engage in extensive reading and research, and is a genteman of a broad, cultured mind, belonging to the pro- gressive, liberal school of thought, and is an analytical reasoner.
lie was married in San Francisco, to Miss Kate Moore, a New York lady, in 1868, and they have three children: James, born in 1870; Katharine, 1872; and William Glad- stone, in 1874.
Arriving in San Francisco with only $200 as his entire worldly possessiops — which, with mure, he subsequently lost in a mining ven- ture— Mr, Spiers has by his own efforts and thr<mgh purely business methods accumu- lated an ample fortune. Indulging his pa- triotic spirit for fostering worthy public en- terprises, he is an active and zealous member of the Mechanics' Institute, and has served some eighteen years as a trusted of that or- ganization; he is also a member of the Geo- graphical Society of San Francisco, the Technical Society of the Pacific coast; has been president of Sl Andrews Society; is now one of the permanent trustees of the Cogswell I'olyteehnic College of San Fran- cisco, and is connected with several mechan- . ical societies. In politics, though not n par-
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tisan, he ie a protectionist so far as applies to American industries which produce articles for American consumption.
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,ENRY KAHN.— The firm of Henry Eahn & Co., San Francisco, importers of French, German and English dry goods, is composed of the following gentle- men: Julius Kahn, S. Bine, L. Klein and Henry Kahn. The house was established in 1879. In their particular line (French and English goods), they are the largest dealers in San Francisco. They also have a house in Paris. Since the establishment of their busi- ness in this city they have made four moves, each time seeking larger and better quarters, thus evincing a constantly increasing busi- ness. Their trade now extends over Califor- nia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Texas, and several of the Pacific Islands — a vast area of rapidly developing country.
Mr. Kahn is a native of France, born in 1855. He came to the United States in 1872, after the Franco-German war. During the siege of Paris, vhen not yet sixteen years of age, he served in one of the hospitals. Ilis father was financially ruined by the war. His brother Emil came from France to enlist in the Union army, and served until he lost his life in the great struggle to maintain the Union. Mr. Kahn is a graduate of the Lypce Charlemagne of Paris. He came direct to San Francisco in 1872; was at first employed by his brothers in the wheat-buying business^ and later became a partner with them. The firm becoming aware that there was room in San Francisco and its adajcent territory for a business like that they now conduct, one of the brothers returned to Paris and opened the house there, while Mr. Kahn and his partners established their business in this city.
Mr. Kahn is married, has invested in real estate in San Francisco, and identified himself with the affairs of the country of his adoption. In his business relations he is most courteous and obliging, and no house in the city enjoys a higher reputa- tion for honorable and liberal methods than does that of Henry Kahn & Co. His political preferences are with th0 Democratic party.
S. B. SAWYER has been connected with the United States Circuit Court in San Francisco since 1870. He was born in 1842, in Ohio. Ills father, Rev. Lester A. Sawyer, a prominent Congrega- tional minister, is still living, and has passed his four-score years. After taking a prep- aratory course, our subject entered Hamilton College, Oneidacounty, New York, graduating in the class of 1862. He pursued his legal stud- ies in the Columbia College Law School in New York city, and was admitted to prac- tice in all the courts of the State. He came to the Pacific coast in 1867 and engaged in the practice of law for two years, when he was appointed to his present position, which he has held for the past twenty years.
HARLES TO WE, Fire Marshal, San Francisco, was born in the city of Bos- ton, in the year 1849, is a caulker by trade, shipped before the mast and for some years followed the sea. He came to Califor- nia in 1873, and two years later joined the fire patrol. The following year he became connected with the fire department, was ap- pointed assistant foreman of engine No. 5, and was promoted foreman of hose No. 1. In 1886 he received the appointment of Fire
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Marshal, and siuce then has filled the respons- ible position with ability and credit, his office being in the new city hall. He belongs to the I. O. O. F., Templar Lodge, Unity En- campment, and also to the order of K. of P.
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^OWELL V. ARMISTEAD, one of the successful medical practitioners of Ala- meda county, was born in Bedford county, near Lynchburg, Virginia, February 26, 1859, the fourth in a family of nine chil- dren born to James H. and Sarah Armistead, both also natives of Virginia. The Armi- steads are of the old and influential Virginia families, and their advent into that State antedates the Revolution, and members of the family also participated in the war of 1812. The father of our subject entered the military service during the rebellion, and served with distinction until the close of the war, but a short time afteward lost his wife by an accident.
Howell V. was reared and educated in his native county, and graduated at the Lynch- burg High School in the class of 1879, after which he taught school two years in order to meet the expenses of his collegiate course, and at the same time also read medicine. He came to California in 1881, locating in Stan- islaus county, where he became steward of the county hospital, and also continued the study of medicine with Dr. C. W. Evans. Mr. Armistead took his lectures in the med- ical department of the University of Cali- fornia, and also gained clinical experience in the hospital of San Francisco. He graduated in the fall of 1885, after which he returned to Stanislaus county, locating at Hill's Ferry, and devoted himself energetically to the practice and further study of medicine. Three years later he removed to Newman,
same county, where he remained until 1890, and in that year located at Golden Gate, where he has since become the partner of Dr. Collins, an able practitioner. They have a lucrative and growing practice, and Dr. Armistead is also interested in stock-raising and the breeding of blooded horses in Stan- islaus county.
During his residence in the latter county, the Doctor was a member of the Board of School Trustees, and was active in the coun- cils of the Democratic party. Socially he affiliates, with the K. of P., Newman Lodge, JSo. 139, of which order he has passed all the chairs, and also in the A. O. F. of A., Shelmanuel Court, No. 7,261, Golden Gate.
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:ILLIAM SHEW, the pioneer pho- tographer of San Francisco, was born in Providence, Fulton county, New York, in 1820, where he was also reared and educated. He soon acquired the art of taking pictures, and he and his brothers were among the first operators in this coun- try, taking lessons from the eminent Professor Morse, of telegraphic fame. Soon after the gold discoveries in California, Mr. Shew de- termined to come to the Pacific coast, and left New York in 1851, and arrived on the ship Tennessee, March 4, of the same year, via the Isthmus. He visited the mines while waiting for his apparatus, which came via Cape Horn, and he afterward established a portable machine on the Plaza, on Kearny street, between Clay and Washington, but a short time afterward removed to a vacant lot, and later to Montgomery street. Messrs. Shew, Vance and Bradley were the only photographers here at that time, and the former is now the only one living. He has been connected with the profession for over
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fifty years, and has also been identified with various other enterprises, but not with the same degree of success as in his chosen call- ing. During the early days he was identi- fied with political affairs, and has in his possession a printed notice of the call for the first Free-Soil Convention, to be held October 8, 1852, and this meeting was held in his rooms on the Plaza. Mr. Shew has always been interested in good government, and has served as a member ot* the Board of Education. His only daughter is married, and is now living in Oakland.
SCHWARZSCHILD, a member of the firm of Feigenbaum & Co., 520 to ^ 526 Market street, San Francisco, rep- resents the wholesale fancy goods and toy in- terest of the Pacific coast. The firm is composed of Meesrs. B. and J. Feigenbaum and Schwarzschild, all natives of Germany. The co-partnership was formed and house established on July 1, 1869, by purchasing a small outfit on Battery street, where they remained until 1874. At that time, needing greater capacity, they purchased a seven - story building, 30 x 90 feet, on Sansome street, and there conducted their interests until 1883, when, needing still greater space, they sold their store and moved to their present spacious rooms at 520 and 526 Market street. Here their main salesroom lias an area of 60 X 165 feet; the basement is 60 x 165 feet, and besides these they have three other floors, all of which are well stocked with toys, Yankee notions, smokers' articles, stationery, willow- ware and musical instruments. Forty- one hands are employed in conducting the several departments of the business. Their territory covers the Pacific coast States, Idaho, Arizona. New Mexico, Mexico and
the Sandwich Islands. Their territory is extended because all goods are of European manufacture. The business is difficult of successful management on account of the great distance from market, the bulky goods, the heavy rates by freight, shipments by water necessarily taking months in transit, etc. The peculiar features of the business require special knowledge and adaptability. Several houses have failed, while this estab- lishment has pushed steadily forward, its success being largely due to the efficient management of Mr. L. Schwarzschild, who had eight years' experience in the business prior to the establishing of this house.
He was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in 1841, and at the age of fifteen years began his mercantile life. He was first employed in a cloth factory, and subsequently as trav- eling salesman for hop and wine establish- ments of France, where he resided from boy- hood. He came to California in 1861, and entered the toy-house of Thurnauer & Finn, importers and dealers, with whom he learned the intricate business. He is now consid- ered one of the best judges of toys in this country, and is frequently appealed tj by the customhouse authorities to fix valuations upon importations. Mr. Schwarzschild makes an annual trip to Europe, visiting England, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, purchasing from the several manufacturers such an assortment as his trade demands, consuming about five months on each trip.
Mr. Schwarzschild was married in San Francisco, in 1867, to Miss Amelia Ochs, a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and to them have been born five daughters, viz.: Alice, now Mrs. M. S. Hellman, of Los Angeles, and Leontine, Adele, Jennie and Flora.
He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and several benevolent societies.
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Messrs. Feigenbanm came to this State in 1857, and settled in Humboldt county, where thej engaged in a general merchandise bnsi- ness until 1869. They are both married and have sons growing up in the business with them.
This firm is the only wholesale toy estab- lishment on the Pacific coast, and, with an annual business of about $500,000, enjoys an extended patronage.
ANIEL E. HAYES, member of the firm of Hinckley, Spiers & Hayes, pro- prietors of the Fulton Iron Works, is a son of New England, where several genera- tions of his ancestors were born, and is re- lated to ex- President R. B. Hayes. His father was a native of Maine and a graduate of Yale. Mr. Hayes was also born in Maine, 1838. After preparing for college under the tutorage of Professor (afterward Governor) Chamberlain, he entered Bowdoin College at fifteen.
Coming to California in 1858, he obtained the position of bookkeeper in the Fulton Foundry. In a year he was making estimates on work, and his knowledge of and pro- ficiency in the business became so valuable that in 1863 he was admitted into the firm as an eighth owner. Subsequently his interest was enlarged to a fourth, and upon the for- mation of the present copartnership in 1877 his interest was further increased to one-third, he thus becoming an equal partner with Messrs. Hinckley and Spiers. For thirteen years he has been actively connected with the financial department of the Fulton Iron Works; and much of the remarkable growth and success of that great establishment is due to his application and ability. Endowed by nature with superior mental faculties, ed-
ucation and experience have developed and rounded them out, resulting in the clear, act- ive intellect and culture of the true gentle- man.
In 1864 he married, in San Francisco, Miss Eleanor A. dwell, an Ohio lady.
A. ROGEKS, an artist of San Fran- cisco, was born in New Haven, Cou- .^ necticut, in 1848, the son of New England parentt>. During early childhood he went to Brooklyn, New York, where he was reared and educated. While quite small he developed a taste for drawing, and early commenced to take lessons in that branch of art. He subsequently went abroad and con- tinued the pursuit of his studies in Germany, Italy and France, receiving instructions from some of the best teachers in Europe. On his return to Brooklyn he opened a studio in New York city, and afterward one in Chica- go. Seeking a more congenial climate, he came to California in 1877 and located in San Francisco.
In his portfolios and on the walls of his studio in the Flood Building are many of nis sketches and finished works that have re- ceived favorable mention from artists and art critics. Among his many subjects and noted works are: "Lake Lugano," "Scene in Fras- cate," " Street in Ancient Tiber/' " A Covered Street in Florence." Several Italian subjects recently sold by him brought good prices.
Mr. Rogers is versatile with brush and pencil painting, both in oil and water colors, filling many orders for portrait work as well as landscape, and has done much in crayon, pastel and water colors. The qualities in which Mr. Rogers excels in his work is com position, light and shade. He has a passion
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for brilliant effects of color, which he renders with rare skill.
DWARD AUGUSTUS BELCHER, subject of the subjoined sketch, b(?longs to one of the oldest families of New England, being a descendant in the direct line (male) from Jonathan Belcher, sometime Colonial Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and afterwards Colonial Governor of New Jersey, which office he held at the breaking out of the Revolution. The late Rear Admiral Sir Edward Belcher, K. C. B., was from the same stirps. According to the Heraldic Journal^ 62, the New England History and General Register^ Vol. XX VII., 244, and the Memorial History of Boston^ Vol. II., 60, the coat of arms of the United States of America was taken from the coat of arms of the Belcher family, of which Jona- than was then the head in America.
Samuel, father of Edward, was born in New- buryport, Massachusetts, from which place he early en:igrated to Vermont, where, at Stockbridge, in the county of Windsor, Ed- ward was born. Edward finished his educa- tion at Putnam College, in the old home of his father, and in 1868, at the instance of his two brothers, Isaac Sawyer Belcher (after- wards and now of the Supreme Court of Cali- fornia) and William Caldwell Belcher, who were then associated in the practice of law at Marysville, California, under the style of Belcher & Belcher,— he came to California, read law in their office and in 1876 was ad- mitted to the bar. In the following year he was appointed City Attorney of the city of Marysville; and while holding that office, acting under instructions from the City (youucil, he commenced the famous '* anti- debris" actions, 80-called, by which hydraulic
mining on the Yuba river and its tributaries was eventually enjoined. In 1884 he moved to San Francisco, at the bar of which city he has since practiced.
Mr. Belcher has served in the National Guards, and in 1880 received a commission as aid-decamp, with the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel, on the staff of the Governor.
In politics Mr. Belcher is a liepublican. One of the first to join the Dirigo Club after its organization in 1884 (of which body he was afterwards vice-president for several terms), he early saw the necessity for the formation of a strong Republican club into which could be gathered the foremost men of the party throughout the State; and accord- ingly, in 1887-8, assisted by Colonel W. H. Chamberlain and other ineml)er8 of the Dirigo Club, he organized the Union League Club of San Francisco, of which he became the first vice-president.
In early years Mr. Belcher betrayed a strong penchant for music, as instanced by the "Dirigo March," composed for the Dirigo Club in 1884, and many other pieces of local popularity.
Mr. Belcher is a life member of the vari- ous Masonic bodies at Marysville, with which in former years he was prominently identified.
.ON. JOSEPH D. REDDING was born in Sacramento, September 13, 1858. In 1871 he entered the California Military Academy at Oakland, of which the Rev. David McClure was principal, and the dis- cipline to which he was subjected served to fix a habit of precision which has adhered to him ever since. IL^' -^'xieived an honorable discharge in 1873. '^tom that school he en- tered the Urban Atitiemy and prepared for a collegiate course under professor Nathan W.
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Moore. He graduated there in 1876, and was admitted into the scientific department of Harvard University in the same year- During 1878 and a portion of 1879 he at- tended the lectures of Harvard Law School. In August, 1879, he entered the law office of McAllister & Bergen, in San Francisco, and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of California, in December of that year. He has been in active practice in this city and county ever since. He has also practiced before the Supreme Court of the United States and before the departments at Washington. He has been one of the attor- neys for the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- pany since 1881, with special reference to the land departments. This was a responsible position for a young attorney of only twenty- three years of age.
He had a wide experience in many import- ant legal cases, having been directly con- nected with them. He conducted that of the United States vs. Kagama, before the Sv.preme Court of the United States, at Washington, and before the Circuit Court of the United States, in California, to a success- ful termination. The case was one of na- tional importance, from the fact that it was the first attempt of the United States to ar- rest and try an Indian for the killing of another Indian, both being upon their reser- vation. Mr. Kedding appeared for the de- fendant, who was acquitted by the jury under instructions from the Circuit Court, regard- ing the jurisdiction of the United States in these matters. Had he not carefully and closely examined the legal points connected with this case, he could never have gained the victory over the plaintiffs.
He was connecte*^' ith the Nanon case, which was a suit i ving the right of a composer of an opera, .o had his conj posi- tion in manuscript, to an injunction prevent-
ing the production of the same by third parties. The Circuit Court sat in banc, and after three days' argument granted the in- junction.
Mr. Redding has a large and lucrative prac- tice, which is estimated at between $15,000 and $20,000 per year.
From his boyhood days he has been a pas- sionate admirer of music. He commenced to coinpose at an early age, and his composi- tions evince a remarkable degree of rhythmic harmony and pleasing evenness. There was •a sympathy and a musicalness in them that was delightfully combined with freedom of expression and richness of cadence. His numerous published compositions have not only been greatly admired, but have won their way in public favor and popular estimation. Such was his proficency in musical execution that when, at the age of thirteen, he accom- panied Hugo Mansfeldt on a concert tour to Marysville, he was pronounced a " phenome- non." He studied earnestly under the best masters, and by assiduity and determination he has reached an eminence in musical skill that but few can attain. When he was in college at Cambridge, such was his marked ability that he received the directorship of the college orchestra. He was also stage manager of the Athenaeum in 1878-'79. He wrote several comedies, which were produced in many of the college societies of New Eng- land, with great success, and much money was gained through them, which was all ap- plied to charitable purposes.
In 1878 he won the cue at billiards at Cambridge at the tournament. He is very proficient in the fascinating game of chess; and his moves and plans are devised with a deep knowledge of the game, and his manoeuvres are executed with such strategy as to insure success. He held the cliess championship for 1884-'85. Dr. Zukertort,
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the world's champion, visited the coast at that time, and when he returned he published in the chess magazines that Mr. Redding was the best player on the Pacific coast. He suc- ceeded in winning three games from Dr. Zukertort in 1884 at Mechanics' Library.
Mr. Redding was appointed Major in the State Militia, by Governor Stoneman, in 1883, but declined the appointment. He evidently does not seek for military glory " in these piping times of peace."
He has taken an active interest in piscicul- ture, particularly since the death of his father, the late B. B. Redding, in 1882. In this matter he has ever evinced a laudable regard for the welfare of the State and the happi- ness of the citizens, by his active exertions in favor of stocking the interior waters of the State with fish suitable for food. He was appointed special agent of the United States Fish Commission for the Pacific coast, by the Hon. Spencer F. Baird.
He was instrumental, with Hon. W. W. Morrow, in securing the passage of an act of Congress, appropriating $27,000 for the purpose of bringing the United States ship Albatross to this coast to investigate the marine fisheries on it. Mr. Redding has shown a persistent determination that the fish in our inland waters, the young of which were placed there for the benefit of the citi- zens, shall be protected from depredations, and that the blessings of a plentiful supply and a wide variety shall both be firmly secured.
In the multitude of his vocations he still finds time to prove that his sympathies are with those who are proper recipients for charitable aid. In the furtherance of these kindly dispensations, he has often expended time that otherwise was valuable to himself, in preparing to take a part in theatrical rep- resentations, the proceeds of which were to
be used in benevolent purposes. He ap- peared upon the stage in San Francisco sev- eral times for this generous purpose. He was manager of the " Cervantes" booth dur- ing the Authors' Carnival in 1880, and also manager with Charles E. Locke of the car- nival of 1881. He also participated in the performance of " Our Boys," at the Alcazar Theatre, in 1886, with General Barnes and other prominent persons, for the benefit of charity, on which occasion over $5,000 was realized. This proves what can be accom- plished by an able, liberal and energetic man, who is desirous to exert himself in the line of beneficence and ameliorate humanity. The nobleness of his character is proven in the fact, that though he has never known want or experienced privation, he generously and practically sympathizes with those whose lot in life has not been favored with all that ex- istence requires to produce comfort and sus- tenance. To such his hand is ever open, and his words and acts prove his sincerity in their behalf.
He is an able, forcible and convincing speaker. His predicates are logically sus- tained, and the subject matter clearly eluci- dated, while his manner is attractive and his magnetism decidedly evident. In 1884, he delivered a lecture before the Academy of Science, on the fish supply of the Pacific coast, which was warmly applauded.
As a writer, his opinions are warmly and fairly stated, and his line of argument closely followed. In descriptive subjects he is an elegant word-painter, and presents them in so pleasing, graphic and attractive a manner that his readers are charmed and impressed by his delineations. He has been, and is a frequent contributor of articles to the leading magazines and literary journals of this coast, on a variety of subjects which always com- mand attention.
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He is genial and sociable, and his presence is desired and welcomed at all times in the club rooms and society gatherings. He was elected president of the Bohemian Club in 1885.
He appreciates art, and is a liberal patron of its productions. So well is this feature in his character understood and esteemed, that in 1886 he was elected to the presidency of the Sau Francisco Art Association, which honorable position he still retains. He was elected president of the Haydn Society in 1887, and still occupies that chair. He is also a member of the Pacific Club, as well as of many other societies and organizations of this city.
In his home relations, he is exceedingly happy, with a lovely wife who is in full ac- cord with his characteristics, and who presides over the domestic arrangements in an in- telligent and kindly manner. She is the daughter of the Hon. Samuel W. Cowles, and they were married in 1881. A lovely daughter has blessed their union, and their home is brightened with the infantile pres- ence of the baby girl.
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H. LOUGHBOROUGH, a leading lawyer of San Francisco, was born over ^ fifty years ago in Warrenton, the county seat of Fauquier county, Virginia. His father, Hamilton Loughborough, was a member of the Washington bar, to which he came from Richmond after his father's death. Shortly after his birth the family removed to the Manor House at Grasslands, an estate that had passed from father to son for a number of generations, and which is now the property of ex-Secretary Whitney. Our subject com- menced his education in the schools of Wash- ington, graduated at Georgetown College,
studied law in his father's office, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1860. He immediately came to San Francisco and entered energetic- ally into the practice of his profession and therefore successfully. In 1862 he formed a law partnership with Julius George, under the firm name of George & Loughborough, and this partnership continued until the death of Mr. George in 1880. Shortly afterward Mr. Loughborough formed a partnership with W. Mayo Newhall, son of the late H. M. Newhall, the firm name being Loughborough & Newhall. Upon the death of his father Mr. Newhall abandoned the practice of law to devote his time to other matters, and so the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Loughbor- ough's practice has b^en confined almost ex- clusively to the probate court, he having a wide knowledge of real-estate matters in all their bearings; and he has settled a great number of estates, both large and small, and all satisfactorily. For twenty eight years he has occupied the rooms he first rented with Mr. George on the northwest corner of Montgomery and Sacramento streets. He is, both professiorially and socially, a worthy follower of his father's footsteps, and is as much a Californian as if he had been bom here. In 1868 he married Miss Zane, of Wheeling, West Virginia, a descendant of one of the pioneers of the Ohio valley, after whom the town of Zanesville was named. They have four children, of whom the eldest, A. Z., is studying law in his father's office.
INGLES JANES, M.D., whose office is at No. 643 McAllister street, San ^ Francisco, has been a resident of Cal- ifornia since 1887, and engaged in the practice of medicine since 1888. He was born in Lambton, Canada, in 1864, and his early ed-
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ucation wa8 received in the public schools of that city, and in the collegiate institutes of Strathroy and Sarnia, graduating at the former after a two years' course and receivinga teachers' life certificate. He then entered the college at Sarnia, where, after one year's study, he graduated into the Toronto Medical College, where he matriculated in 1884. Deciding to study the homeopathic practice of med- icine. Dr. Janes entered the Cleveland (Ohio) Hospital College, where he attended two and a half courses, being with his preceptor all this time. Coming to California early in 1887, he entered the Hahnemann Hospital College of San Francisco, where he graduated in 1888, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The Doctor entered immediately into private practice, which he has since con- tinued at his present location. Soon after his graduatiori he was appointed to a clinic in the Hahnemann Hospital, which position he now holds. Early in 1889 he was ap- pointed to the Chair of Hygiene and Sani- tary Science, which professorship he still holds. He is a member of the California State Homepathic Medical Society.
Dr. Janes is of English and Scotch de- scent, his father having been a native of Eng- land and his mother of Scotland. They came to Canada about lifty-five years ago, where the father engaged in farming for many years. One of Dr. Janes' brothers, Dr. S. W. Janes, is a practicing physician in Detroit, Michigan, and his other brothers are engaged in mercantile and farming operations in Can- ada. The father died when Dr. Janes was but seven years of age, and both he and his brother, who is now practicing medicine in Michigan, are decidedly self-made men, both having earned by teaching and other occupa- tions the money necessary to carry themselves through college and into active professional life.
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HOMAS McAWLEY WOOD, a phy- sician of Oakland, was born in New York city, April 9, 1830, a son of David and Mary Ann (Van Steenburgh) Wood, both natives of New York and born in 1800, — Mrs. Wood in the city and Mr. Wood in Genoa, near Wascx) Lake, ten days later. His grandfather, John Van Steen- burgh, was a ship-builder in that city, and both himself and his wife were of Knicker- bocker descent and lived to be about ninety- six years of age. David was at one time an importing merchant of New York city, moved to Ohio and settled on a farm in Huron county about 1833. Some time before his death he retired to Cleveland. He died in 1870, as the result of medical mal-practice. The Woods are of the early English immigra- tion, of whom a portion spread into New York State and another portion into the South. The Doctor's mother is still living. At the age of fifteen years Dr. Wood returned to New York State in order to have better school advantages. Going again to Ohio, he at the age of seventeen undertook the study of law in Mount Gilead, Morrow county, under the supervision of the law firm of Stinchcomb &Sanford, and remai'ned there three years. In 1851 he came to California, by way of Panama, arriving in San Francisco in November; mined a short time at Rattle- snake Bar in El Dorado county twelve miles from Auburn; next, during the summer of 1852, he assisted in building the Stockton & Sonora road in Calaveras county, from the Stanislaus river to Sonora, being in charge of a company of men; then he located a ranch of 160 acres, retaining it but a short time, near what is now Copperopolis; came to San Francisco in 1852-'53 and followed farming in Contra Qx)sta county. He took a place eight miles from Martinez, rented 300 acres
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of one party and 300 of another, and pnt in crops of wheat and barley and a vegetable garden. A year afterward he went to Rabbit Creek (La Porte) and Warren Hill, Sierra connty, and followed mining daring the win- ter of 1853-'54, doing well. He discovered some good claims; paying $32 a day to each working hand. He bonght other claims which afterward turned out well.
About 1855 he turned his attention to scientific investigation, especially in chemis- try and the art of daguerreotyping, then pre- vailing and followed the art some years, beginning at La Porte. From this on for several years he traveled through this State, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada, practicing the art of dagurreotyping, for a livelihood, and medicine as a work of be- nevolence. Becoming dipsatisfied with allop- athy, he adopted a system of magnetic heal- ing, partly his own discovery. In 1876 he visited the great Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, where he purchased an " artop ticon," with which he illustrated lectures that he delivered, thereafter, on his way back to the Pacific coast, his topics being derived from sundry features of the exposi- tion. Since 1879 he has been lecturing and writing against the use of narcotic and alco holic stimulants in medication, and he also continues to practice the healing art, especi- ally in the treatment of delirium tremens, dipsomania and the opium habit.
In August, 1890, he located in Oakland. His vitality is remarkable. Although sixty years old, he can walk sixty miles in a day and deliver a lecture in the evening. He received his degree of D. M. (Doctor of Magnetism) from the college of that school in New York city. In 1886 he bought 240 acres of land in Lake county, this State, which tract he named Wood Dale and where he designs to erect a sanitarium this
year, 1891. It is situated on a plateau east of Mount St. Helena, in the healthiest part of the coast. His great principle in medicine is the removal of obstacles to the upbuilding powers of nature, and he believes that walk- ing is one of the best universally acceptible remedies. In sixty years of life, and thirty or more of the full possession of his powers, he has accumulated the experiences of a much longer life.
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H. VAN SCHAICK, attorney, San Francisco, was born in New York in ^ 1834. He attended school during his boyhood, and completed his education at Kingsboro Academy, Fulton county. New York, taking a collegiate course. He after- ward commenced the study of law, and also engaged in teaching during the winter months in order to continue his lesral studies during the remainder of the year. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in July, 1857, and engaged in the practice of law in New York city, previous to coming to this State. He arrived in California in 1865, when he first engaged in teaching. He was principal of the Mountain View School, Santa Clara county, two years, after which he was elejtei to a professorship in the University of the Pacific, but resigned this to accept the posi- tion of Revenue Assessor for Santa Clara county. While teaching in the latter county he was a member of the Board of Examiners, and ever since his residence in California ha has been identified with the educational inter- ests of the State. After serving as Revenue Oflicer Mr. Van Schaick resumed his law practice in San Jose. In 1874 he removed to San Francisco, and since that time has been successfully engaged in the practice of
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his profefisioc in this city, and has also been connected with important land litigations in Federal courts. He was elected a member of the Board of Education, and was afterward elected President of the board, his ability and practical experience giving him a com- manding influence in this important position. He is a Republican in his political views, and is repeatedly solicited to accept nominations.
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•OHN CHRISTIAN FRANKS, of San Francisco, late United States Marshal, was born in Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio. His father had settled there in early days, having emigrated from Germany when quite young He was a farmer, and on the farm Mr. Franks first began his life work in conse- quence. He and his brother Frederick at- tended the usual country schools during the winter months. By the death of his parents he was left to take care of himself at the age of eight years. He worked for the neigh- borinir farmers till he was fourteen, when he determined to learn the trade of carriage- making. He bound himself to Peter Van Ness, of Ohio, with whom he staid until he was master of his trade.
When the war broke out he was very anx- ious to go to the front, but his age was a bar. His brother Frederick was accepted, however, and gave his life for his country at the battle of Stone river.
Young Frank was accepted in the State militia, but saw no active service. He did guard duty for a time on Johnston's Island, near Toledo, where there were some 3,000 Confederates held as prisoners. The Home Guards were called upon for service to reinforce other troops on account of a rumor that Vallandigham was coining with a force from Canada to release the prisoners.
In 1863 he came to California, and for a time worked at his trade in Sacramento. When the Central Pacific railroad was being built he moved with it from station to sta- tion, working at his trade till he reached the town of Colfax, Placer county, where he en- gaged in the wagon building and repairing business with J. A. Culver. He was married here, and remained in business till 1872, when he removed to Monterey county, locat- ing in Salinas. Here he engaged in farming and livery business. As in other localities, Mr. Franks soon gained the respect of the people. He was elected the first Marshal of Salinas City, and was selected for the second term. Subsequently he was elected Sheriff of the county. He was re-elected to this office, which shows not alone his popularity there but the confidence of the people in his worth and integrity.
Owing to the change brought about by the new constitution, he held over for a third term, and would have been re-elected had he chosen to come before the people again. Be- lieving the prospects very bright in fruit- raising, he engaged in this business, locating near Santa Hosa. He was there some three years when he was appointed United States Marshal for the District of California by President Cleveland, February 19, 1886. His term expired February 19, 1890, when he was reappointed by Justice Field, the Presi- dent not having filled the position. He served six months on this appointment. On the organization of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Mr. Franks was appointed Marshal of said court by Justices Fields, Sawyer and Deady, June 24, 1891.
Mr. Franks has had seven children, four of whom are dead. He is prominent in Ma- sonry, being a Sir Knight of Watsonville Commandery. Genial and pleasant in man-
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ner to all, Mr. Franks yet shows in his ad- dress and carriage that he can be a very tirn} and determined man when occasion requires.
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EORGE R. B. HAYES, a suceessfnl at- torney of this city, is descended from a father and grandfather both of whom were brilliant lights in his profession. He was bom in Belfast, Ireland, in 1847. Dar- ing his yoath he attended the common schools, and finished his literary education at Queen's College, Belfast. In the year 1863, he came to the United States by invitation from his uncle, reaching New York city at the time of the draft riots wliich occurred during the early days of the war of the Re- bellion. He came directly to San Fran- cisco, where he entered the law office of his uncle and completed his legal studies. He Was admitted to the bar, and later became associated with the firm of Stanly & Hayes, after which the firm was known as Hayes, Stanly & Hayes. This partnership existed three years, when Mr. Stanly withdrew from the business, having been elected county judge, and the firm was changed to William & Oeorge R. B. Hayes, existing as such for a number of years.
Mr. Hayes Jr., then made a trip to the East and Europe. After his return he re-engaged in the practice of the profession alone. A partnership with Judge Stanly was then formed, and in 1879 Judge Stoney became connected with the firm, which is now known as Stanly, Stoney & Hayes. These gentlemen, possessing talent, experience and unusual abil- ity, have arisen to the first ranks of the legal profession of the State and are thoroughly deserving of the reputation they have made for themselves.
In his political belief Mr. Hayes is a
strong Democrat, and has for many a year taken a leading part in the counsels of his party. He is always a delegate to the city, State and national conventions. He was elected a member of the State Legislature, and was a member of the Board of Free- holders who prepared the proposed charter for the city and county.
,AUL JOSEPH SCHAFER, SecreUry of the Board of Health of Oakland, was born in San Francisco, June 20, 1863, a son of Albert B. and Katie (Miiller) Schafer, who were married in that city in 1859. His father was born in Germany, in 1830, and came to California in 1850, and engaged in mining a few years. He then settled in San Francisco, where he at one time conducted the St. James Hotel. He lo- cated in Oakland about 1868, and paid a visit to the fatherland by the 'first through train from the Pacific in 1869. He conducted the Nicholl House in Oakland for some years, and stood well in the community. He was a member of the A. O. U. W. He died in 1879, his parents living to a more advanced age. lie left seven children who, with their mother, are yet living, namely: Camilla, now married and residing in Bremen, Germany; Paul J., the subject of this sketch; Alber- tina; Katie, a teacher of music in Oakland; Aalonia, attending the high school with a view to qualifying as a teacher; Moltke, now dei>uty County Clerk, and Daisy.
Mr. Schafer, whose name heads this sketch, graduated in the high school of Oakland in December, 1880, was employed a year as a searcher of records, and in 1883 he engaged as a traveling salesman in the nursery busi- ness, which he followed for years. For eighteen months in 1887-8 he was again em-
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ployed as a searcher of records, and was ap- pointed Deputy County Recorder January 1, 1889, retaining that position untilJuly, 1890, when he was appointed Secretary of the Board of Health, which oflSce he still holds, having been re-appointed by the new board in April, 1891, as he had proved a very efficient and acceptable secretary. In politics he has taken an active interest. Was four times a delegate to the county convention of the Republican
party.
February 1, 1890, he married Miss Zebu- line A. Hunt, who was born in Indiana, Feb- ruary 27, 1867, a daughter of Symmes H. and Josephine A. Hunt, both living in Oak- land. Mr. Hunt served as a lieutenant in the United States navy during the civil war, and has held a position in the customhouse in San Francisco for several years.
Mrs. Katie Schafer, the mother of the sub- ject of this sketch, was brought from Ger- many at the age of five years, by her parents, who settled in Louisville, Kentucky, where the father was engaged as a produce merchant for several years. Mrs. Schafer came to Cal- ifornia at about the age of twenty years, and was married in San Francisco in 1859.
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M. JOSSELYN & CO. represent the oldest ship-chandlery establishment in ^ San Francisco. Mr. Josselyn was born near Salem, Massachusetts, in 1822, and at the age of sixteen went to sea, shipping before the mast at $5 per month Promotion followed the acquisition of knowledge until he rose to the position of mate. His voyages were from the Atlantic ports to the East and West Indies, Liverpool and Russia. He fol- lowed the sea until 1849, when he joined a company of twenty sailors at Boston, pur- chased the schooner Roanoke, which they
loaded with miners' supplies, and then, under command of Captain Shelly, started for San Francisco, the men working the ship. Run- ning short of fresh supplies they wished to land at Rio, but not having snfficient money to pay port charges, which was about $30, they ran into Grande Harbor, near Rio, and there remained until warned to depart. Se- curing supplies they sailed from Grande Harbor, passing through the straits of Magellan to avoid the stormy weather of Cape Horn. They entered the Pacific, and in due time arrived at San Francisco. The day following their arrival they sold their schooner and dumped all their supplies upon the beach, where they remained unsold and of no value, it being too muddy to proceed to' the mines. Mr. Josselyn then went to Sacramento and engaged in boating between that city and Marysville, running a whale boat, which he would either row or sail as circumstances would permit. This he continued about two years, and was among the last to run boats upon the river. He next returned to San Francisco, and about 1854, in partnership with George C. Smith, under the firm name of Smith & Co., they established the business of ship stores, leasing a small room on the Market street wharf, opposite their present location. The supplies were largely in can- ned and salted provisions, purchased about town at auction sales of Eastern consign- ments; and as they acquired money with ex- perience they added ship chandlery, which as soon as possible they imported direct from the Eastern markets. About 1856 they pur- chased their present property, erected a frame structure and began extending their business. About 1860 they gave their entire attention to ship chandlery, which has developed into vast proportions covering every branch of ship fitting from the hull to the rigging. The firm of Smith & Co. continued about two
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years, when Mr. Smith withdrew, and the firm of G. M. Joeselyu & Co. is now com- posed of G. M. Josselyn, his son Charles Josselyn and Arthur W. Forbes. In 1885 they built their present handsome and spacious structure, which has a foundation measurement of 44 x 120 feet, four stories high, and liere they transact their extensive business. The firm have furnished the well- known Hall Brothers with outfits for nearly eighty vessels, wliich they have built upon the coast. Mr. Josselyn has been a large owner of sailing vessels, and has conducted an extensive trade with the Pacific Islands and Australia. He gives personal attention to the purchase of goods, and for that pur- pose has made sixty-three trips across the Continent. He is a typical California pio- neer, genial, whole-souled and enthusiastic, and one who would go far to perform a kind- ness or correct a fault.
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,0N. THOMAS P. STONEY has had a long and distinguished career in this State. He came to California in that memorable year, 1856, and since then be has been of those who have materially helped in the progress of the State. He has been active in his profession ever since. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and comes of an old American family, and of Hogenot ancestry in the remote past. In this country his people took creditable and patriotic part whenever the country desired their services. In the Revolutionary war his great-grandfather was an ofiicer — Adjutant- General of the staff of General Marion — and since then the patriotic instinct has always been alive with them.
Judge Stoney came by way of Panama. His steamer waited in New York for news
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confirming Buchanan's election. Connection was made at Panama with the Golden Age, and the first news of Democratic victory was consequently given from her here. She arrived in December, 1856.
After his arrival, as was natural, he went to the mines. He engaged in quartz mining near Mud Springs, El Dorado county. Judge Stoney 's natural vocation was the law, however, and he turned to this, and by dili- gent preparation and his inherent ability he mastered its intricacies. Admitted in 1859, he entered on a career in entire harmony with his inclination, and one in which he has certainly achieved distinction. Removing to Napa county, he soon enjoyed a large practice in that section and gained tlie respect and esteem of the people for his con- scientious course. His party, the Demo- cratic party, there nominated him for County Judge, and he was elected by a good majority — showing not alone popularity but also the belief in his integrity and ability, for Napa county was a liepublican county. He held from 1872 to 1880.
February of the latter year Judge Stoney came to San Francisco, and since then has been engaged in the practice of his profes- sion here. In 1879, prior to his coming, he was nominated for the Supreme Bench. He was defeated in this election, however, and to our view of it there was great triumph in this defeat. He was the only one on the ticket defeated, and the only one who did not receive the Sand-Lot nomination. His prin- ciples prevented any subserviency to such a class of agitators, and in consequence he lost their votes — an honor, to our thinking.
Judge Stoney was associated with Judge I. S. Belcher and A. C. Freeman on the commission appointed by Governor Irwin, and re-appointed by Governor Perkins, to conform the codes to the new constitution.
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then but recently adopted. They completed their work in a most satisfactory manner.
He is now a member of the well-known firm of Stanly, Stoney & Hayes, associating with these gentlemen on coming here. This firm goes back to pioneer times, when it consisted of Stanly & Hayes (uncles of the present gentlemen); afterward it became Hayes, Stanly & Hayes, and finally the present title.
Judge Stoney is justly regarded as one of our best lawyers. A gentleman of genial, pleasant manner, an' excellent convereer, well read on almost every current topic, he certainly is respected and esteemed by those who have the pleasure of knowing him. He is a man of strong religious convictions, beingr a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, on Fifteenth street, near Valencia.
fOHN J. COFFEY, a successful lawyer of San Francisco, was born on the Em- erald Isle, May 1, 1845. He was a child of fortune, and was afforded every opportunity by his parents, who intended him for the priesthood. After attending Jesuit College, Limerick, Ireland, he entered Brompton College, London, and while at- tending the latter his parents sent him money for incidentals, and with which to come home for the holidays. Reaching Liverpool on his way home, and while walking on the docks, he noticed a shipping sign of £4 to America. All .the money he had with him was £7-10d, bnt he saw the captain of the ship and persuaded him to let him come, which he did. Mr. CoflFey arrived in New York February 12, 1857, and the following day obtained a situation as cash boy in the store of A. T. Stewart. He remained in New York and Chicago during
the war of the rebellion, in which he served in the Second United States Dragoons. In 1867-68 he served in the Indian war on the plains, and in the lattet year came to the Pacific coast, settling in Oregon, where he he held the commission of Lieutenant of a militia company during the Indian war in 1872-4. Mr. Coffey has held the office of deputy Mining Surveyor, and also of County Surveyor.
He studied law with Governor George L. Woods, James Slater and Royal A. Pierce, in Oregon, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He came to San Francisco in October of the same year, and was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court in 1880, and since that time has enjoyed a good general practice. Mr. Coffey was Secretary of the Irish Land League in 1879 and 1880, and was actively connected with the councils of the league.
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ILLIAM O'NEILL, deceased, one of the early pioneers of California, was prominently identified with the growth and prosperity of Alameda county, encountering many hardships and privations, but through all acting the part of a gentle- man, and laying the foundation of comfort and competence for his family. He was born in county Donegal, Ireland, and was fifty- nine years of age at the time of his death, which occurred March 14, 1891. He was reared and educated in the county of his birth, and in 1849 came to America, and later to California, landing in the city of San Francisco, where he was engaged in steamboating a few years. About thirty- five years ago he made the acquaintance of his estimable wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Donagan, also a native of the
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Emerald Isle, They were married in San Francisco, and immediately located on forty acres of land lying between the city of Oak- land and Berkeley, and now known as Golden Gate. Mr. O'Neill bnilt a residence on his land, and carried on general farming until a few years ago, when the growth of the two cities advanced the value of his property, and, like other land owners in the neighbor- hood, he surveyed and sold building lots. Mnch valuable land owned by his widow is located on San Pablo avenue, and besides the residence there is one large business block at the junction of San Pablo avenue and tlie Berkeley Local railroad.
Mr. O'Neill was an industrious and ener- getic man during his life, and was one of the leading citizens of this section of the county. He was a consistent member of the Catholic Church, in which faith his family have all been reared. Politically, he was a staunch Democrat, and took an active interest in political matters Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill have had six children, only two of whom survive — Wiliam and Mamie — who reside with their mother.
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HARLES L. TILDEN, an honored resident of San Francisco, was born in Massachusetts, in 1820. His parents and ancestors were natives of New England, his original progenitors having been English people. Mr. Tilden attended school and served an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade in his native state.
The discovery of gold in California, which attracted the attention of the whole world, drew him to the Pacific coast. He em- barked on the steamer Ohio for Panama, thence on the Oregon to San Francisco, ar- riving here December 1, 1849. He did not,
however, follow the throng to the mines, but at once began working at his trade. The following spring he engaged in business for himself, and since then, for the past forty- one years, has been identified with the con- tracting and building interests of San Fran- cisco, he being the oldest builder now in active business in this city. The firm of Elliott & Tilden did an extensive business for many years, employing from fifty to sev- enty-five men. Mr. Tilden is now alone in business, and gives his attention chiefly to general jobbing and store and office fitting. He is interested in good government, and in politics is a Republican, but not in any sense does he seek political preferment.
OHN M. CHRETIEN, attorney, San Francisco, was born in this city, August 29, 1853, the son of Joseph and Made- line Chretien, old and honored citizens of this city. Our subject attended school dur- his boyhood, and completed his education at Santa Clara College, graduating at that insti- tution in 1872. He afterward studied law, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court October 12, 1875, in the first term of this court after reaching his majority, and since then, for the past fifteen years, he has been successfully engaged in his profession. While engaged in a general civil practice, he has also given much attention to theatrical law, representing play-wrights, both in this country and England. He has been associ- ated with such eminent counsel as ex-Judge DitteuhoeflFer, of New York, the best authority on theatrical law in the country, and also rep- resents Howe & Hummell, of New York, and James L. Latham, of Chicago, the leading the- atrical attorneys of this country. Mr. Chre- tien is an attorney for theater managers in
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San Francisco, and has an extensive practice with play- Wrights and managers on the Pa- cific coast and Australia. He is a strong Republican in his political principles, and while actively interested in good govern- ment has no political aspirations.
OHN McFARLING, of Oakland, owner of agricnltnral and mineral lands, and breeder of fancy poultry, was born in Belmont conntv, Ohio, near Barnesville, Jnne 11, 1829, a son of Ralph and Margaret (McKnight) McFarling. The father, a na- tive of Shenandoah county, Virginia, was a farmer and a soldier of the war of 1812. He lived to be over fifty. The mother, a native of Loudoun county, was a daughter of Benja- min McKnight, a soldier of the Revolution and afterward a farmer. Ho reached the age of about ninety-six, being a pensioner for many years before his death. Grandfather McFarling was a freighter or teamster in ante-railroad days, and his son Ralph, the father of our subject, was also brought up to that business, teaming to Charleston and other mining centers in the Shenandoah valley. The McFarlings and McKnights are of Scotch ancestry, bat have been settled in Virginia for several generations.
John McFarling received a little schooling in his youth, a few months in the year, and was brought up to farm work. Early in the fifties he spent a part of two years in Iowa, where an older brother, James, had settled in 1844. This brother had come to California in 1849 and gone back to Iowa, whence he again started for California in 1854, accom- panied by our subject, arriving in Nevada City August 24, 1854. John McFarling went to mining, and continued more or less interruptedly engaged in placer-mining until
1863. He is still interested in that indus- try, being general superintendent and part owner of the Juniper and Mount Hope mines in Lassen county, which are leased to work- ing miners. In 1879 he bought 150 acres of farming land near Calistoga, Napa coun- ty, on which he still carries on a general farming business. He took up his residence in this city in 1881, and in 1883 adopted as a specialty the business of breeding poultry. He keeps a dozen or more varieties of fancy fowls — blue Andalusians, golden Wyandots, Rose-combs, brown and white Leghorns and others. With good management and plenty of room, the business may be made quite profitable; and even a moderate yard in the hands of a skilled breeder afibrds a fair living.
Mr. McFarling was married in Gilroy, California, in 1880, to Miss Susan J. Rogers, born in Washington county. New York, a daughter of Francis Rogers, nuw living in Calistoga, aged over eighty. This family, American for some generations, claims de- scent from John Rogers, the Smithfield martyr. The mother of Mrs. McFarling, nee Mary Boody, died March 1, 1875, aged fifty-seven. Mr. and Mrs. McFarling have three children— Lura, born May 9, 1881; Rose Eleanor, October 27, 1882, and Ashley Rogers, November 1, 1884.
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EORGE G. GERE, M. D., whose oflice is at No. 112 Grant avenue, has been a re^iident of California since 1877, and has practiced medicine for the past twenty years, ten of which have been in San Fran- cisco. He was born in Chenango county, New York State, in 1848, the son of Horatio N. and Juliana (Grant) Gere, the former a native of Massachusetts and the latter of
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New York State. Dr. Gere's primary eda- catiou was received in the public schools of New York State. His parents removing to Nebraska in 1857, where they were among the early settlers, Dr. Gere attended the seminary at Pawnee City, where he gradu- ated after a three years' course, in 1867. He then entered upon the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. A. S. Stewart of Pawnee City, Nebraska, with whom he studied, except when at college, until his graduation. Meanwhile he entered the Eclec- tic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, where he graduated after the usual three years' course in 1871. He immediately entered upon the practice of medicine in partnership with his former preceptor at Pawnee City, where he continued about two years. Later he prac- ticed with Dr. Stewart for two years at Tecamseh, Nebraska. Removing further West, Dr. Gere settled in Utah Territory, where he engaged in his practice in the town of Ophir, and later in Silver Reef. Finding the fluctuations of mining settle- ments uncongenial, he came to California, where practiced for four years in Porterville. In 1881 he removed to San Francisco, and has been in continuous practice since.
For about five years Dr. Gere held the chair of Anatomy in the California Medical College, and since that time, for the past five years, he has held the chair of Surgery in that college. Has been for eight years a member of the Board of Examiners of the Eclectic Medical Society of California, and has been its Secretary for the past seven years; has been President of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California for two years, and its Vice-President for the same number of years; was health officer for several years in Tulare county; was delegate to the National Eclectic Medical Association which met in St. Louis, in January, 1881,
and has been a member of the association since that time. Dr. Gere's specialty is the surgical branch of his profession, and partic- ularly the correction of facial and physical deformities. He is a member of the F. & A. M. He was made a member at the age of twenty -one years, and was probably one of the youngest men ever elected in the United States as Master of a lodge, receiving that honor at the age of twenty-three years.
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OSIAH GOULD SEVERANCE, at- torney, San Francisco, was born in the State of Maine, September 30, 1832, prepared for college at Hampden Academy,- and was admitted at Bowdoin College in 1852, but through the persuasions of friends withdrew, and entered upon the study of the law in the office of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin at Hampshire, where he pursued his studies for about one year, and then removed to Bangor, at which place he prepared himself for admission to the Supreme Judicial Court in the office of the late Hon. John E. God- frey, for many years Judge of the Probate Court of Penobscot county. Immediately after his admission to practice, in 1855, he determined to try his future in California, and landing in San Francisco on the first day of January, 1856, proceeded at once to the mining county of Amador, wnere he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors in the fall of 1856, and District Attorney in 1858 by the Douglas Democracy. He was very active in the formation of the Union party in Amador, and was chairman of the first county central committee, and ran as its candidate for the Assembly in 1862, but was defeated with the entire ticket, — he requiring only twenty- nine more votes to elect him. In the fall of 1862 he married Miss M. J.
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Tiel of Jackson, and removed to the adjoin- ing county of Calaveras, where he was elected District Attorney in the following year, and re-elected in 1865 to a second term. In the spring of 1869 he took up his residence in Sacramento, where he pursued the practice of his profession for four years, and then re- moved to San Francisco, where he has ever since continued the practice of law, being for a time Assistant District Attorney under Hon. D. J. Murphy. He was candidate at large on the straight Republican ticket for the late Constitutional Convention, but suf- fered defeat with the whole ticket.
Mr. Severance has, besides his legal labors, given some attention to literary work, and for a time was editor of the Amddor Ledger^ and was editor and proprietor of the San Andreas Register, He has written several poems, which have appeared in the period- icals, and has on numerous occasions com- posed and read poems at public celebrations.
Early in the history of fraternal societies Mr. Severance took an active part, and has continued to labor for the building up of these institutions, — notably the A. O. U. W. and Knights of Honor. Passing the chairs several years ago, he has been a member of the Grand Lodge of the A. O. U. W. every year for the past nine years, all of which time he has been a member of its most important committees — seven years on Com jittee on Appeals and two years on Laws. As chair- man of the Committee on Appeals his decis- ions have been sustained without exception, and many of them embraced questions of great legal technicality involving important rights, without the advantage of precedent in the crude state of new fraternal principles of law. He is now a meml)er of the Com- mittee on Appeals. He is also a member of the Grand Lodge of tiie Knights of Honor, and has several times served on the Commit-
tee on Laws of that body. He was made a Master Mason before leaving bis native State, but has never affiliated in California. He is a fluent, eloquent and forcible speaker; courteous and affable to all classes; a steadfast friend, given to large hospitality and very popular. Fraternity is not a mean- ingless word with him, and benevolent deeds to the unfortunate and distressed have en- deared him to his fraters and among those who have known him in the community in which he has lived. He is a tine specimen of physical and mental manhood, and stands at the head of the bar as one of the ablest lawyers on the Pacific coast. Although he has a large and lucrative practice, he finds time to attend to fraternal organizations, and almost from the commencement of so- ciety life he has been called upon to deliver addresses on all important occasions.
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NUD HENRY LUND was born in 1832 in the small town of Moss, in Norway (one of nine children), where his father was one of its most prominent business men. After receiving his education it was intended that young Lund should enter the navy, but his viking disposition proved too great for him to await a long course of study in the naval academy, and when fifteen years old he was placed in charge of one of his father's friends who com- manded a large sailing vessel, with which he made two voyages to the East Indies, when after two years he returned home to study navigation, and which examination he passed with the best character in the spring of 1850. After that he left for Copenhagen, and from there went to New York, where he caught the California gold fever, and from whence by sailing vessel rounded Cape Horn, found
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his way to San Francisco, and landed there in January, 1851. After three months here the great May fire came, from which during the night he had to fiee with his baggage from street to street, and daylight next morning found him with thousands of others on the crest of Telegraph Hill, with the whole city beneath them in ashes. That afternoon he took steamer for Stockton to try his luck in the mines; but, being unsuc- cessful there, and also after returning to San Francisco, where, meantime, he had em- barked in different pursuits, he took, in 1854, a position in the old English commercial house of Messrs. Cross & Co., with whom he remained for more than twelve years, having finally becjme their confidential clerk and the assistant manager of their large busi- ness.
in March, 1864, he married, and the next year (taking his wife with him) he went on a business trip for the house to England, and visited at the same time most of the conti- nent and also his home in Norway, after sixteen years' absence. The former proved exceedingly profitable to his employers, and the latter indescribably pleasant to himself and wife. He returned to San Francisco early in the following spring. In September, 1866, Mr. Lund established himself in San Francisco as an importer, shipping and com- mission merchant in foreign business, this necessitating him again leaving for Europe to make his connections there, and from which, after visiting all the commercial cen- ters of Europe, including the Paris Exposi- tion, he returned from a few months' hard but very successful work. He had then cor- respondence established all over the world. His business proved very profitable, and in 1872 he again left for Europe, more for pleasure than for business, and with his wife visited and made short stays in all places of
note in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Swe- den, Norway, Italy and Austria, including the Vienna Exposition, returning to Cali- fornia after about ten months' absence. His business continued to prosper, and in 1881, after sending his wife to Europe, via New York, he five months later left for Japan to join her, fulfilling the great desire of his life for a journey around the world. After visiting Japan, China, India, Egypt and Italy, he found his wife in Nice, where she had wintered, and together they then visited all the different countries of Europe, going north as far as North Cape to see the mid- night sun. Leaving his wife afterward in Paris, where his son was at school, he went in September. 1882, to Liverpool, and there opened a branch of his San Francisco house. He had then hoped to be able to retire from the active part of his business, but in Au- gust, 1883, was unexpectedly compelled to return to California, where he found that he had been involved in heavy losses through speculations that necessitated his taking again the entire management of the house there, leaving his trusted bookkeeper in Liv- erpool to attend to the branch at that place. In the spring of 1884 he was requested to act as consul for Sweden and Norway in San Francisco, and on April 24, 1885, it pleased the King of Sweden and Norway to appoint him his consul for the whole of California, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. Up till then there had been but little trade between the Pacific coast and the countries that Consul Lund represented, and it was rarely that their ships were seen there; but he at once resolved to try to increase both, and besides the existing vice consuls in Portland and Seattle, he had others appointed in San Diego, San Pedro and Port Town- send, making five vice consulates under him.
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Quite a little business has since been estab- lished with products of Sweden and Nor- way, and about fifty Swedish and Norwegian vessels come now annually to his consular district.
The business of Henry Lund & Co., has, during the past eight years since his last re- urn, continued to improve, and, after its twenty-five years of existence, is now in a very prosperous condition. At present he is ably assisted by his son, Henry Lund, Jr., aged twenty- two years.
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NDREW MYERS, a ranch-owner re- siding in Oakland, was born in Ger- many in 1827, a son of Jacob and Margaret (Julius) Myers. They came to America in 1886, settling in Albany, New York, and in 1840 moved to Wisconsin, set- tling on a farm in what is now Kenosha county. They had four sons and one daugh- ter, all still living. The eldest son, Jacob, is a ranch-owner in Colusa county. F. G. Myers, next to the youngest^ who came to California in 1849, is now a farmer in Wis- consin, but his three sons and one daughter are settled on ranches in Colusa county, Cali- fornia. Philip J., the other son, is a sheep- raiser in Nebraska. The only sifter became the wife of Edward Hopkins.
Andrew Myers, our subject, bought forty acres in Wisconsin in 1849 and farmed there until he came to California in 1852. The party numbered only six: Peter Petrie, the husband of his wife's sister, Jacob Myers, a cousin, two others not related, his eldest brother and himself. They had six horses and one wagon, and united with a large com- pany at Omaha. At Elk Horn river twenty- eight wagons joined them, the Indians being somewhat troublesome. A Pawnee chief
visited their camp when they were still dis- tant about thirteen miles from the Platte. They entertained him hospitably and induced him to stay, Mr. Myers secretly keeping watch while he slept. Whenever an Indian struck their camp they quietly induced him to remain over night as a precaution against attack by the roving band to which he be- longed. At Shell creek, on May 8, 1852, they were threatened by a band that seemed to be beyond the control of the chief whose friendship they had won, but they bought them ofli with some presents. They here re- ceived* a note from the captain of a train of emigrants who had preceded them, which contained the laconic suggestion, "If you are strong enough, give them fits." The Indians, as far as could l)e conjectured, were more sinned against than sinning through wanton and unwise outrages by some of the emi- grant trains. Escaping without serious dis- aster they took Sublette's Cut-off and reached Hangtown July 26, having left the Missouri on May 6. Of the eighty-two days spent in the journey about twenty-two were passed in camp at different points, the actual traveling being done in less than sixty days.
Mr. Myers and his brother joined their brother, F. G., who after three years' mining was then located in Yolo county, and all three went to Colusa county, where the other two took up land. The subject of this sketch, being sick for some time after his ar- rival, did not take up land, but in 1853 he bought the claim of his younger brother, raised two crops on the same, the first being all barley and the second mostly wheat, and sold the land to the same brother in 1855. He then bought in partnership with Peter Petrie 280 acres on Grand Island, which they farmed together five years. In 1860 Petrie sold his interest, but Mr. Myers re- tained his 280 acres until 1877. In 1875
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he had bonght 320 acres lower down, wliich lie Btill owns. He also owns five seetionB of land in Lue Angeles and Kem counties. In 1877 he settled in Oakland, chiefly for tho benetit of his wite'a health, liaving invested the principal part of his capital here, still re- taining Lis ranches iu Colusa and Loe An- geles contities.
Mr, Myers was married in wliat is now KenosLa county, Wisconsin, in 1847, to Miss Magdalene Nilles, born in Prnssia, a daugh- ter i>f Peter and Mary (Uerger) Nilles. The mother died in Germany in 1846, aged 6i\ty- six. Mr, and Mra. Myers are the parents of seven children, of whom four died in youth, and one, Katharine, the wife of Henry V. Weber, a blacksmith of Colusa, died iu child- birth, leaving no surviving issue. Two chil- dren are living: Magdalen, the wife of William Hamilton, who was coroner of this city from 1880 to 1887, and is now an under- taker in San Francisco; and Margaret, born in Colusa county, now the wife of W. T. Wilkins, a rancher of that county, owuiiig a place of his own and renting Mr. Myers' 320 acres in that section. Mrs. Myers died in Oakland. August 26. 1886; and Mr, Myers was again married in 1887, in San Francisco, to Mra, Belle (Chambers) Shepherd, a native of that city and an atniable and accomplished young widow. Mr. Myers has usually taken an active part in politics; was chairman of the Financial Committee of the German Re- publican Club in this city in 18S8,
J^OUIS F, DUNAND, of San Fi Ilw was born iu the city of New Orleans in ^SP 1849. ilis father came to this State in 1850, and the next year was followed by his family. The father was a well-known mining
schools during his boyhood, and afterward entered Santa Clara College, where he com- pleted his education. He subsequently com- menced the study of law, entering Hastings College o! Law, and was admitted in 1879 to practice in the courts of this State. In addition to bis general practice he has given much attention to land titles, real estate and commercial law, and has ac<)uired a success- ful and remunerative clientage. Mr. Da- nand is prominently identilied with the Masonic fraternity, the Ancient Order of Druids and other fraternal organizations,
jMatALTEU G. HOLMES, a lawyer of WVffllH San Francisco, was born in the city
[•■^Tl of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1845, His parents moved to Cincinnati during his infancy, where he was reared and attended school, completing his education at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. He began reading law in Cincinnati, and in 1869 came to Cali- fornia, where he resumed his law etadiee, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. While engaged in a general civil practice, he has also given mnch attention to admiralty practice, and in this branch of the profession he has attained great success. In politics he is a liepubiican, but is not an office-seeker,
R. J. D. HARTLEY, Grand Medical Director of the State of California, (J. O. of H., first saw the light of day in Baltimore, Maryland, thirty-nine summers ago. He is English and Scotch on bis father's aide, and German on his mother's. During all the years of boyhood he simply
Louie F. attended the public ' worked and attended school, and thus grew
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strong and robust physically and mentally, until at the tender age of fifteen years, when the Government was calling for more volun- teers to protect the American flag and pre- serve the Union intact, ho left his quiet home and friends behind to join the boys in blue in their loyal eflbrts to save the grandest re- public on which the sun ever shone. Owing to his age and youthful appearance, however, he was not accepted by the recruiting officers, who, by the way, knew his father, and there- fore proposed to return him to his home. Being fond of military display and having anticipated the fondest hopes of becoming a distinguished soldier of Uncle Sam, his dis- appointment was met with a more painful surprise than being struck by a shell from the enemy's camp. Feeling cast down, but not discouraged, and possessing a self-reliant spirit, he determined henceforth to be a man and take care of himself.
He therefore began his public career when less than sixteen years of age, by teach- ing school, with an empty pocket, among strangers, and with nothing to recommend him but an honest face and his manifest de- sire to rise in the world.
Mr. Jacob Barton, of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, received him to his heart and home and placed him in charge of one of the public schools, which he continued to teach for one year with great pleasure and profit to himself and especially the children, who be- came very strongly attached to him. By strict attention to business and the practice of judicious economy he was able to show at the close of his first year's work a cash on hand of $400, every cent of which was the result of his own labor.
He taught the public school during the day and gave instructions to classes of music during the evening; and when not otherwise occupied he was always found in Mr. Bar-
ton's private library of valuable books, pre- paring himself for his work the following day. His great love of study and high ap- preciation of scientific knowledge made him ambitious to secure a broad and liberal edu- cation. At the age of seventeen years he entered Albion College, Iowa, and invested his money in real estate in Marshalltown« Iowa, which quadrupled itself in less than twelve months. He completed his academic course at Albion in two years, when he sold his real estate in Iowa for $900, and entered Adrian College, Michigan, in 1865, at the age of nineteen, where he completed his literary education four years later.
In 1869 he matriculated as a student in the medical department of the University of Michigan, where he graduated with the highest honors in the year 1873. During his senior year at the university he was ap- pointed assistant to the chair of anatomy and physiology, and also found time to con- tinue his studies in botany, geology and mental philosophy in the department of literature and arts, under distinguished professors.
After graduating as Doctor of Medicine he began his professional career in the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he had a large practice from the start. From the Medical Society in Fort Wayne he was elected a delegate to the American Medical Association, which met in Detroit, Michigan, in 1874, and has continued his membership in said body ever since.
In 1874 he returned to Ann Arbor, Michi- gan, the seat of the university from which he graduated, and engaged in teaching medicine and surgery, and the practice of his pro- fession. The same year he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the University, also to membership in the County Medical Society. In 1876 he was elected a
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member of the Michigan State Medical Society, from which body he was elected a delegate to the American Medical Associa- tion, which met in Atlanta, Georgia, May 6, 1879. He was also a delegate to the Ameri- can Medical Association, which met in New York city in 1880. He devoted about six months during that year in Philadelphia and New York to the special work under eminent professors.
His father died about that time, and he returned to his home in Baltimore and was elected to membership in the Baltimore Medical Association. He established himself in a magnificent practice during Xhe short time he remained at home. But Baltimore was too slow for his Western habits, which had fastened themselves upon him. He therefore started for California in 1881 and located in Los Angeles, where he was soon surrounded by a large circle of friends and a lucrative practice.
He located permanently in San Francisco in 1883, where he might enjoy the ad- vantages of a large city. In 1886 he was elected to membership in the San Francisco County Medical Society. The same year he became a member of the California State Medical Society, which appointed him a dele- gate at its annual session, April 15, 1887, to represent said body at the meeting of the American Medical Association at Chicago, Illinois. He was at the same time elected a delegate to the Ninth International Medical Congress, which met in Washington, District of Columbia, September 5, 1887.
Being socially inclined, he has always taken a lively interest in fraternal societies, in not a few of which he is an active and de- voted member. He is a prominent Mason. In Odd Fellowship he has held high places of honor and trust. He is Surgeon and Major of the Second Regiment of the Uniform Ilank,
I. O. O. F., and the Rebekahs claim him as a CO- laborer in their noble work of love and philanthropy. He has held various offices in the Knights of Pythias order, and is at present Physician of his own lodge and Surgeon of the First California Regiment Uniform Rank, K. of P., with the rank of Major.
He is a charter member of Burnaby Lodge, No. 194, Sons of St. George, and has held the office of Physician and Surgeon to the same since the time it was instituted. He represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in August, 188-. In 1885 he was elected to the responsible office of Grand Medical Director of the U. O. of H., for the State of California. In 1886 he was re-elected to the same office with but little opposition, and in May of the present year was elected for the third time without opposition. Two years ago he visited the supreme officers at Indianapolis and received a royal welcome. No doubt the report he brought back with him of the solid condition of the order and the high standing of its su- preme officers had much to do with the sub- sequent growth of the order in California. Upon no officer of the order does its ultimate success depend more than the Grand Medical Director. He determines the quality of in- surable risks. With this power in the hands of one so well qualified it is felt that the order is safe. The Doctor is a member of the Execu- tive Board, and always present at its meetings.
In person he is five feet seven inches tall, is broad-shouldered and stoutly built, and weighs about 185 pounds. He has a large head, light brown hair and mustache, large, dark-blue eyes. He is neat in dress, orderly in habits, temperate in everything except brain work. He is genial, approachable, companionable, and seems eminently adapted for the work in which he is so earnestly en- gaged, and has strong characteristic features.
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[HARLES E. WILSON, attorney and counsellor at law, San Francisco, has re- sided here for many years, and as a lawyer has an excellent reputation, — a fact suflSciently evidenced by the large practice he enjoys. He is a prominent man, indeed, in social and business circles, — not that . e has ever desired this, but it has come naturally, as a result of his professional work. He was born at Brad- ford, Maine, and comes from an old estab- lished American family. The records show that his English ancestor, Roger Wilson, of Nottinghamshire, was a prominent cotton manufacturer. He, with others, belonged to the Dissenters, and, in consequence, had to flee from the persecution which was then re- lentless against them (1608). He went to Leyden, Scotland, and afterward returned to England and joined the stock company that fitted out the Mayflower for America. He did not embark with the pilgrims, his inter- ests keeping him in England. His youngest son. Lieutenant John Wilson, came in 1651 to this country, however, and settled at Wo- burn, Massachusetts. That gentleman had a large family, some eighteen children, being twice married. His grandson Joseph, moved to Thomaston, Maine, in 1794, and in 1806 to the plantation of Blakesburg, now the town of Bradford, Penobscot county, being the second settler there. His son Miles, the father of Charles E., succeeded him. He is still alive and mentally and physically vigor- ous, at the ripe age of ninety-one years. Miles Wilson held active place in the State. Never a politician, his opinions nevertheless carried weight. For a number of years he was an officer in the State militia, having been commissioned in 1828 Lieutenant by Governor Enoch Lincoln. He also served in the Legislature of his native home. In 1850 he came to California, mined in Calaveras
county, and in about two years returned home.
Mr. Charles E. Wilson, our subject, was brought up to farm work, thus learning such habits of industry as well fitted him for the duties of life, and at the same time he re- ceived a good academic education. He also engaged in teaching, with the intention of attending college, but the civil war broke out, and he joined the Second Maine Cavalry, in 1862, and served until he was mustered out in December, 1865. Enlisting as a private, he was promoted through several positions to that of First Lieutenant. His regiment took part in the Red River expedition, and was present at the capture of Mobile. It was incorporated in the Department of the Giilf, and although not present at any of the great battles, it certainly experienced all the toil and peril of war, for it was in innumerable smaller actions and skirmishes with the en- emy.
Following the war he began the study of law in the offices of Peters & Wilson, at Ban- gor, and two years and a half afterward he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Maine. He then came to this State. Then, in July, 1868, he came to Cali- fornia, since which time he has been con- stantly engaged in his chosen profession, building up and maintaining an excellent practice. He has had many important cases in real estate, lumber interests, etc., his prac- tice being civil. He is counsel for such wealthy corporations as the Fort Bragg Lum- ber Company, the Cotton-Eva Lumber Com- pany, the Noyo Lumber Company, the Usal Redwood Luml>er Company, a Grand Rapids, Michigan, company, operating on this coast, etc. If he has any specialty, it is of the above character, judging from the importance of the cases he has handled in this connection. He has, however, an extensive general civil
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practice. He is one of the best informed men in the city on almost every topic. Although genial and affable in manner, he belongs to but few clubs. Of course he is a member of the Bar Association. He has always taken an active part in the G. A. R., and is now Past Commander of George H. Thomas Post. He attended the encamp- ments at Portland, Maine, in 1885, at Mil- waukee in 1887, and at Boston in 1889. He is also a member of the A. O. U. W., and the K. of H. Has never taken an active part in politics.
0. VOLBERG, one of Alameda's most enterprising citizens, was born ^ in Fried richsdorf, Germany, July 23, 1833; and at the age of eighteen years emi- grated to the United States, landing at New York, where he remained a short time; then was two years at Charleston, South Carolina, when he went to New York, in order to embark for California. Coming by the Nicaragua route, he was nine days on the San Juan river, when the water was low, and then it required one day by mule-back to reach Graytown. He arrived in San Francisco in May, 1854. Being an upholsterer and saddler by trade (in Germany these two are combined in one calling), he resumed it here; and he has en- deavored to put into practice the Scriptural motto, ** Whatever thy hand lindeth to do, do it with thy might" — a text inide impressive on his memory by a sermon he heard in Charleston preached thereon. Within the last five years he has been instrumental in bringing out a machine for sewing carpets. While it is in all respects superior to the Singer sewing-machine for such purposes, it embraces one principle patented by the Singer Company; and as a compromise the company
agreed to let him manufacture and sell the machine for a royalty. It is used already in every civilized country on the globe.
He served a year as a member of the Board of Trustees of Alameda fifteen years ago, and three years ago he was elected again to the same position, on what was called the "Anti-High-License " ticket. Although op- posed to prohibition he is a temperate man in his habits. He was largely instrumental in shutting up the Schiitzen Park,where high car- nivals were frequently held by the rough ele- ment of the surrounding country. In the Blaine campaign of 1884, he was instru- mental in the establishment of a German Republican club, and was made president of the same. At that time he thought he would find out how American politics were carried on; and after a vigorous campaign he discovered that the " bosses " had everything " fixed up " as usual ; so that about all he had to do was to walk up and vote like any other man!
He has ever been an industrious man. Landing at San Francisco at four o'clock in the afternoon, by seven o'clock that evening he had secured a job. The first week he earned $42. He then visited a beautiful gambling saloon, and put down a dollar at one of the tables run by a little French woman who smiled on him and let him win several times. Eventually luck turned the other way, and he was about to put down his last dollar when some one from behind tapped him on the shoulder. Looking around, behold his em- ployer, who said, *' Look here, young man: 1 am doing this myself; I can't afford to have you do it, too." He had not enough left to pay his board bill, which hij employer had to advance. This was the first and last time Mr. Volberg ever invested in a game of chance.
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pfort in a carpet store on Third street, he con- tinued in partnership with him from 1856 to 1860. Mr. Volberg then started out in his old trade again. His present business was started in 1867, on Third street, and after- ward moved to No. 709, Market street, where he is now carrying on business. The present firm name is Schlueter & Volberg. In 1872 he took np his residence in Alameda^ locating at West End, where he has some valuable property.
When he was married, September 25, 1856, an assemblage of fifty-three persons were pres- ent, the only lady present being the bride. They were all singers and members of sing- ing clubs. Two guitars were on hand, and the marriage was celebrated in an ins[)iring manner. Mrs. Volberg, formerly Catharine Ried, was born but a short distance from her husband's birthplace in Germany; arrived at San Francisco, at four o'clock, p. m., and at seven the same evening was married, in the house of A. Sutro, on Washington street, just above Dupont. Sutro's wife was then keep- ing a lodging-house. Mr. Volberg had his shop in the basement of the same house, and his sleeping room upstairs. Mr. and Mrs. Volberg have had seven chiUrcn, only three of whom are now living.
The first venture made by our subject in real estate was a good one. He purchased a lot and house on a large sand hill on Natoraa street, on credit, and after occupying it about a month, the city graders began digging the hill down for sand with which to fill up Sixth street and consequently lowered the house about thirty-five feet, to a level with the authorized grade.
Mr. Volberg is a man of pushing enterprise, always ready to assist benevolent movements; a man of extensive reading, and thoroughly conversant with past and current events; and in society is all that could be desired. He
speaks fluently four different languages. In his business ventures he has been remarkably successful.
EORGE WILLIAM REED, District Attorney of Alameda county, was born in Vassalboro, Maine, June 14, 1852, a son of William and Hannah C. (Hall) Beed, both of New England ancestry for several generations and residents of Oakland since 1856. The founder of the Reed family in America was Paul Reed, born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1735. Emigrating to British colonies, he first settled in Yarmouth, Maine, and when the struggle for independence came, he lent a willing and efiicient hand as a naval captain. He commanded a privateer, and is credited with having taken several valuable prizes. He died in Salem, Massachusetts, January 21, 1799. Robert Reed, born about the middle of the last century, a son of Paul, was married about the close of the Revolu- tion, to Miss Sarah Stevens, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. He was in the revenue ser- vice for several years in command of a cutter, with headquarters at Wiscasset, Maine, and lived to an advanced age. Captain William lieed, his son, born January 18, 1787, en- gaged in a seafaring life, was married to Miss Hannah P. Hutchins, and moved to Vassal- boro, Maine, in 1835. Their son, also known as Captain WilMam Reed, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born on Cape Newagen (now Westport) Island, Lincoln county, Maine. October 11, 1811, he began going to sea with his father at the early age of twenty. He conveyed the first load of cotton direct to Europe, from Galveston to Havre de Grace, about 1846, and for the re- turn voyage loaded at Bordeaux with wines and brandies for New York. In his seafaring life of nearly thirty years, he entered every
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important port from Maine to Florida, as well as Galveston, Mobile and New Orleans, on the Gulf, and made several voyages to Cuba and the West India Islands. He was married December 30, 1839, to Miss Hannah Carleton Hall, born in Vassalboro, Maine, August 16, 1818, a daughter of John Gotfe and Mercy (Taylor) Hall. The first immigration of the family, now known as the Halls of Dover, New Hampshire, was John Hall, born in England in 1617. His son Ralph, born about 1650, was the father of John, born in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1685; Sam- uel, the son of John, born about 1715, was the father of Ebenezer, born July 20, 1741, who died in Gorham, Maine, Au- gust 26, 1807. John Goffe Hall, born in Newcastle, Maine, March 4, 1792, a son of Ebenezer, moved to Vassalboro, Maine, in 1808, and was there married, December 11, 1815, to Mercy Taylor, born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, January 12, 1795. Her father, a native of Massachusetts, lived to the remarkable age of 101 years and eleven months. John Goffe Hall was for many years Sheriff of Kennebec county, Maine, and after- ward represented that district in the Legis- lature. He died in V assalboro, in 1887, aged ninety-five, where also on March 6, 1879, had died his wife in her eighty-fifth year.
Captain William Reed, the father of our subject, first came to California on the Rob Roy, by way of Cape Horn, with certain associates, arriving in San Francisco August 9, 1850. The company of which he was a member brought as part of the cargo the parts of a stern- wheel steamer, which, being put together in San Francisco, plied for some time between Sacramento and Marysville, Mr. Reed being the captain. In 1851 he returned to Maine and engaged in farming until 1855, when he came again to California, and engaged in mining until rejoined by his
wife and children, who arrived November 14, 1856. They then settled in Oakland, where he has been chiefly occupied with real estate, of which he is still a large owner. Mr. and Mrs. William Reed have four living children, fifteen grandchildren, and one greatgrand- child. The children are: Elizabeth Myrick, born November 21, 1840, now the widow of David Pierce Barstow, a native of Vermont, a prominent attorney of San Francisco, de- ceased April 24, 1882; Charles Goffe. born December 24, 1844; George William, born June 14, 1852; Nellie Carleton, born May 17, 1854, the wife of Thomas C. Mayon, of this city, who is at present engaged in de- veloping a mine for the Alaska Commercial Qompany.
George William Reed, arriving in Oakland in his fourth year, attended the public schools until the age of twelve, when ho became a pupil in the Oakland College School, from which he entered the University of California, where he was graduated in 1872. He then read law for about a year, when, on the elec- tion of his brother, Charles G., as County Clerk, he was appointed deputy and filled that position for four years. He then re- sumed his law studies, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1879. In 1880 he entered the oftice of A. A. Moore, as law clerk, remaining until 1883, when he was admitted to partnership, under the style of Moore & Reed, which continued until Janu- ary 1, 1889, when Mr. Reed entered on the discharge of his duties in the office of Dis- trict Attorney, to which he had been elected November 6, 1888. Mr. Reed is a member of the Alameda County Bar Association, of University Lodge, No. 144, I. O. O. F., and several other fraternal organizations. He was re-elected District Attorney at the election held No ember 4, 1890.
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George W. Keed was married in Oakland, October 25, 1877, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Munroe, born in Alameda, September 5, 1854. Tbey have three children: Mabel Linden, born July 26, 1878; Clarence Munroe, De- cember 25, 1879; and Russell Albert, May 2, 1885.
Charles Goflfe Keed, the elder brother, was almost twelve years old when the family set- tled in Oakland, and received hie later educa- tion here in the *' College School," graduating at the age of eighteen, among the first, if not the first, in his class in the English course. He then became a merchant's clerk for some six years, four of which were spent in one bouse in San Francisco. In 1868 he went into the hardware business, in the firm of Goodrich & Reed, for nearly two years. Again he was a merchant's clerk for two years. On the first Monday in March, 1872, he became deputy County Clerk, filling the position until 1876, when he became County Clerk for four years, and from 1881 to 1884 was Deputy County Treasurer, lacking but a few weeks of twelve years in the service of the county as chief or deputy. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1879, but has never practiced law. He entered the employ of the Union National Bank of this city in Feb- ruary, 1884, and now fills the ix)8ition of paying teller acceptably to directors and patrons.
Charles G. Eeed was married in this city January 8, 1868, to Miss Flora Alice Moore, born in Bridgton, Maine, March 22, 1851, a daughter of Gorham H. and Mary A. (Jenk- ins) Moore. The father died in this city in middle life; the mother is still living, being now a resident of Oregon. The children of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Reed are: Olive Alice, born October 17, 1869; Elmer, January 9, 1871; Aimee Evelyn, January 28, 1872; Eva May, August 31, 1875.
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OUIS BAZET, M. D., whose oflie^ is at No. 22 Geary street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California for the past eight years, and has practiced medicine in San Francisco during those years. He was born in Pau, Department of Basses Pyr- enees, in the southwestern part of France, in 1848, the son of Eugene and Rosalie (Touzet) Bazet, also natives of that Department of France, and where his ancestors for many generations have resided. His father was a veterinary surgeon of repute in that neigh- borhood. Dr. Bazet's primary education was received in the schools of his native city, passing the usual examinations. At the age of seventeen years he left home for Paris, where he lived for two years. In 1868 he went to Cuba, and lived in Havana about nine months, engaged in pharmacy and the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Briard. Coming to the United States he passed the next three years in private study and in earning in various ways the funds necessary to carry him through a course of medical study. Entering in 1873 the matriculating class of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, he graduated at that institution after the usual courses, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1876. Mr. Bazet then went to Europe, where for two years in the hospitals of France, Belgium and England, he pursued post-graduate studies and attended the clinics, receiving at the same time an experience only to be had in those institutions. Returning to the Pa- cific Coast he practiced for one and a half years in Eureka, Nevada, and later for nearly two years in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, and finally settling in San Francisco, in De- cember, 1883, since which time he has prac- ticed continuously in this city. In 1887 he was elected as one of the vieiting physicians
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of the French hospital of this city, a position which he still fills. He is also one of the raernl>er6 of the staff of the Polyclinic of San Francisco, and also the State and County Medical Societies of San Francisco.
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R JOHN SMALLEY ADAMS, one of the foremost practitioners of Oakland, was born at Highgate, Franklin coanty, Vermont, December 24, 1830, his parents being Lemuel and Sallie (Smalley) Adams. On his father's side he descended from one of the olc^est and best known families of New England. Lemuel Adams, his father, a suc- cessful farmer and large landowner, was one of the substantial men of Franklin county, Vermont. His wife, whom he married there, also came of an old New England fam- ily. They were the parents of four children, namely: J. S., our subject; Henry F., who was educated at Fairfax, Vermont, in the New England Baptist College, and at the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, served for a time in the civil war as Surgeon of the Tenth Michigan Regiment, resigned on ac- count of failing health, afterward rejoined the army and had charge of hospitals in Ten- nessee, and eventually removed to California, dying at Colton, January 18, 1890, from the effects of sickness contracted in the service of his country; Francis J., now of Jackson- ville, Illinois; and Edward Payson, the owner of the old Adams homestead, who is now a State Senator of Vermont, residing at Swan- ton, Vermont, and engaged in commission and manufacturing business.
J. S. Adams, the subject of this sketch, was but three years of age when his parents removed from Highgate to Sheldon, Ver- mont, and in the latter place, on arriving at suitable age, he commenced his education in
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the common schools, continuing until four- teen years old, after which he attended Bakersfield and Franklin Academy, prepara- tory to a college course. At Sheldon he be- gan the study of medicine, reading for a time with Dr. S. W. Landon, after which he at- tended lectures at Woodstock Medical Col- lege. He next went to Albany, New York, and while attending the medical college of that city, was a favored student of the late celebrated physician and surgeon. Dr. John Swinburne, who was afterward quarantine officer of the port of New York, was a Sur- geon in the Union army, and sent to France by the United States Government as a mem- ber of the Ambulance Committee, and was, later on, Mayor of Albany, New York, and a member of Congress. Our subject en- joyed the especial interest and care of Dr. Swinburne, and until his graduation, De- cember 24, 1855, was the almost constant companion and protege of that famous Doc- tor.
Leaving college, Dr. Adams went to Troy, New York, and there entered upon the active practice of his profession, gaining, during the years of his residence there, substantial recognition of his merit, as well as adding largely to his professional knowledge by nearly six years' hospital experience in Albany and Troy. His health became shat- tered, however, by too constant application, and in 1863 he left there for California with his wife (whom he had mArried in Troy, June 19, 1856), and his son, Frank L. They made the tiresome journey across the plains, via Council Bluflfs, the North Platte, Sweetwater, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake and Carson City. Arriving in California, he spent four years in the mountainous county of Alpine. The walking and riding incident to his practice brought back his former strength and health, and leaving that region he removed to San
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Francisco. Finding the climate here iin- suited to him, he changed his location to St. Helena, Napa county, from which point he practiced extensively in that and adjoining connties. In 1874 he came t(5 Oakland, and here he soon took a front rank in his profes- sion, being at first alone in his practice, but afterward in partnership with Dr. A. II. Agard, with whom he has since for the most part l)een closely associated. Shortly after taking up liis location here, he went to Eu- rope on a tour of recreation. While there, he became a constant attendant on the prin- cipal hospitals of London, and his trip was extended to nearly a year's duration.
Dr. Adams is a member of the Alameda County Medical Association, of which he has been president, and was also one of the first members of the State Medical Society. He is a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. He has kept thoroughly in pace with the progress of medical science, and his long and varied ex- perience in practice, together with that fact, has attained for him his present standing. He is known in the profession as one of the most practical of its exponents, reasoning quickly from effect to cause, — the most im- portant element of diagnosis, — and possessing the faculty of teing able to readily and ef- ficiently apply the knowledge obtained by both study and practice. This is, in fact, the secret of success in every calling of life, and pre-eminently so in*that grandest of all, the profession of medicine.
Dr. Adams was bereaved in 1885 by the death of his wife, who died September 4 of that year. She was by birth Ellen Tompkins, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, and daughter of Clark Tompkins, who, when she was a mere child, removed to Troy, New York, where he was a leading manufacturer and inventor. Two children were born to
Dr. Adams and wife, viz.: Frank L , hereafter mentioned, and Carrie T., a young lady of promising musical talent, who commenced her education here in private schools, and has been since 1888 in attendance at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts, where it is her intention to complete the course.
Dr. Frank L. Adams, though yet a yonng man« has progressed with such strides in the medical profession as to be worthy of special mention among its leading representatives in the cities of Oakland and San Francisco. He was born in Troy, New York, July 30, 1858, and was principally reared in Oakland. He received the advantages afforded by the public schools of the latter city, and then at- tended the Universitv of Calitornia, where he graduated in the class of 1881. At the commencement exercises attendant on his graduation, he delivered an oration which commanded marked attention and much fa- vorable comment on account of the ability displayed, and a succesbful career was pre- dicted for the orator. The prediction has so far been more than fulfilled. He at once entered faithfully and earnestly upon a medical career, reading with his father and attending Cooper Medical Colleoje, San Fran- cisco, where he was graduated in 1883. During the year foll«>wing he was on the medical staff of the city and county hospital of San Francisco, and then began what has proven a remarkably successful practice in Oakland. He is now serving his third term on the Board of Health of the city.
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1843, and his education was received in Cbarlottetown, graduating at the normal school in that city. He then tanght school for seven years. In 1866 he commenced the study of medicine in Chicago, entering the Rush Medical College, where he continued for two years. He then entered the drug busi- ness, in which he remained until 1873. Dr. Maclean next entered the Bennett Medical College, at which he graduated in 187-. He entered upon the practice of medicine in Douglas, Michigan, remaining there until 1879, when he came to California, locating in San Francisco.
Dr. Maclean is the President and Dean of the California Medical College, having held this position since 1879. For about ten years he filled the chairs of Obstetrics and Gyne- cology. For the past year he has given up the latter chair, holding that on Obstetrics only. He is president of the Board of Ex- aminers of the Eclectic Medical Society of California, a member of the State Medical Society of California, and of the National Eclectic Medical Association.
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JLETT R, COTTON, a short sketch of whom follows, is a native of the State of Ohio, and a son of John Cotton, a native of Massachusetts, and a descendent of the noted Cotton family of Colonial days. The first instruction our subject received was in the common schools; he then attended Cottage Hill Academy, Ellsworth, Ohio, and afterward became a student at Alleghany College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. He after- wards went South, and for two years was en- gaged in teaching in Fayette county, Ten- nessee. At the end of this period he went to Iowa, studied law in Davenport, and was admitted to the bar. It was about this time
that the attention of the whole civilized world was centered upon California on ac- count of the gold discoveries which had been made there. Mr. Cotton determined to try his fortunes on the coast, and made the trip by ox team across the plains in the " ortho dox " fashion. He arrived in the State of California in October, 1849, and went imme- diately to the mines. After a successful experience there covering a period of two years, he returned to Iowa, and resumed his professional work at De Witt. For more than thirty years he was one of the leading members of the bar of the State, and was prominently identified with its legislature. In 1851 he was elected Judge of Clinton county and held that position for two years. He was elected a member of the Consitu- tional Convention in 1857, and represented this important county in the legislature for four years, a portion of which time he was Speaker of the House. In 1870 he was elected to Congress, and after serving two years, was re-elected, discharging the duties of the office for four years with great skill and credit to himself and the entire satisfac- tion of his constituency.
In 1883 Judge Cotton returned to the Pa- cific Coast, and since that time he has occu- pied a leading position in the legal profession of San Francisco. He has been prominently identified with the Masonic order for a half century; he was Grand Master of the State of Iowa in 1855 and 1856, and is a thirty- third degree Maspn, Scottish Rite. He is also an honored member of the California Pioneer Society. ^
C. HUSSEY was born in the State of Maine in 1832. His ancestors were ^ early settlers of New England, and his father was a farmer by occupation.
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Mr. Hussey attended school and served an apprenticeship to the trade of ship-carpenter and joiner, and after reaching manhood deter- mined to try his fortune on the Pacific coast. Accordingly, in 1855, he sei sail on the Northern Light for Nicaragua, and thence on the Sierra Nevada continued his voyage to this city. After a few months' stay in San Francisco, he sought the mines and re- mained there some time; went up on one of the first ships to the Fraser river mines. In 1859 he returned to San Francisco and en- gaged in contracting and building, and for over thirty years has been ])rominently identified with the building interests here.
From early boyhood Mr. Hussey has depended on his own exertions. When only ten years old he left home and learned his trade, and before he was twenty had earned and saved $500. He has taken some heavy contracts, and has had an extensive experience in building here; enjoys an enviable reputa- tion for fine work, and during his long business career in this city has won many friends.
AMES LARUE, of the firm of Mathews & Larue, real-estate and insurance agents, of Oakland, was born in St. Joseph, Mich- igan, April 12, 1840, a son of James R. and Sarah (Van Buskirk) Larue, who were mar- ried in their native State, New Jersey. His father was a paper manufacturer in Bergen county, that State, and about 1838 moved to Michigan, settling in St. Joseph county, as a pioneer, and engaged in real estate, lumber- ing and farming. Two sons were born there, — L. B. and James, and two daughters, — Maria and Cathleen. The father first came to California in 1849, across the plains, and went to mining in El Dorado county near Placerville; then for two years was engaged
in the produce business in Sacramento; next went to San Francisco and took up a claim of 160 acres near the willows, and carried on a dairy business about a year. Selling out there he moved to what was then San Anto- nio in 1852, bought about 200 acres of the Peralta ranch, kept a general store, — the first in that place — bought redwood from the lum- ber manufacturers and sold it in Oakland and San Francisco, he being thus the first lum- ber dealer in what is now Oakland. The lumber yard is now conducted by E. M. Derby & Co. He continued in that business until 1858; built two steamers, the San An- tonio and Oakland, ferry boats, running them between San Francisco and Oakland until about 1866. After selling the boats to the Central Pacific Railway Company, he con- tinued in the lumber huincss until his death in January, 1872. He was born in February, 1800. In 1856-7 he was a member of the State Assembly. The mother and one child, Luke B., came out in 1852; James and Cath- leen followed in 1853; the others remained. One sister, Maria, now Mrs. J. B. Suther- land, of St. Joseph, Michigan, and James (our subject), are living. She is aged about sixty years. Their mother lived to be about sixty-eight years old, dying in 1878. The grandparents on both sides, natives of New Jersey, were well advanced in years at the time of their death.
Jamov^ Lame was first educated in Olivet, Michigan, and after coming here, in the Jes- uit College at Santa Clara; then in John R. Jarboe'p academy in Alameda, about three years. In 1858 he went to work as a steam- boat clerk for his father, remaining so em- ployed until the saleof his boats to the railway company in 1866; next he was engaged in min- ing in Montana, near Helena, for a year; then was assistant of his father here in Oakland in the lumber business until his death in 1872
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He then cod tinned the same nntil 1880, when he sold out and engaged in hie present basiness. In 1885 he formed a partnership with Mr. Mathews, under the present style of Mathews <& Larue. Mr. Larue has been Assessor of Brooklyn township, and a mem- ber of the Council of the City of Oakland. Is a member of Brooklyn Lodge, F. & A. M. He was married in Oakland, in 1869, to Miss Lydia Palmer, a native of New York, and a daughter of Silas and Kuth (Reed) Palm- er, both natives of New York State, who lived to about the age of seventy, the father dying in Wisconsin and the mother in Oak- land. Mr. and Mrs. Larue have five living children, — Ruth, Mamie, James Buskirk, Lloyd Palmer and Sarah Yan Buskirk Larue.
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,ENRY SEYENING, President of the Bank of Alameda, was born in the city of Herford, Westphalia, Germany, June 8, 1833, and from the age of twelve to fifteen years he was an attendant at the gymnasium. Then for four and a half years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In the fall of 1852 he started for California, came around Cape Horn and arrived at San Francisco in June the next year. He immediately went on to ^itolumne county, to meet there his brother ^ho had preceded him to this State, and en- Ipiged in mining there for several years. In 1856 he entered into partnership with Fritz Boehmer in mercantile pursuits at Campo Seco, and later at Columbia, that county, with satisfactory success. In 1879 he became President of the Tuolumne Water Company and held that position during his residence there. He was also Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express agent at Columbia for about twelve years, and carried on private banking. In 1884 he disposed of his interests there and
came to Alameda, where he has since. resided.
In April, 1886, he was elected President of the Bank of Alameda, which position he now fills, with entire satisfaction to the stock- holders, as well as to the public. He is a thorough, practical business man and an hon- ored citizen. Following is an account of the bank as published in the local papers:
"The Bank of Alameda is the ontgro'^th of a private bank which commenced business in Alameda, October 1, 1878. The firm name was John W. Hinds &Co. Mr. Hinds was then President of the First National Bank of San Jose. At the end of one year this bank was succeeded by the First National Bank of Alanieda, with a paid-up capital of $50,000. This was the first national bank to be organized in California upon a currency basis, the others being national gold banks. In January, 1881, the capital was increased to $75,000, and in July, 1881, to $100,000. In January, 1883, Mr. Conrad Liese was elected president of the bank, the directors being Messrs. Liese, Thompson, Linderman, Knowl and Schroeder. Upon the death of Mr. Liese, in April, 1886, Mr. Henry Seven- ing was elected president, and he has con- tinued to serve in that capicity every since. The bank moved tq its new building January 1, 1888, and now occupies the handsomest and best appointed banking room on this side of the bay, with possibly one exception. The large fire-proof vaults and the burglar- proof safe protected by a time lock, are the most expensive and the most secure that are ma*nufactured, all being from the well-known manufacturers, Messrs. Hall & Co. The vault is exposed to plain view on every side, and is inspected by a watchman at short inter- vals during the night, making it simply impossible for burglars to obtain an entrance. The well-known integrity and high standing of every officer and director places the bank
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apon as solid a basis as any bank can be. Tlie assets of the bank are now $329,598.63. These are periodically examined in detail by a committee of the directors, and at the last examination, jnst held, were pronounced per- fectly good and satisfactory in every partic- ular. The fact that the deposits have increased about $80,000 in the past year is the best evidence that both the bank and city are on the high road to prosperity."
The present paid-up capital is $100,000; surplus and undivided proiits, $30,000. The Alameda Savings Bank was organized Feb- ruary 1, 1890, with a capital stock of $100,- 000, and is managed by the same company and in the same manner as the Bank of Ala- meda. The number of shareholders is forty- nine, the most of whom are residents of Ala- meda. The vice-president of these banks is Dell Linderman; cashier and secretary, J. E. Baker; the other directors are A. Schroeder, R. R. Thompson, J. Knowl, D. L. Randolph and Columbus Bartlett.
Mr. Sevening is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Oak Grove Lodge, No. 215, of Alameda, Alameda Chapter, No. 70, R. A. M., and of Pacific Coramandery, No. 3, K. T., of Sonora, Tuolumne county, California. At Columbia, that county, in June, 1860, he married Miss Louisa Wedl, a native of Bavaria, Germany, and they have one son and three daughters.
EELY F. LONG, M. D., whose office is at 14 Grant avenue, San Francisco, has been a resident of California for the past thirteeen years, and has practiced medi- cine in San Francisco for the past nine years. He was born in St. John's, New Brunswick, in 1855, and is of German and English descent, his ancestors having been early settlers of New
England. About the close of the Revolu- tionary war, being in sympathy with the Eng- lish government, they left the United States and removed to New Brunswick, where the family have remained, many members of it, however, having returned to this country within the last fifty years.
Dr. Long received his early education in the schools of New Brunswick, and com- menced the study of medicine in January, 1878, under the preceptorship of Dr. S. B. Foster of Eureka, Humboldt county, Cali- fornia. Soon afterward he entered the medi- cal department of the University of Cali- fornia, where he attended two courses of lec- tures. In 1880 he went to New York and entered the medical department of the Univer- sity of the City of New York, where he grad- uated after the usual course, in 1881, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. He returned at once after graduation to California, and entered into private practice in San Fran- cisco, where he has built up a large and lucra- tive patronage. Dr. Long is a member of the State and County Medical Societies, of the Masonic, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and other fraternal societies.
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ILLIAM SEYMOUR PHELA'N,
of the firm of Phelan «&; Fish, whole- sale and retail importing grocers of Oakland, was born in New York city, February 19, 1838, a son of John and Prudence L. (Husted) Phelan, both of whom died at the age of about forty years. The maternal grandfather, Thomas Seymour Hu- sted, was a farmer of Fairfield county, Con- necticut, and lived to the age of seventy years; and his wife, by birth a Miss Crissey, lived to about the same age. Both were of New England ancestry for several genera-
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tions. John Phelan, the father of W. S., was by birth an American of Irish descent, and a carpenter by trade, in New York city, and at his death left four children, George E., John R., William S. and Charles T., of whom the two eldest came to California about 1850 and engaged in mining. George E. was occupied near Jacksonville, Oregon, when last heard from in 1853, and John R. died near San Andreas, in Calaveras county. William S. and Charles T. were placed under the guardiatiship of W. K. Tattersall, an official member of the Sixth Street Bap- tist Church, of New York, of which their parents had been members. They were sent to board at a farm house in central New York at the expense of the estate left by their father, and attended a country school. By mismanagement of the estate or the self- seeking of their guardian they were at the age of fourteen years thrown on their resources, and were obliged to take legal steps to obtain their inheritance.
Mr. W. S. Phelan, our present subject, is a good type of the self-made man, owing but little to fortune except what he has wrung from her by hard work from his youth up, by persistent industry and frugal living, and to birth the common inheritance of a good name, good sense, good health and the indomitable energy that have made him literally the *' architect of his own fortune." After a brief experience of farm work, he learned telegraphy at the age of eighteen at Fonda, New York, and was for many years operator and station agent on railroads in Canada and the Western States, when he emigrated to Califor.iia, by way of New York and Panama, arriving in San Francisco in June, 1861. Soon after his arrival he was employed as telegraph operator at Virginia City, Nevada, and afterw.irl entered into partnership at Gold Hill, Nevada, with S.
W. Chubbuck, who had the postoffi^e, tele- graph office and stationery store at that point. He was admitted into partnership in the bankino: business of H. H. Flairar & Co., Gold Hill, in 1870, withdrawing a year and a half later, and after a few months in Sin Jose came to Oakland, in 1872. After a year or two more in the service of the Western Union Telegraph Company as oper- ator, he engaged in sheep-raising in Fresno county for four or five years; after that he was a money broker in San Francisco; and in 1880 he formed a partnership with George L. Fish, a retail grocer in East Oakland, and from this has grown in ten years the prosperous wholesale and import- ing grocery business of Phelan & Fish, of Oakland, who are now universally regarded as among the largest houses in their line on this coast. Their main store, Nos. 466 to 472 Eleventh street, is eighty feet wide by ninety to 100 feet in depth. They do a large jobbing trade throughout the coast, pur- chasing their goods in carload lots in the East, for cash, thus securing the double ad- vantage of low freights and cash discounts. Their enterprise has been of the wide awake and unremitting order, and their business has accordingly grown with phenoiienal rapidity, until their large central store and outside warehouses are really insufficient to accomrnodate the demands of their trade. In their retail department their success has been equally great, and to meet its require- ments they established a branch at 1308 San Pablo avenue, in March, 1890, and one at the corner of Seventh and Henry streets in June following. They employ six delivery wagons and eighteen men in their city trade, besides the labor and service required for shipping goods to outside points. They have made but few mistakes, and have forced success by unremitting industry.
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Straightforward business methods, close at- tention to the wants of their patrons and a consistent uniformity in the fair treat- ment of their customers. The least expert buyer is always sure of full measure, correct weight and good quality at the lowest rates when dealing with Phelan & Fish. The firm are among the leading stockholders of the First National Bank of Oakland, in which Mr. Phelan is a director.
Mr. Phelan was married in San Fran- cisco, January 19, 1871, to Louise M. Putnam, who was born in New Hampshire, a daughter of Hervey and Lovina (Hall) Putnam, both of New England descent for several generations, and still living. Mr. and Mrs. Phelan have two children: Amy Louise, bom June 12, 1873, and now attend, ing the Oakland High School; and Seymour Husted, bom in Fruitvale, May 21, 1880, and attending the public school. The beautiful home of the family is surrounded by thirty- five acres of fruit land in the pleasant suburb of Fruitvale.
^OHN LEFFLER, M. D., whose office is at No. 22 Geary street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1864, and has practiced medicine on the coast for the past sixteen years. He was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, in 1842, on the farm which is still owned and con- ducted by his father. His early education was received in the public schools of that county, and he also worked on his father's farm until the age of eighteen years. During the Pike's Peak excitement of 1862, Mr. Leffier left home, and, except a visit home in 1884, he has remained West since that time. He spent two years in Colorado, engaged in mining, ranching and stock-raising. On
coming to California in 1864, he worked on a ranch for about two years, and then attended the Sotoyome Institute at Healds- burg, from 1867 to 1869. He then engaged in teaching school, in which he continued for about five years, meanwhile engaging in the study of medicine. In 1872 he came to San Francisco and studied under the preceptor- ship of Dr. L. C. Lane, at the same time attending lectures at the Medical College of the Pacific, now the Cooper Medical College, graduating at that institution November 5, 1874. Dr. Leffier commenced the practice of medicine at Martinez, Contra Costa county, and continued there for about thirteen yeara. In 1887 he returned to San Francisco, where he has built up a satisfactory practice. Dr. Leffier is one of the medical examiners of the Society of Chosen Friends of San Francisco*
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OSEPH KNOWLAND.— There are few names better known in connection with the lumber and shipping interests of this coast than that of the above gentleman. Mr. Knowland came to California when quite young, a stranger in a strange land. He brought with him, however, a heritage of good principles, a sound and vigorous frame and indomitable resolution to make his life here successful, and these were of infinitely greater service to him in his contests here than wealth would have been. His life work since coming has been marked by continued industry, and to this was added keen busi- ness ability; so, that he succeeded in his aims is but natural. He now is well known par- ticularly in commercial and shipping circles; hence we doubt not the facts of his history herewith given will be read with some interest.
Mr. Knowland was born in New York and
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raised at Sonthampton, Long Island, and there he received his schooling. He was yet in his 'teens when the news of the gold discovery here was carried East, and this aroused in him a spirit of enterprise that only the ven- ture to the far West could satisfy. In com- ing to California he was well equipped. He had, as we stated, good health, and the moral home education he received was a staunch foundation for his after work. He came by way of the Isthmus, going to Aspin- wall on the George Law. He arrived in San Francisco February 14, 1857, on the John L. Stephens.
Shortly after he went to the mines and worked in the usual manner of that early time in the neighborhood of Yankee Jim's, Placer county. He did not mine long, how- ever, for taking sick he returned to San Francisco. Mining indeed was not such as imagination had painted it, nor did it prove as lucrative. In this city he soon secured an engagement with the shipping house of Moore & Folger, then agents for a line of clipper ships running between here and New York. He was with them for a con- siderable period, and also had other engage- ments of like character prior to his entering the lumber business. His first experience in this business was in the year 1862, when he began with Benjamin Dore. Afterward he was with the house of Blyth & Wether- bee. In 1867 he entered business for him- self with Mr. Springer, under the title of Springer & Knowland, and so continued for some three years. About this period Mr. Knowland had a sick spell and was out of business for about a year. He next entered the lumber business, associated with Charles F. Doe, under the title of Knowland & Doe. He was so associated for a number of years. Prior to his connection with the Gardiner Mill Co. in 1882, Mr. Knowland made a trip I
East. From 1882 up to the present he has been agent here of this company, and is in fact the managing owner. The Gardiner Mill Company have a very important enter- prise. The mill, which was located at Gar- diner City, Oregon, was burned in October, 1888, but this impeded operations only for a time. Of this company Mr. Knowland is the president as well. It owns extensive lumber lands, and has interests in a lar^e coasting fleet. In its operations indeed large capital is used, and used in a very enterpris- ing manner. In giving this running sum- mary of Mr. Knowland's history we do not go into detail, for these would take more space than our limits would permit. Enough is shown, however, to give an idea of his enterprise and the industry that has charac- terized him since coming here. Besides the above, indeed, he has at various times en- gaged in other important undertakings. He has truly been a far-seeing man and used the wealth that by his own energy he has accum- ulated very wisely. For instance, he was the main owner in the well-knovTn whaler, the Amethyst, wrecked some time ago, and to the rescue of the crew of which the Govern- ment dispatched a relief vessel. He at one time was also interested with the Hoopers and Talbots in the San Pedro Lumber Co., and was a director of that company. He also had laf^e interests in the Southern Lumber Co. of San Diego, which he closed out. Of this he was president and one of the board of directors. With Gov. Low, Egbert Judson and other prominent men, he was interested largely at one time in Ari- zona mines.
He has been a resident of Alameda since 1872. Is now one of the directors and the largest owner in the Alameda Bank. Nor has he allowed business undertakings to con- sume all his time. He has given freely of
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both his time and money to the fostering of many worthy institutions, such as the Old People's Ilome here, of which he is one of the trustees. In matters of this kind, how- ever, Mr. Knowland's friends know but little, for he makes no display of such acts, aud therefore the good they, do is doubled to both giver and receiver. Mr. Knowland did belong, we believe, to both the Masonic and 1. O. O. F. bodies, — Golden Gate Lodge, F. & A. M., San Francisco Lodge I. O. O. F. In home life, however, he finds the greatest happiness, for he is the father of 'three chil- dren, one son, Joseph II., and two daughters. Sadie E. is the wife of Professor George E. Coe; the other daughter is Lucy B. Another son, HoUis P., is dead. May 13, 1863, he married Hannah B. Russell, a native of Bingham, Maine.
In his life work he certainly can take all of satisfaction, for he has achieved a great measure of success by his honorable industry. He is the architect, too, of his own fortune, for all is owing to his own push and energy. Mr. Knowland is held in deserved esteem by all who know him. He is to-day the same unassuming, pleasant and courteous gentle- man of the past, and that he is so is indeed the more to his credit. In his history and life work his people should take certainly very justifiable pride.
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fOSEPH RICHARD BRADWAY, M. D., of Oakland, was born in Carlisle, Schoharie county. New York, June 5, 1818, a son of Benoni and Althea W. (Van- dervere) Bradway, natives of New York State. The father, born about 1792, a car- riage maker by trade, became a manufacturer in that line, chiefly at Carlisle, until he moved to Delavan, Wisconsin, in 1844, where
he continued that business until his death in 1846. Grandfather Richard Bradway, born in New York or just across the line in an ad- joining State, of Huguenot ancestry, settled in America, was also a carriage maker, and died about 1808, comparatively young, leav- ing five children, of whom one son lived to the age of seventy, another to that of fifty- five, and the eldest child — the father of Dr. Bradway — to fifty-four. His widow, Hnldah (Rouse) Bradway, born about 1772, of mixed Spanish and Portuguese ancestry, lived to the age of eighty-four. The maternal ancestry of Dr. Bradway is of Knickerbocker and English blood, his grandparents being John and Polly (Sweet man) Vandervere, both na- tives of New Jersey and there married. Soon after that event they settled in Schoharie county. New York, the husband being then aged twenty- two. His chief occupation was farming, and he lived to the age of about seventy. His wife was a daughter of Captain Sweetman, of the Revolutionary army, who settled in New Jersev after the close of the war for independence, and there lived to a good old age.
J. R. Bradway, the subject of this sketch, attended the district schools to about fifteen years of age, then the Schoharie Academy for two terms, and the Gallupville Academy one term. Then he taught school for two seasons, and at the age of twenty entered the Rensselaer Institute at Troy, New York. Two years later he was graduated a Bachelor of Natural Science, and also received a diplo- ma as Civil Engineer. He followed the business of land surveying for some time, and in 1842 opened a select school in Dela- van, Wisconsin. Having for some years entertained a preference for the medical pro- fession, which had been emphasized by his studies in natural science in the Rensselaer Institute, he now took up the study of medi-
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cine, under the gnidance of Dr. H. Hunt, the leading physician of Delavan, continuing these private stadies under such favorable auspices for two years while conductiHg his school. He went to Chicago lo complete his professional education at Hush Medical Col- lege, where he graduated in March, 1847. Returning to Delavan, he there practiced in partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. Hunt, until 1853, when he came to Califor- nia across the plains and settled at Red Bluif. Medical service, and indeed all services, were liberally rewarded in those days, and Dr. Brad way's practice was soon worth $1,000 a month. He remained in Red Bluff until 1872, when he settled in Oakland, where he has continued in active practice until the present time. From 1873 to 1878 he was associated with Drs. Baldwin & Riley, under the style of Baldwin, Riley & Bradway. From 1878 to 1885 the firm was Riley & Bradway, and from 1885 to 1891 Dr. Brad- way has practiced alone. He is a member of the Alameda County Medical Society, and of the California State Medical Society. He has also been at one time a member of the American Legion of Honor, and of the 1. O. 6. T., taking an active interest in the temperance reform for many years.
Dr. Bradway was married in Delavan, Wisconsin, in 1848, to Elvira I. Irish, born near Auburn, New York, February 15, 1824, a daughter of Joseph E. and Abigail (Miner) Irish, afterward of Wyoming county, New York, and still later of Delavan, Wisconsin. Mr. Irish's chief career was that of a farmer and he lived to the age of eighty-two. His father was Elder Irish, of the Baptist church, well-known in his day in Western New York as a prominent figure in that church. Mrs. A. (Miner) Irish, born in Rhode Island, a daughter of Captain Peris Miner, of the Merchant Marine, reached the age of eighty-
three; and his father also reached old age. Mariella Bradway, the adopted daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Bradway, born in Cali- fornia, September 24, 1860, is a graduate of the Oakland high school, an excellent musi- cian and an accomplished lady, whose devoted attachment to her adopted parents has been a source of unalloyed happiness for many years.
EORGE WALLACE HORTON, Prin- cipal ot the Lincoln Grammar School, of Oakland, was born in Cooperstown, New York, December 25, 1846, a son of Lyman and Phoebe Fenton (White) Horton. The mother was born in New York State, a daughter of Artemas and Lois White and a descendant of Peregrine White, one of the earliest emigrants to Plymouth colony. Among her ancestors school -teaching was a sort of hereditary profession. An uncle of G. W. Horton, Lyman White, was for thirty-six consecutive years connected with the public schools of Brooklyn, New York, and had been a teacher for forty years, and died aged over eighty. Daniel White, another uncle, has been for twenty years president of Cornell University, retiring only a few years since, well advanced in years. A third uncle. White, has been for many years a teacher in the Northwest. The mother is still living, born in 1817. Her parents also lived to an advanced age, the father being eighty and the mother about seventy- eight at their death.
The father of the subject of this sketch was of the Pennsylvania family of Hortons, but a native of New York State. He died August 10, 1876, aged about sixty years, from an injury received in lifting. He was a carriage manufacturer in Cooperstown, New York, and afterward in Bridgewater, same
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State, in both which places he filled some official positions. In 1860 he moved with his family to soathern Minnesota, settling on a farm, where he died, leaving seven children, all of whom are still living, namely: Tru- man Bliss Horton, a miller at Stewartville, Minnesota; George Wallace; Lucinda Ann, now Mrs. Woodworth (widow of R. B.) of Went worth, Dakota, where she has been a teacher for abont ten years; Willard Lyman, in the employ of the Chicago & St. Paul Railway Company for twelve years or more; Alice J., the wife of William Stuart; a farmer of Wessington, Dakota; Lizzie Lois, wife «)f Alfred Koehne, a farmer of Went- worth, Dakota; Albert Artemas, in the em- ploy of the Chicago & St. Paul Railway Company since 1882, at Edgarton, Minne- sota.
Grandfather Asel Horton and wife moved from Pennsylvania to New York State and lived to an advanced age, being over eighty.
George W. was educated first by his mother and the primary schools from about the age of thirteen years, then received a special ed- ucation under a private tutor, a graduate of Harvard, and was graduated at a normal school at the age of nineteen years. He then entered the Minnesota State Normal School, receiving his diploma at about the age of twenty-two. He had been teaching district schools in winter at intervals during the progress of his higher education from about the age of eighteen. After graduation he taught in teachers' training schools and county institutes several years, besides teach- ing in the village school of High Forest, Minnesota, five or six years, and then in the schools of Rochester, Minnesota, until he came to California in 1874. Here he first taught in Old Liberty school district in San Joaquin county one year, then in Lathrop, t«ame county, over two years, and then was
invited to Tulare City, where himself and wife took charge of the public schools.
He was married in Lathrop, Jane 1, 1876, to Miss Amanda Crane, a native of Litch- field, Maine, and a daughter of Eldward and Julia (True) Crane. The Trues were a long- lived stock. Two uncles of Mrs. Horton, twins, died in 1890, aged ninety-six, and their brother. A., in 1889, aged ninety-four; and her aunt, their sister, born in 1792, is stilll Uving, in Hallowell, Maine.
After a residence of two years in Tulare, Mr. and Mrs. Horton came to Oakland, in 1879, and began teaching in the Peralta schobl, Mrs. H. remaining a year and a half, and then l>ecoming principal of the Piedmont school, which position she now holds. Mr. Horton, two years after coming here, went to the San Pablo Avenue School of Berkeley, as principal, remaining al>out seven years. Id 1888 he went as first assistant to T. O. Craw- ford in his Polytechnic School. In April, 1889, he was elected principal of the Lincoln school, his present position.
S. COOK, M. D., has his office at No. 224 Post street, San Francisco, ^ where, in partnership with his wife, he is enga^d in the practice of medicine. Mrs. Dr. Cook is one of an old Highland- Scotch family, her father, Alexander McKay, having come from Scotland to Canada when she was yet an infant. She has been a resi- dent of California since 1856, and com- menced the study of medicine about twenty- five years ago, and has been in practice over twenty years. She has made a specialty of the treatment of cancerous diseases, in which she has been very successful. Dr. Cook is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and his father was a prominent insurance man of
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that place for many years. The family* are of the early New England stock. The Doc- tor came to California in 1850, where he was engaged in active business pursuits until about twelve years ago, when he commenced the study of medicine. He entered the Cali- fornia Medical College (Eclectic) in 1878, and graduated at that institution in 1881, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He has since that time been engaged in the general practice of medicine in San Fran-
cisco.
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AMES F. STUART, the well-known lawyer of San Francisco, is certainly a California pioneer, dating his arrival January 7, 1850. The difference in time from '49 is slight, and no progress of the city worthy of mention was made in the meantime. We consider those who came hei*e in the early '50''©, in fact, entitled to what of distinction there is in the term "pioneer," for it was not till after this period the State or city advanced with much of energy. Mr. Stuart came to this coast on the ship Vistula, of Boston, being seven months on the voyage. The captain and he owned a quarter interest in the vessel, the remainder being the property of Mr. CoflBn, of Boston. She carried only a limited num- ber of passengers, a dozen or so, all told. The long passage, no doubt, was caused by contrary winds and high seas, as she only stopped for short intervals at Valparaiso and the Island of St. Catherine's.
Mr. Stuart is a New Yorker by birth. His maternal grandfather, Nicholas Hill, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war under Washington. Nicholas Hill, Jr., his son, was a celebrated lawyer of New York State. He was the author of Hill's New York Re- ports, well known to all lawyers. In the
eulogy delivered by Chief Justice Johnson, on Mr. Hill's death, he stated that fully one- fourth of the cases coming before the high court of appeals of the State had been orally argued by him. The Chief Justice said: "With the character of his mind the Judge was thus made intimately acquainted, while his admirable moral and social qualities warmed into affectionate regard the respect and admiration which his intellectual abili- ties commanded. He made no parade of learning. He had great reverence for the law itself. His arguments were, therefore, marked no less by the masterly handling of legal principles than by the entire candor and fairness with which he encountered the difficulties standing in his way."
Mr. Stuart's father married this Mr. Hill's sister. The early moral grounding he re- ceived gave him correct principles for his guidance, and this proved to him a mainstay during all the early days of California, when a fall into temptation was so easy for a young man, considering the character of their sur- roundings out here. Before coming here he had a house built, and this he set up on a lot he purchased on Jackson, below Montgomery.
He began business in this building, — a general commission business in consignments sent him from the East. He prospered in this far beyond his expectations. With him was associated a partner. Captain John Raynes, who had made the voyage here in the Vistula. This gentleman was his part- ner, in fact, until he gave up the commission business.
During the time he was in business two great fires swept the city. In the first of these, in 1850, he lost all. Besides the house he had brought here, he had erected an addi- tional one on a lot adjoining, which he had purchased. His first lot covered 25 x 90, and the second 27 ^ x 50. He had three
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Stores, in fact, on these, and they were con- sumed with the goods in them, the value of the latter reaching about $42,000. There being no insurance companies her. at the time, the loss was a total one. He rebuilt at once, however, and in the fire of 1851 he did not suflFer much damage.
Mr. Stuart continued in the commission business and made up his losses, and this lot he sold after this to Mr. Rowe, the well known circus man, for $18,000. He changed his business shortly afterward, and began in- vesting in Spanish and Mexican grants. He operated in these extensively, and lost heav- ily through unexpected interpretations of law.
The law bearing on title at this time Mr. Stuart studied closely. He has written many very instructive treatises on it. No doubt his study at this time led him to become a lawyer. He was admitted in 1867, and has since practice! here principally, and at Washington, in law cases, and it is conceded, even by his professional brethren, that there is no abler authority on titles here than he. His land operations left him heavily in debt, and ihe character of the man can be best judged when we state that, although handi- capped at the beginning of his practice with this debt, still he never sought relief from it, but paid dollar for dollar to those he owed. When the war broke out, Mr. Stuart was in Washington, engaged in the settling of some of his claims. At this time he was in difficulties, or otherwise we may be sure that he would have acted very liberally with the Sanitary Fund Committee here. He was decidedly for the Union, and during the war, his brother, G. T. Stuart, published one of the most outspoken northern war papers of the time, the Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Tunes.
Mr. Stuart certainly has, during his resi-
den(^ here, been most industrious. His life has been a worthy one.
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F. FUG AZI & CO., Pacific coast agents of the Compagaie General Transatlan- ^ tique^ ?.lso agents of the Union Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Pennsylvania rail- ways. No. 5 Montgomery avenue, San Fran- cisco. This company is one of the largest steamship agencies in thecity,and does a vast amount of business. During the past sev- enteeen years they have brought to the United States not less than 35,000 passen- gers. They also transfer large quantities of money to and from all parts of Europe, and, in fact, of the world.
Mr. Fugazi, who is the senior member of the firm and who started the business in San Francisco in 1872, i a native of Italy, born in 1838. In 1855 lie landed on American soil. For several years previous to his com- ing to San Francisco, he was engaged in the agency business in New York. He is a very enterprising and successful business man, has made some valuable investments in real estate here, and ever since he came to Cali- fornia has been thoroughly identified with the best interests of this city and State.
Mr. E. C. Palmieri, the junior member of the firm, became connected with it in 1887. He, too, is a native of Italy, born in 1854. He landed in New York in 1874, and after a short time spent in that city came to San Francisco and engaged in business. He had an agency with the California Insurance Company, which he still holds; also a na- tional railroad agency. A man of strict in- tegrity and fine business qualifications, he has met with most flattering success in his various undertakings. He is a prominent Republican, and was elected on that ticket to
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the State Senate in 1884; had the honor of being a member of the Republican State Executive Committee during the campaign in which Mr. Markham was elected Gov- ernor. He is a member of the Union League and of the I. O. O. F. and Masonic frater- nities. In the social, political and business circles of this city, Mr. Palmieri is well known and highly respected.
ILLIAM P. SPRAGUE, M.D., whose office is at 502 Taylor street, San Francisco, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1860. His early education was received in the public schools of several of the New England States, passing three years at the Boston Latin School. He also attended for some time the Adelphi Acad- emy, of Brooklyn, New York, where his father, Dr. Homer B. Sprague, late president of Mills' Seminary, California, and now president of the University of Northern Dakota, was then principal. Later he took a special course in the Chauncy Hall School of Boston, preparatory to taking up the study of medicine, which he commenced in 1879, under the preceptori»hip of Dr. Welcome W. Sprague, of New York, with whom he re- mained one year. He then entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1880, graduating at that institution in 1882, and receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. IAt, Sprague practiced for one year at Wor- cester, Massachusetts, next for three years at Brooklyn, New York, and then came to Cal- ifornia in 1886, where he has since been engaged in medicine in San Francisco. The Doctor is a member of the State Medical So- ciety of California, and of the County Med- ical Society of San Francisco. He is also a medical director of the Bankers' and Mer-
chants' Mutual Life Association of San Fran-
cisco.
Dr. Sprague's family are of early New England stock, on his father's side from Massachusetts, and on his mother's {nee Antoinette Pardee) from Connecticut. Dr. Sprague's father, Colonel Homer B. Sprague, now president of the University of Northern Dakota, is a self-made man, and one who has added honor to every position in life he has been called upon to fill. He was the second of nine children, whom he, at the early age of nine years, began to assist in supporting. He worked successively in a cotton factory, later at shoemaking, and afterward at farm- ing while a boy. He carried himself through the Leicester Academy, and later through Yale College, by working at odd jobs, and later by teaching during the term and vaca* tions. He continued that occupation after graduating at Yale, and at the same time studied law. At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he was practicing la«r at Worcester and New Haven with marked success. He at once, in 1861, iurned his office into a recruiting depot, and went out as Captain of the Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He .saw service with his regiment in the Department of the Gulf, and in 1864-'65 in the Shenandoah valley, under Sheridan. HU record was a splendid one in Louisiana at Irish Bend, Port Hud- son, and on Banks' Red river expedition of 1863-'64r. At Irish Bend he was wounded in the arm, but continued in the fight until the battle was won, and still carries part of that bullet which was splintered on his sword hilt. His regiment fought its way step by step up to the breastworks of Port Hudson, Captain Sprague there volunteering as one of a storming party of 200 to leap into the rebel works, but they were recalled. An- other storming party of 1,000 men was
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called for the next day by General Banks, as a forlorn hope to again storm the works. Of sixty-live officers and 918 soldiers who joined this column, Captain Spragne's regiment furnished fifteen officers and 225 enlisted men. The news of the surrender of Vicks- burg and the certainty that Port Hudson must follow, rendered that assault unneces- sary. Captain Sprague was brevetted Colonel for gallant and meritorious conduct. He was later promoted through the various grades of the colonelcy of the Eleventh Regiment, C. D. A. Early in the summer of 1864, after the failure of Banks' Red river expedition, Colonel Sprague's regiment went to Virginia as part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, and took a conspicuous part in the Shenandoah valley campaigns. Colonel Sprague with his regiment holding the enemy at the battle of Wincliester, until they were surrounded in front, flanks and rear, and finally captured. He was afterward exchanged, but did not regain the strength lost in rebel prisons for two years.
He remained in military service until 1886, when he again engaged in teaching, as prin- cipal of the State Normal School of Con- iiecticut, and later as Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Cornell University. He has since held some of the most promi- nent and responsible positions as an educator in the United States, lately, for some time, as president of the American Institute of Instruction, founder and president of the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute, the oldest and largest of the summer schools of the world, and now as president of the Uni- versity of Northern Dakota. Colonel Sprague has made an honored place for himself in literature and statesmanship, as well as in educational work; is the author of the article on education in the Constitution of Northern Dakota. At the present writing the press
and the best men in the State are catting on the people of Northern Dakota to honor him by sending liim to the United States Senate.
M. F. SOTO, attorney, San Francisco is possessed of a name that certainly ^ has a distinguished place in the history of early exploration in this country. It is Spanish, but is borne by but few, and doubt- less these all belonged originally to one family. One of our early missionary priests was a Father Soto. In the fact that his people were originally Spanish, Mr. Soto can take pardonable pride, for to the heroic and adventurous men of that nation is owing tlie opening up and civilizing, not of California alone, but also of the greater part of the two Americas. The early Spaniards who went out to seek new countries, were certainly of the flower and chivalry of Spain and represented her first families. Mr. Soto's father, J. M. Soto, was born in Peru. He came to Cali- fornia in early days, however, and soon ^ined a prominent position here, owing to his abil- ity. His counsel and assistance were of great service to the people. In politics Mr. Soto was always a staunch Republican, and very frequently has made stirring speeches during the diflferent campaigns that were very effect- ive for his party. For many years he was a very large land owner in this State. He owned, for instance, the large San Francisco ranch, Los Angeles county, in partnership with the late H. M. Newhall. He also owned the Santa Rita ranch, Monterey connty. He was, besides, in mercantile busi- ness. He is at present engaged in various mining interests in Lower California. Many leading Republicans have suggested him as a most fitting representative of his country as consul at Mazatlan, if he would accept the post.
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The present Mr. Soto was born in Monte- rey county. He attended Santa Clara Col- lege, where he graduated in 1876. Tlien he went to the law department of Harvard Col- lege, where he graduated in 1878. On his return heenterei the office of Winans, Bel- knap & Godoy for a time, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Conrt in 1879. He was also admitted by the United States Cir- cuit Court in 1885. He began the practice of his profession in Salinas city, Monterey county. In 1884 the nomination of Dis- trict Attorney of the county was tendered him, and he was elected by a handsome ma- jority, showing the esteem in which he was held. He held the office for the term 1885- '86. Mr. Soto during his term secured the payment of some $23,000 railroad taxes. In 1887, as we stated, he became associated with Mr. Herrmann. These two gentlemen, in- deed, for many years have been friends and associates. They studied at Santa Clara and graduated there the same year, also at Har- vard College. In politics Mr. Soto is a staunch Republican, like his father. His practice now takes up the greater part of his time, however. He is still of a very studious dis- position and spends many hours at his office. He is certainly an able and painstaking law- yer, devoted to the interests of his clients. He makes their interests his own, and owing to this and his ability great confidence is felt in him. For a great success in his chosen profession the auguries are certainly most promising.
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ILLIAM HOLTZ, engaged in real- estate and insurance, and holding several offices in Alameda, was born in Hamburg, Germany, September 21, 1829, a son of John C. and Mary Holtz. Of his
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father's family of three sons and two daugh- ters, a brother and a sister, besides himself, came to the United States. The brother, Edward Holtz, is now a resident of Mexico, and the sister is Mrs. Henrietta Jager, of San Francisco. Mr. Holtz was thrown upon his own resources at the early of fourteen years. From that age until he was twenty- one he was a clerk in a grocery in Hamburg; he was then drafted in the army and served three years.
The California gold excitement being still at its height, he embarked from Hamburg in the sailing vessel Herman, about the middle of June, 1852, and came by way of Cape Horn to San Francisco, arriving in Decem* ber. Here he found every one a stranger to him and speaking tongues equally strange to him, while he was at the same time entirely out of money. Of course he had to take whatever job of work he could get. The first three days he shoveled sand on Du punt street, and then obtained a situation in a brick yard, which he retained for five years, saving a considerable portion of his wages. In 1858 he bought a half interest ir^a grocery on the corner of Third and Howard streets. Selling out at the end of three years he purchased a half interest in another store, on the corner of Montgomery and Pacific streets, where he did business up to 1867. In the early part of this year he sold out and with his family visited his parents in Germany.
Returning to California in October he bought back his old grocery stand and kept it until 1869, when, his health becoming im- paired, he sold out again and moved with his family over to Alameda. In company with others he bought a tract of land on Santa Clara avenue, his share being two acres. He afterward opened a store on that avenue near Thir?f avenue. That portion of the village had then but few improvements. This gro-r
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CQTs he kept until 1883, since whicli time he has been engaged in his present business.
While conducting the grocery trade on Santa Clara avenue, he served as Justice of the Peace, first by appointment and afterward by election, for three years. In the fall of
1888 he was again elected Justice of the Peace for Alameda township, lie was first appointed Notary Public in June, 1885, by Governor Stoneman, and reappointed by Governor Bartlett in 1887, and still again in
1889 by Governor Waterman, — the last com- mission being given for four years. His oflScial duties, together with his real estate and insurance business, kept him. pretty busy. He is a zealous Democrat, but has many fer- vent friends among the Republicans, as he is very popular. At the last election he was the only Democrat chosen in the county. March 7, 1872, he was elected a member of the Board of Education of Alameda, and he served three years. He is a Freemason, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the A. O. 11. W., of which latter lodge he has been Financier for the last eight years. He was the first Master Workman of West End Lodge, JVo. 175, of this order ten years ago. Judge Holtz can emphatically be regarded as a self- made man, considering that he has risen to his present position, as above meagerly de- scribed, from nothing when he first arrived here but his inherited talents, — even with no knowledge of the English language and no money. He has been industrious, thoroughly devoted to his business and successful in almost all his undertakings. He now owns considerable property, some of the most valu- able of which, in a business point of view, is in the west end of the city. In his ofticial relations he has given the best satisfaction to the people.
He was married in 1858 to Miss Augusta lienn, a native of Germany, and they now
have one daughter, the wife of P. C. Jurgens, postmaster at Traver. Tulare county. They lost two children, — Louisa dying in San Francisco several years ago, a mere child, and Fred J., who died December 6, 1889, at the age of thirty years; this was a sad blow to the family.
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OHN S. MUIR, M. D., whose office is a No. 225 Geary street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1880, and has been engaged in the practice of med- icine in this city for the past year. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1847. His parents moved to the West during his in- fancy, and he received his early education in the public schools of St. Louis. He com- menced the study of medicine in 1868, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa, graduating at that institution in 1876, during which time he had practiced for several years in Illinois, Kansas and Mis- souri. After graduation Dr. Muir returned to Kansas, where he again engaged in the practice of his profession, remaining there until 1880, in which year he came to Cali- fornia, tie located in Han ford, Tulare county, where he remained until burnt oat by the disastrous fire which swept the busi- ness portion of that town in 1887. For the next seven months he engaged in real estate in San Diego. Returning to Fresno the Doc- tor again engaged in the practice of his pro- fession, where he remained for about eif^ht months. From Fresno he came to San Fran- cisco., and here is building up a satisfactory practice. Dr. Muir has made a special study of the application of electricity to the care of diseases. One of his inventions, a port- able apparatus for the use of the farad ic cur- rent, is certainly one of the most convenient
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and ingenious devices for that purpose. It is small enough to be carried in the pocket, and yet is as powerful as any physician's office battery. While engaged in the general practice of medicine, he is paying: attention to the nse of electricity as a curative agent.
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«SEPH F. CAVAGNARO, a prominent young lawyer of San Francisco, was born in Calaveras county. His father came to this Slate in the early days; and shortly after, as was natural, went to the mines. He did not remain long in Calaveras county, but removed to Mariposa county, and in that county the present Mr. Cavagnaro was raised and partly educated. He attended the pub- lic schools there and made good progress, for he had a quick mind and retentive memory. He was entered afterwards at Santa Clara College, where so many bright young men graduated; this was in 1874. In 1878 he took the degree of B. of S. there, and the fol- lowing year the degree of Master of Science. When he had completed his studies at Santa Clara he came to this city and took the course in the Hastings College of Law, graduating there in the year 1882. About a year after- wards he began the practice of his profession here, having in the meantime obtained an excellent familiarity in pleading, etc., and routine law work through careful observa tion and attendance at court. Mr. Cavagnaro practiced alone until the first of the year, when he associated with Congressman A. Caminetti and Wm. J. McGee, under the title of Caminetti, McGee & Cavagnaro. His practice has been in the main a civil one, to which line he readily inclines, for he is a thoroughly conservative man, and has little liking for parade or the sensationalism that attends a criminal practice. Mr. Cavagnaro
devotes his whole time to his law duties. He is a zealous, industrious advocate, and leaves no stone unturned in a legitimate way to at- tain success in his actions. This is well rec- ognized; hence his practice is steadily increas- ing. He belongs to few clubs or societies if we except Yerba Buena Parlor of Native Sons. Mr. Cavagnaro is a well-read, cultured man, an earnest man in everything. He is well esteemed for his kindly, genial traits of character, and respected for his ability, and the worthy ambition he shows to make a suc- cess of his life-work and leave a good record- to those who may come after him.
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AGRA A. S. BALLARD, M. D., whose office is at No. 205 Powell street, has 'been since 1875 a resident of California, and has practiced medicine during that time, and for the past twelve years in her present location. She was bom in Sheffield, Ashta- bula county, Ohio, in 1834, and received her early education in the Ringsville Academy in the adjoining town, and later at the seminary of Beloit, Wisconsin. She commenced the study of medicine in 1865, under the precep- torship of her brother. Dr. L. Stow, a gradu- ate of Nashville (Tennessee) Medical College. She engaged in the application of medical electricity until 1873, when she went to Chi- cago and entered the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege of that city, graduating there in 1875, after a full course of study and lectures, and receiving her degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Ballard came to California in that year, where she has been continuously en, gaged in practice. She is one of the con- sulting physiciaiis of the Pacific Homeo, pathic Dispensary; a member of the State Homeopathic Medical Society; a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy
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Her son, Dr. J. Stow Ballard, a graduate of the University of California, has lately taken his degree from the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege of Philadelphia, after a three years' course, and has entered into practice in part- nership with his mother. He is al«o attend- ing physician in the Pacific Homeopathic Dispensary. Ur. Ballard has built up a very satisfactory practice.
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,0N. JOSEPH ALMY, ex-Judge of the County and Probate Courts of Marin county, is a native of Uhode Island? born at Tiverton, September 13, 1822, and is a California pioneer of '49. After attending the common schools of his native State, he shipped before the mast, sailing from New Bedford in the whale ship Fenelon, at the age of sixteen years. At the expiration of eleven months his ship returned, laden with 2,700 barrels of oil, this being one of the most successful voyages on record. He next sailed on the ship Selma, but was not as suc- cessful as on the first trip; having met with an accident it was found necessary to put him ashore in order to save his life. This was done at the island of New Zealand, where he was cared for by the American consul until he regained his health sufliciently to return to Tiverton, where he attended school one year. Mr. Almy afterward njade many whaling voyages; was ship- keeper on the brig Governor Hopkins, and on this voyage his ship was in sight of the peak of the vol- cano TcnerifEe several weeks, and visited the Cape De Verde and Canary Islands. In 1842 he sailed on the ship Jeannette, as boat- steerer, for spearing whales in the Pacific ocean, and during this voyage he was on the Juan Fernandez or Robinson Crusoe Island. He was discharged from this ship at Tahiti,
and from there he again shippeu as boat- steerer on the ship Ceres, of Wilmington, Delaware, and on this vessel he visited Wal- lace Island and Lahainaothe Mani, one of the Hawaiian group, where Mr. Alma en- gaged in the hotel business three years. He took passage from there on the ship Abra- ham Barker, arriving at New Bedford in May, 1848, whence he returned to the home of his youth after an absence of more than six years.
About this time the letters of Colonel Fre- mont were being published in the Eastern papers, giving glowing accounts of the dis- covery of gold in California, which led Mr. Almy with others to form a joint-stock com- pany of eighty members. This association was known as the Fall River Mining and Trading Company. They purchased the bark Mallory, which they provisioi»ed and loaded with lumber and the frame.work for seve al large buildings, and set sail, arriving at San Francisco September 13, 1849, where the cargo and vessel were sold. Mr. Almy 0|)ened a public house on Jackson street, known as the New England Home, but a tire in the fall of the same year destroyed his building. He next went to Bolinas, Marin county, in the spring of 1850, after which he woiked for two years in the mines. He then returned to Bolinas, and in 1852 was elected Justice of the Peace, and held that office eight years, and was also School Trustee one year. He was master of the Mill Com- pany's vessel Julia, transporting lumber to San Francisco. In 1855 he built the schooner H. C. Almy; then made a visit to the East, and on his return was appointed by Governor Low as County Judge, February 18, 1867, to fill an unexpired term, and by election filled the same office until in Janiiary, 1880.
Judge Almy is one of those men whom any community may be proud of. From his
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own exertions he has risen to the top round of the ladder of fame, and his life has been a very active and useful one both on land and sea. He has presided as County and Pro- bate Judge in all about thirteen years, and has enjoyed the confidence and respect of the bar and the people to an entraordinary de- gree. A more conscientious and upright man has not filled the judicial chair of Marin county, and his decisions have been made with such care and precision that they have almost universally been sustained by the higher courts. He has sailed once around the world, and rounded Cape Horn four dif- ferent times.
He was married in Bolinas, Marin county, May 10, 1857, to Miss Lucinda Miller, a native of Indiana. Judge and Mrs. Almy are the parents of nine children, five of whom are still living, viz.: Thomas B., Hattie, now Mrs. Gibson, of San Francisco; Amanda, Nellie M. and Charles. Judge Almy politi- cally is a staunch Republican, but of late years has not been active. In 1886 he was last called upon by his party to represent the people in the State Assembly, and occupied his seat two terms, one of them being an extra session called by Governor Stoneman.
ILES H. GRAY is one of the oldest practitioners at the bar on the Pa- cific coast. He was born in New York city, and was educated in his native State, and studied law in California. In 1863 he came to the Pacific coast, and three years later, in 1856, was admitted to the bar. He engaged in the practice of law, and soon afterward became associated with James M. Haven, the firm of Gray & Haven, with one exception, being the oldest law firm in San Francisco.
Giles H. Gray is a conscientious advocate^ was identified with many important land suits in early days, and also during the later years of his practice. As far as possible he is now retiring from the active duties of his pro- fession.
In politics he is a consistent Republican, ever active in the councils of his party. He has served as a member of the Board of Su- pervisors of the City of San Francisco, and also of the Board of Education; and waselec* ted and has served as a Representative to the Legislature from San Francisco. He was ap- pointed Surveyor of Customs at the port of San Francisco by President Grant, and for four years held this important office with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the citizens. Indeed, he has been identified with all the important movements for the advance- ment of the best interests of both city of San Francisco and State of California.
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P. SCHMITZ, M. D., whose office is at the California Medical College, No. ® 1442 Folsom street, San Francisco, a resident of California for thirty years, and engaged in the practice of medicine for the past ten years, is a native of Germany, born in 1834, and received his early education in the Government and private schools of that country. At the age of twenty-one he came to AAicrica, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1874, when he retired from said business, having gained a competency. During all his life, having had a desire for medical studies, feeling that he could now devote the balance of his life to his profes- sion, he entered the Medical College of the Pacific (now Cooper College), in San Fran- cisco, in 1875, remaining during the years 1785-6-8, continuing his medical studies
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until 1880, when he entered the California Medical College, graduating in the spring of 1881, and then entered into practice, in which he has successfully continued.
In 1886 Dr. Schmitz was invited and ap- pointed to the chair of Physiology and Ner- vous Diseases, in the California Medical College, still holding that position; being also a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners, as well as a member of the State Medical Society of California, and of the County Medical Sjciety of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco.
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,ISS EVA WITHROW.— This gifted young lady is a native of California. She inherits her taste and artistic talent in a measure from her mother, a woman of rare mental attainments. Her father, an old and honored citizen of Califor- nia, came from his native State, Virginia, to this coast in 1853, and his death occurred in 1881.
Miss Withrow early developed a taste for art, and after graduating at Clark Institute, entered the San Francisco Art School. Sub- sequently for a time she was under the in- structions of Henry Raschen and Theodore Wores, after which she went abroad with her mother and sister to continue her art studies, remaining principally at Munich, Germany, Her master there was the eminent J. Frank Currier, and she was accorded the honor of being the only pupil he ever consented to take. She speaks of him in highest terms of gratitude, and has in her studio some of the works of her distinguished teacher. She was favored in her studies in having the encour- agement and companionship of her mother and sister, and this was a constant stimulant.
After applying herself closely to her stud-
ies for four years, and making a tour in France and Italy, spending some time in Paris and Rome, she returned to her home in San Francisco. Here she opened her stu- dio, and has taken a leading position in her profession. Miss Withrow has two full classes, and although her method is in direct opposition to academical training, she be- lieves to a degree in the latter. Her controll- ing idea in teaching is concentration. The pupils are instructed to draw from life, with- out attempt at display. Her works in her studio, at the annual exhibition and at the Art Association are subjects of admiration and honorable mention.
Miss Withrow resides with her mother and sister, and their attractive home on Pine street is noted for its hospitality, as it is for culture and refinement.
S. AZEVEDO, of the firm of Aze- vedo. Snares & Co., proprietors of ^ the. Laurel Grove Dairy, San Ra- fael. This firm leases about 1,500 acres of grazing land and carry on a large dairy busi- ness, milking over 100 cows, and employing four milkers constantly. The large output of milk and butter is shipped to San Fran- cisco markets.
Mr. Azevedo, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Portugal, born at St. George, Jan- uary 18, 1857. He was reared and educated in his native country, and emigrated to the United States in 1875, first locating in the State of Missouri, and sixteen months later came to California. He was a farm laborer in Contra Costa county for two years, and then came to Marin county, where he en- gaged in the dairy business, and has since been actively engaged in that industry. His partner, Antonio M. Snares, is also a native
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of Portugal, is a man of family, and now re- Bi'des in San Rafael. The parents of onrsab- j«ct were M. S. and Coloto Azevedo, both natives and still subjects of Portugal. Mr. Azevedo is the eldest in a family of four children, and is yet nnmarried. He was nat- uralized at San Rafael, in 1887. Politically he is a Republican, although not active in politics. Socially he affiliates with the be- nevolent association of his countrymen, at Sansalito.
OTTLIEB ZEH, one of the substantial
iVSTf ^^^^2^°^^^ Alameda, was born in Frank- er'. fort-on-the-Main, Germany, May 14, 1834:, and learned the trade of butcher from his father, Carl Zeh. At the age of eighteen years he emigrated to the United States, landing at New York, and worked there about three months. In 1852 he and his brother Louis came to (Jalifornia, by way of the Isthmus, and landed at San Francisco in September. They worked at their trade there, the subject of this sketch being em- ployed by Mr. Jcnes, on Pacific street, on the hills before they were graded. Next he was employed by George Mitchell at the cor- ner of Yallejoand Dupont streets; and after- ward the two brothers started in business together at the corner of Broadway and Du- pont street. In 1865, Mr. Gottlieb Zeh re- turned to Germany and brought back here with him his youngest brother, Theodore, who afterward died in this city, about eleven years ago. About that time Gottlieb and The- odore went to Petaluma, and, having secured a piece of land near there, worked about a year and a half, raising live-stock. Return- ing to the city they resumed business in their line, at the corner of Dupont and Union streets, while Louis took charge of the ranch.
In 1864 Gottlieb was married, and the fol- lowing year moved over to Alameda, since which time he has made that place his home, except eighteen months spent in Hayes' valley.
Mrs. Zeh's maiden name wa^ Juane Cha- con. She is a native of Mexico, of Spanish origin and highly educated and accomplished. They have three sons and two daughters: Amanda I.; Annie I., wife of Dr. J. G. Humphrey, of Alameda; Carl R.; Gottlieb J., and Theodore L. All these were born in Alameda, except Carl, who is a native of San Francisco.
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DWARD K. TAYLOR, the City Attor. ney of Alameda, is a native of New York, and was born in Elmira, August 2, 1860. His parents are natives of Virginia; they emigrated to the Pacific coast in 1849. The father is the well-known Bishop Taylor, an honored member of the California Pioneer Society, and one of the most eminent divines in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the present bishop of the Methodist Epis- copal Church in Africa. His home is in Alameda, where his estimable wife, who has labored zealously with her husband, now resides. Mrs. Taylor is a member of the Kimberlin family, one of the first families of Virginia. There were four sons in the family, three of whom are engaged in business in San Francisco, and one in Chicago.
Edward K. Taylor, the subject of this brief sketch, received the greater part of his ed- ucation in the State of California. He was graduated in the class of 1881, from the University of the Pacific, taking a Master's degree in 1884. He then took a course of law reading, and graduated at Hastinprs College of Law in 1886; was admitted to the bar of
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the Supreme Court on his birth-day, August 2, 1885.
After his graduation from the law school, Mr. Taylor went to Europe, and made an ex- tended tour of that country. Upon his re- turn to this country, he engaged in the prac- tice of his profession, and since that time has devoted his whole interests to it. Through his ability and devotion to the interests of his patrons, he has secured a large clientage and corporation business. Although his oflSce is in San Francisco, he resides in Alameda, where he is also attorney for the Commercial Bank, the Loan Association and Savings Bank. ^Ff^g the past four years he has held the oflSce of City Attorney of Alameda.
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ILLIAM H. JOKDAN is a distin. guished member of the San Francis- co bar. Before he established him- pelfin his profession he had become well- known throughout the State by his pominent connections with philanthropic and fraternal organizations and since then has won a repu- tation, not only as a lawyer but also as a legisla- tor possessed of broad and liberal views. An epitome of his life is embraced in the follow- ing sketch.
Mr. Jordan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 3, 1849. He was the son of a carpenter and farmer. The family had been in America since 1630, when its progenitor in this country. Rev. Robert Jordan, of the Church of England, settled in Portland, Maine. Mr. Jordan came with his lather and family to California in 1859, driving an ox team across the plains and walking most of the journey. They settled near Red Bluff in Shasta county. The great floods ofthe winter of 1861 and '62, destroyed his father's property. His mother, too, had died and the
father and son removed to San Jose, the lat- ter soon afterward finding employment on a farm. At the age of fifteen he went to Oak- land with the purpose of getting an educa- tion. As far as schools are concerned his education may be comprehended in about two years at Brayton Academy at Oakland, one year at the Norwich Free Academy in Con- necticut, and two years at Yale College. His withdrawal from Yale was enforced by fail- ing health, and it may be said in this con- nection that Mr. Jordan from that time al- most to the present was subject to severe pains in his eyes. It was only in the summer of 1889 that he found in electricity a relief that was instant and still promises to be permanent. Years after he left college, in 1888, at the unsolicited request of his former classmates the faculty of Yale conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts as a recogni- tion of his intellectual and professional at- tainments.
Returning to California in the fall of 1873, Mr. Jordan entered upon a business career in Oakland, which proved one of great prosper- ity; subsequently he invested his capita] in an extensive vineyard enterprise, in which he met with heavy losses.
In the fall of 1884 Mr. Jordan was elected to the Assembly from Alameda county. Two years later he was re-elected to the Legis- lature and was then chosen for Speaker of the House. As Speaker he maintained himself throughout the session with great dignity and capacity, and such was the tact with which he discharged his duties that he is to- day universally conceded to have been the ablest presiding ofiicer the Legislature of Cal- ifornia has ever had. As a parliamentarian he was without a peer, his rulings were fair in their administration and correct in law.
From early boyhood Mr. Jordan " wanted to be a lawyer." He began to study law on
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the farm. Such was his interest in the sub- ject that he read law books whenever oppor- tunity afforded in preference to others of a lighter character. In May, 1885, he was ad- mitted to the bar and upon July 6 of that year opened an office in San Fran- cisco, maintaining his residence in Oakland. He has established a large and valuable prac- tice; is attorney for nearly all the large lum- ber companies of the State, some fifteen large and wealthy corporations, including the Southern Pacific Company and a host of pri vate capitalists.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Jordan finds time to take an interest in the subject of astronomy. He is a member of the As- tromonical Society of the Pacific coast; and under a commission from the late Anthony Chabot recently visited Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, and secured an instrument for the Chabot Observatory at Oakland, an institu- tion that owes its origin to his efforts and of which he is still the Associate Director.
His association with the A. O. U. W. has been well-known throughout the United States. He was the first Grand Master Work- man of the Order in California and held office for a second term. During his administra- tion the membership grew from 300 to 900. He was Supreme Master of this great order for the year 1888, the jurisdiction extending over the United States and Canada. As Su- preme Master be made a tour of both coun- tries in the interest of the order named. Daring his term of office an increase of membership was brought about of 34,000 — the largest the order has ever known in any one year. Mr. Jordan was candidate for Lieutenant-Governor before the last State convention, but failed of the nomination.
As a speaker, Mr. Jordan is fiuent and logical. He possesses that peculiar mag-
netic influence over his audience that ren- ders his oratory attractive and effective.
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[HRISTIAN SCHREIBER, the pioneer furniture merchant of San Francisco and Oakland, was born near Carlsruhe, in Baden, Germany, November 14, 1828, a son of Philip and Elizabeth Schrciber. The fam- ily came to America about 1835 and settled in New York. The father, a tailor by trade, moved to Rochester a few months later and was there established as a merchant tailor. In 1852 he paid a visit to this cot-^i with his son, the subject of this sketch, remaining a year, and again in 1854 with his wife. The mother died in Oakland at the age of sixty- seven; the father survived her some years and died in that city also, in his ei^^hty-tirst year.
Christian Schreiber learned the trade of cabinet-maker and moved to Akron, Ohio, in 1849, where he worked in a furniture store until he was struck with the gold fever early in 1850. Borrowing $300, which he repaid two years later, — the original note he still treasures as a valuable relic, — he left Akron, Ohio, for the land of gold April 15, 1850. The company was numerous at the start and had forty wagons, but gradually divided up and separated until he and a single com- panion, named Graffelman, found themselves making the journey alone and on foot from Green river, with a single mule as pack- bearer and but little to carry. They would have perished were it not for the kindness of the maligned Indians. At Carson river they were fortunately able to buy some provisions of a Mormon trader. They arrived at Weav- erville, July 27, and on the 29th at Coloma, where Mr. Schreiber mined about two months. His health having been impaired by the
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hardships of the journey and the insuflBciency as well as unwholesomeness of the food, he gave up mining and went to Sacramento. Recovering somewhat, his first job of work was to make a bagatelle table, another party supplying the funds and the billiard balls. They got $450 for the table, which they divided equally. Mr. Schreiber then made one trip as teamster to the mines, and in No- vember moved to San Francisco, where he worked a short time as carpenter. Before the close of the year 1850, he went into the fur- niture and carpet business. Among his ear- liest jobs in that line was the making of ship mattresses, which were in great demand at that time. But he soon yearned for the mines and was not content until he again tried that pursuit. Remaining, however, but a short time so engaged, he resumed mattress-making in San Francisco, in the spring or early sum- mer of 1851. Mr. Schreiber went East in January, 1852, paid his indebtedness to the money-lender in Akron, Ohio, and went to Rochester, New York, where he rejoined his
wife.
He was married in Rochester, in 1848, to Miss Jane Scutt, a native of Monroe county, New York. After six months' absence he returned to San Francisco, via the Isthmus, with his wife and accompanied by his father, his brother Philip, his sister (the late Mrs. Graffelman) and her four children. Re- suming business he has continued ever since in the manufacture and importation of furni- ture, bedding and carpets. He started a branch store in Oakland in 1873, in charge of his brother, Philip, now in Tucson, Ari- zona. In 1875 he sold out his business in San Francisco and took charge of his store here, to which he has since given his atten- tion, enlarging his floor room from time to accommodate his constantly increasing trade, until he now occupies the stores 1,064, 1,066
and 1,070 Broadway, the entire floor-room being 20,000 feet. In furniture and carpets and the supplemental lines of goods asually found in such stores, he keeps a large and varied assortment of quality and the latest style. Mrs. Christian Schreiber died in San Francisco in 1865, leaving one child, Lo- lita J., now residing in this city, the widow of James Mitchell. In 1867, with his daugh- ter, Mr. Schreiber made a trip to Europe, being absent about six months. On his re- turn he was married in Rochester, New York, to Martha Gerald, born in Vermont, a daugh- ter of Carley Gerald, also a native of that State and now living with his daughter at Oakland, at the age of eighty-five. Mr. and Mrs. Schreiber have five children: Mary Elizabeth; Gerald, a graduate of Heald'e Business College in San Francisco, and book- keeper for his father; Martha, now attending an art school in San Francisco; Brock, Christ- ian and Gracie, both attending the Cole School, Oakland.
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BIJAH POND EVERETT, a business man of San Francisco, residing in Alameda, was born in Foxborough, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, August 10, 1820, of an old Massachusetts family. His father, Daniel Everett, was also born in that State, in 1776, and died in May, 1856, in the same State. lie was Captain in the war of 1812, stationed at South Boston, and was a farmer by occupation. Mr. Everett's mother's maiden name was Clarissa Pond, and she also was a native of Massachusetts. In that family were six children, of whom one died young and three are now living.
The youngest of these, our subject, was brought upon his father's farm until he was fifteen years old. He then served a seven years' apprenticeship in a Boston grocery. Next
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he was at Para, Brazil, on the Amazon river, in charge of the basiness of a gentleman who was absent two years in the United States. Then Mr. Everett returned home on account of ill health. Within two months he em- barked as supercargo on board a trading ex- pedition to the northwest portion of Africa, visiting Gambia, Oathaw, Basaw and Gore — the latter point being the most western on the coast of Africa. In six months he was back at Boston. Four months afterward he left for Honolulu, arriving there in March, 1846, and resided there about fifteen years, engaged in auctioneering and commission.
In the meantime, in 1850, he visited San Francisco, being in this city four months. In 1851 he was appointed Chilian Consul at Honolulu, which position he filled as long as he resided there. During his residence there he was under the reigns of Kings Kameha- meha III and IV, and Karaebameha V came into power about the time he left there. Also, while he was a resident of Honolulu, he married in 1851, Carmen Escainilla de Rodreigus Vide, a native of Santiago, Chili. Rodreigus Vide, her father, was then Chilian Consul at Honolulu. He died in 1851, leaving two daughters. The other daughter married Robert C. Janion, an Englishman, who succeeded Vide to the con- sular office; finally Mr. Everett succeeded Mr. Janion to the same position.
In 1861 Mr. Everett disposed of his busi- ness in Honolulu, resigned the consulship and moved to San Francisco. His first bus- iness association here was with the house of McRuer & Merrill, commission merchants, on California street. He was next salesman and auctioneer for another party nearly eight years. For the past seventeen years he has been in business for himself at 405 Front street. He moved to Alameda in 1881. Politically he is an ardent Republican.
His first presidential vote was cast for Abra- ham Lincoln for his second term. April 11, 1887, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Alameda.
His first wife died in October, 1864, the mother of four sons, living. His present wife he married in 1877.
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>^^OHN D. GODEUS, a photographer of San Francisco, was born in the city of Rotterdam, Holland, May 10, 1831. In 1840 his parents moved to the city of Cleve, Germany, where he attended school and also studied engineering; in 1848, came with his parents to America. He first lived in New York four years, and afterward held the po- sition of engineer at the Croton Water Works three years. During the days of the gold discoveries in California he determined to come to the Pacific coast, and sailed from New York on the ship North Star around the Horn, and during the voyage the dreaded disease of small-pox broke out on the ship. After a passage of 165 days he reached San Francisco, October 20, 1851, and first worked for John Morris in the survey for the Pre- sidio Water Works, and was also engaged as architect and contractor for some time. In 1856, the time of the Vigilance Committees, he was a member, and also captain of a com- pany. In 1857 he tried his luck at Frat?er river, in British Columbia, and returned after a short stay again to San Francisco, where he started in the butcher business in 1858, and was married the same year. He was taken sick in 1863 and had to sell out his business in consequence. In 1864, when he and his wife were going to Sacramento on the steamer Washoe, the boiler exploded and his wife was killed: he himself escaped uninjured.
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After making a trip to the Eastern States on a visit, in 1865, and was married to Miss Marj Clifton Kemp, van-E., October 10, 1865, he returned in 1866 to San Francisco, where he engaged in the photograph busi- ness in the South Park Gallery on Third street, near Bryant. In 1872 he opened the People's Art Gallery at No. 34 Third street, which he afterward sold. He then built hib present gallery, No. 10 Sixth street, which he has conducted for the past five years, doing all kinds of photograph work, and em- ploys several persons in the different depart- ments of his business. Mr. Godeus has in- vested his surplus means from time to time in real estate, and in this has been quite suc- cessful. Godeus street, running from Mis- sion street to California avenue, was named in his honor. He has one daughter, Mary Clara.
iANUEL EYRE was born in Dela- ware county, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1842. His ancestors for four generations were natives of the " Empire State," his maternal grandfather having owned the farm taken up from William Penn by the earlier settlers.
Manuel Eyre, the father of our subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was a man of large means ; the mother's maiden name was Painter. Manuel Eyre. Jr., the fifth in the line of descent bearing that name, was reared and partly educated in the State, in which he was born; he was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1859, receiving the degree of A. B., and afterwards that of A. M. He was deeply engrossed in the reading and study of law at the time the war of the Rebellion broke upon us; he, therefore, abandoned this work and enlisted in the Third Delaware Volunteer
Infantry in January, 1862; he was made Second Lieutenant September 24, 1862, and Wrt8 promoted to First Lieutenant August 15, 1864. He was wounded in battle, and after- wards had additional honors conferred upon him in the way of promotion; he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixth United States Veteran Volunteers, September 22, 1865, and was mustered out of the service, receiving honorable discharge June 12, 1866.
The following year Mr. Eyre came to the Pacific coast, and in 1872 he located at Napa, where he resided until 1878; then became to San Francisco and engaged in general civil practice. He was admitted to the practice of the Federal Courts March 4, 1878, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court October 8, 1883. He has given much atten- tion to trade marks and patent law, and has made a marked success in this line of his profession.
Politically he aflSIiates with the Republican party. He belongs to the American Legion of Honor, to the Knights of Honor, and to the A. O. U. W.
OHN LETVELLING, deceased, was a native of North Carolina, who emigrated at an early day to Indiana, and later to Iowa. In 1850 he crossed the plains to California, where he was engaged in mining until 1852. He then returned to Iowa, and in 1853 brought his family to California by the water route. They landed in San Fran- cisco January 3, where he met Mr. Beard, from whom he leased fifty acres of land at the Mission San Jose for a term of seven years. At the expiration of five years he sold the lease to Beard & Ellsworth, and bought a squatter's claim to forty acres of land be- tween Hay wards and San Lorenzo, for $40 an
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acre. He afterward had to pay $60 per acre to satisfy a Spanish title. This land was a part of the Castro grant. Mr. Lewelling afterward bought seventy-tive acres and en- gaged in the nursery business, which he sue cessfnlly followed until 1868, when, on account of ill health, he went to Napa valley, and bought a place, on which he planted a vineyard of over 100 acres. His death oc- curred there in 1886. His son, Eli, who now owns the old home place, bought it from his father previous to his going to Napa val- ley. He has since carried on the fruit busi- ness, shipping large quantities of the finest fruits under the old J. Lewelling brand, which is so well known to fruit dealers.
John Lewelling was a man well-known in San Francisco, having been president of the of the Grangers' Bank, corner of Sansome arid California streets, for several years, and a heavy stockholder. Eli Lewelling has recently erected a very handsome residence on the old homestead, one and a half miles northwest of Haywards. He is a quiet, unassuming man, and enjoys the confidence and respect of a large circle of friends, and is recognized as one of the most successful men in the valley
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D. HOPE, a rancher near Borden, was born in Scotland county, Missouri, ^ in 1848. His father, A. M. Hope, was a farmer, but with the tide of emigration in 1852 he brought his family to California across the plains, in the old prairie schooner, with ox teams. He farmed about one year in Contra Costa county, and then followed mining in Amador and Calaveras counties until 1872, when he came to Fresno county and pre-empted 160 acres near Borden, where he died in 1883.
Oar subject lived at home through all the
changes, but devoted his life to farming in- stead of mining, and he now occupies the ranch of his father, to which he has added and now owns 320 acres. He rents additional land, sowing annually about 600 acres in wheat and barley. Mr. Hope returned to Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1884, and was married to Miss Mary Smith, whom he brought to his Western home. They have one child, Robert Bruce, who was born in January, 1887. Having prospered in this world's goods, Mr. Hope is about taking his family East for a visit to the home of their childhood.
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,0N. CHARLES W. CROSS has taken about as active a part in public matters in the last fifteen years as any of our public men. We can truthfully say that he was a leader in the Constitutional Conven- tion, and afterward in the State Senate for four sessions of that body. He was one of the most zealous men in either body, and aimed to do his whole duty. In the result of his work, the undoubted benefit to the people arising from it, he certainly should have satisfaction. On the conclusion of his last term at Sacraiiiento, Mr. Cross came to this city, and, resolving to devote himself solely to his profession of the law, he has since been so engaged. Had he so desired, we doubt not further and higher political honors were open to him, but, as in the instance of other good lawyers, political preferment, and the turmoil of such a life weighed not in comparison with the rewards arising from his profession. Mr. Cross, of course, valued the honor conferred upon him by his constitu- ents.
He was born in Syracuse, New York, of English ancestry, as the name would go to show. On his mother's side he is of the
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Clinton family, famous in Revolutionary times and afterward. De Witt Clinton, twice Governor of New York and one of the prom- inent men of the country in the first quarter of the present century, was a near relation. Mr. Cross was yet young when his parents moved to Illinois, and there he was raised and educated. He was graduated at the Northwestern University, at Evanston, in 1869. Following this he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1871 by the Supreme Court of Illinois.
In 1872 Mr. Cross came to California and settled in Nevada county. When the ques- tion came up of sending a delegate to the Constitutional Convention he was chosen for that important work, and well did he meet the requirements of his constituents. He took active part in the debates, and wielded considerable influence by reason of his sound logic and his discernments. In the reports of the convention we find that Mr. Cross was one of the most diligent workers. As he was favorable to the new Constitution he aimed to make that instrument as perfect as possi- ble. He was a leader, indeed, and voiced the be«%t legal talent on such matters as the judiciary, penal enactments, trial by jury, corporations, lil)el, etc.* In 1882 Mr. Cross was elected to the State Senate and served for four sessions. His previous experifnce was of benefit to him there to some extent. In the Senate he also wielded great influence, as was natural, and was instrumental in hav- ing passed many wise measures. He also combatted with vigor such schemes of ques- tionable merit as came up. During his time in the Senate there were many bitter contests in connection with railroad matters and the irrigation question principally. The debates were often acrimonious. Mr. Cross natu- rally took active part, but, though at times bitter feelings were engendered, he yet all
through preserved very harmonious relations with his colleao:ues. He was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee during the entire period that he was a member of the Senate. Since 1886 Mr. Cross has resided in San Francisco. For a time he had as partner James K. Byrne. Afterward he was associ- ated with ex- Judge Denson. He is now single in his profession, however. He has been in practice some twenty years, and in that time, notwithstanding the political in- terruptions, he has had many important cases. These have been principally in connection with mining, water rights, etc. Mr. Cross has the reputation of being a very capable, painstaking lawyer, who does the best pos- sible for his clients. He is keen, discerning and an excellent judge of character. He be- longs to the Bar Association and the Man- hattan Club. He is a consistent and stead- fast Democrat.
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DMUND TAITSZKY, in his profession of the law, has been counsel in many cases of general interest. To him also, as Court Cofnmissioner, have been assigned several suits involving large sums of money. Hib name, therefore, has frequently appeared in the daily papers since he began his prac- tice here. He now enjoys a very fair share of legal business, and this is the more cred- itable to him inasmuch as it is entirely owing to his own energy and talent. He began without the aid of wealth or influence. By his own resources, indeed, has he gained his present excellent standing and practice at the bar. Outside of his profession, Mr. Tauszky is also well known personally. He has many friends, and this is a natural result of his pleasant, courteous and open manner. No measure of success could change thip,
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indeed; hence, he will always retain the friendship and the good will of those who have known him, and to the rising young advocates this is not unimportant.
The name Tauszky is Hungarian. Than Hungary, there is no other country where people have suffered so much for their patriotic and liberty-loving qualities. Mr. Tauszky's people were of those who *' went ont " in 1848. His grandfather was, we be- lieve, with Kossuth. They were all in active sympathy with the movement for the rights of the people. His father, in later times, was well-to-do in Pesth. He owned a large brewery there and had extensive business in- terests. These the family sold when it was decided to come, in 1866, to the new world. The oldest brother of Mr. Edmund Tauezky, who was a physician, had come to the United States some years previously, and it was owing to his favorable reports, indeed, that the family decided to make the change. That gentleman, Mr. Rudolph Tauszky, was then a practicing physician in New York city. He died about two years ago. He was emi- nent in his profession, and wrote several valuable works on medical subjects; was res- ident physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York; also a surgeon in the United States Army, and took part in active service. Dr. Tanszky visited his brother some j'ears ago.
Mr. Edmund Tauszky was but a child when his people came to the United States. With his parents he resided for some years afterward in New York, where he attended school. Upon his mother's death, in 1869, he went to St. Louis to a married sister, and there he finished his education. To perfect himself in commercial studies, he attended for a time afterward the Jones' Commercial College, of St. Louis, the leading business college of that city, from which he received a diploma.
In 1876, Mr. Edmund Tauszky came to California. In this city bent was first given to him in the direction of the law, where he studied with great diligence, and graduated May 28, 1883, and was admitted to practice. While attending the Hastings College of Law, he was with the firm of Wallace, Greathouse & Blanding, succeeded by the present firm of Pillsbury, Blanding & Hayne. He joined them in July, 1879, and was with them until 1885. This was indeed an excel- lent preparation for him, for it brought him in contact with actual practice and well sup- plemented his studies. In 1885 he began practice, and since then has been so engaged, and with a steadily increasing business that must be very satisfactory, both from a ma- terial standpoint and from the higher stand- point of the evident l)enefit to clients such an increase shows. He has had charge of some noted cases, and in these he acquitted himself creditably. Mr. Tauszky's study and experience have given him an intimate knowledge of the principles of law and the authorities. He is well read in law matters, and has good practical knowledge in other matters. He prepares his cases exhaustively, and in court his arguments are based on law and sound logic. He speaks pointedly, con- cisely and plainly. Many of his cases have received considerable publicity in the daily papers, as we stated. His practice has been altogether civil, corporate, probate, real-es- tate matters, etc. Mr. Tauszky was attorney for the Sutro Tunnel Company in its im- portant litigation, and is now attorney for its successor, the Comstock Tunnel Company. In 1887 he was appointed Court Commis- sioner. As such commissioner his work has given great satisfaction, indeed. In the noted case of Hinckley V8, Stebbins, which involved the California Theater, and in which the niece of Hinckley contested the accounts.
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etc., of Dr. Stebbin», and other trustees, his report was accepted by both sides as satis- factory. In this, several hundred thousand dollars were involved. The case of Wood- ward vs. Ranm was also referred to him. This is the Woodward's Gardens suit. There are four heirs, to sell as a whole, or subdi- vide, and the question is, which would be most profitable to the heirs, to sell as a whole or subdivide. With Timothy J. Lyons, Mr. Tansky prepared Judge Coffey's decisions for the Law Journal. He also prepared the syllabi of decisions published in book form. The whole, it is intended, will be shortly published.
In politics, Mr. Tauszky has always been a staunch Republican. For several years he has been a trustee of the Mercantile Library. When the matter of consolidation with the Mechanics' Institute came up, Mr. Tauszky strongly opposed this. He was appointed a committee of one to furnish a report on this, althoui^h the youngest member of the board, and John S. Hittell was appointed to furnish a counter report. The best argument on both sides was, therefore, presented, and by a vote of four to one afterward consolidation was defeated.
To his law practice he devotes his best en- ergies, and has done so, indeed, from the be- ginning; hence, his success. He is a thor- ough lawyer, painstaking, energetic, and certainly has a very bright future before him. Mr. Tauszky belongs to the Concordia Club and the San Francisco Bar Association.
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DWIN ROBBINS, M. D., whose office is in the Flood Building, has been a resident of California for the past ten years, during which time he has practiced for six years in Los Angeles and in San
Francisco about two and a half years. He was born in Tipton, near Birmingham, Eng- land, in May, 1850, and received his early education in the schools of his native town. At about the age of twenty-two years he left home and traveled through Canada and the United States, and proceeded to Australia, where he spent seven years, traveling in New Zealand and Australia. He returned to the United States in 1879 and entered the American Eclectic Medical College of Ohio, where he graduated in 1882, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine, and at the same time received the honorary diploma of Doctor of Medical Laws. He then entered upon the practice of his profession at Los Angeles, where he remained six years. Com- ing to San Francisco in December, 1888, he commenced practice here, and has since built up a large and lucrative business. Dr. Rob- bins makes a specialty of chronic and nerv- ous diseases, in the treatment of which he has been very successful.
•UDGE ROBERT THOMPSON.— There are certainly few names better known, or even more favorably known, to San Franciscans, than that which heads this sketch. He has been a resident of Califor- nia ever since 1849, and in San Francisco for many years past. His philanthropic work in different chatmels since his residence here has made him known to many who would have never learned of him through his prac- tice, and possibly vice versa. Being a gentle- man of most kindly sympathies and pleasing manner, it is but natural that he should have many friends throughout the State. In many lines of work and thought he shows a youthful ambition, and we doubt not that he will carry on his work with the same
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energy to the last, and then resign it well content. Indeed he shows in his manner a life well passed, having no regrets over oppor- tunities wasted.
He was born in Waldo county, Maine, of a good American family, established in New England in Colonial days His people went to Maine from Massachusetts, where they had ori<yinally located on their arrival from the mother conntry. With the history of New England, therefore, Judge Thompson is familiar. He remembers his grandmother speaking of the battle of Lexington, of which she was indeed a spectator. This lady, like many of his people, lived to a ripe old age — ninety-eight years. Judge Thompson's father was a militiaman in the war of 1812. The family were generally farmers. Judge Thompson, our subject, was educated in Massachusetts, from 1840, the year of his arrival there. He also commenced the study of law there, and continued it at Philadel- phia. Prior to the gold discovery he came westward and traveled about a year in the Western States. He went down the Ohio river and up the Mississippi, and returned to Philadelphia by way of the lakes. It was his intention to follow up the study of law at the latter city, and after his admission to the bar begin his practice in Chicago, but the great gold discovery in California changed his mind.
He left Philadelphia February 1, 1849, with some forty others, on the schooner Thomas Walter, commanded by her owner, after whom it was named, and arrived at Tampico, Mexicc^, on the 22d. There they engaged horses for riding, and mules for their goods, and so crossed the country to Mazatlan, consuming forty-three days in the journey. At that time of the year it was pleasant enough, and they met with no seri- ous accident or sickness on the way. From
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Mazatlan their troubles really began. There was then lying there a Mexican schooner of some twenty three tons, the San Blasina, and this vessel they chartered, or rather she was turned over to them for their passage money. About thirty-five agreed to make the venture, although several hesitated, the vessel was so small and seemingly not stanch. When the passengers took possession it was without wood or water. There was then in the har- bor an English whaler, and from this vessel a number of casks were bought, and theee were taken on board at night so as to avoid the heavy Mexican duty on such a sale. Water was put in these at San Jose, so they ran some forty miles beyond and there hove to and cleaned and burned out the casks for fresh water. At this place a Scotch bark, the Coloma, was at anchor. A week after- ward they started out again. A gale came up and their boat was swamped, their oars lost, and the sails torn. To renew the latter Judge Thompson gave them some of his tents.
The next day they arrived at Cape San Lucas, where several left the vessel. Two friends of Judge Thompson advised him also to do the same; but, as they were unused to roughing it, and the intention of the others being to walk to California, he refused to do so unless a German named Beck, — like him- self ,a good shot and with some experience of outdoor life, — also agreed to go along. Beck finally fell in with the plan. They started along the gulf shore and came to where the Coloma was lying. The alcalde of the place strongly advised against such an undertaking as theirs, and although the Co- loma was crowded they were finally admitted aboard. All the passengers but one agreed to this, and even he was willing except that he wished to be free in case he should desire to proceed against the captain for overcrowcj.
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ing, and he refused to sign the petition with the others. However they all went aboard, and finally reached San Francisco, after a passage of thirty-five days, June 25, 1849.
Going to Sacramento on a New York pilot boat that had come around the Horn, Judge Thompson recruited his depleted energies for a few days, and then proceeded to the north fork of the American river and spent the summer mining there, being fairly suc- cessful, making about an ounce a day. His was a large company there, and they worked together well. When sick or from other cause he could not work, the Judge found a substitute, but at a high price, one time pay- ing an Irishman $12 just for one day's work! During the following autumn he returned to Sacramento, bought a lot and l)egan on it a general mercliandise business, in a rudely constructed store, or rather tent, on K street. The great flood of 1850, however, damaged trade so badly that he had to leave, although he liad done very well up to that time.
Next with two Ohio men he bought some stock, but he soon sold out his interest, and in the spring of 1851 he went to Calaveras county, where he resumed his law studies, was admitted to the bar and practiced some eleven years, enjoying a good patronage. He was elected Superintendent of the sch(»ols there, and also Justice of the Peace several times, — in fact as long as he desired it. As a J ustice he often sat as an associate of the County Judge in certain cases, and hence his title as "Judge." From 1863 to 1867 he followed his profession as an attorney in Al- pine county, and since that time he has been a resident of San Francisco, practicing his profession with signal success. Three-fourths of it has been in bankruptcy cases in the Federal Courts. In this class of litigation bo has certainly had great experience; but he is good also in general law.
Judge Thompson has always been one of the strongest temperance advocates on the coast, and has specially advanced the cause of the Good Templars. He is a trustee of the Orphans' Home at Vallejo, of which his wife, formerly Miss Caroline Batchelder, was one of the lady managers, being president of the board, indeed, for about fourteen years. Judge Thompson first met her in Andover, Massachusetts, where he taught school in his young days, and he afterward married her in New York city. Two years and a half after- ward he returned East from California by way of the Isthmus, and brought her here by way of Cape Horn. The Judge also be- longs to the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and. naturally, to the Society of Pioneers. He is one of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association. He has three children. His son resides at Suflol; one daughter is the wife of Rev. H. H. Rice, and the other married Fred Warren, of the South San Francisco Water Company.
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(OBERT E. BUNKER, M. D., whose oflSce is at No. 46 O'Farrell street, San Francisco, has been a resident of Cali- fornia since 1886, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1889. He was born in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1864, and is of English and Scandinavian descent, his father being a native of Massachusetts, and his mother of Norway. His father's family have been residents of New England for a number of generations.
Robert received his early education in the public schools of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He commenced the study of medicine in 1885, under the preceptorship of J. R. Free- man, of Minneapolis, with whom he studied one year, and at the same time entered the
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Minnesota Hospital College, where he took the course of 1885-'86. On coming to Cali- fornia Dr. Banker entered the medical de- partment of the University of California, where he graduated in 1889, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. He is now the Assistant Police Surgeon of San Fran- cisco, a poition he has held since January, 1890. He is also resident physician of the Crocker Old People's Home.
'AMES MEE was born in Ireland, Octo- ber 26, 1828, and received his education in his native land. In his youth he entered Temple Moile Agricultural Seminary, north of Ireland, and was graduated from this school with honor. This was one of the most noted educational institutions in Great Britain. Upon reaching man's estate he came to the Pacific coast, making the trip via Cape Horn on the barque Carthagenia. He arrived in San Francisco July 11, 1850, and soon after went to the southern mines, where he remained three years. He was very prosperous in this enterprise, and in 1863 returned to his native land where he wedded the love of his youth. He then came back to California, and re-engaged in mining, which industry he pursued until 1857. In that year he went to San Mateo county and in- vested in a large herd of cattle; he was occu- pied with the live-stock business until 1860, when he sold out, as the Government at that time took up all the lands. He then came to San Francisco, and was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice of law.
Mr. Mee is a great lover of horses, and is largely interested in the development and improvement of the breeds. For twenty years he owned an extensive stable, and spent much time on the turf. He is acknowledged
one of the best horsemen on the Pacific coast, and lias one of the largest collection of books relating to the horse that can be found in the State of California.
He has made very successful investments and speculations in mining and real estate, and withal has found America a happy and prosperous home.
While a resident of San Mateo county, Mr. Mee was elected to theofliceof Justice of the Peace, and discharged his duties with ability and to the satisfaction of the public. He has been frequently urged to accept nominations for office, but has steadily declined to do so. Politically he is a staunch Democrat, and is one of the party's leaders. He is a man of public spirit, and gives liberally to the support of all worthy charities.
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ATRICK J. O'NEILL, M. D., whose of- fice is situated at No. 126 Fourth street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1883, and engaged in the practice of medicine since 1888. He was b<»rn in county Roscommon, Ireland, in 1858, and received his early education in the na- tional schools of Ireland. At the age of six- teen years he came to America, remaining for five years in Rhode Island, and then came to California and was engaged for the first two years in mercantile pursuits. In 1885 he commenced the study of medicine in the med- ical department of the University of Southern California, where he spent three years, grad- uating in 1888, and receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then went to New York, where he took a course at the Post- Graduate School of Medicine, from which he •received his certificate in the latter part ot 1888. Mr. O'Neill then went to Philadel- phia, where he entered the Jefferson Medical
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College, and after a year's study and a course of lectures he received his degree as Doctor of Medicine. During those four years Dr. O'Neill had the fullest opportunities of the hospital and college for the practical applica- cation of the teaching of the schools. He then came to San Francisco, where he entered up- on the practice of his profession. He is a member of the County Medical Society of San Francisco; of the Young Men's Insti- tute; of the Ancient Order of Foresters; and of the Knights of the Red Branch, I. O. O. F., and Knigiits of Pythias.
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ilCHAELKANE is an old and retired citi/en of Alameda, California. In the fall of 1848 he formed a com- pany of young men in Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania— sons of wealthy men, organized with much ceremony as the Pittsburg & California Enterprise Company, for the purpose of com- ing to California and mining for gold; and also organized as a military company for self- protection. Mr. Kane, although then quite a young man, was elected president. Char- tering a steamer, they left Pittsburg March 16, and arrived at St. Joseph, Missouri, two weeks later, where a committee had arrived previously to purchase mules. They left St. Joseph May 4, some crossing the river at that point, and some further up; and, bid- ding adieu to civilization, they started across the almost interminable wilds by what was known as the Fremont route, namely, the North Platte, Sublette's cut-off, etc., camp- ing at Green river on the Fourth of July, which day they celebrated in company with the United States Dragoons in camp near by. The only white settler tliey saw between St. Joseph and Hangtown (Placerville), was a lame man called •* Peg-Leg" Smith, who
had married a squaw and was engaged in hunting and trapping on Green river.
The mess under the supervision of Mr. Kane reached Hangtown August 22, 1849. The company had been divided into messes from the start, on account of its large num- ber (310 members), and having the care of so many mules, they arrived somewhat scatter- tering. For protection against Indians on the route, and for the sake of forage and provisions, they were obliged to co-operate in crossing the plains and deserts. Although their primary intention was to remain to- gether after their arrival in California, they immediately found it more convenient to separate.
On the trip they once saw approaching them a band of Sioux Indians, who were apparently returning fiom a battle, as they had their squaws with them and were car- rying several wounded braves on litters. These litters consisted of two long poles fast- ened at one end to the sides of the ponies, while the other ends dragged upon the ground; and over these, hides were stretched. On approaching a small portion of the emi- grant party they stopped and indicated by motions toward their mouth that they de- sired something to eat. Mr. Kane ordered bread, sugar and tobacco to be given them, and they rode peacefully away.
On reaching the Forty-mile desert, the ani- mals of the emigrant party were greatly re- duced in strength, and were scarcely able t« get across. One mule indeed, had to be staid up by men walking on each side of him. When within a few miles of Cai-son river, the animals seemed to smell the water, pricking up their ears and making a direct line for it. The mules on arriving at the bank plunged in full up to their eyes. A rest of three days was enjoyed there.
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22, bat they bad virtually disbanded on leaving St. Jopeph, Missouri, dividing up into fifty-two messes on account of their hav- ing different routes. In crossing the plains, however, they met frequently and exchanged salutations. In Mr. Kane's mess — No. 11 — were six persons. He had furnished their outfit on condition that they should pay him in work on shares for two years; but on arriving here he released them from their ob* ligations, as, it appeared that each one would make more money by working independently for himself; and he said they might pay him when they could. One man indeed did pay him, — about $100, — »which was all that Mr. Kane ever received on those contracts. Tlie outfit for the whole mess has cost him $2,500.
The first winter in California Mr. Kane mined at Mud Springs. Early that season he went to San Francisco for his mail and goods, which had been shipped by sea; but the stor- age on the goods was so high that he told the warehouse man that he might keep the goods for the storage charges, as he could get the same in Sacramento at the same prices.
Meeting his old friend, Colonel Geary, Alcalde of the city, he Was advised to select and accept a lot in San Francisco. After ex- amination, he . returned to his friend, dis- gusted with the appearance of the place, say- ing he would not pay even the charges for recording the claim to the best 160 acres he could find in the city. Colonel Geary replied that be would regret it some day.
Mr. Kane returned to the mines. It had then commenced to rain, thus introducing one of the wettest winters ever witnessed in California. During a beautiful interval of the weather in February, Mr. Kane started for Downieville. At Marysville, on his way, he bought a half interest in four yoke of
oxen, and he with his partner proceeded toward Downieville. On approaching Yuba river, a terrible snow-storm delayed them about two weeks. After the storm had ceased they moved upon a bar in the river where the road to Downieville crossed it; and, as there was no wagon road leading further, they sold their oxen to a butcher for considerably more than they had paid for them. Storing their provisions at the bar, they proceeded on foot, camping in the deep snow at the top of the ridge the first night.
On waking the next morning, Mr. Kane was horrified to find an Indian lying along side of him. Finding the snow too deep for further progress by way of the ridge, they returned and took the river road to Downie- ville. On arrival there, they found that this village then consisted of only two or three log cabins and a few occupants, and provis- ions becoming scarce; but soon a pack train came in loaded with provisions, arriving by the only road open through the snow.
After a time they started out prospecting, turning by a dam the Yuba river above Down- ieville out of its channel, but did not find gold in paying quantities. The remainder of the winter season they spent at Rough and Ready, near Grass Valley. At that place they made about $10 a day, in the dry dig- gings.
The next summer (1851) Mr. Kane re- turned to " the States."
In the spring of 1853 he again came to California, by way of Panama, having been appointed United States Mail Agent for the trip. Afterward he was appointed by Major Richard P. Hammond, Collector of the Port of San Francisco, to be one of the Inspectors of Customs, which position he held for a term. He was then promoted to the position of Government Storekeeper. These two po- sitions he held under the administration of
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President Pierce. Under Buchanan he was appointed United States Appraiser, and this post he held four years. Next Mr. Kane was a member of the firm of Hunter, Wand & Co., wholesale liquor dealers. After Mr. Hunter died the firm bought his inter- est and their name changed to Wand, Kane & Co.; subsequently Wand sold out to Fer- ii^us O'Leary, and the firm style became Kane, O'Leary & Co. Five years after that, January 1, 1882, they sold out to Newmark, Gruenburg & Co., and since that time Mr. Kane has been comparatively out of busi- ness, though he is interested in various enter- prises.
In the fall of 1884, he made a trip to Europe, and on his return visited the World's Fair at New Orleans. He is a life member of the Pioneer Society of San Fran- cisco, and has served the same as Director for several terms of one year each.
Mr. Kane was born in county Derry, Ire- land, in March, 1817, and in 1830 the family emigrated to America, locating at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in which city he learned the cabinet-making trade; and afterward he car- ried on the business in partnership with a cousin also named Michael Kane. In the great tire in 1845, he was burned out, losing his dwelling-house, ware-rooms and factory. After that he formed a partnership in busi- ness with William B. Roberts, who was soon afterwards elected Colonel of the Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, which proceeded to Mexico. Colonel Roberts hav- ing died at the close of the war with Mexico, in the city of Mexico, his remains were brought to Pittsburg by Mr. Kane's brother, James, Lieutenant of the Hibernia Greens, a a company of the Second Regiment, where- upon Mr. Kane closed out the business of the firm. The gold excitement of 1849 determined
him to organize a company to come to Cali- fornia. He has a fine, comfortable home in Alameda, toward the west end of Railroad avenue, where he is surrounded with a happy family and all the comforts of a quiet life.
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EROME A. ANDERSON, M. D., whose
office is in the Odd Fellows building, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1872, and engaged in the practice of medicine since 1873. He was born in Randolph county, Indiana, in 1847, and his early education was received in the public schools of Kansas, to which State his parents had moved during his early child- hood. He later attended a private seminary at Neosho Falls, Kansas. He commenced the study of medicine in 1868, under the preceptorship of Dr. J. W. Driscoll, of Ne- osho Falls, with whom he studied three years. In 1871 he entered the Medical Col- lege of Ohio, at Cincinnati, where he re- mained one year, and in 1872 entered the medical department of the University of Cal- ifornia, graduating in 1873, in the first class graduating from that institution, and receiv- ing the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He •Bt once entered in the practice of his profes- sion in San Francisco, where he has since been continuously engaged. The Doctor is a member of the State Medical Society of California, of the County Medical Society of San Francisco, Fellow of the San Francisco Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, ex- President of the Alumni Association of the Medical Department of the University of California, President of the Golden Gate Branch of the Theosophical Society, and editor of a literary monthly, the New Califomian, Dr. Anderson's family have been residents of America for many generations, and are
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probably of Scotch descent. Five genera- tions in a direct line have been school teach- ers, including the Doctor, he having paid his expenses through the university by teaching school. His father, W. G. Anderson, came from North Carolina with his parents when a child. He was also a pioneer settler of Kansas. The parents both died in Kansas since the Doctor's arrival in California.
EORGE GERLACH, M. D., whose office is at No. 1,000 Webster street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1867, and engaged in the practice of medicine since 1874. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1846, the son of George Gerlach, who was a director of the high school of Alzey, Hesse-Darm- stadt. This was a very ancient town, estab- lished by the Romans during the invasion by Julius Cffisar. The family have been edu- cators and professional men for generations. George received his early education in the public schools of Germany, graduating in the high school of his native city in 1863. He then commenced the study of medicine as a pharmacist, and graduated at the Col- lege of Pharmacy in 1865. In that year he came to the United States, settling in Phila- delphia, where he engaged in the drug busi- ness, and at the same time commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. Aitken of that city, with whom he studied almost two years. Dr. Gerlach then came to California and engaged in the drug business, and at the same time entered the Medical College of the Pacific, now the Cooper Medical College, where he graduated in 1874, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once entered into pri- vate practice, which he has since continued.
He is a member of the State Medical Society of California, and of the County Medical Society of San Francisco.
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OHN A. WALL.— While the subject of this notice has not the distinction of be- ing a pioneer of the Golden State, he has the next best honor, that of being a na- tive. He was born in Alameda county, Oc- tober 7, 1860, his parents having emigrated here during the early days of the settlement of the Pacific coast; the father was a farmer by occupation, and he also gave considerable attention to the raising of live«-stock.
Young Wall attended the common schools of Oakland during his boyhood, and when he was older he went to the State of Mich- igan and entered the Battle Creek College, where he completed his literary studies.
On his retarn to California he entered the law office of Nye & Richard. on, of Oakland, with whom he remained about one year, and then went into the office of Charles and Ben Darwin in San Francisco, where he finished his studies in one year and a half, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1885, — since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession and has offices at 325 Montgomery street, San Francisro.
In 1885 he married Miss Alice M. M. Winter of Cloverdale, California.
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jUDOLPH HEROLD, a pioneer musi- cian of the Pacific coast, and an hon- ored citizen of San Francisco for nearly forty years, was born in the province of Sax- ony, Prussia, in 1831, where he was also reared and educated. At an early age he developed musical talent and began taking
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lessons, and afterward entered the Leipsic Conservatory of Music, where he pursued i his studies under the gifted Mendelssohn and Moscheles and other eminent teachers. Upon reaching manhood he came to the United States, and the following year to the Pacific coast, with the Catherine Hayes' Opera Troupe. lie decided to remain here, believ- ing the prospects in the musical profession would be more permanent than following the uncertain fortunes of an operatic company. After coming here he was prominently iden- tified with all the musical events of the future metropolis. The Italian opera, given at the old Metropolitan theater under Segnore Bian- chi, was conductedby Mr. Herold, and also the management of the grand concert in 1870, to aid in liquidating the debt on the Mercan- tile Library, was entrusted to him, in company with Camilla Urso. In * 1871 Mr. Ilerold went to Europe to make an extended tour, and was stricken with paralysis, but recov- ered in 1876 and resumed his famous pop- ular matinees, which he continued until 1883. Among all the leading uiusicians he was recognized as a master, and was justly pop- ular in the profession, fle collected a mag- nificent library at a great expense, compris- ing many rare works of great value. His death occurred in July, 1888, mourned by a large circle of friends, and leaving a widow and four sons, three of whom adopted the musical profession, and all were born in this city. Rudolph is at the head of an insur- ance business in this city; Oscar is now in Honolulu; Roderick is engaged in the musi- cal profession, and Hugo is now pursuing his studies in Italy.
lioderick, the third son, has inherited the musical talent of his father in a marked degree, and has taken a prominent position in the profession. He was reared and re- ceived his education in this city, early de-
veloping talent for music, and under his father's teaching enjoyed unusual opportnni- ties. He and his brother Oscar went to Europe, where they pursued their musical studies in Stuttgart and Paris, and after their return lioderick engaged in teaching. He has appeared in public a number of times, acquitting himself with credit, and receiving favorable notice from! the profession and the press.
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.ERMAN A. MUHR, M.D., a physician and surgeon of the regular school, was born in Pomerania, Prussia, in 1825, a son of Dr. Adolph and Emilie (Stilke) Muhr. The father had studied chemistry under the celebrated Oersted t, in Copenhagen, had the honor of the personal friendship of A. v. Humboldt, became a physician and sur- geon, and served as an army surgeon in the war against Napoleon, and died of apoplei^y in 1836, aged forty-eight. Mrs. Muhr sor- \ived him nearly half a century, dying in 1885, at the age of eigty-seven.
II. A. Muhr was educated from the age of nine at Berlin, receiving a collegiate and university education. Being of liberal ten- dencies in politics, he was interested in the revolutionary movement in 1848, like Gen- eral Siegel, Carl Schurz and many others who have become well known in the United States, and with whom he became intimate in this counry. He found refuge in Paris, and in 1849 entered the " Ecole de Mede- cine,'' or medical college of that city, where he took a full course of three years, includ- ing the "externe" education or practice, which consisted in attendance at different "outside " hospitals of the city, which attend- ance was enforced to insure completeness of instruction, the advanced students thus learn- ing to perforu) all the duties of an assistant
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physician and surgeon. Receiving his di- ploma in 1852, he was married in Germany, in 1854, to Miss Augusta Muller, born in 18B2, and came to America in that year, settling in New York city. For the first four months he was engaged chiefly with the sick of the Social Benevolent Society of that city, composed of Germans and German-Amer- icans, numbering about 250 members. He then became the regular physician of the members and their families at a regular sal- ary, and served there fourteen years, but had to give up the position for more general practice, continued for nineteen years. He was a resident of that city thirty-three years. His republican tendencies found full scope on his arrival in America, and he soon be- (mme a real republican, even before he was a citizen. He identified himself with the Republican party as early as 1856, taking an active part even to the prejudice of his pro- fessional interests He was Chairman of the German Republican Club of New York city for five terms, and delegate to the Republican General Committee of the city and county of New York, enjoying the fullest confidence and intimacy of the most prominent leaders of that party.
Dr. Muhr was attacked with a serious disease of the eyes in 1877, losing entirely the sight of the left eye, and taking five years of treatment before the cataract was removed from the right eye by Dr. Knapp, a prominent oculist of New York. Still active for his years, and despite his partial blind- ness, he continued to practice his profession, and in 1887 concluded to seek the genial climate of California. He settled in Oak- land, and has here carried on his professional labors with success and marked acceptance wherever he has become known in the brief period of his residence.
Dr. and Mrs. Muhr have had seven children,
of whom five are living: Julia, the wife of Arnold Entzman, now of Alameda, an ex- officer of the Austrian army, later employed in the office of the United States Surveyor General, and at present a bookkeeper in San Francisco. They have two daughters, the oldest born in New York, where they were married, and the youngest born in California. Adolph F., a photographer, formerly of Chi- cago for many years, and now of the firm of Richthofen & Co., photographers, of Denver; Helena, living with her parents; Herman, Jr., cashier and bookkeeper in a mercantile house in San Francisco; Theodore, now of the firm of Eichwede, Muhr & Co., grocers of this city. All the children have had the advantages of a good education. Two maternal uncles of the children, Ferdinand and Her- man Muller, came to America in 1857, and served in the Union army during the civil war. Ferdinand was promoted as a Lieu- tenant for bravery in the field, and was se- verely wounded at the battle of Cro3s Keys. Herman was an orderly with General Kear- ny. Both are residents of New York city. With his literary tastes and deep political convictions, Dr. Muhr has recently accepted the editorship of the widely circulated Ger- man weekly, the Oakland Journal^ corre- sponding, too, for the Nord California Journal^ Sacramento; the California Trib- une^ Fresno; the San Jose Herald; the Freie Blatter^ Tacoma and Portland, Ore- gon. His sharp causeries are widely copied in many other papers.
DWIN O. COCHRANE, D. D. S.,
whose office is situated at No. 850 Mar- ket street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1874, and has been engaged in the practice of dentistry
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since 1869. He was born in New Orleans, LouJBiana, in 1848, and received his early education in the public schools of that city, graduating from the high school in 1866. He commenced the study of his profession in the office of Dr. J. W. Allen, entering that office as a student, but having an inter- est in the practice before he left for New York in 1870. He remained at that place and vicinity for the next four years, engaged in the practice of dentistry. In 1874 he came to the Pacific coast, and has since been continuously engaged in dental practice in San Francisco since 1876 in his present office. On the organization of the dental de- partment of the University of California, he was appointed Demonstrator of Mechanical Dentistry, and in 1884 was appointed Clinical Professor of Mechanical Dentistry, now called prosthetic dentistry. This position he re- signed in 1886, his private engagements not allowing him to hold that position longer.
Dr. Cochrane's family are among the early settlers of this country. His father was a native of Kentucky, and his mother of New York. His father was for many years a well- known business man of New Orleans.
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,RS. SxVRAH E. HENSUAW, the subject of this sketch, was born in Connecticut, a descendant in the fourth generation of President Jonathan Ed- wards, and is a grandaughterof Colonel Daniel Tyler, the Adjutant of Colonel Israel Put- nam of Bunker Hill. Her grandmother was the daughter of Timothy Edwards, the eldest son of Jonathan and the uncle of Aaron Burr. General Daniel Tyler, a son of the Revolutionary Colonel Daniel and the uncle of Mrs. Ilenshaw, is well known in the history of the country.
Hi was in the regular army during most of his mature life, and served with distinc- tion throughout the civil war. After the war he was entrusted by the United States Government with important commissions abroad, and finally retiring from active ser- vice discovered important iron deposits in Alabama, founded the town of Anniston, established iron foundries and became largely interested in railroad enterprises. His home was at Red Bank, New Jersey, where he died a few years since, aged over eighty. His nephew. General Robert O. Tyler, was on General Sheridan's staff throughout the civil war, and earned a nanie scarcely less distin- guished. He died from effect of wounds received in battle, about the end of the strife. Mrs. Henshaw also rendered valuable service to the cause of the Union during that mem- orable period as Secretary of the North- western Sanitary Commission in Chicago. She contributed to the literature of that val- uable succursal department of the great strife for national existence, — a work entitled "Our Branch and its Tributaries." She has occa- sionally written for the Century and Lippin- cott Magazines. Since her arrival in Oakland in 1873, she has been actively interested in the benevolent societies of the city, being for many years Secretary of the Ladies' Re- lief Society, and retiring therefrom only to devote herself to charities needing greater efforts for their success. She was also the first secretary of the Fabiola Hospital.
Mrs. Henshaw married early in life, Edward C. Henshaw, who was born in Vermont in 1825, a relative of Bishop Henshaw, of Rhode Island, and of David R. Ilenshaw, at one time Secretary of the Navy. The first Ameri- can Henshaws were two orphan lads sent out from England by their guardian with the view of thus more easily diverting their in- heritance to his own use. They grew to man-
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hood in Boston, where David died without issue. Joshua there married and lived to an advanced age, and from him are descended the Henshaws of this country. A branch .of the family settled in Middletown, Connecticut, before the Revolution, and rendered val- uable aid to the Continental army, by secur- ing stores, provisions, etc., for the troops without compensation. For this service he was after the war honored by a visit from General Washington at his home near Middletown, and the mementos of that visit are still preserved by the family. It was from this branch that Edward C. Eenshaw descended. He became a midshipman iu the United States navj, serving under Captain Tatnall, who afterward becanie a Commodore in the Confederate service. Withdrawing from the navy, Mr. Heushaw went West with his wife, and was engaged in business for some twelve or fifteen years, chiefly in Ottawa, Illinois. There were born to them the chil- dren hereafter named. At the outbreak of the Rebellion Mr. Henshaw organized and equipped an artillery company, largely at his own private cost, and oflFered it to the State. fle was commissioned its Captain by Gov- ernor Yates, and served throughout the war. After the war he entered the regular army, and served seven years more, dying finally in service at Fort McKavitt, Texas, in 1872. One of his brothers. Major John Cory Hen- shaw, served through the Seminole war, and later through the Rebellion.
The living children of Mrs. Sarah E. Henshaw are four sons, all now of mature years:
Edwin T. Henshaw, who came to Cali- fornia before the other members of the family. He is now a member of the firm of Taylor, Henshaw & Taylor, prosperous lumber mer- chants of this city. His wife, by birth. May Ranlett, a native of Maine, was reared in
California from childhood. They have two children.
Frederick W. Henshaw graduated from the University of California, and early entered the profession of the law, was elected Police Judge of the city for three terms, and from thatoflice was elected to one of the Judge- ships of the Superior Court of the county, a position he yet fills. He married Grace S. Tubbs, a daughter of Hiram Tubbs, and has two children.
William G. is vice- President of the Union Savings Bank, of Oakland, and is largely interested in real estate. He married Kitty Tubbs, also a daughter of Hiram Tubbs, and has two children.
Tyler Henshaw, the youngest son, as yet unmarried, is secretary of the H. C. Gregory Company, manufacturers and agents of mining and milling machinery in San Francisco.
P. P. VAN DEN BERGH, M. D., who has retired from active practice, is one ^ of the pioneer physicians of California, having been in practice in this State since 1850, most of the time in San Francisco. He was born in A.ix-la-Chapelle, on the Rhine, Germany, in 1815, soon after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, the son of Casper Lietrio Van den Bergh, who was also a physician, and practiced for many years in Germany and France. He was an army phy- sician with Napoleon I, and in the French invasion to Moscow lost his nose and upper lip.
The subject of this sketch received his early education in the gymnasium of his na- tive city, and later entered the University of Bonn, where he graduated in 1834, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once went to Brussels, where for three years
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he was engaged in medical practice. He was then commissioned as Assistant Surgeon to the British army in the East India service, but through the influence of a medical friend he resigned his commission and remained in the hospital service in England for three years. In 1839 he came to the United States, where he engaged in the practice of medicine in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later in Richland county, Ohio. In 1847 lie removed to Iowa, where he was among the early settlers, and where he was engaged in his profession until 1850. In the 'spring of that year he crossed the plains to California, arriving in August, and after a short time devoted to merchandising, Dr. Van den Rergh again took up the practice of medicine, which he continued until twelve years ago, when he was disabled by an accident in which his hip was crushed. Since that time he has devoted himself to real estate operations and building.
The Doctor has been three times married, and has had twenty-four children, ten of whom are now living. He has had for many years an extensive practice, and is one of the very few men yet living, who was in practice in this State in 1850.
jAJOR MOSES G. COBB, a promi- nent lawyer of San Francisco, was born in Princeton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, November 24, 1820, and is the son of New England parents; the father, Elias II. Cobb, was a carriage manufacturer in Princeton; the mother's maiden name was Rebecca Boylston. Our subject received his education in New England, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1843; he then studied law, graduating at the law school of Harvard University in 1846. He then en-
gaged in the practice of law in Boston, from 1846 to 1861, the legal firm being Dana & Cobb.
At an early day Major Cobb took an active interest in military affairs, and in 1853 organized the Boston Light Artillery, which was under his command until 1858. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he raised a new company known as Cobb's Battery, went to the front and served in the array of the Potomac. In the winter of 1861 he resigned the command of this battery and came to the Pacific coast, located at Stockton and engaged in the practice of his profession there till 1867, when he came to San Francisco, and for the past twenty- three years he has been a successful practitioner in the courts of the city and State. At the outset of the paper he was connected with the San Francisco Law Journal^ holding the position of editor on pleading; his extensive experience and natural ability fitted him well for this work, which he conducted for quite a while.
While a resident of Stockton Major Cobb was a member of the School Board ; he raised the Stockton Light Battery, and held the command for two years, until he left that city. While living in his native State he was a member of the Governor's Council for a term of years. He was commander of the An- cient Honorable Artillery Corps in 1856, — a branch of the corps of the same name there and now established in London, and founded in Boston in 1836.
Politically the Major is identified with the Republican party. He was formerly a Whig, afterward a Douglas Democrat. For a great many years he has been a prominent meml>er of the Masonic Order; he is a Knight Templar, and also belongs to the Boston En- campment, Boston, Masbachusetts, I. O. O. F., and Olive Branch Lodge, at Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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UDGE A. C. ADAMS is not only an honored member of the San Francisco bar and the Society of California Pio- neers, but is also a pioneer of the Columbian Exposition city. He is a native of the "Keystone" State, and was born in 1824. His parents removed to Illinois in 1836, and located just outside of Chicagb, at Downer's Grove, one of the earliest settlements. He attended school there during his boyhood, and then returned to his native State and en- tered the Franklin Institute, where he took a four years' course. He read law in Chi- cago with Messrs. Spring and Goodrich, who for many years were leading members of the bar of Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in 1848.
The discovery of gold in California the following year, which attracted the notice of the whole country, determined him in his future course; he came to the Pacific coast early in 1850, making the trip across the plains, and for several years was engaged in mining and trading. He then returned to the practice of his profession, and in 1869 he was appointed District Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District, consisting of Calaveras, Amador and El Dorado counties. At the expiration of his term of office, he received the nomination, and was reelected for the ensuing term of six years. At the close of this term he came to San Francisco, and has since been successfully engaged in the practice of law in this city. While de- voting a great portion of his time to general civil practice,' he has been prominently iden- tified with litigation connected with the swamp land reclamation districts of the State.
Judge Adams is reserved and thoughtful iu his manner, painstaking and deliberate in his pleading and decisions, and there are few
members of the profession whose opinions are entitled to greater respect.
Charles A. Adams, son of Judge Adams, is associated with his father in practice. He is a native of California, and has been reared and educated there. When he was a pupil in the high school he was authority on par- liamentary law; afterwards he entered the Hastings College of Law, and is the young- est graduate of that institution. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1889.
Charles A. Adams is prominently identi- fied with the Ancient Order of Foresters, and is Past Chief Ranger of the order; he is also connected with many other fraternal or- ganizations.
R. CALVIN MOORE, deceased, whose office was for many years in St. Ann's building, San Fjancisco, was a resident of California from 1871, and was engaged in the practice of dentistry from early manhood, first in the State of Maine, and later in this State. He was born in York county, Maine, in 1824, and his early education was received in the public schools of that State. He commenced the study of dentistry in Boston, Massachusetts, at about the ago of twenty years, when dentistry in America was in an infant state of development. The Doctor was present at the second operation in which ether was administered in dental practice. After completing the study of his profession, he located in his native State in Belfast until 1871, when he came to California. Dr. Moore has been recognized for the past eighteen years as one of the leading dentists of the Pacific coast. He died March 5, 1890, and has been succeeded in his office and practice by his step-son, Dr. C. W. Locke, who was his assistant for twelve years.
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Dr. Locke was born in Belfast, Maine, in 1854, and received his early education in the public schools of that city, and later attended Heald's Business College in San Francisco, where he graduated in 1874. In 1876 he commenced the study of dentistry, under the preceptorship of Dr. Moore, with whom he remained until 1882, since which time he has been engaged in his present profession.
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^OIIN D. POWELL, D. D. S., who occupied rooms 43-44-46, Academy of Sciences building, was born in Ilealds- burg, Sonoma county, California, in 1862. He received his early education in the public schools of Henldsburg, and later attended for three years the Santa Clara College, and for two years the Lytton Springs College. In 1883 he commenced the study of dentistry, under the preceptorship of Dr. E. W. Biddle, a dentist of Healdsburg, with whom he re- mained two years. He then went East and entered the Philadelphia Dental College, where he graduated in 1885. He at once entered into the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, where he remained several years. In 1889 lie returned to San Fran- ciaco, and has since that time been engaged in his profession.
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ON. FRANK J. MOFFITT.— As a rule, when meeting one who has made a name for himself in either political or commercial life, we expect to find a man who has felt the weight of years, and gathers the successes of his position from the hard ex- periences of the past. This is, however, not always the case; and especially here in Cali- fornia are met admirable instances of the
welding together of the ardor and enterprise of youth with the wisdom and ability so often relegated to age. A better example of this fact can hardly be found than is presented in the case of Hon. Frank J. MoflRtt, the editor and one of the proprietors of the Oakland Daily Times, whose life counted by events and successes would seem to require twice the number of years it has contained.
Mr. MofBtt is a native of Oakland, born October 16, 1859, and is the typical and rep- resentative native son of the Golden State. In 1879, when less than twenty years of asre, he began his newspaper experience, estab- lishing in that year the East Oakland News, In a short time he sold out, and going down to Newark began the Newark Enterpriaey conducting it with success for some time. Later he took a position on the reportorial staff of the San Francisco Examiner^ doing effective work for that paper. In 1884, Mr. Moffitt established the Oakland Enquirer^ carrying it on until he sold out to F. A. Leach and resumed work upon the Examiner. Finally, in 1889, he purchased the Oakland Daily Thnea, the only morning paper in the city. When he took it in hand three report- ers only were employed upon it, and its edi- tion was run off on a single cylinder Cottrell press. To-day ten reporters are kept busily employed and a double-cylinder Hoe press and patent folding outfit does not meet the requirements of the popular paper, and a perfecting press will soon supplant it. The circulation has been more than quadrupled, and the paper is regarded with pride by the better and business element of the city for its bold and fearless stand in regard to moral matters and against monopoly or jobbery. The Times is riglitly considered one of the brightest and breeziest journals on the coast, clean and pure, yet witty and readable; severe when occasion warrants, yet never
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malicious. A very attractive feature is the suburban work, covering as it does news from the dozen or so small hamlets tributary to Oakland. But, notwithstanding the press of his editorial and other duties, Mr. Moffitt has found time always to take an active interest in local and general politics. He is a Dem- ocrat of pronounced views, but liberal in car- rying them out, being always ready to help the best cause. It was mainly through his instrumentality that the new city charter was successfully carried in 1889 through the Leg- islature, a matter of general congratulation, although Mr. Moflitt was not congratulated for this piece of work by the workers of his party. When president of the Oakland Board of Trade, he took the lead in diffusing in- formation in regard to the unequaled attrac- tions of the city, and in forwarding many public works of a beneficial nature. Mr. Moffitt has served his county also in more than one public capacity. He was deputy Sheriff of Alameda county during the shriev- alty of Mr. McCleverty, and has twice been returned to Sacramento, first in 1885 as a member of the Assembly, and secondly in 1887 to the State Senate, being the youngest member of this house at the time, and one of the youngest ever in attendance. During these years he proved his fitness for legisla- tive work, promoting actively many good measures and watching well the interests of his constituents. As a speaker he is very ef- fective, and is a power in the conventions, all of which he attends, and is now on all the central committees of his party in the State, city and county. It is the general feeling that other and more honorable, if not more responsible, offices than those he has so far held lies before him in the future should be care to aspire, but as it is he is regarded as a coming man in his party.
He i8 a member of Oakland Parlor, No.
50, N. S. G. W., and many other organiza- tions.
Mr. Moffitt is married and has a son.
S. HARLOW.— No brighter record can be made than to have per- ^ formed honestly and diligently the duty of the hour, no matter what the circum- stances of the case. To have done so all life through is the remark of a reliable and trusted citizen, and he is worthy of our highest re- gard and truest respect. As such a on^ par excellence we cite the name of W. S. Harlow, the under-Sheriff of Alameda county, for the past seventeen years connected with that of- fice, and previously a journalist of eminence.
Mr. Harlow was born at Nantucket, Mass- achusetts, February 2, 1838, the family re- moving to Troy the following year. His father, James Harlow, came to California in 1849, being followed a year later by his wife, and the sons being left at school to complete their education. W. S. Harlow received his education first in the public schools of Troy, and later at a boarding school at the East Green bush and Schodac Academy near Al- bany. Ill the fall of 1852, he with his three brothers, set out for the voyage; around Cape Horn to join their parents in California. The trip was made on the ship George Riynes, and is looked back to with many pleasant memories. They reached San Francisco in 1853, and Mr. Harlow became assistant to his father in the mercantile business then carried on by him in San Francisco. In 1857 they removed to Oroville, Butte county, and the succeedinsj four years were spent in the mines in that vicinity. His father died in San Francisco in 1883, but his mother is still alive at a good old age.
Since 1870 Mr. Harlow has been engaged
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in journalism, and in that year began his per- manent residence in Oakland: wetindhim then in connection with the Oakland Transcript in an editorial capacity, and later on the News^ of which he had charge of the local depart- ment. One day in November, 1875, he was sitting in the court-house taking a report of a case, when Harry Morse, who was then the Sheriff of Alameda County, proposed to him to become his under-Sheriff. After some hes- itation he took the position, and since then has been constantly in the office, and practi- cally in charge of all its affairs. Mr. Harlow is now the oldest Sheriff officer in California, with the single exception of Thomas Cun- ningham, Sheriff of San Joaquin county. He has known many exciting times and stirring episodes, being often in trying and perilous circumstances, but always prompt, energetic and successful. Reference to some of the most famous incidents will be found else- where in connection with the criminal history of this section, Alameda, Santa Clara and San Joaquin counties being the haunts and scenes of operations of the Mexican and Spanish desperadoes, who were once numer- ous in California. As would be expected from his long experience in the office, Mr. Harlow is regarded as an authority upon pro- cedure and the management of hisoffice. His work, " Duties of Sheriffs and Constables," published by Summer, Whitney & Co., in 1884, U the leading authority on the subject on this coast, and is in the hands of every lawyer. Mr. Harlow is also in constant re- ceipt of letters asking information on new points arising from all over the coast, even from judges. As is natural from his long continuancy with legal matters, Mr. Harlow is himself a thorough lawyer, and his admit- tance to practice in 1888 is but a proper trib- ute to his attainments. He is very popular, not alone with the legal profession, but with
the general public, being regarded as an effi- cient, energetic and thoroughly reliable of- ficial, and of those engaging personal quali- ties that cannot fail of creating a favorable impression. He writes a good deal still for the press, utilizing such incidents as come in his way in his office — a work that is much appreciated by the press of the section.
He is a member of the Athenian Club, and is a Republican in politics.
Mr. Harlow is married, and has had and lost one child — a daughter. Of his two brothers, one, J. C. Harlow, is State Printer of Nevada, an office he has held for three terms. The other, James E. Harlow, has been in the employment of Locke & Laven son of Sacramento for the past twenty years.
DAM TRIBE DICKSON, M. D., whose office is at No. 322 Third street, has been a resident of California since 1886, and has been engaged in the practice of med- icine for the past twenty years. He wan born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1845. His early education was recaived in the grammar schools of his native place, graduating in the high school of that city. He commenced the study of medicine in 1864 in the Univer- sity of Glasgow, where he graduate 1 in 1870, after a full course of six years, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once entered into the practice of medicine, which he continued in Scotland for three years. He was then engaged about three years in the New Zealand emigration service, having been appointed by the New Zealand Government, Surgeon, his business carrying him between New Zealand and Great Britain. Later he took a course and passed the necessary exam- ination at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Scotland, receiving his diploma
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and becoming a member of that college. He then practiced for four years in Lancashire, England, and for several years again in Scot- land. Ill 1886 he removed to the United States, settling in California, where he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in San ^rancisco. He is the examining phy- sician for several benevolent societies in San Francisco.
Dr. Dickson belongs to a family of physi- cians, there having been a nnmber of both his father's and his mother's side for several generations back. His grandfather was a surgeon in the royal navy for many years.
ILBURN HILL LOGAN, Ph. G., M. D. — Although still but a young man, Dr. Logan has by his energy and ability already risen to a very high rank in that most laborious and taxing profession^ the meiical. He has had a busy life and a successful one, and the only wonder to the writer is, how he has managed to accomplish all he has during his years.
Dr. Logan was born in the little village of Richview, Washington county, Illinois, Au- [ust 5, 1855, and is the son of J. I. and Jity J. (Livesay) Logan. His father is now ^Mg at St. Helena, Napa county, in this j§me, where he is carrying on an extensive furniture business On another page will be found a full description of his most interest- iiig^ife. The family removed to Centralia, IIlitii9is, whore his father entered the business in which he is at present engaged. Here ""^onng Logan attended common schools until he was nine years of age, when he came with his parents across the plains to California, ispeading six months on the journey and visit- ing Salt Lake City and all points of interest, finally reaching this State in August, 1864.
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After remaining a short time at Santa Clara, the family removed to Oakland and there Milburn attended school for two terms. Here his father met with severe financial reverses, being robbed of nearly all he possessed, and after remaining a year they went to Napa county, locating at St. Helena, and taking a small farm on the outskirts of the town, known later as Logan's Addition to St. Helena. Here Milburn attended grammar and private schools until 1871, spending his vacations and times of leisure in working for his father and brother at carpentry, building, etc. In 1873 and 1874 he took private instructions from Dr. C. W. Hughes, now deceased, in physics, hygiene and physiology, and from J. P. Dinsmore, M. D., now also deceased, in the principles and practice of homeopathy. In 1876 he entered the Univer- sity of California, College of Chemistry, class of 1879. After two years' attendance there, during a vacation, he temporarily lost his eye-sight by the premature explosion of a large can of blasting powder. This neces- sitated his ceasing study for nearly two years, and largely determined his future course. After so long an absence from his class, and also wishing to begin life in earnest and be independent, he abandoned the idea of com pleting at that time his course at the Univer- sity, and entered the California Medical Col- lege at Oakland, his university career giving an advantage of six months' time. In 1881 he graduated with the highest honors at the head of a large class, there meeting the estim- able lady who afterward became his wife. After a few weeks' rest at home, he began practice in San Francisco, re entered the university and took the gold medal at grad- nation in the department of pharmacy, thus completing his university course. Shortly afterward he was elected Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the Medical
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College. Two years later, in 1883, on tlie resignation of Professor S. P. Mead, A. B., he was promoted to the chair of Chemistry and Toxicology, which he still holds.
Dr. Logan has practiced continnonsly in the city since July, 1881, when he first opened his office, building up rapidly a very large and lucrative practice, which necessitates the employment of several assistants. It should be stated that Dr. Logan is an eclectic physician conscientiously selecting or choos- ing from any or all schools the methods and treatment best adapted to particular cases. He has had great success in his practice, a result of his assiduous care and careful study of each case, not less than to skill and experi ence. Dr. Logan is well read, being a grad- uate of the Chautauqua Scientific and Liter- ary Circle, in addition to his scientific and professional courses. Notwithstanding his multifarious professional engagements he has yet found time to write two works, standards in their line, the one a system of urinology, and the other a system of organic chemistry, suited to the practical uses of the student. He has been a very prominent member of the Knights of Pythias since the early part of 1878, having since then assisted in organiz- ing many lodges, and been a member of the Grand Lodge. He is also a member of the I. O. O. R, of the F. & A. M., a thirty-second- degree member of the Scottish Rite, and ninety-fifth-aegree member of the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry, of the A. O. U. W., of the K. & L. of H., and of the K. of H.
Dr. Logan has always had a fondness for study, paying great attention especially to numismatics, having formed a large and valu- able collection of coins, among them a coin or medal of the time of Moses, a most antique specimen. Archaaology is another of his favorite pursuits, coupled with kindred branches, and in mineralogy, conchology, etc ,
he has been an ardent collector. He has also a fine collection of petrifactions. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the British Isles, spending considerable time in study and observation, visiting the famous hospitals and seats of learning, especially at Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Italy, as well as other parts.
Dr. Logan was married May 30, 1883, to Miss Leta A., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Rosekrans, who are of old Knickerbocker stock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. N. L. Rowell, at the Rosekrans residence in San Francisco, in the presence ot a large number of the friends of both parties. They have now one son, Milburn Homer, four years and a half old. Dr. Logan^s office is centrally located at 101 Grant ave- nue, corner of Geary. His residence is at 627 Webster street, near Hayes.
We have entered somewhat more folly into his biography than is customary for the reason that the history of Dr. Logan is of great value, especially to the young, as show- ing what may be accomplishel, even at an early age, by energy and application, when combined with natural talent.
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flTO H. HUND, M. D., whose office is at No. 716 Howard street, residence at 1634 Golden Gate avenue, San Fran- cisco, has been a resident of California since 1881, and engaged in the practice of medicine since 1880. He was born in Homberg, Hessen-Cassel, Germany, in 1857, receiving his early education in the gymnasium of that city. In 1871 he came to the United States and settled in Now York, where he commenced the study of pharmacy, graduating in 1877 at the College of Pharmacy of the city of New York. He then commenced the study
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of medicine nnder the preceptorship of his uncle, Dr. John Friedrich, of that city. In 1877 he entered the medical department of the University of New York, at which he graduated in 1880, after a full course of three years, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Hund at once entered into the practice of medicine as assistant to his uncle, Dr. Friedrich, for one year, and visit- ing at the same time the clinics of the hos- pitals. In 1881 he came to California, where he has since been engaged in San Francisco in the active practice of his profession. In 1887 he went to New York, and passed throuijh a ct)ur6e at the Post-Graduate School of Medicine, receiving the diploma of that institution.
Dr. Hund's father was a clergyman of the Lutheran church, and was also professor at the Seminary of Homberg. A number of the Doctor's uncles and immediate ancestors were members of the medical and other pro- fessions. The record of the family extends back to the ninth century; the family up to the last generations having been prominent land-owners in that part of Germany, and since then professional men. His uncle. Dr. Friedrich, of New York, under whose care Dr. Hund and his brother were brought up after the deatlL of their father, is a well-known physician, having practiced in New York for over thirty years.
^ETERWILHELMPOULSON, COUNT FAGERSTJERNA, M. D., Ph. D., Captain of Infantry, and First Lieuten- ant of Artillery, and General-in-chief for the Order of the Golden Cross, was born at Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1841. His mother's family was sent to Norway from Germany, by Dr. Martin Luther, as Lutheran priests, to
carry out his reformation, and continued a line of priests for more than 300 years. His father's family is of old Swedish lineage, the Counts Fagerstjerna. Sven Nelson Fagferstjerna was governorofSkaane, Sweden, and his son, Count Paul Svenson Fagerstjerna, married a la ly from Halland, Sweden, and emigrated to Denmark, . where he bought large estates, but at his death left the children as minors. The Countess, a very beautiful woman, married again, and the children were sent out in the world.
The Doctor's father, Count Ole Ponlson- Fagerstjerna, received a military education, and became a distinguished engineer, archi- tect and inventor, and a well-known manager of large manufactories and enterprises. When Count Peter Wilhelm was five years old he was made a pupil of the Royal Mili- tary School, where he remained to his eleventh year, when his mother died, and he was transferred to the Royal College of Literary Education, and graduated there when fifteen years old. About a year later he entered the Royal Military Academy of Commands, and after the regular term passed examination as a brevetted Lieutenant in the army. Two yeirs later he entered the Royal Theological Seminary, and after three years' study, gradu- ated there with the first degree. He entered in the law department at the University of Copenhagen for about one year, but not being satisfied he changed over to the medical de- partment, and studied for three years, and was for two years a volunteer surgeon to the common hospital, and received the testimo- nium of the faculty. He entered then the Military High School of Artillery, at Copen- hagen, and after the regular course graduated there and received a commission as Lieuten- ant of Artillery. During the war with Ger- many he served in the army and received from the king the war medal. Being of ill-
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health from excessive studies, the government granted him two years' leave- of -absence to go to the United States of America for military observations, at a period when the war be- tween the North and South was approaching its end.
At the conclusion of the war he presented his medical credentials before the New York Medical Society, and after having passed examination was accorded a license and diploma to practice medicine and surgery. From New York he went, however, very soon to Council Bluiis, Iowa, where he was engaged in his profession for a short time, and returned to New York. There he entered the Homeopathic Medical College, and grad- uated and received its diploma in 1866.
His health, however, did not improve, and he concluded to return home to Copenhagen, when he was recommended to try the climate of California. Accordingly he came on a sea voyage via Panama to San Francisco; but his healtli continued to be poor, and, his nerves prostrated, and his diseased condition threat- ening to become chronic, he wrote to the king of Denmark and requested his resigna- tion from active service in tie army. This was granted him with royal grace as a First- Lieutenant in the Artillery, and as a Captain of Infantry. At the same time he commenced a vigorous water-cure and sea bathing, and recovered slowly, and did considerable medi- cal practice; but as soon as the Union Pacific railroad went into operation with the Cen- tral Pacific railroad he crossed the continent and returned to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The changeable climate of Iowa proved to be more beneficial to him than the Pacific coast, and especially horseback riding. He improved gradually and the most lucrative practice socm greeted him. In 1874 a rail- road accident disabled his knee for a short time, and he took a long needed rest for a
few months at Salt Lake City. There be did some practice, but devoted himself to lectur- ing at the Liberal Institute, and organized, February 14, the first club of the Liberal party, and became the founder of the political Liberals, who now controls Salt Lake City and Ogden, and the greatest part of Utah Territory.
In 1876 he made a visit to California, where he had printed a dramatical work, ^' Kay Lykke," in the Danish language, a play for which King Oscar II., of Sweden, sent him a complimentary letter. He also published two diplomatic works concerning the past and present Danish diplomacy; the Diplomacy of Germany and the Duchicb; and another, the Diplomacy of Scandinavia and Russia. Shortly after his return to Iowa, he attended the American Health College at Cincinnati and graduated, and received the diploma from the institution.
In 1881, at a meeting of the National Convention of the American Institute of Home(»pathy, the Doctor was elected a dele- gate from the United States to the Interna- tional Convention held in London that year, but a sudden illness prevented him from leav- ing New York when the steamer sailed. In Iowa the Doctor bought two farms, with in- tention to build a sanitarium, but came to the conclusion that California could l)etter answer the purpose. Mistaken or not in his idea, he gave up practice at Council lilufFs and Omaha, where he previously had resigned his position as a County Physician, and came to Oakland, where in 1886 he bought four acres of land at Fruitvale, planted them with choice fruit-trees and built the Fruitvale Hospital for the treatment of mental, ner- vous and chronic diseases. The hospital had its severe drawbacks for want of proper help to assist the Doctor's effort, but can count some very successful cures.
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In 1888 he pabliehed a Beries of article? on mental philosophy and messages of a spirit- ual-religioas composition called the '< Light of Messiah." This work is now continued, and we be continued for abont two years.
The year after he was created a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) by the S. S, University of Chicago, Illinois.
The Doctor belongs to nnmerons secret societies, and to numerous medical societies, and we mention only a few prominent ones, as the American Institute of Homeopathy, Northwestern Academy of Medicine, Iowa Hahnemannian Association, California Ho- meopathic Medical State Society, and the In- ternational Hahnemannian Association, etc.
The Doctor married Miss Alice Staples, of Elba, New York, and has by her a daughter named Deborah Fagerstjerna, who is the pride of the Countess.
The Doctor is longing seriously to greet his native soil and take a rest at home, but does not think the moist and cold sea-climate can be endured for a long time; yet he hopes to make the trial.
The Doctor is at present working in his San Francisco office, where he makes chronic diseases a specialty, and divides his time be- tween the hospital and his office and family practice.
fABER, photographic artist. — The men- tion of this name introduces a familiar subject to the lovers of high art the world over, for there is no one who has not admired the fine results of his artistic skill, either in the faces of noted people or repre- sentations of the finest scenery in the world.
Mr. Taber is a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and came here in search of gold in February, 1850. For three years he
prosecuted mining, and returned to New England in 1854. There he studied pho- tography, and mastered all the minutisB of the profession. The atmosphere of New England lacks the purity of the heavens in California, and in 1864 Mr. Taber returned here, im- pressed with the belief that better results could be obtained than in any other climate. For several years he was the chief operator in the Bradley & Rulofson Photograph Gal- lery. In 1871 Mr. Taber established the "Taber Gallery" at No. 12 Montgomery street, a location at once central and easily reached from any section of the city. There his rooms have formed the most interesting and eagerly sought for feature of this city for tourists and those who are in search of the beautiful, or who desire to perpetuate their own features in the most enduring and ar- tistic style. From the opening of his gal- lery until now his business has constantly in- creased and to-day requires fourteen large rooms to accommodate all the departments of the magnificent business.
Mr. Taber did not achieve his unprece- dented success at a single bound. First, he had to possess a natural gift not only for creating the highest artistic effects, but of so popularizing them as to make them sought after by the largest number. Then the closest personal application was demanded, and constant supervision over the minutest details of the operating departments. There was peculiar fitness in his artistic organiza- tion, and great executive ability, and these have been exercised from year to year. He has wasted no time or money on "new things" which were valueless, but all im- provements have been adopted by him, and very many are due to his own industry and investigation. To-day his name is well known in all the galleries of New York, Philadel- phia, Baltimore, Chicago and Boston; but
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equally familiar is it in the leading galleries of London, Paris and Berlin.
Mr. Taber has not gone in for specialties, e^^eept to make every piece of work bearing the imprint of "Taber" specially excellent- Nevertheless his ivorytype and porcelain miniatures receive very marked commenda- tion; and his crayon portraits are so emi- nently superior that they cause very many of the prominent people East to send commis- sions to him, and scarcely a tourist is satis- fied to return beyond the mountains without carrying a souvenir of his or her visit in the shape of a fine photograph ly Taber.
Mr. Taber has been an industrious col- lector of views. These embrace every sub- ject of interest from Mexico to Alaska, and the bare negatives of the multitudes of scenes represent a fortune in value. There is no collection to compare with it in America, and the person who can obtain a fair number of these has a living illustration of most of the places of interest and persons of note on the Pacific slope. They have everything de- lineated with such trueness as was never done by scenic painter, and can visit the places photographed as often as they like.
REDERICK J. HUND, M. D., whose office is at No. 759 Folsom street, San Francisco, has been a resident of Cali- fornia since 1882, and engaged in the prac- tice of medicine since March 8, 1879. Born in Romberg, Hessen-Cassel, Germany, in 1858, hie early education was received in the Latin schools of that city. lie came to the United States in 1872, remaining in New York with his uncle, Dr. John Frederick, and under his preceptorship commenced the study of medicine in 1874, continuing until he en- tered the medical department of the Univer-
sity of New Y'ork city in 1877. He grad- uated at that institution in 1879, after a full course of two years, receiving his degree as Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Hund had already passed the examination as assistant pharma- cist before the Board of Pharmacy of New York city (1874), and commenced the prac- tice of medicine at College Point, Long Island, where he remained one year. During that time he became connected with the Northwestern Dispensary of New York city, returning to that place early in 1880. In 1882 h^ came to California, where he has since been engaged in the general practice of his profession in San Francisco. Dr. Hund is a member of the San Francisco Medical Benevolent Society.
His father, Henry Hund, who died in 1864 in Horn berg, was a teacher in the semi- nary for the education of teachers in that city. Dr. Hund's ancestors have been a well known family of Hessia, and can trace their ancestors back to the ninth century, they having been landed proprietors until the last four generations, which have been engaged in professional life. One of Dr. Hunt's great-grand uncles on his mother's side was in the Hessian army, which fought with the British during our Revolutionary war, re- maining in the United States after the close of the war.
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^HARLES PALMER CHESLEY, M. D., whose office is at No. 754 Howard street, San Francisco, has been a re«i- dent of California since April 2, 1850, and is therefore one of California's early pioneers. He has been engaged in the practice of medi- cine since 1870. He was born in Derry, New Hampshire, May 7, 1834, receiving his early education in the public schools of Dur- ham, New Hampshire. He left school and
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his native State at the age of thirteen years. The next two years were passed at sea, and two years later he was employed in the man- ufacturing establishments at New Market and Dover, New Hampshire. In January, 1849, having been struck by the gold fever, he started as cabin boy of the schooner Mary Simpson, which had been fitted out for Cali- fornia. The vessel was wrecked oflF Cape Eatteras, and was forced to return, being towed into New York harbor. Nothing daunted, he made another start in the latter part of that year to reach California by the Nicaragua route. Being short of funds Mr. Chesley was forced to remain in Nicaragua, where he earned the money to reach this State by assisting parties who were furnish- .ing mules to the passengers for the trip across. In March of the next year he con- tinued on his trip to California. He re- mained in San Francisco, and for eight years he was engaged in dental and commercial pursuits, and for the next seven years he was engaged in the study and practice of dentis- try. He commenced the study of medicine in 1865, under the preceptorship of Dr. L. C. Lane and the late Dr. Isaac Rowell, with whom he studied until 1869, when he entered the Toland Medical College, now the medi- cal Department of the University of Cali- fornia, where he took a two years' course of lectures and study. He then went East, and entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Vermont, February 17, and was graduated June 14 of the same year. In 1870 he returned to California, entering the Medical College of the Pacific, now the Cooper Medical College, in August, 1870, and graduated November 7, 1870, receiv- ing the degree as Doctor of Medicine from both of those universities. Mr. Chesley at once engaged in private practice, in which he has since continued.
He is a member of the State Medical So- ciety of California, of the County Medical Society of San Francisco, and also of the National Medical Association, to which he was a delegate in 1871. Dr. Chesley is of New England and Penobscot Indian descent; his [grandfather, Thomas B. Waters, was a member of Washiugton's body guard during the Revolutionary war. During the war of 1812 fonr uncles were engaged in the Amer- ican army, two were privateersmen, and two were killed during that war. Dr. Chesley is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Cali- fornia Lodge, No. 1, F. <fe A. M., California Chapter, No. 5, Royal Arch Masons, Cali- fornia Commandery, No. 1, Knights Tem- plar, Islam Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of San Francisco, California, Odd Fel- lows Lodge, No. 1, California, of San Fran- cisco, and Golden Gate Encampment, No. 1, SanFrancisco ;a member of YerbaBuena Lodge Perfection, No. 6, of San Francisco, Yerba Buena Lodge, No. 4, Knights Rose Croix, San Francisco; also Godfrey de St. Omar Council No. 1, Knights Kadosh,San Francisco; also an active member of Grand Consistory of the An- cient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free- masonry; is a life member of all the Masonic bodies to which he belongs, except the Grand Consistory, that not having a life member- ship.
M|jURPHY, GRANT & COMPANY.— TrJOtt This firm is the largest and oldest wholesale dry-goods house on the Pacific Coast. It was organized in 1851 by Eugene Kelly, J. A. Donohoe, Daniel T. Murphy and Adam Grant, Mr. Grant being now .the only survivor of the original com- pany.
They opened their business near the north- west corner of San some and Sacramento
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Streets. In 1862 Mr. Kelly retired from the business and engaged in banking in New York. Mr. Donohoe also retired from the business at the same time and started the Bank of Ralston & Co. The firm then be- came Murphy, Grant & Co., its members, Daniel T. Murphy, Adam Grant and Thomas Breeze. In 1863 John Dean entered the lirm, and it stood that way until 1864. On April 28, 1885, the last named gentle- man died, after an illness of only one day. This firm was re organized and new articles of co-partnership were drawn, admitting Joseph A. Ford, Daniel T. Murphy and Joseph D. Grant.
On June 5 of the same year Mr. D. T. Murphy died in New York, and soon afterward a new company was formed, con- sisting of Adam Grant, Henry M. Murphy (of New York, and a brother of D. T. Mur- phy), Joseph A. Ford, Joseph D. Grant (son of Adam Grant), Daniel T. Murphy (son of D. T. Murphy, Sr.), the firm retaining its old name. Murphy, Grant & Co. In 1887 H. L. Whipple was admitted, and in 1889 D. T. Murphy retired.
Mr. Adam Grant, so well and favorably known in connection with this houee and the mercantile afiairs of San Francisco, is a na- tive of Scotland. Mr. Ford was born in Maryland. Their present building, owned by Mr. Grant, was built in 1867. It is lo cated on the northeast corner of Sansome and Bush streets, is 137J feet square, four stories and a basement, and is one of the most sub- stantial buildings in the city. The greater portion of this immense building is filled with the stock of the firm, their goods find- ing a makert in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, the islands of the Pacific, and all over the Pacific slope. No firm on the coast has enjoyed so long a period of un- remitting prosperity or a higher reputation
for honorable and liberal dealing. The mem- bers of this firm are men of tlie highest busi- ness ability and integrity, and richly deserve the high position they have attained in San Francisco and on the Pacific coast
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S. HORAN, attorney, San Francisco, is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, ^ where his parents wore early settlers, was reared there and came to California in 1863. First he engaged in teaching at Fol- som, Sacramento county; then studied law in the office of C. G. W. French, later Chief Justice of Arizona, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. Three years later, in 1869, he was elected a Representative from Sacramento to the State Legislature, and served during the sessions of 1869-70. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in 1873, and was elected Judge of the Police Court in 1875, and since 1878 he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in San Fran- cisco. In his political views he is a Demo- crat, taking an active part in the councils of his party. He received the nomination for Judge of the Superior Court in 1890, but, owing to differences in the party, the whole ticket was defeated. He has been prominently identified with the militia of the State, serv- ing in the ranks, and by promotion was com- niissioned Captain and afterward Major, and in March, 1877, was appointed by Governor Irwin Brigadier General, Fourth Brigade, California National Guards.
OUIS ZEISS, commission merchant and wholesale dealer in grain, potatoes, beans, peas, etc., at the southwest corner of Clay and Drumm streets, San Francisco,
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wa8 boru in Gam bach, near Frankfort on-tlie- Main, Germany, December 13, 1850, and at the age of seventeen years came to America, taking up his residence in San Francisco. He is the youngest of four children. His par- ents, Martin and Wilhelmina Zeiss, were both natives of Germany, and are now deceased.
Mr. L. Zeiss landed in the city of San Francisco as a young boy, and could speak no English; but by dint of hard work, close study and economy he has accumulated a con- siderable amount of valuable city property. He is the owner of the southwest corner of Clay and Drumm streets, fifty feet fronting on Clay and sixty on Drumm street, and the building in which he conducts his business, besides valuable residence property on the southwest corner of Laguna street and Olive avenue, 30x100 feet, also 25x90 feet, run- ning through to Ellis street, with nice im- proved flats thereon.
On his first arrival in this city Mr. Zeiss' business enteprise was that of butchering, which he carried on successfully for four years, and in 1872 he established himself in the commission business. His business quali- ficatioDR and shrewd manaorement have rend- ered him very successful in all his enterprises, and he now enjoys a good and growing trade which extends well into the interior of the State. In addition to this he is the general agent for the Pacific coast of " The Hilmer Chemical Works" at Petaluma, formerly in this city. He h s been identified with a nnmberof the growing industries of San Fran- cisco, and is therefore well-known in business circles.
He was married in this city February 7, 1875, to Miss Catharine Zimmerman, a native of Germany, and they have four children: Louis F., Otto J., Walter P. and Katie M.
Socially Mr. SiCiss affiliates with Ivy
Lodge, No. 1716, Knights of Honor, and has been one of its trustees for the past eight years; also he is a member of Court Zenith, No. 7474, A. O. F. of A. ; of the German Hospital Benevolent Association for the last eighteen years, and for the last twenty years of the Turn-Verein — all of San Francisco.
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OBERT H. TAYLOR was born in the city of New York in the year 1822, his ancestors being of English descent. His father was a native of the *' Empire State," and his mother was born in Con- necticut. He grew to manhood in the State of his birth, received his literary education there, and had begun the study of law when the discovery of gold in California began to attract the attention of the civilized world; he determined to go to the Pacific coast, and made the journey by way of Cape Horn on the barque " Peytona," named for the famous race horse. It was expected that the voyage would be accomplished in four months, but it was prolonged to seven months, the date of their arrival in San Francisco being Au- gust 7, 1849.
In March, 1850, Mr. Taylor went to Marys- ville, and established a newspaper there which he conducted for three years; thence he removed to Downieville, and was con- nected with the Recorder's office, having the active management of it. In the spring of 1854 he was admitted to the bar, and en- gaged in the practice of his profession until 1859; he was then elected District Judge of Sierra and Plumas counties, and at the ex- piration of his term of office he resumed the practice of law. In 1863 he went to Virginia City, and was successfully engaged in the practice of law there for a period of eighteen years. In 1868 he received the
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nomination for Judgeof the Supreme Court, but failed of the election, as the whole ticket was defeated. In July, 1881, he removed to San Francisco, and since that time he has given his whole attention to the interests and practice of his profession in the courts of the city and State.
Judge Taylor is a Republican in his poli- tics, and active in the party counsels. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is prominently identified with the I. O. O. F., having been the first Noble Grand in the State of California, namely, California Lodge, No. 1, which was instituted September 9, 1849, just one year before the admission of California into the Union.
.NDREW GEORGE BOOTH was born in New Hampshire in 1845, and re- ceived his education in New England; he attended Kimball Union Academy, Meri- den. New Hampshire, where he took a pre- paratory course, and completed his collegiate course at Amherst, Massachusetts.
Having determined upon the profession of law as a calling for life, he enter d the office of the Hon. H. W. Parker, M. C, from New Hampshire. In the year 1869 he came to California, and entered the office of A. J. Gun- nison, where he finished his legal studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1870. For the past twenty years he has been a prominent member of the San Francisco bar, and has won a reputation for ability and zeal which he certainly deserves.
Several years after his admission to the bar he formed a partnership with A. J. Gunnison. The firm of Gunnison & Booth are attorneys for the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company, one of the heaviest financial insti- tutions on the Pacific coast, and for several
railroads and other co:nmercial corporations. Mr. Booth is prominently identified witli the Republican party, and is active in its counsels. He was elected to the State Legis- lature, and is a Trustee of the California State Library. He is often a delegate to municipal and State conventions, and is a forcible spaaker. In important politica! cam- paigns he takes an active part in '* stamping" the State, and does telling work in behalf of his party. In the Masonic order he occupies a high position, having been Commander of the Golden Gate Commandry, K. T. He held this position during the triumphal tour to the Triennial Conclave at Washington, D. C, in 1889. He has been Grand Chan- cellor of the Knights of Pythias, and has been connected with many other fraternal organizations.
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OLOMON LEVY is the senior member of the firm of S. Levy & Co., general commission merchants and dealers in poultry, eggs, fruit, potatoes, butter, hides, California and Oregon produce of all kinds, 218 and 220 Washington street, San Fran- cisco. This house was established in 1864, and is one of the representative commission firms of the coast doing a large and profit- able business in the northwest, besides hav- ing an extensive local trade.
The gentleman whose name heads this sketch, was born near Carlsbad, Austria, in December, 1839, and when a young man, learned the tanner and currier's trade. He came to America in 1854. On his arriv^al in the city of New York he learned the jewel- er's trade, and later embarked in merchan- dising for a time. In the fall of 1856 he came to California, landing in San Francisco from the steamer Golden Age. Near the
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close of the same jear he located in Napa city, and was there nearly a year when he retnrned to San Francisco and engaged in the fruit trade some three years, then in ex- pressing until 1864, when he finally estab- lished himself in the commission business.
In 1861 Mr. Levy and Miss Ester Robeck were joined in marriage in San Francisco- They have five children living, and have lost a daughter and a son. The names of those living are: Rosa, Sarah, Lenora, Josephina and Helena.
Mr. Levy himself is the third of eight chil- dren in his father's family. His father died in 1886, and his mother is still living. Socially Mr. Levy is connected with several secret societies and benevolent associations. Among them may be mentioned the blue lodge, No. 216, F. & A. M.; San Francisco Chapter; Qermania Lodge, No. 116, 1. O. O. F.; California Lodge, No. 70, I. O. R. M.; Chebra B'nai Israel; and Chebra Ahoboth Zion, — all of San Fran-cisco.
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EORGE LEZINSKY, a prominent lawyer of San Francisco, is a native son, born in 1862. His father was one of the early settlers, coming here in 1850, and being one of the leading pioneer mer- chants. Mr. Lezinsky, after graduating from the San Francisco high school in 1878, entered the law office of Dr. E. K. Taylor, now President of the San Francisco Bar Association, where he remained until 1884, and during which time he took the regular law course at the Hastings College of Law, graduating in May, 1883, and was admitted to the bar August 25, 1883, the day upon which he became of age. In March, 1884, and until 1889, he associated himself with Mr. D. M. Delmas and pursued a gen-
eral civil practice, engaging in many impor- tant cases, among which were a large number of damage cases against the railroad and other corporations, and being uniformly successful in obtaining very large verdicts for his clients. He has taken an active in* terest as attorney for the State and its rep- resentatives in the matters of the tax cases against the railroad corporations. At all times he has taken an open and aggressive part in procuring an honest and fair admin- istration of justice through the courts and juries, and has accomplished many beneficial reforms for that purpose.
RTHDR L. SOBEY, M. D., whose otfice is at No. 810 Twentieth street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1874, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine since 1872. He was born in Cornwall, England, in 1851, and received his early education in the private school of his neighborhood. Later he at- tended the Independent College at Taunton, England, and the Portland Grammar School at Plymouth. He commenced the study of medicine in October, 1868, in the St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital College, graduating at that institution in 1873, and becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. After passing the examination for member- ship of this college in 1872, he was ap- pointed Surgeon in charge of the West London Hospital at Hammersmith, which he tilled for one year and a half. After a few months devoted to travel on the conti- nent of Europe and as much more time in travel in the United States, he came to Cali- fornia, locating in San Francisco, and devoting himself to the practice of his pro- fession. In 1873 he became a Licentiate of
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the Royal College of Physicians, of London (L. R. C. P. L.)
Dr. Sobey's father, Thomas Sobey, was a farmer of Cornwall, owning quite a large estate, and farming as hi^h as seven or eight hundred acres. The family are well known in Cornwall and Devonshire. Dr. Sobey is a member of the State Society of California, and of the County Medical Society of San Francisco.
^R. C. S. HALEY, a leading physician and one of the most prominent educa- tors, net only on the Pacific coast, but equally well known among practical educators in Eastern States, is a son of New England.
He was born in York county, Maine, Oc- tober 23, 1832. His parents were natives of New England, his father, John M. Haley, being a well-known physician. Dr. Haley attended school and received his early educa- tion in Maine, and his collegiate course in Georgia and New York. He engaged in teaching in the public schools when only seventeen years of age. He went South and taught in Georgia when it required the cour- age of one's convictions for a Yankee to en- gage in that profession in the Southern States, and remained there four years.
The Doctor was a self-made man, as his parents could ill afford to pay his collegiate course; therefore, when he determined to take up the study of medicine, he carefully nursed his funds, laying aside his earnings from teaching till he had saved a sufficient sum to carry him through college, when he entered the Augusta Medical College of Georgia, in the year 1854; and in the follow- ing year he pursued his studies at the Atlanta Medical College, from which institution he received his diploma.
Determined to avail himself of every op-
portunity of gaining a thorough knowledge of his chosen profession, he went to New York city, taking a third course in the University Medical College, where, having daily access to the hospitals of this large city, he had a chance of studying diseases in every form, which proved a great benefit to him in his after career.
After practicing medicine in Georgia for a year or two, he returned North, and for ten years successfully practiced his profession in Middlesex county. New Jersey. While there he was actively identified with educa- tional interests; was elected Superintendent of Public Schools, the law there requiring the superintendent to examine teach rs and grant certificates. Ele also took an active part in the city, county and State conventions.
Dr. Halev came to the Pacific coast in 1865, and engaged in the practice of medicine, be- ing successfully and prominently identified with the profession in San Francisco and other portions of the State for fifteen years.
In 1881 the Doctor was induced to identify himself with Heald's Business College, and since that time has been the active head of this noted commercial school, and one of its proprietors; and under his successful man- agement it has attained its present high standard. During the year 1889 Dr. Haley took a well-earned vacation. In April of that year he and his estimable wife started on a tour around the world, visiting England, France. Germany, Austria, India, Ceylon Island, China and Japan, giving much time and attention in observing the educational methods in all the countries visited; and in not one of them did he find a strictly com- mercial college. He returned much benefited by his tour, and is giving his co-educators the benefit of what he has observed and a<^ quired, his lectures being full of interest and instruction. He is also contributor to maga-
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zinee and educational jonrnals. Dr. Haley is very genial, always approachable and is justly popular with the students of the insti- tution of which he is the head.
Besides the college, he is largely identified in developing the farming interests of his adopted State, owning two raisin vineyards in Fresno county, also interested in stock- raising in Tulare county, where blooded horses, both for speed and draft, are produced for the market. While he holds landed in- terests in other portions of the State, San Joaquin valley is his favorite section, where in the main he is directing his energies, hav- ing great confidence in the future of this far- famed valley.
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[LADIMIR CHINDA is a general com- mission and shipping merchant, and wholesale dealer in domestic and for- eign fruits and produce, at 419 to 423 Wash- ington street, San Francisco.
lOBERT STEVENSON LECKIE, As- sessor of Alameda county, was born in Dnnbarton, Scotland, February 23, 1854, a son of William and Margery (Stevenson) Leckie.
Mr. Leckie, the subject of this sketch, arrived in New York city July 21, 1867. After remaining East about three years he came to California, and has resided in Ala- meda county ever since. From his arrival here until 1878 he was employed by A. G. Lawrie, searcher of records. Besides learning his business thoroughly, he gave his spare moments to the study of real-estate law and related topics. In 1878 he was appointed chief deputy by J. M. Dillon, City Assessor of Oakland, with whom he remained until
1886. He then filled a like position in the County Assessor's office one year, when he resigned and went into the business of rec- ord searching on his own account, April 1,
1889. W. G. Uawkett became a partner, but the firm of Leckie & Hawkett sold out tneir business October 2, 1890, to Joseph Lyons and F. L. Krause.
Mr. Leckie was nominated by the county convention of the Republican party for the office of County Assessor September 16,
1890, was elected in November by a plurality of 4,127, and entered on the discharge of his duties in January, 1891, and sold his busi- ness of searching records. He is considered specially well adapted to fill the office of County Assessor, being familiar with real- estate values throughout the city and county, his whole career since his arrival in Oakland being an admirable preparation for the' effi- cient discharge of its duties. He is at once alert, expeditious and careful, and has commanded the confidence of the community by his thoroughness as a searcher of records.
He was married in Hartford, Connecticut, December 23, 1877, to Miss Annie R. Pur- ves, a daughter of John Purves, of that city.
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HANNING H. COOK, whose office is at 1826 Howard street, San Francisco, is a native of California, born in San Francisco, in 1863, the son of Elisha Cook, who was one of the prominent attorneys of this city, and who died in 1871, in the very zenith of success. He was one of the pio- neer settlers of California, arriving here early in January, 1850. Channing received his early education in the Urban school, of San Francisco, where he remained until the age of thirteen years. He then went to New Hampshire, where, for three years, he at-
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tended St. Paul's school at Concord. He then returned to California, and at the acre of sixteen years he passed the necessary exami- nations and entered the State University, which he attended for one year. Mr. Cook then went to Europe, and after traveling with his family about two years he returned to San Francisco, but on account of sickness was not able to resume his studies for a year and a half. In 1884 he entered the Cooper Medical College, where he graduated in 1887, after a three years' course. He at once entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in San Francisco, which he has since continued. For two years Dr. Cook was assistant to the surgical clinic of the Cooper Medical College. He now holds the position of lecturer on anatomy and physiology at the Trinity School of San Francisco.
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DWARD CONSTANT ROBINSON, attorney, of Oakland, was born in Jack- son county, Oregon, February 6, 1855, a son of Ur. Jesse and Lavinia Jane (Con- stant) Robinson, both living in Solano county. His mother, who was born in Sangamon county, Illinois, March 12, 1834, a daughter •jf Isaac and Lucinda (Merriman) Constant, was married in Jackson county, Oregon, April 27, 1854. Isaac Constant, born in Clark county, Kentucky, April 5, 1809, a son of Thomas and Margery (Edmonson) Constant, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, February 14, 1833, to Lucinda Mer- riman, born in Scott county, Kentucky, Feb- ruary 21, 1813, a daughter of Reuben and IJetsey (Bennett) Merriman. Isaac Constant came to Oregon in 1849; made a homestead entry; returned to Illinois; sold his property there; brought his family to Oregon in 1852. settling in Jackson county, where he died
late in December, 1889, and his wife early in January, 1890. His father, Thomas Con- stant, born in Virginia August 14, 1769, moved to Kentucky, was married there June 17, 1796, and settled in Clark county. About 1810 he moved to Xenia, Ohio, and thence in 1820 to Sangamon county, Illinois. They had five sons and eight daughters. Both died at Athens, Illinois, he on Decem- ber 14, 1840, and she on March 1, 1842. Reuben Merriman, the father-in-law of Isaac Constant, born in Connecticut September 6, 1790, went to Kentucky in 1811, and return- ing was married May 4, 1812, when he went back to Kentucky, settling on Big Eagle creek, in Scott county, where he was engaged for several years in milling and coopering. In 1829 he moved to Sangamon county, Illi- nois, and settled in Williams township, where he died February 28, 1842, having survived his wife a single day.
The paternal ancestry of the subject of this sketch is of New England descent for several generations, and is perhaps derived from William Robinson, one of the early colonists of Cambridge, said to be a kinsman of Rev. John, pastor of the Pilgrims in Leyden. Be that as it may, Eliakim Robinson, the great- grandfather of our subject, was a resident, and probaly a native, of Worcester county, Massachusetts. He was married about 1770, to Deborah Brown, a daughter of Bryant and Hephzibah (Chandler) Brown, of Thompson, Connecticut, the mother being a nacive of Pomfret, Connecticut, where she was born August 12, 1720. Eliakim and Deborah Robinson had seven sons, the oldest of whom, Samuel, lived and died in Worcester county, Massachusetts; Silas, Jesse and Solomon settled at Hartwick, Otsego county, New York; Moses and Aaron, twins, settled in Wyoming county. New York, and Bryant, the youngest, is supposed to have settled in
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Rhode Island. Jesse, the third son, who was born in Webster, Worcester comity, Massachusetts, November 14, 1773, was married November 16, 1806, being then a widower with one son, to Abiah Lamed, born in Dudley, in the same county, Novem- ber 19, 1784, a daughter of John Lamed, by whom he had five sons and three daughters. He died in Hartwick, New York, January 6, 1848, his wife surviving to March 21, 1866. One of her sisters, Lovina, by marriage Mrs. Head, was remarkably long-lived, having been born July 13, 1783, and living to Jan- nary 14, 1890.
Jesse, the youngest but one of the chil- dren of Jesse and Abiah Robinson, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Hartwick, New York, August 28, 1825, and received his early education there. At eighteen he entered the medical college at Woodstock, Vermont, at which, after a course of over three years, he was graduated, in 1846. Then he moved to Lee county, Iowa, where he practiced until he left for Cali- fornia, arriving in Septeml>er, 1849. He engaged in mining, and between mining and prospecting at different points, some fifteen montlis had passed, when, on the organiza- tion of Shasta county, in December, 1850, he was elected its first County Clerk. In 1851 he bought a farm in Scott Valley, Sis- kiyou county, on which he raised cattle chiefly; and in 1853 he moved into Southern Oregon, where he engaged in a more varied business, including a sawmill, gristmill and packing. He was married there, April 27, 1854, to Lavinia Jane Constant. In 1861 he was appointed Quartermaster of the First Oregon Cavalry, United States Volun- teers, which he accompanied in its various expeditions, and was mustered out Septem- ber 30, 1865, as Chief Quartermaster of the District of Boise, Idaho Territory.
Returning to Oregon he settled in Jack- son county, where he engaged in farming until he moved to Oakland, in November, 1868, chiefly for the better education of his chil- dren. He was variously engaged here until April, 1881, when he entered upon the dis- charge of his duties as Assessor of Oakland township, to which he had been elected in 1880, and which he held by re-elections until January 1, 1887. Before the close of the latter year he t6ok up his residence on his fruit ranch of 160 acres in Vaca valley, So- lano county, where he still resides His children are: Edward C, named at the head of this sketch; Chester Larncd, now a sales- man for C. M. Plum & Co. of San Francisco, married in 1881 to Annie Belle Prince, a native of Maine, and has one child, Jesse, who was born in 1886; Thomas M., the third son, who is the subject of the following sketch; and Maury, who is interested with Thomas M. in a ranch in Vaca valley, which he superintends.
Edward C. Robinson completed his school days in the University of California. From 1873 to 1878 he was in the coal business as collector, bookkeeper or foreman for F. Chap- pellet & Co., and for six months as half owner of their branch yard at Alameda, and finally as superintendent of their headquarters in this city. In 1878, his health being some- what impaired, he went to the mountains ar»d engaged in hydraulic mining, owning at one time a two-thirds interest in the Josephine mine in Josephine county, Oregon. Dispos- ing of his mining property he returned to Oakland, and was appointed in 1880 a deputy County Clerk, and detailed as Clerk of Department Two of the Superior Court of Alameda county. Finding an opportunity to study law, under the guidance of the late Henry Vrooman and afterward of the Hon. W. E. Greene, then and now one of the
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Judges of the Superior Court, he was admit- ted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Cali- fornia, August 9, 1882. Retiring from the position of deputy County Clerk in January, 1883, he entered upon the practice of law under the style of Robinson & De Golia (which partnership continued one year), and was appointed Attorney to the Public Ad- ministrator, and served as such to the close of 1886. From June 1, 1§87, to October 1, 1888, he was one of the law firm of Smith & Robinson, otherwise practicing alone since January, 1884. In July, 1890, he was ap- pointed Town Attorney of Berkeley. He has successfully conducted some cases that have attracted attention on account of the principles involved, and has established an excellent stjinding among, and is now one of the prominent members of the bar of Alameda county.
Mr. Robinson is Fast Master of Live Oak Lodge, No. 61, F. & A. M., and Past Grand of University Lodge, No. 144, L O. O. F. In June, 1888, he w