California Blue Book or State Roster

1913-15

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

Elective State Executive officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Justices of the District Courts of Appeal, United

States Senators, Representatives in Congress, State Senators, Members of the Assembly, and Legislative

Attaches, Railroad Commissioners, Members of State Board of Equalization and of the Several

Commissions, Boards and Officials Holding Office by Executive Appointment.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

GOVERNOR.

HIRAM WARREN JOHNSON (Progressive) was born at Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, September 2, 1866. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the Sacramento High School in 1884. He entered the University of California with the class of 1888, but left in his Junior year to engage in the study of law. He was admitted to practice in 1888 and practiced his profession thereafter in Sacramento until 1902. In 1899 he was appointed Corporation Counsel of the city of Sacramento by Mayor George H. Clark, and served in that capacity throughout Clark's administration. In 1902 he took up his residence in San Francisco and in partnership with his brother, Albert M. Johnson, opened a law office in that city. He was nominated for the office of Governor in August, 1910, at the first direct primary election held in the State of California, and elected to that office November 8, 1910; inaugurated January 3, 1911. At the primary election held on August 25, 1914, he received the Progressive nomination for Governor, and at the general election held November 3, 1914, he was re-elected Governor of California.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

JOHN MORTON ESHLEMAN (Progressive) was born at Villa Ridge, Illinois, June 14, 1876, and came to California March 2, 1896. He worked in a railroad camp of the Southern Pacific Company, during which time he studied to prepare himself for admission to the University, entering the University of California in 1898. In 1902 he took his A.B. with highest honors and in 1903 the degree of Master of Arts. He was admitted to the bar and appointed Deputy State Labor Commissioner under Governor Pardee and Commissioner W. V. Stafford. He represented the Fifty-second District (Berkeley) in the thirty-seventh session of the Legislature. He was appointed, under District Attorney (now Superior Judge) Everett J. Brown, Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County, but was compelled by his health to remove to the Imperial Valley. On the formation of Imperial Valley, August, 1907, Mr. Eshleman was elected its first District Attorney, serving out his term. In November, 1910, he was elected Railroad Commissioner from the Third District and chosen as president of the Commission in January, 1911. He was elected Lieutenant Governor at the general election held in the State of California on November 3, 1914.

SECRETARY OF STATE.

FRANK CHESTER JORDAN (Republican) was born at Haycrafts Ferry, near Redding, Shasta County, April 3, 1860. Received a common school education in Oakland, his home from 1868 to 1906. Since 1906 has resided in Auburn, Placer County. Engaged in commercial pursuits until 1894 when he was elected County Clerk of Alameda County. Re-elected in 1898. Elected Clerk of Supreme Court November 4, 1902. Was nominated for office of Secretary of State at the first direct primary election held in the State of California and elected November 8, 1910, for the term 1911-1915. At the general election held November 3, 1914, he was re-elected Secretary of State.

CONTROLLER.

ALFRED BOURNE NYE (Republican) was born at Stockton, California, October 25, 1853; he

received his education in the public schools of Massachusetts and in the academy at Falmouth, in the

same state; became a newspaperman, and was residing in Oakland, California, at the time when

Governor George C. Pardee selected him as his private secretary, in which capacity he acted from

January, 1903, until November 23, 1906, when he was appointed by Governor Pardee as State

Controller to take the place of E. P. Colgan, deceased; on January 7, 1907. Governor Pardee again appointed him to the same office, vice self and E. P. Colgan; deceased. In 1910 he was nominated for Controller by both the Republican and Democratic parties,, and in the general election following was elected for the term 1911-1915. On August 19, 1913, Mr. Nye died at his home in Sacramento.

STATE CONTROLLER.

JAMES SHEERER CHAMBERS (Progressive) was born in Covingon(sic), Kentucky, November 4, 1867. Received a common and high school education in the schools of Kentucky. Was appointed by Governor Johnson State Controller to succeed Hon. A. B. Nye, deceased, on 28^th day of August, 1913. Was managing editor of the Sacramento Bee, and formerly President of the Board of Managers of the Napa State Hospital. At the general election held on the 3d of November, 1914, he was elected State Controller.

STATE TREASURER.

FRIEND WILLIAM RICHARDSON (Progressive) was born in Michigan, and came to San Bernardino with his parents when quite young. He was editor and proprietor of the San Bernardino Times-Index for a number of years, and later he purchased the Berkeley Daily Gazette, which he still owns. He has been president of the California Press Association, a State editorial organization, for a number of years. He was appointed Superintendent of State Printing on November 23, 1911, by Governor Hiram W. Johnson, and on November 3, 1914, he was elected State Treasurer, being the candidate of the progressive, Republican and Democratic parties.

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

ULYSSES SIGEL WEBB (Progressive), the present Attorney General, was born at Flemington, West Virginia, September 29, 1864. In 1870 his parents moved to Kansas, and Mr. Webb received his education in the schools of that state. In 1888 he came to California and settled in Quincy, Plumas County, and in 1889 began the practice of law. In 1890 he was elected district attorney and held the office until September 15, 1902, when he resigned to accept the appointment from Governor Gage of Attorney General. He has held the office since then, being elected for the fourth time November 3, 1914.

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

WILLIAM STEPHEN KINGSBURY (Progressive) was born at Oakland, California, August 3, 1870. He was educated as a civil engineer, and at the time of his election in 1906 as Surveyor General, was Chief Deputy City Engineer of Los Angeles. He is now serving his third term as Surveyor General.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

EDWARD HYATT was born at Huntington, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1858, but was educated in the public schools of Ohio, and at Ohio State University. He took up school teaching as his occupation. Came to California in 1884 and settled in Riverside County where, beginning with 1895, he served several terms as County Superintendent of Schools, and also acted as instructor for Teachers' County Institutes throughout the State. Elected Superintendent of Public Instruction November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican party and Independence League. Re-elected in 1910 as a Republican. At the general election November 3, 1914, he was re-elected Superintendent of Public Instruction by the voters of California.

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT.

WILLIAM HENRY BEATTY (Republican) was born at Monclova, Lucas County, Ohio, February 18, 1838: he lived for a time in Kentucky, and came from that State to California in 1853, arriving in Sacramento in March; he received his education in the common schools of Kentucky and California, finishing in the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar in California in January, 1861; served as City Attorney of Austin, Nevada, in 1864; as a Judge of the District Court and as Judge of the Supreme Court of that State during the years from 1864 to 1881; in 1888 he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of California, re-elected in 1890, and again re-elected in 1902. On August 4, 1914, Chief Justice Beatty died at his home in San Francisco.

MATT I. SULLIVAN was born in Grass Valley, in Nevada County, California, November 3, 1857. His parents were Michael M. and Margaret Sullivan, California pioneers who came to this State in the spring of 1852. With them he moved to San Francisco at the age of about four years. He attended St. Ignatius College and graduated from that institution in 1876, receiving the degrees of A.B. and LL.D., and was admitted to the bar at San Francisco in November, 1879. He was one of the supervisors appointed by Mayor Taylor in July, 1897, to succeed indicted members of the Schmitz administration. In February, 1911, he was appointed by Governor Hiram W. Johnson a member of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Commission of the State of California and was elected its president. In September, 1912, he was chosen dean of the law college of St. Ignatius University. On the 15^th day of December, 1914, he was appointed by Governor Johnson Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, vice William Henry Beatty, deceased. At the general election held on the 3d day of November, 1914, he was elected Chief Justice for the unexpired term ending January 4, 1915.

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT.

FRANK M. ANGELLOTTI was born at San Rafael, California, in 1861, and educated in the public schools of this State and in Hastings College of the Law at San Francisco; he was admitted to practice law in 1882, and took up his profession in San Rafael; was elected District Attorney of Marin County in 1885, and served for three terms; elected Judge of the Superior Court of Marin County in 1890 and served two terms; elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court November 4, 1902. On November 3, 1914, was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

HENRY ALEXANDER MELVIN (Republican) was born at Springfield, Illinois, September 28, 1865. He came to California in 1875, and in 1889 graduated from the University of California with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy; in 1892 he graduated from the Hastings College of the Law with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His home is at Oakland, and he has served as Justice of the Peace of Brooklyn Township, Deputy District Attorney and Chief Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County, and as a Deputy Attorney General of California. In 1901 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the superior bench of Alameda County, and in 1902 was elected for a full term of six years beginning January, 1903, but resigned to accept an appointment, on September 28, 1908, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to take the place of T. B. McFarland, deceased, until the next general election. On November 3, 1908, he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Justice McFarland, ending January, 1911. On November 8, 1910, was re-elected for the full term of twelve years from January, 1911.

WILLIAM PATRICK LAWLOR was born in New York City September 17, 1854. He received his education in New York City, and at Patterson, New Jersey, attending the day schools, public and parochial. After the age of ten years he attended the night schools in Patterson, New Jersey. He matriculated into Hastings College of the Law, California, but sickness interfered after being admitted into the second year. He was an attorney and counselor at law. He was Judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the City and County of San Francisco from December 16, 1898, to January 30, 1915. At the general election on November 3, 1914, he was elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for the full term of twelve years.

M. C. SLOSS (Republican) was born at New York City, February 28, 1869, but was brought to this State in 1872; he received his education in the San Francisco public schools, in Belmont School, in Harvard College, and in the Harvard Law School; returning to San Francisco he took up his profession as a lawyer, and in 1900 was elected Judge of the Superior Court; on February 1, 1906, he was appointed to take the place of Walter Van Dyke, deceased, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; on November 6, 1906, he was regularly elected for the remainder of the unexpired term of Justice Van Dyke, ending January, 1911. On November 8, 1910, he was re-elected for a full term of twelve years from January, 1911.

LUCIEN SHAW (Republican) was born near Vevay, Indiana, March 1, 1845; was educated in the common schools and at Indianapolis Law College and admitted to practice law in Indiana in 1869; came to California in 1883 and engaged in the practice of law in Fresno County; removed to Los Angeles in 1886 and was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in March, 1889; elected for the full term in 1890 and re-elected in 1896; elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, November 4, 1902; re-elected November 3, 1914.

FREDERICK W. HENSHAW (Republican) was born in Illinois, May 24, 1858; he arrived in California in 1873 and graduated from the University of California in 1879; was admitted to practice law in 1880; served as Justice of the Peace in the city of Oakland, and was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1890; resigned December 8, 1894; elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1894 and re-elected November 6, 1906.

WILLIAM G. LORIGAN (Republican) was born at Melbourne, Australia, February 12, 1855; came to this State in 1860; was educated at Santa Clara College, California, and at St. Vincent's College of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; admitted to practice law in California; was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County in 1890; re-elected in 1896 and in 1902; resigned as Superior Judge of Santa Clara County, and was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court January 5, 1903, to fill unexpired term of Hon. Jackson Temple, deceased; elected to full term, November 6, 1906.

CLERK OF SUPREME COURT.

B. GRANT TAYLOR (Progressive) was born December 27, 1872, at Collins, Erie County, New York. After a common school and business college education, he served as a telegrapher on the Erie railroad. He entered the New York Civil Service as stenographer and telegrapher, and while so engaged commenced the study of law by correspondence. Came to California in 1898, and was admitted to the bar in 1902. Was official shorthand reporter in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County 1904-10, inclusive. Received the Republican nomination for present office through direct primary in August, 1910, followed by the election in November. On the 5^th day of January, 1915, he was appointed by the Supreme Court as Clerk of that court.

PRESIDING JUSTICE, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT.

THOMAS JOSEPH LENNON (Republican) was born in Marysville, California, February 25, 1866; educated in public schools of Marysville and at St. Mary's College, Oakland. Admitted to the bar in 1888. Elected Superior Judge of Marin County in 1902; re-elected 1908. Elected Presiding Justice, Appellate Court, First District, November 8, 1910.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.

FRANK HENRY KERRIGAN (Republican) was born at Green Valley, Contra Costa County, California, September 17, 1867, and educated in the public schools; he became a lawyer, with residence in San Francisco; in November, 1893, he was elected Justice of the Peace for that city and county, and re-elected in 1895 and 1897; in 1899 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for an unexpired term, and in 1904 was elected for the full term of six years beginning January, 1905; elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, First District, November 6, 1906, and allotted the eight-year term.

JOHN EVAN RICHARDS was born in San Jose July 7, 1856. He was educated in the public schools and at the University of the Pacific. Received the degree of A.B. in 1877 and M.A. in 1914. He also attended the University of Michigan, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1879. He was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeals for the first district by Governor Hiram W. Johnson on the 1^st day of October, 1913, and at the general election held throughout the State on November 3, 1914, he was elected Associate Justice for the ensuing term.

SAMUEL PIKE HALL (Republican) was born in Monterey County, California, March 3, 1854, and received a common and high school education; he then studied law, and took up the practice of that profession in Oakland; served as Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County from 1878 to 1882, when he was elected District Attorney, to which position he was re-elected in 1884 and again in 1886; he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1896, and re-elected in

1902; in April, 1905, he was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, for the First District, elected to the same position, November 6, 1906 and allotted the twelve-year term. Died, August 6, 1913.

PRESIDING JUSTICE, SECOND APELLATE DISTRICT.

MATTHEW THOMPSON ALLEN (Republican) was born at Greenville, Ohio, September 17, 1848; he was educated in the common schools of his native state, with a partial course at Otterbein University; in February, 1887, he came to California and took up the practice of his profession of attorney at law in Los Angeles; for a time he served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of California; he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for Los Angeles County in November 1896, and re-elected in November, 1902; on April l0, 1905, he was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Second District; elected Presiding Justice for the Second District, November 6, 1906, and allotted the eight-year term. At this election he was the nominee of the Republican and Democratic parties. Died, October 10, 1913.

NATHANIEL PARRISH CONREY was born in Franklin County, Indiana, June 30, 1860. He attended the Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) University, class of 1881; also the law department of the University of Michigan, class of 1883. He came to California in February, 1884. In 1886-87 he was City Attorney of Pasadena; in 1897-98 member of the Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles. In 1899-1900 member of the Assembly from the 75^th district; in 1899-1900 he was also president of the Board of Trustees of the State Normal School of Los Angeles. From December, 1900, to October, 1913, he was Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, He was appointed by Governor Hiram W. Johnson Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeals, Second District, to fill the unexpired term of Justice Matthew T. Allan, deceased, and at the general election November 3, 1914, he was elected Presiding Justice of the District Court of appeal of the Second Appellate District, for the full term.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT.

WILLIAM PARRY JAMES (Republican) was born near Buffalo, New York, January 10, 1870; was brought to California by his parents when three years of age and has resided in Los Angeles County ever since; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1894; appointed to fill a vacancy on the superior bench of Los Angeles County in April, 1905. In the fall of 1906 was elected to same position for term of six years. In July, 1910, was appointed to fill the vacancy on the bench of the District Court of Appeal for the Second District, to take the place of James W. Taggart, deceased. At the November election of the same year was elected to serve the unexpired term of Justice Taggart, that term being for eight years.

VICTOR E. SHAW (Republican) was born in Pettis County, Missouri, December 15, 1857; he received his education in the common schools of Missouri and Oregon, in Willamette University at Salem, Oregon, and Ann Arbor Law School, Michigan; came to California in March, 1888, and practiced law in San Diego, which was his home when elected November 6, 1906, as Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Second District, and allotted the four-year term. At the election November, 1910, was elected to succeed himself for the full term of twelve years.

PRESIDING JUSTICE, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT.

NORTON PARKER CHIPMAN (Republican) was born at Milford, Union County, Ohio, of New England parentage, his father and mother being natives of Vermont. The family soon afterwards moved to Iowa and resided variously at Keosauqua, Mount Pleasant, and Washington, in that State. He attended school at these places, receiving most of his education at Howe's Academy in Mount Pleasant and at Washington College. He commenced studying law at the latter place, but graduated at the Cincinnati Law School, entering practice just before the Civil War at Washington, Iowa. At the call of President Lincoln, in 1861, he enlisted in the Second Iowa Infantry, the first three-year regiment from that state; was made second lieutenant of Company H; appointed by Col. Samuel R. Curtis regimental adjutant; elected by the officers as major to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Colonel Curtis to the rank of brigadier-general; was detailed to serve as chief of the latter's staff; returned to his regiment and took part in Grant's campaign on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers; was severely wounded in a charge of his regiment upon the Confederate works at Fort Donelson; was back at his post at the siege of Corinth, where he received promotion as colonel and additional aide-de-camp in the regular army on the staff of Major-General Halleck, and was assigned to duty with his old commander, Curtis, now major-general, commanding the Department of Arkansas and was made his chief of staff; was sent to Washington, D.C., on special duty, his services while there attracting the attention of Secretary of War Stanton, who refused his earnest request to be returned to field duty, and he served in the War Department to the close of the war; he successfully performed some important and hazardous special service as bearer of dispatches to commanders in the field, by the personal detail of President Lincoln, and came near capture by “Mosby's Guerrillas” on one of these occasions and on another by the retreating army of General Early; as judge-advocate he tried and convicted the Andersonville Prison jailer, Henry Wirz, who was hanged in “Old Capitol Prison” for his atrocious cruelties to prisoners of war; he also tried many other important military commission cases as judge-advocate; was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers at the close of the war, and resigned to enter the practice of law at Washington, D.C., in November, 1865; when the District of Columbia was given a territorial form of government he was appointed Secretary of the District by President Grant in 1870 but resigned and was elected Delegate to Congress, where he served two terms (1871-1875) and was the only representative ever given the district in Congress. In 1868 and 1869 he was adjutant general of the Grand Army of the Republic on the staff of its commander-in-chief, General John A. Logan, and was largely instrumental in effecting a reorganization, on a sound and enduring basis, of that remarkable society of Civil War veterans; it was while adjutant general in 1868 that he wrote the memorable order creating Memorial Day. He came to California to reside in 1876, since which time he has been prominently connected with the industrial, political, and social welfare of the State. No man has written more or with better effect or given more of his time and energies to advertise to the world the attractions of California. For a number of years he was the President of the California State Board of Trade, and to him is due the credit of promulgating the dictum that “the climate of California is the State's most valuable asset.” In April, 1897, he was appointed by the Supreme Court as one of the five commissioners of that court, and served in that capacity until appointed by Governor Pardee in 1905 as Presiding Justice of the District Court of Appeal, for the Third District; he was regularly elected to that office in November, 1906, and allotted the twelve-year term.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT.

ALBERT G. BURNETT (Republican) was born in the State of Oregon, April 9, 1856,but when two years of age he came with his parents to California. He received a collegiate education and for a number of years he taught in the public schools of Sonoma County. While teaching he took up the study of the law and he was admitted to the bar in January, 1887. In 1888 he elected District Attorney of Sonoma County and re-elected in 1890. In 1896 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of that county and re-elected in 1902. On November 6, 1906, he was elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, and allotted the four-year term; and at the general election held November 8,1910, he was re-elected for the full term of twelve years.

ELIJAH CARSON HART (Republican) was born in an emigrant wagon en route to California, on the banks of the Carson River, in the State of Nevada, on September 9, 1857; he received a common school education, and learned the printer's trade which occupation he followed for a time, and later engaged in various branches of newspaper work, as reporter, editor, and publisher; he then studied law under the direction of his brother, A. L. Hart, Attorney General (now deceased), and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1885; in the spring of 1886 he was elected City Attorney of Sacramento (the city elections then being held in March); in the fall of 1888 he was elected Member of the Assembly from what was then the Nineteenth District, in Sacramento; in the spring of 1890 he was again elected City Attorney, and re-elected to the same office in 1892; in November, 1892, he was elected State Senator, serving through the thirtieth and thirty-first sessions of the Legislature; in 1896 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for Sacramento County, and re-elected in 1902; elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties, and allotted the eight-year term. Re-elected November 3, 1914.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

JOHN DOWNEY WORKS (Republican) was born in Ohio County, Indiana, March 29, 1847; was reared on a farm until sixteen and a half years of age, when he enlisted in the army of the Civil War, serving eighteen months and until the close of the war; was educated in the common schools of Indiana; was married to Alice Banta, November 8, 1868, and has six children; is a lawyer and practiced his profession for fifteen years at Vevay, Indiana; in 1883 removed to California; served one term as a member of the Legislature of Indiana in 1879; was Judge of the Superior Court of San Diego County, California, and a Justice of the Supreme Court of this State; was for a short time in 1910 a member of the City Council of the City of Los Angeles, California, and its president; has been a member of the American Bar Association for more than twenty years; in 1911 was elected United States Senator for California by the Legislature of this State, on the first ballot, receiving ninety-two votes out of one hundred and twenty. His term expires March 4, 1917.

JAMES DUVAL PHELAN was born in San Francisco, April 20, 1861. A. B. St. Ignatius College 1881; Ph.D. Santa Clara College 1903. Studied law at University of California. Was Commissioner and Vice President of the World's Columbian Commission. After San Francisco disaster was President Relief and Red Cross Funds (a corporation); was designated by President Roosevelt's proclamation to receive funds and use U. S. Mint as depository; was member of the Committee of Fifty and Forty for relief and reconstruction; was chairman of the Charter Association (1900) which gave new charter to San Francisco. Mayor of San Francisco from 1896 to 1902. Received complimentary vote for United States Senator in California Legislature 1900. Is a member of the Park and Library Commissions, and ex-member of the Board of Regents, University of California. Was appointed Special Commissioner to Europe by President Wilson to support his invitation to foreign countries to participate in Panama-Pacific Exposition. Was elected on the Democratic ticket by direct vote to the United States Senate from the State of California, November 3, 1914.

REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.

First Congressional District.

Counties: Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Glenn, Butte, Yuba, Sutter, Marin, Colusa, Lake, Sonoma.

WILLIAM KENT (Independent) was born in Chicago, Illinois, March 29, 1864. He came to California with his parents in October, 1871, and had his residence in Marin County from that date until 1887. He was a resident of Chicago from 1887 to 1907. He graduated from Yale in 1887 with a degree B.A., and received an honorary degree, M.A., from Yale in 1908. While in Chicago he served as Alderman from 1895 to 1897 and was president of the Municipal Voters' League from 1900 to 1901. He returned to California to reside permanently in 1907. In 1910 he sought the Republican nomination for Congress from the Second District at the Republican primaries and was successful, and at the general election in November he was elected over his Democratic opponent. Was elected Representative in Congress from the First District at the general election held November 3, 1914.

Second Congressional District.

Counties: Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine, Tuolumne, Mariposa.

JOHN E. BAKER (Democrat) of Alturas, Modoc county, was born on a farm near Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois, February 22, 1863. Soon after his parents moved to Sedalia, Missouri, and remaining there but a short time, removed to Knoxville. In 1873 moved with his parents to Lassen County, California; worked on the ranch and farm and attended the public schools, working his own way; attended the grammar school at Susanville, and the State Normal School at San Jose, California, 1882-1884. In the spring of 1885 entered the law office of Judge E. V. Spencer of Susanville, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1885; was his party's candidate for District Attorney of Lassen County in 1886. December 6, 1886, moved to Alturas, where he has resided ever since, engaging in the practice of the law. In 1894 was elected District Attorney of Modoc County, which office he held four years, 1895-1898; at the general election in 1898 was the Democratic nominee for State Senator. Elected Judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the county of Modoc in 1902 and re-elected in 1908, which position he resigned December 19, 1910. Admitted to the Supreme Court of Oregon, the United States Circuit and District Courts of California, United States Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States; was elected to the Sixty-second Congress against W. F. Englebright (Republican), W. H. Morgan (Socialist), and C. H. Essex (Prohibitionist). Was elected as Representative in Congress from the Second Congressional District at the general election held November 3, 1914.

Third Congressional District.

Counties: Napa, Yolo, Sacramento, Solano, Contra Costa, San Joaquin.

CHARLES FOREST CURRY (Republican) was born in Naperville, Illinois, March 14, 1858. Was Superintendent of Station B Postoffice, San Francisco, 1890-94. Was County Clerk of the city and county of San Francisco, 1895 to 1899. Member of the Assembly 1887; Secretary of State for three terms from 1899 to 1911. Was elected Representative in Congress from the Third Congressional District November 5, 1912, and re-elected from the same district November 3, 1914.

Fourth Congressional District.

City of San Francisco: Twenty-first, twenty-eighth, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second, thirty-third.

JULIUS KAHN (Republican) was born at Kuppenheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, February 28, 1861; in 1866 he was brought to California by his parents, and received his education in the public schools of San Francisco; after leaving school he followed the theatrical profession for ten years, playing with many well-known stars; in 1890 he returned to San Francisco and took up the study of the law; in 1892 he was elected Member of the Assembly from San Francisco; in January, 1894, he was admitted to practice as a lawyer; in 1898 he was elected Representative in Congress for the Fourth District, and re-elected in 1900; in 1904 he was again elected to Congress, and re-elected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties; again re-elected November 3, 1908, and November 8, 1910, was again elected. Re-elected November 3, 1914.

Fifth Congressional District.

City of San Francisco: Twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh.

JOHN I. NOLAN (Progressive), born in San Francisco January 14, 1874. Received his education in the public schools of San Francisco. Is an iron moulder by trade. Was elected Representative in Congress from the Fifth Congressional District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

Sixth Congressional District.

Alameda County

JOHN ARTHUR ELSTON (Progressive), was born in Woodland, California, February 10, 1874. Received his education in Hesperian College, Woodland, and University of California, from which he graduated in 1897. Lawyer by profession. Was Executive Secretary to Governor of California in 1903-07; attorney for the State Board of Health 1898, and Trustee of the State Institution for Deaf and Blind 1911-14. Was elected Representative in Congress from the Sixth Congressional District at the general election held November 3, 1914.

Seventh Congressional District.

Counties: Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern.

DENVER S. CHURCH (Democrat), was born in Folsom, December 11, 1866. Graduate of Healdsburg College, California. Lawyer by profession. District Attorney of Fresno County for six years. Was elected Representative I Congress from the Seventh Congressional District at the general election held November 5, 1912, and re-elected November 3, 1914.

Eighth Congressional District.

Counties: San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura.

EVERIS ANSON HAYES (Republican), was born at Waterloo, Wisconsin, March 10, 1855, and educated in the public schools; upon graduating from the Waterloo High Schools he entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1873, and graduated from both the literary and law departments of that institution, receiving the degree of B.L. and LL.B.; he engaged in the practice of law at Madison for four years, and at Ashland for three years; about that time he became interested in iron mines at Ironwood, Michigan, and at Hurley, Wisconsin, and since then has not been actively engaged in his profession, but has devoted his time to the management of his various properties. While residing in Madison he was City Alderman for two years, and for one year he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Gogebic County, Michigan; in 1887 he removed to Santa Clara County, California, where he engaged in fruit raising, and together with his brother is publisher and proprietor of the San Jose Daily Morning Mercury and the Evening Herald; elected Representative in Congress for the Fifth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties; again re-elected November 3, 1908, and also November 8, 1910; at the last election he received 33,265 votes to 15,345 votes for Thomas E. Hayden (Democrat), 7,052 for E. L. Reguin (Socialist), and 357 for T. E. Caton (Prohibitionist). Was elected Representative in Congress from Eighth Congressional District, November 5, 1912, and re-elected November 3, 1914.

Ninth Congressional District.

Los Angeles County: Sixty-first, sixth-fifth, sixth-sixth, sixty-seventh, sixty-eighth, sixty-ninth, seventieth.

CHARLES H. RANDALL (Prohibition), born in Nebraska, July 23, 1865; was educated in the common schools of Nebraska; profession, journalist. Was member of the Park Commission and City Planning Commission, Los Angeles, California. Member of the Assembly, State of California, 1911-12. Was elected Representative in Congress from Ninth Congressional District, November 3, 1914.

Tenth Congressional District.

Los Angeles County: Sixty-second, sixty-third, sixty-fourth, seventy-first, seventy-second, seventy-third, seventy-fourth, seventy-fifth.

WILLIAM DENNISON STEPHENS (Progressive Republican), of Los Angeles, son of Martin F. and Alvira (Leibee) Stephens, was born at Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, December 26, 1859; was educated in the public schools; studied law but never applied for admission to practice; for eight years was engaged in construction and operation of railroads in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Louisiana; moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1887; from 1888 to 1909 was in wholesale and retail grocery business. He was president of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1907, director from 1902 to 1911, and member of its harbor committee during entire time. Was member of Board of Education in 1906, Mayor of Los Angeles in 1909, and President of Board of Water Commissioners and member of advisory committee for the building of the Los Angeles aqueduct, costing $25,000,000, in 1910. He is a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason; was Grand Commander of Knights Templar of California in 1908. He is married and has one daughter. Was elected to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, and re-elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Eleventh Congressional District.

Counties: San Bernardino, Mono, Inyo, Riverside, Orange, San Diego, Imperial.

WILLIAM KETTNER (Democrat), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 20, 1864. Was educated in the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota. Was elected Representative in Congress from the Eleventh Congressional District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

MAX THELEN (Progressive) was born in Nebraska, 1880; came to San Diego County, California, in 1888; graduated from National City, San Diego County, public schools and high school; worked five years on ranch; entered University of California August, 1900; graduated May, 1904; Harvard Law School, 1904 to 1906; in office of Olney & Olney, attorneys-at-law, San Francisco, November, 1906 to May, 1907; assistant attorney and then attorney for Western Pacific Railway Company from May, 1907, to April, 1911; attorney for California State Railroad Commission April 1911, to date; appointed member of Railroad Commission March 13,, 1912; first secretary and organizer of Berkeley Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican Club; vice-president of City Club of Berkeley; member of Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, University of California Club, and American Society of International Law; lecturer on International Law, University of California; joint author with John M. Eshleman of public utilities act.

EDWIN O. EDGERTON (Progressive) was born in Yreka, California, January 8, 1876; educated in the common schools and University of Southern California; admitted to the bar in 1898; practiced law eleven years in Los Angeles, California; became secretary of Municipal League March, 1909; appointed member of the State Railroad Commission March 13, 1912.

HARVEY D. LOVELAND (Republican) was born in New York in 1853 and received his education in the schools of that State. For nine years he taught school in New York and Kansas, to which latter State he moved in 1876, where he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1881, but after practicing for a few years engaged in mercantile affairs, to which he has since given his attention. He became a resident of San Francisco in 1887. For several years he was connected with two of the largest mercantile institutions on the coast. He has always taken a lively interest in public affairs; was for six years President of the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association; has also recently retired from the presidency of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress. As traffic director and later as president of the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association, he assisted in accumulating the evidence and prosecuting the suits before the Interstate Commerce Commission in defense of the jobbing interest of the coast in what are known as the St. Louis Case, the State Toll Case, the Spokane Case, and others. He is vice-president of the International Mercantile and Bond Company, and president of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Securities Company. Mr. Loveland is also prominent in Masonic circles and is Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of California. He was a member of Governor Pardee's staff and Paymaster General of Governor Gillett's staff, with the rank of Colonel. He was appointed Railroad Commissioner for the Second District by Governor J. N. Gillett November 23, 1907, to succeed Andrew M. Wilson, resigned.

ALEXANDER GORDON (Progressive) was born in Hants County, Nova Scotia, October 16, 1846. He received a common school education and was brought up on a farm. In 1869 he moved to California, settling in San Joaquin County, where he engaged in the sheep raising industry. In 1875 he moved to Fresno and began the growing of raisins on a large scale. Since 1901, he has made his residence in Sacramento, where he became a director and the vice-president of the Sacramento Bank. From 1903 to 1907 he served as member of auditing board to Commission of Public Works. From 1907 to 1911 he served as member of Consulting River Board, Department of Engineering. Elected member of Railroad Commission November 8, 1910, from the First District.

FRANK RAYMOND DEVLIN (Progressive) was born in Windsor, Ontario, October 27, 1867. Educated in the public schools of Vallejo; graduate of Vallejo High School. By profession a lawyer. Was appointed a member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners by Governor Hiram W. Johnson on the third day of January, 1915, to succeed John M. Eshleman, who had resigned.

STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.

JOHN CHARLES CORBETT (Democrat) was born in California August 1, 1870; educated in the public schools of San Francisco. Deputy Assessor city and county of San Francisco, 1889 to December 31, 1914. Elected member of the State Board of Equalization from the First District November 3, 1914.

JOHN MITCHELL (Progressive), chairman, was born at St. Andrews, Canada, January 1, 1863, and was educated in the public schools of New Hampshire, and in Chester Academy, in the same State; he came to California and located in San Francisco, but later removed to Oakland, Alameda County, where he has since resided; in November, 1896, he was elected member of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County, re-elected to the same office in 1900, and again elected in 1904, serving eight years as chairman of that board; in November, 1910, he was elected member of the State Board of Equalization for the Second District. Re-elected November 3, 1914.

RICHARD E. COLLINS (Republican) was born in the town of Weaverville, Trinity County, California, March 28, 1873, and educated in the public schools of that section; he is a miner by occupation, with residence at Redding, Shasta County; in 1902 he was elected Assessor of Shasta County, and elected Member of the State Board of Equalization for the Third District, November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties; was re-elected to the same office in 1910 as the nominee of the Republican and Democratic parties. Re-elected November 3, 1914.

JEFF McELVAINE (Republican) was born in San Bernardino, California, July 27, 1862, and educated in the public schools of his native city; his business is that of real estate broker; for four years he held the appointment of Deputy County Tax Collector, and was Chief Deputy County Assessor for twelve years; in 1900 he was elected City Assessor, and was elected County Assessor in 1902; elected Member of the State Board of Equalization for the Fourth District, November 6, 1906, and re-elected to the same office November 8, 1910. Re-elected November 3, 1914.

JOHN S. CHAMBERS, State Controller and ex officio member of the State Board of Equalization. (For biography, see page 474).

THE ADJUTANT GENERAL.

EDWIN ALEXANDER FORBES (Republican) was born in Sierra County, California,

July 20, 1860. In 1867 moved to the Oregon House Valley, Yuba County, where he was

reared on a farm. Attended the common schools until eighteen years of age, when he received

a certificate to teach. Taught school until 1881. Entered the Law Department, University of

California, in August, 1881. Graduated in May, 1884. Was admitted to practice in the

Supreme Court of the State of California in June, 1884. Elected District Attorney of Yuba

County in 1884, which office he held for four terms, until 1892. Admitted to practice in the

Federal Courts of the United States. Became interested in dredge mining, electric railroading

and land enterprises to such an extent that he retired from the practice of law in 1905 and

thereafter devoted his time to private business. General Forbes always had a strong

inclination for military matters. He enlisted as a private at the National Guard of

California on May 20, 1881, and has served on and off until the present time, having

passed up through the various grades of official rank in different military organizations of

the State until he attained the rank of brigadier general. At the commencement of the

Spanish-American war General Forbes was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Regiment

of Infantry, National Guard of California, and volunteered his services to the Governor of

California for that war. He was commissioned as Major in the Eighth California Infantry,

U. S. Volunteers, and served until the muster out of his regiment in 1899. In the year 1910,

accompanied by his family, he made a tour of the world and studied the military systems

of the old world. Upon his return from this tour, General Forbes was appointed The

Adjutant General of the State of California by Governor Hiram W. Johnson. Died in San

Francisco, June 18, 1915.

SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS.

WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS (Progressive) was born at Gold Hill, Nevada, November 6, 1870; he came to Fresno County, California, in 1879, where he attended the public schools; was in the drug business for a time, and then became an accountant; served as Deputy County Clerk of Fresno County for the four years 1895-1898; from 1898 to 1907 was associated with “The California Raisin Growers' Association.” Elected State Treasurer November 6, 1906; re-elected November 8, 1910. Resigned office February 20, 1911, and on same day appointed Superintendent of Banks.

COMMISSIONER OF BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.

GEORGE S. WALKER (Progressive) was born at Santa Rosa, California. September 21, 1874, and educated in the public schools of this State; he made his home in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, engaged for a time in the newspaper and printing business, and then became assistant postmaster at San Jose. He is a journalist by profession; in November of 1900 he was elected Member of the Assembly from Santa Clara County, and re-elected in 1902; elected State Senator from the Twenty-seventh District, November 6, 1906, to fill out the unexpired term of Eli Wright, expelled from the Senate; on November 3, 1908, he was re-elected for the full term. Appointed Commissioner of Building and Loan Associations April 10, 1911.

SUPERINTENDENT OF CAPITAL BUILDING AND GROUNDS.

GEORGE G. RADCLIFF (Progressive) was born in Grass Valley, Nevada County, February 6, 1868, where he received a common school education; moved to Watsonville, California, in June, 1882, and became an apprentice in his brother's printing office; since 1902 has been one of the two proprietors of the Watsonville Evening Pajaronian, and most of that period editor of said newspaper; was Clerk and Assessor of the city of Watsonville 1890-92; was Assemblyman from Santa Cruz County in the California legislative sessions of 1899, 1900, and 1901; was postmaster of Watsonville from May 1, 1902, to September 1, 1906; was appointed on April 6, 1911, Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds.

SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE PRINTING.

ROBERT LAW TELFER (Progressive) was born in Detroit, Michigan, October 16, 1877, and came to California in 1887. Has been in the printing business as a practical printer, manager and newspaperman since 1893. Active as a legislator in free school book enactment, and favors similar extension to high school students. Served three years as Deputy State Printer, and was appointed Superintendent of State Printing by Governor Hiram W. Johnson January 2, 1915.

STATE FORESTER.

G. MORRIS HOMANS (Republican) was born in North Vassalboro, Maine, December 23, 1881. He received his early education in the public schools in Boston, Mass., and later attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale Summer School of Forestry, special courses at Arnold Arboretum, and the Biltmore Forest School, Biltmore, North Carolina, from which school he was graduated in 1904, receiving the degree of B.F. He then entered the United States Forest Service and held various administrative positions, among which was Assistant Forest Inspector of Oregon, Washington and Alaska, finally attaining the rank of Assistant District Forester in 1908 in charge of the office of Silviculture, with headquarters at San Francisco. He resigned from the Forest Service in March, 1910, to accept the appointment of State Forester of California.

STATE BOARD OF CONTROL.

JOHN FRANCIS NEYLAN (Progressive) was born in New York City; engaged in the newspaper profession in San Francisco for several years. Was appointed to the Board of Control June 2, 1911.

CLYDE LEROY SEAVEY (Progressive) was born in Lee County, Illinois. Came to California in 1890. Assistant Secretary State Board of Examiners from 1903 to 1911.

FREEMAN HENRY BLOODGOOD (Progressive) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; was educated in Upper Iowa University and at Harvard University; is an attorney at law. Served in the Assembly from Los Angeles County in 1913; was appointed on the Board of Control August 18,1913.

PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION COMMISSION.

MATT I. SULLIVAN was born in Grass Valley, in Nevada County California, November 3, 1857. His parents were Michael M. and Margaret Sullivan, California pioneers who came to this State in the spring of 1852. With them he moved to San Francisco at the age of about four years. He attended St. Ignatius College and graduated from that institution in 1876, receiving the degrees of A.B. and LL.D., and was admitted to the bar at San Francisco in November, 1879. He was one of the supervisors appointed by Mayor Taylor in July, 1897, to succeed indicted members of the Schmitz administration. In February, 1911, he was appointed by Governor Hiram W. Johnson a member of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Commission of the State of California and was elected its president. In September, 1912, he was chosen dean of the law college of St. Ignatius University.

MARSHALL STIMSON (Progressive) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 21, 1876, and has resided in Los Angeles, California, since 1887. He was educated at Los Angeles High School, Harvard University, and Harvard Law School. Director Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1908-1910; Executive Committee Municipal League, 1906-1911; President Good Government Organization, 1910; Chairman Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League, 1910; Chairman Seventh District Republican Congressional Committee; delegate National Republican Convention, 1912; member State Republican Executive Committee; member California Club, Union League Club, University Club, City Club, and Los Angeles Country Club.

CHESTER H. ROWELL (Progressive) was born in Bloomington, Illinois, November 1, 1867; son of Jonathan H. and Maria S. (Woods) Rowell; educated in Bloomington public schools, Illinois State Normal University, University of Michigan and Universities of Halle and Berlin, Germany. Clerk to Committee on Elections, U. S. House of Representatives in 51^st Congress; taught in high school and academies and in the University of Illinois; since 1898 has been editor and manager of the Fresno Republican; is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Associated Press and a Director of the California Leased Wire Circuit, Associated Press; was President of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League and is a member of the Republican State Committee.

ARTHUR ARLETT (Progressive) was born in Oakland, California, May 13, 1875. Went to public school there until ten years old. Entered the university of labor and hard knocks at that age. Learned the trade of bricklayer and has been continuously engaged in building construction. Was married in Anaconda, Montana, in 1898. Has two daughters and a son. Resides in Berkeley. Has been a director of the Berkeley Y.M.C.A. for ten years and is a member of the State Executive Committee of the Y.M.C.A. Is extensively engaged in general contracting and building around San Francisco Bay and in Oregon. Was appointed by Governor Hiram W. Johnson as a member of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Commission of the State of California August 21, 1912, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of R. Cameron Rogers of Santa Barbara.

CONSERVATION COMMISSION.

GEORGE C. PARDEE (Progressive) was born at San Francisco, July 25, 1857. Attended public schools, City College, San Francisco; McClure's California Military Academy, College School, High School, Oakland; graduated from University of California, Ph.B., 1879, M.A., 1883; studied medicine Medical College of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1881-82; graduated University of Leipzig, Germany M.D, 1885. Member of Oakland Board of Health, 1889-91; member of Oakland City Council, 1891-93; Mayor of Oakland, 1893-95; Regent of University of California, 1889-1903; Governor of California, 1903-07; member National Conservation Commission 1907-08. President, two terms, National Irrigation Congress. Director for California of the National Conservation Congress and Trans-Mississippi Congress. Chairman Conservation Commission, State of California, since 1911.

FRANCIS CUTTLE (Progressive) was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1864. Came to California in 1881. Was first engaged in the care of orange orchards; in 1888 became superintendent of the Riverside Water Company and has acted as its superintendent and president until the present time. Was one of the organizers of the Tri-Counties Reforestation Committee and has been its chairman since its organization, six years ago. Is also president of the Water Conservation Association. This organization has been instrumental in conserving storm waters of the Santa Ana River for the benefit of the irrigators of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange counties. Was appointed a member of the State Conservation Commission by Governor Johnson in May, 1911.

J. P. BAUMGARTNER (Progressive) is a native of Missouri, born at Columbia, in that State. He is self-educated. Came to California in 1887 and has ever since been engaged in the newspaper business in southern California, as part proprietor of the Riverside Press, and sole owner of the Pasadena Star, Long Beach Press, and Santa Ana Register, the latter of which he now owns and edits. He was appointed a member of the Conservation Commission of the State of California by Governor Johnson in August, 1911.

CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF

ENGINEERING.

NEWELL DYKE DARLINGTON (Progressive) was born January 4, 1874, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Attended school at West Chester, Pennsylvania, and afterward studied civil engineering at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Moved to Los Angeles in 1894, where he has practiced his profession up to the present time. Was appointed a member of the Board of Public Utilities of the city of Los Angeles in 1911 by Mayor Alexander, which position he resigned in June of the same year. Appointed member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Engineering, August 1, 1911.

CHARLES DUCHESNE BLANEY (Progressive) was born in Chicago. Attended Princeton University; then in business in Chicago until 1882, when he came to California. Invested in California real estate. Retired from active business in 1901. Appointed member of California Highway Commission in 1911. Never held office before. Resides near Saratoga, Santa Clara County, California.

CHARLES FRANK STERN (Progressive) was born in Arcata, Humboldt County, California, May 8, 1880. Was educated in the grammar schools of Humboldt County, Arcata Union High School, class of 1889, and University of California, 1903. Wholesale grocer. Member of State Board of Education, 1913. Member of California Highway Commission, January, 1914; both appointments being made by Governor Hiram W. Johnson.

HIGHWAY ENGINEER.

AUSTIN B. FLETCHER (Progressive) was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and educated in the public schools of that city and at Harvard University, where he received the degree of B.S. in 1893; during the years 1893 to 1910 he was the executive officer of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, and after 1902 was its Chief Engineering Officer. During this period, the Commission built nearly 800 miles of state highways. In January, 1910, assumed the position of secretary-engineer of the San Diego County (California) Highway Commission and had full charge, under the direction of the Commission, of the main public highway work in that county until August, 1911. In 1907 he was appointed to be a special agent of the Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1908 he served as a delegate from Massachusetts at the First International Road Congress at Paris. He has been a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers since 1894 and of the American Society of Civil Engineers since June, 1909. For fourteen years he was the secretary of the Massachusetts Highway Association, and is now an honorary member of that organization; he has recently been chosen as a director of the American Road Builders' Association.

COMMISSIONER OF HORTICULTURE.

A. J. COOK (Progressive) was born at Owosso, Michigan, in 1842; educated in public schools until 1858, working vacations on his father's farm. Entered Michigan Agricultural College in 1858, from which he received the degree of B.S. in 1862, M.S. in 1865, and D.Sc. in 1905. Studied at Harvard 1867 and 1868. At Cornell in 1878 and 1879. Instructor in mathematics in Michigan Agricultural College, two years. Professor of Zoology and Entomology from 1868 to 1893. Entomologist in Michigan Experiment Station 1888-91. Agricultural extension work, Michigan Agricultural College, 1875 to 1893. Curator General Museum 1875 to 1893. Professor of Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, and Curator Museum, 1894-1911. Conductor Agricultural extension work, University of California, 1894 to 1905. First to make kerosene emulsion (1877), and to demonstrate and advocate the use of the arsenites as specific against the codling moth in 1880. Author: Beekeepers' Guide, Injurious Insects of Michigan, The Silo and Silage, Maple Sugar and the Sugar Bush, Birds of Michigan; sponsor for Pomona College Journals of Entomology and Botany, and of Laguna Laboratory Report; appointed State Commissioner of Horticulture of California in 1911.

INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT BOARD.

ARTHUR JUDSON PILLSBURY (Progressive) was born in New Hampshire, January 31, 1854; emigrated with his parents in October of the same year to the then territory of Kansas, to which the father removed with the purpose of aiding in making Kansas a free state. Mr. Pillsbury grew to manhood in Kansas, was educated in the common schools, studied law and was admitted to the bar, but practiced newspaper work instead; married and came to California in 1881; since then has been identified with several newspapers; was secretary of the State Board of Examiners under the administration of Governor Pardee; appointed a member of the Industrial Accident Board, and, upon the organization of said board, was elected its chairman.

WILL J. FRENCH (Progressive) was born at Auckland, New Zealand, August 13, 1871; he received a public school education, and is a printer and journalist with residence at Oakland, Alameda County. Edited the Pacific Union Printer of California in 1898-1899, and edited the Labor Clarion, official publication of the San Francisco Labor Council, 1908-1911. He has served in several honorary positions for the City of San Francisco, notably the Commission cooperating with the Federal authorities in preventing the spread of disease, and the Commission appointed to write an impartial history of what is termed the “Graft Prosecution,” of which he was secretary. On September 1, 1911, Governor Johnson appointed Mr. French a member of the Industrial Accident Board, and on the reorganization on January 1, 1914, under the name of the Industrial Accident Commission, he was appointed to the three-year term.

HARRIS WEINSTOCK (Progressive) was born in London, England, September 18, 1854. He engaged in business in San Francisco in 1872, and opened a branch in Sacramento in 1874, in partnership with David Lubin. Mr. Weinstock served as Colonel in the California National Guard. He founded the Barbara Weinstock Lectureship of Morals of Trade at the University of California. He was appointed a member of the Trustees of the State Library of California in 1887, and was elected a member of the Board of Freeholders of the City of Sacramento in 1891. In 1895 Colonel Weinstock was appointed a member of the State Board of Horticulture. In February, 1908, he was appointed special Labor Commissioner by Governor James N. Gillett, to investigate the labor laws and labor conditions of foreign countries. In April of 1912, Governor Hiram W. Johnson delegated Colonel Weinstock to investigate the controversy that arose in San Diego over the claims of the Industrial Workers of the World to exercise the right of free speech on the streets. In April, 1913, Governor Johnson appointed Colonel Weinstock a member of the Commission to investigate the European System of Rural Credits. On June 18, 1913, he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson a member of the Commission on Industrial Relations. On September 1, 1913, Governor Johnson appointed Colonel Weinstock a member of the California Industrial Accident Board, and on January1, 1914, he was appointed on the Industrial Accident Commission for two years.

STATE MINERALOGIST.

FLETCHER McN. HAMILTON (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, September 4, 1882. Educated in the grammar and high schools of San Francisco; graduate of College of Mining, University of California. Mining engineer. Was appointed State Mineralogist on the 21^st day of January, 1913, vice William H. Storms, resigned.

MOTOR VEHICLE DEPARTMENT.

H. A. FRENCH, Superintendent Motor Vehicle Department of the Department of Engineering; was born in Maine in 1866; he became a resident of California in 1899; he had taken up newspaper work in 1887 and continued till 1910; was assistant city editor of the Chronicle in 1906, and news editor of the Call from 1907-1910. In 1911 he was appointed clerk to the Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds. From 1912 to 1914 was purchasing agent for State Department of Engineering.

PANAMA-CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION COMMISSION.

GEORGE W. MARSTON, of San Diego, was born in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, on October 22, 1850. In 1870 he went to San Diego, California, and there, in 1873, he started a drygoods business, which has grown with the city until now it is the oldest and one of the largest in southern California. Mr. Marston is president of the board of trustees of Pomona College, and has been a member of the board for twenty-five years. He holds the vice-presidency of the American Civic Association and is president of the San Diego Civic Association; has been twice president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and was chairman for five years of the railroad committee that promoted the San Diego and Arizona Railroad, which was later sold to John D. Spreckels. Mr. Marston was first chairman of the Park Board and is now a member of the buildings and grounds committee of the San Diego 1915 Exposition.

THOMAS O'HALLARAN, of San Diego, was born at La Grange, Missouri, in 1857. He moved to St. Louis in 1880, entering the mural decorative business. He continued in this business in various parts of the country, moving about in search of health, and living in Columbus, Ohio, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Denver, Colorado. In 1901 he moved to San Diego, California, where he has since been in the real estate business. He is state inheritance tax appraiser in San Diego County, and member of the buildings and grounds committee of the San Diego Exposition.

RUSSELL C. ALLEN, of San Diego, was born in Boston on January 27, 1859. He lived in Cambridge for some time; graduated from Harvard in 1880, then attended Columbia Law School, and was in a law office in Wall Street, New York, until 1882, when he decided that he wanted to live an outdoor life. He went to San Diego, California, and bought a fruit ranch in Sweetwater Valley, several miles from the city. He is now chairman of the buildings and grounds committee of the San Diego Exposition.

STATE ENGINEER.

WILBUR F. McCLURE was born in Ohio in December, 1856, and lived there until the fall of 1860, when he went to Pennsylvania, where he resided until the spring of 1879. He was in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Texas, and New Mexico from 1879 to 1883, and then came to California, where he has since resided. The period of his life in Pennsylvania was spent in school, at work and in teaching in the public schools. One year in Missouri was spent in teaching. The following three years were spent in railroad surveys and construction. The time in California has been spent in railroad, marine, municipal and general engineering practice. He was appointed to his present position by Governor Johnson, January 26, 1912.

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER.

JOHN EDMUND PHELPS (Progressive) was born in Springfield, Illinois, May 15, 1870; educated in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois; business address, 201 Sansome street, San Francisco. Was appointed Insurance Commissioner July 1, 1914.

LABOR COMMISSIONER.

JOHN P. McLAUGHLIN (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, June 19, 1873, and educated in the public schools of that city. He served as a member of the Board of Health in 1908-09; was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors, 1910-11, and resigned March 1, 1911, to accept the position of Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, under Governor Hiram W. Johnson.

STATE LIBRARIAN.

JAMES LOUIS GILLIS (Progressive) was born at Richmond, Washington County, Iowa, October 3, 1857, the son of Charles and Emily Eliza (Gelatt) Gillis. He received his education in the public schools of Sacramento, California, and began as messenger with the Sacramento Valley Railroad Company in 1872; on December 25, 1881, he married Kate Petree, of Sacramento. He retired from the railway service as assistant superintendent in 1894; was keeper of archives, Secretary of States office, from 1895 to 1899; clerk Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, sessions of 1895, 1897 and 1899; State Librarian of California since April 1, 1899; president Sacramento Oil company; vice-president Acme Development Company; president California Library Association from 1906 to 1909, and from 1910 to date; member American Library Association, National Association State Libraries, American Association of Law Libraries; member Sutter Club, Sacramento.

FISH AND GAME COMMISSION.

CARL WESTERFELD was born at San Francisco on December 11, 1869, and attended the public schools of that city. He entered Yale College, and was graduated in 1893; entered Hastings College of the Law, and graduated in 1896; admitted to practice in 1896. Appointed Fish and Game Commissioner November 28, 1911.

MICHAEL J. CONNELL was born in Ireland, where he received his early education. Arrived in Boston in 1875, where he remained for two years. He came went to Utah, remaining there but a short time before going to Montana, where he resided in Deer Lodge. He soon became engaged in several enterprises in different parts of Montana, establishing large industrial plants. He came to California in 1901, and resides in Los Angeles. Appointed Fish and Game Commissioner June 17, 1908.

FRANK MILLARD NEWBERT was born in Sacramento County on March 4, 1872. He is a graduate of the Sacramento Grammar School and Professor Atkinson's Business College. He has been associated with the Kimball-Upson Company since 1895. He gained his knowledge of the wishes of the huntsman and angler through his connection with one of the largest sporting goods houses in the West. Mr. Newbert comes of a family of sportsmen. He is one of the best combination field and trap shots in America today, and is authority on all outdoor sports.

BOARD OF STATE HARBOR COMMISSIONERS.

JOHN JOSEPH DWYER was born in San Francisco, California, November 2, 1861, and has resided in that city ever since. He was educated in the public schools, was graduated from the University of California in 1882 with the degree of A.B., and from Hastings College of the Law in 1885 with the degree of LL.B.; has practiced law in San Francisco since 1885; appointed member of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners on March 17, 1911, and elected President of the Board July 25, 1911. He is a retired lieutenant-colonel of the National Guard of California.

THOMAS S. WILLIAMS appointed Harbor Commissioner on July 26, 1911, was born in London, England, in 1856. His parents arrived in New York City in 1859, and he attended the public schools there. Since 1877 he has been in California, and after a business career of twenty-five years as a merchant tailor, he retired in 1902, and has taken an active interest in politics ever since.

JOHN H. McCALLUM, appointed a member of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners on July 30, 1912, was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1870. He has resided in San Francisco during the last twenty-two years, and has been engaged in the lumber business as vice-president of J. W. Schouten & Co. for the last twenty years.

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

EDGAR WILLIAMS (Progressive) (President Civil Service Commission), was born in Orange, New Jersey, February 1, 1863; was educated in private and common schools and at Phillips Exeter Academy; editor; business address, Redlands, California; was a member of the New Jersey Legislature three years, and City Clerk of East Orange, New Jersey, two years. Appointed Commissioner August 12, 1913.

CHARLES WESLEY REED (Progressive) was born in Yolo County, California, in 1867; was educated in the public schools of Sacramento and at the University of California; attorney-at-law; was appointed Commissioner August 12, 1913.

JAMES M. HUNTER (Progressive) was born in Illinois in 1866; educated at Blackburn University, degree A.M., vice-president Savings and Loan Society; business address, Sixth and Hill streets, Los Angeles, California. Appointed Commissioner August 12, 1913.

COMMISSION OF IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING.

SIMON J. LUBIN (Progressive) (President), was born in Sacramento November 27, 1876; educated Harvard University, A.B.; Secretary of Weinstock, Lubin & Company; business address, Sacramento. Appointed member of the Commission September 16, 1913.

PAUL SCHARRENBERG (Democrat) was born in Hamburg, Germany, August 21, 1877. Received a public school education; editor Coast Seamen's Journal; Secretary California State Federation of Labor; business address, 59 Clay street, San Francisco. Appointed member of Commission September 16, 1913.

MARY SIMONS GIBSON (Progressive-Republican) was born in California, April 10, 1855; educated in public schools of California; home address, 2301 Scarff street, Los Angeles. Appointed member of Commission September 16, 1913.

EDWARD J. HANNA (Democrat) was born in Rochester, New York, on July 21, 1861; educated at Rochester, New York, Rome, Italy, Munich, Germany, and Cambridge, England; Bishop of San Francisco; address 1100 Franklin street, San Francisco. Appointed member of Commission September 16, 1913.

H. McBRIDE (Progressive-Republican) was born in Oregon in 1849; educated in common schools, McMinnville College and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; a physician; business address, Dodworth Building, Pasadena, California; formerly President Board of Education, of Pasadena, California, also Superintendent Hospital for the Insane at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Dean of Medical Department, University of Southern California. Appointed member of Commission January 14, 1915.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

WILLIAM HENRY LANGDON (Progressive) (President), was born in Alameda County, California, September 25, 1873; received a grammar, high and State Normal School education; attorney at law; business address, Call Building, San Francisco. Was formerly Superintendent of Schools, also District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco; was Trustee of Fresno State Normal School. Appointed member of the Board August 29, 1913.

ERNEST P. CLARK (Progressive) was born in Alva, Maine, in 1859; graduate of Wesleyan University, Connecticut; editor; business address, Daily Press, Riverside, California; member of the County Board of Education, San Bernardino County; Chairman Board of Managers, Southern California State Hospital for the Insane for fifteen years. Appointed member of the Board August 29, 1913.

GEORGE W. STONE (Progressive) was born in the state of New York in 1840; graduate of Cortland Academy at Homer, New York; admitted to New York State Bar in 1861; address, 143 High street, Santa Cruz, California. Was an officer in the army and navy in the Civil War; was National Bank Examiner and was Mayor of Santa Cruz, California. Appointed a member of the Board August 29, 1913.

MARSHALL DE MOTTE (Progressive) was born in Indiana in 1862; received a common school education; a farmer; business address, Corning, California. Appointed a member of the Board August 15, 1914.

CHARLES ABBOTT WHITMORE (Progressive) was born in Cadillac, Michigan on May 21, 1876; attended for two years the Agricultural College of New Mexico, and for three years Stanford University; journalist; business address, Morning Delta, Visalia, California. Appointed a member of the Board December 21, 1914.

MRS. O. SHEPARD BARNUM (Progressive) was born in Grinnell, Iowa, September 3, 1869; attended Los Angeles High School; University of California, B.L., 1894; graduate work at University of California and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; residence, 312 South Fifth street, Alhambra, California. Appointed a member of the Board August 29, 1913.

AGNES RAY (Progressive) was born in Chicago, Illinois. Was educated in Chicago Grammar and High Schools, special student Northwestern University; ten years music. Appointed a member of the Board August 29, 1913.

INDUSTRIAL WELFARE COMMISSION.

FRANK JOSEPH MURASKY (Democrat) (Chairman), was born in San Francisco, November 7, 1862; educated at St. Mary's College. Judge of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco; business address, City Hall, San Francisco; former Justice of the Peace of the City and County of San Francisco. Appointed member of the Commission September 16, 1913.

ALBERT BONNHEIM (Progressive Republican) was born in Germany on November 12, 1854; educated at Hildesheim, Hanover and Göttingen, Germany; banker; business address, 1017 Eighth street, Sacramento, California. Trustee of Normal School, Santa Barbara, California. Appointed member of the Commission September 16, 1913.

KATHERINE PHILIPS EDSON (Progressive) was born in Kenton, Ohio, on January 12, 1870; educated in public schools of Kenton, Ohio, and at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio; special agent Bureau of Labor; business address, 8l9 Higgins Building, Los Angeles. Appointed member of the Commission September 16, 1913.

WALTER G. MATHEWSON (Progressive) was born in San Jose, California, on February 5, 1874; educated in the public schools of San Jose, California; Secretary of Building Trades Council of Santa Clara County; business address, 72 North Second street, San Jose; was for seven years member of the City Council, San Jose. Appointed member of the Commission September 16, 1913.

A. B. C. DOHRMANN (Republican) was born in Oakland, California, on December 5, 1868; educated in public schools of San Francisco and Alameda; business address, Geary and Stockton sts., San Francisco. Appointed a member of the Commission September 16, 1913.

STATE BOARD OF VITICULTURE COMMISSIONERS.

CLARENCE J. WETMORE (Progressive-Republican) was born in Portland, Maine, on August 21, 1851; educated in University of California; graduated from College of Letters in 1873; first person to sign the register of the University of California; viticulturalist; business address, 166 Eddy street, San Francisco. Was formerly Chief Executive Officer of the Viticultural Commission and Chief Executive Officer of the old Viticultural Commission of 1880. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

HORATIO F. STOLL (Progressive) was born in Sacramento on March 1, 1875; educated in the public schools of Sacramento; secretary California Grape Protective Association; business address 501, No. 12, Geary street, San Francisco. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

PAUL MASSON (Republican) was born in France in 1863; educated in French University, also University of the Pacific, B.A.; viticulturalist and horticulturist; business address, San Jose, California. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

SHERIDAN PETERSON (Republican) was born in Toledo, Ohio, December 6, 1865; attended grammar school and also the University of Minnesota; a farmer; business address, R.F.D. No. 4, Santa Rosa. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

FRANK TRACY SWETT (Progressive) was born in San Francisco November 22, 1869; educated in University of California, College of Agriculture; fruit grower and vineyardist; address, Martinez, California; Horticultural Commissioner of Contra Costa County. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

CARL EUGENE BUNDSCHU (Republican) was born in San Francisco on August 3, 1879; educated in San Francisco public schools and two years special course in agriculture and viticulture at University of California; vineyardist; business address, 20 California street, San Francisco. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

SECONDO GUASTI (Republican) was born in Italy May 29, 1959; educated at Piedmont High School, Italy; business address, 1244 Palmetto street, Los Angeles. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

JAMES ELLIOTT BEACH (Progressive) was born in Iowa in 1857; educated in public schools of Iowa and at the Normal School of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; manufacturing and farming; business address, Fair Oaks, California. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

WYLIE M. GIFFEN (Progressive) was born in Pennsylvania January 22, 1872; educated in Nebraska public schools; farmer; business address, Fresno, California. Appointed Commissioner August 30, 1913.

SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

CHARLES G. JOHNSON (Progressive) was born in Sweden October 12, 1880. Received his education in the public schools of San Francisco. Appointed State Superintendent of Weights and Measures July 10, 1914, by Governor Hiram W. Johnson.

COMMISSIONER OF CORPORATIONS.

HERSCHEL L. CARNAHAN (Progressive) born in Aledo, Illinois, August 31, 1879; educated at Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois; attorney at law; residence, Riverside, California. Appointed Commissioner of Corporations December 30, 1914.

STATE WATER COMMISSION.

WILLIAM ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (Progressive) (President), was born in Canada, December 15, 1869; received a high school education, including university matriculation and two years at law school; broker and fruit grower; business address, San Dimas, Los Angeles County, California. Member of the Assembly, 1903, 1905 and 1913. Appointed Commissioner March 17, 1915.

IRVING MARTIN (Progressive) was born in South Carolina, March 19, 1865; educated in public schools; newspaper publisher; business address 530 E. Market street, Stockton, California. Appointed Commissioner March 7, 1915.

ALBERT EDWARD CHANDLER (Republican) was born in San Francisco, September 28, 1872; education, B.S., College of Civil Engineering, University of California; irrigation engineer; business address, 58 Sutter street, San Francisco; was formerly State Engineer of Nevada and engineer U.S. Reclamation Service. Appointed Commissioner March 17, 1915.

STATE SENATORS.

1. WILLIAM KEHOE (Republican) was born at Greenwood, Mendocino County, California, September 12, 1876. Finished his education at the University of Michigan. Is an attorney-at-law, with residence at Eureka, Humboldt County. Was elected member of the Assembly from the Second District November 3, 1908; re-elected November 8, 1910. Was elected State Senator from the First Senatorial District November 5, 1912.

2. WILLIAM BUCKNER SHEARER (Democrat) was born in Yreka, Siskiyou County, California, where he now resides, December 22, 1861; received a grammar school education; he is engaged in the mercantile business; business address, Yreka, California; was elected member of the Assembly from the First District, November 5, 1912; was elected State Senator from the Second District, November 3, 1914.

3. ERNEST STRATTON BIRDSALL (Progressive) was born in Sacramento June 27, 1876; educated in public schools of that city; took a course in the College of Agriculture, University of California; olive grower; Secretary of State Commission in Lunacy; resides at East Auburn; elected member of the Assembly from the Tenth District November 6, 1906; elected State Senator from the Third District November 3, 1908; re-elected November 5, 1912.

4. CLAUDE FOUTS PURKITT (Democrat) was born at Fouts Springs, Colusa County, California, September 7, 1876; was educated in public schools, high school and also in California Business College; attorney at law; business address, Willows, Cal.; was Deputy Sheriff 1902-1906; re-elected District Attorney, Glenn County, 1906; re-elected in 1910; elected State Senator from the Fourth District November 3, 1914.

5. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RUSH (Republican) was born in Sacramento County in 1852. Received a common school education. Is a farmer and stock raiser, with residence at Suisun, Solano County. Served a term as sheriff in that county from 1892 to 1896. Was elected State Senator from the Fifth District November 8, 1904; re-elected November 3, 1908; re-elected November 5, 1912.

6. WILLIAM ERSKINE DUNCAN, JR. (Democrat), was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 14, 1867; received a common school education; lawyer; passed examination for admission to practice before Supreme Court of California before he was twenty-one years of age, but certificate withheld until he attained his majority; business address, Oroville; was elected State Senator, Sixth District, November 3, 1914.

7. PHILIP CHARLES COHN (Democrat) was born in New York City, July, 1854; educated in the public schools of Mobile, Alabama; came to California in 1874; horticulture and finance; business address, Folsom, California; elected State Senator from the Seventh District November 5, 1912.

8. HERBERT W. SLATER (Democrat), is a native of Hereford, England; was born August 20, 1874; was educated at Collegiate School and College in England; for nineteen years he has been engaged in newspaper work in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, where he is city editor of the Press-Democrat and staff correspondent of a metropolitan daily. He resides in Santa Rosa and is prominently identified in business and fraternal circles; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Fourteenth District, November 8, 1910; and Member of the Assembly from the Thirteenth District, November 5, 1912; elected State Senator from the Eighth District, November 3, 1914.

9. JAMES CURTIS OWENS (Democrat), was born at Maysville, Kentucky, November 22, 1871; educated in the public schools of that State; came to California in 1893; real estate owner and operator in Richmond, California; served in Thirty-third United States Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War; later served as Chief Clerk, United States Depot Quartermaster's Department, Manila, Philippine Islands; also as Chief Clerk and Deputy Provincial Treasurer in the Province of La Union, Philippine Islands; was appointed Provincial Secretary and Treasurer of the Province of Lepanto Bontoc, Philippine Islands, serving during 1903 and 1904; served two successive terms as Mayor of Richmond, California; elected State Senator from the Ninth District, November 5, 1912; at an attempted recall election March 31, 1914, defeated three candidates by a plurality of approximately 2,000 votes.

10. JAMES WILSON STUCKENBRUCK (Democrat), was born at Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa, December 14, 1857; received a common school education; came to California in August, 1904; blacksmith; business address, Acampo, San Joaquin County, California; before coming to California served for five years as postmaster at Coon Rapids, Iowa; received a civil service appointment from Kansas as Industrial Teacher in the Indian Department; served for three years in the quartermaster's department at Fort Bayard, New Mexico; admitted to the bar February 24, 1915, by Third Appellate Court; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-fourth District, November 3, 1908; re-elected November 8, 1910; re-elected November 5, 1912; elected State Senator from the Tenth District, comprising San Joaquin and Amador counties, November 3, 1914.

11. WILLIAM READ FLINT (Progressive), was born in San Juan Bautista, California, March 13, 1869; educated in the public schools of this State and in Waterville, Maine; stock raiser; resides at Hollister, San Benito County, California; in 1893 was Commissioner of Madera County; in 1899 he saw service in the United States Army in the Philippine Islands; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-eighth District, November 3, 1908; re-elected November 8, 1910; elected State Senator from the Eleventh District, including San Mateo, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, November 5, 1912.

12. LAFAYETTE JACKSON MADDUX (Democrat), was born in Pineville, Missouri, August 14, 1854; is a graduate of the Pacific Methodist College of Santa Rosa, and from Harvard Law School; lawyer; business address, Modesto, California; has held the position of District Attorney of Stanislaus County for the last eleven years; was formerly a Director of the Preston School of Industry; was elected State Senator from the Twelfth District, November 3, 1914.

13. EDWARD KEATING STROBRIDGE (Republican), was born at Truckee, California, June 8, 1869. Received a public school and business college education. Is a fruit grower, with residence at Hayward. Elected member of the Assembly from Forty-sixth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906. On November 3, 1908, he was elected State Senator from the Thirteenth District, and on November 5, 1912, was re-elected from the same district.

14. GEORGE JACOB HANS (Republican) is a native of San Francisco, born April 5, 1868. Received a public school and business education. Is an accountant, with residence at 3243 Farnum street, Oakland. Was for ten years a member of the Bray School District, and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the John M. Fremont High School at Fruitvale. Elected a member of the Assembly from the Fifty-first District November 6, 1906; re-elected November 3, 1908. Elected State Senator from the Fourteenth Senatorial District, November 8, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

15. ARTHUR HASTINGS BREED (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, November 27, 1865; received his education in the public schools of San Francisco; is engaged in real estate business; business address, Oakland Bank of Savings Building, Oakland, California; served as Auditor and Assessor of the city of Oakland for eight years; was elected State Senator from the Fifteenth District, November 5, 1912.

16, EDWARD J. TYRRELL (Progressive) was born in Oakland, California, May 19, 1880; educated in Oakland public grammar and high schools; attorney-at-law; business address, 1002 Filbert street, Oakland, California; Secretary to Mayor Frank K. Mott, April 1, 1905 to January 1, 1911; elected State Senator from Sixteenth District, November 8, 1910; appointed Attorney for the State Commission in Lunacy, August 1, 1913; re-elected State Senator from the Sixteenth District, November 3, 1914.

17. ARCHIBALD E. CAMPBELL (Democrat) was born at Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California, April 29, 1873; educated in public schools and at Santa Clara College; attorney-at-law; resides at San Luis Obispo; from January, 1899, until January, 1903, was District Attorney of San Luis Obispo County; elected State Senator from the Thirty-first District, November 3, 1908; re-elected State Senator from the Seventeenth District, November 5, 1912.

18. DOMINICK JOSEPH BEBEN (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, May 16, 1872. Graduate of public schools of the city and county of San Francisco. Is a printing pressman by trade. From 1906 to 1908 held a position as Deputy Sheriff of San Francisco. Elected as member of the Assembly from the Forty-third Assembly District, November 6, 1906, on the Republican and Union Labor tickets. Was re-elected November 3, 1908, as the nominee of the same parties. From 1910 to 1912 again held the position of Deputy Sheriff of San Francisco. Elected to the Senate from the Twenty-fourth Senatorial District, November 3, 1910, on the Republican ticket. Elected Senator from the Eighteenth Senatorial District, November 3, 1914, as a Progressive.

19. EDWARD I. WOLFE (Republican) was born in Hull, England, March 15, 1860. In 1874 came to California and attended the public schools of San Francisco, and thereafter studied law and was admitted to practice. From 1891 to 1893 he was Secretary of the new City Hall Commission in San Francisco. Elected State Senator from the Twenty-first District in 1896; re-elected in 1900; again re-elected November 8, 1904; again re-elected November 3, 1908, on the Republican and Union Labor tickets. Was elected Senator from the Nineteenth Senatorial District at a special election held October 8, 1914, at which Edward E. Grant, Senator from the district, was recalled, Mr. Wolfe being elected to succeed him at such special election.

20. WILLIAM STODDARD SCOTT (Progressive-Republican) was born in Woodland, California, September 22, 1870; educated in public schools and is taking a course in law; building contractor; business address, Builders Exchange, San Francisco; elected a member of the Assembly from the Twenty-eighth District, November 5, 1912; elected State Senator from the Twentieth District, November 3, 1914.

21. FREDERICK CARSTEN GERDES (Republican) is a native of San Francisco, born February 29, 1880. Educated in the public schools. Learned the trade of brickmason, but is at present engaged in the drayage business. Elected member of the Assembly from the Thirty-fifth District, November 3, 1908, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties; re-elected November 8, 1910. Elected State Senator from the Twenty-fist District, November 5, 1912.

22. JOHN JOSEPH CROWLEY (Progressive-Democrat) was born in San Francisco, July 29, 1875; was educated in the Mission Dolores School and the public schools of San Francisco, and Sacred Heart College; funeral director; business address, 692 Valencia street, San Francisco; was Assistant Physician of Mendocino State Hospital, and member of California State Board of Pharmacy; was member of the Assembly from San Francisco, serving during the Thirty-third session; was elected State Senator from the Twenty-second District, November 3, 1914.

23. THOMAS F. FINN (Republican) was born at San Francisco, November 23, 1873. Received a common school education. By occupation a clerk. In 1902 he was elected on the Democratic and Union Labor tickets as a member of the Assembly from the Twenty-ninth Assembly District at San Francisco, for which city he has also since served as a member of the Board of Supervisors, President of the Fire Commissioners, and member of the Board of Police Commissioners. On November 3, 1908, he was elected State Senator from the Seventeenth Senatorial District on the Republican and Union Labor tickets. On November 2, 1909, he was elected on the Union Labor ticket as Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco. Was elected State Senator from the Twenty-third Senatorial District, November 5, 1912.

24. LAWRENCE JAMES FLAHERTY (Republican) was born in San Mateo, California, July 4, 1878; received a grammar school education; business agent, Cement Workers' Union; business address, 200 Guerrero street, San Francisco; Police Commissioner of the City and County of San Francisco; elected State Senator from the Twenty-fourth District, November 3, 1914.

25. DAVID WALLACE MOTT (Progressive) was born in Bangor, New York, May 8, 1855; educated at Franklin Academy, Malone, New York, and at Cornell University; graduated in medicine and surgery from University of Michigan; physician and surgeon; business address, Santa Paula, California; was President of Board of School Trustees; also was member of the City Council of the city of Santa Paula; was elected member of the Assembly from the Sixty-fifth District, November 8, 1910; elected Senator from the Twenty-fifth District, November 5, 1912.

26. WILBER F. CHANDLER (Progressive) was born in Illinois, April 8, 1855. Educated in the common schools. Farmer. Business address, Fresno, California. Elected member of the Assembly in 1900, 1904, 1906, 1910, and 1912 and served in that branch of the Legislature in the thirty-fourth, thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty-ninth and fortieth sessions, and in the several extra sessions thereof. On November 3, 1914, was elected State Senator from the Twenty-sixth District.

27. FRANK HENRY BENSON (Progressive) was born March 21, 1873; resides in San Jose; attended San Jose grammar and high schools, Leland Stanford Junior University and University of California; attorney-at-law; has served as Justice of the Peace and City Attorney in the city of San Jose; was elected State Senator from the Twenty-seventh District, November 5, 1912.

28. HERBERT COFFIN JONES (Progressive) was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, September 20, 1880; came to California in 1894; resides in San Jose; attended the common schools of San Jose and the San Jose High School; graduated from Leland Stanford Junior University, class of 1902, and from Stanford Law School with class of 1904; is now a practicing attorney; business address, Auzerais Building, San Jose, California; was, at a special election held on January 2, 1913, to recall Senator Marshall Black, elected to succeed him as State Senator from the Twenty-eighth District for the unexpired term; re-elected Senator from the Twenty-eighth District, November 3, 1914.

29. HENRY H. LYON (Republican) was born in Los Angeles, April 17, 1879; was educated in the public schools; served as a member of the City Council of Los Angeles from 1906 to 1910; Assistant Deputy Labor Commissioner, located in Los Angeles; business address, 812 Higgins Building, Los Angeles; elected member of the Assembly from the Seventy-third District, November 8, 1910; elected State Senator from the Twenty-ninth District, November 5, 1912.

30. LYMAN MAURICE KING (Republican) was born in Mt. Ayr, Iowa, July 17, 1869; received a public school education and graduated from Napa College, Napa, California; editor of the Daily Facts, Redlands, California; business address, Redlands, California; was Presidential Elector in 1908; Supervisor United States Government Census, Ninth Congressional District in 1910; elected to State Senate from Thirtieth Senatorial District November 8, 1914.

31. EDWIN M. BUTLER (Progressive) was born in Missouri, August 3, 1859; was educated in common schools, and in Lincoln University at Lincoln, Illinois; has had both a medical and legal education; is a physician; business address, 311 Marsh Strong Bldg., Los Angeles; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventieth District November 8, 1910; elected State Senator from the Thirty-first District November 5, 1912.

32. JOHN L. C. IRWIN (Democrat) was born in Tecumseh, Johnson County, Nebraska, February 19, 1871; received a common school education; attorney at law; business address, Hanford, California; held the position of District Attorney, Kings County, 1907-1915; City Attorney, City of Hanford, for two years; elected State Senator from the Thirty-second District November 3, 1914.

33. PRESCOTT F. COGSWELL (Progressive) was born at Thamesford, Ontario, October 23, 1859; educated at the Ingersoll, Ontario, High School and Albert University, Belleville, Ontario; came to California December 25, 1883; orchardist; resides at El Monte, California; Member of Board of Trustees of Whittier State School; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-eighth District November 6, 1906, on the Republican and Non-Partisan tickets; re-elected November 3, 1908; re-elected November 8, 1910; elected State Senator from the Thirty-third District November 5, 1912.

34. H. STANLEY BENEDICT (Progressive-Republican) was born at Boonville(sic), Missouri, February 20, 1878; came to California in 1888; educated in University of Southern California, College of Law; attorney at law; business address, 353 South Hill street, Los Angeles; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-second District November 8, 1910; re-elected from the Sixty-third District November 5, 1912; elected State Senator from the Thirty-fourth District November 3, 1914.

35. NEWTON WARNER THOMPSON (Republican) was born at Pulaski, New York, September 16, 1865; was educated in the common school and at Pulaski Academy; came to California in 1885; is an Examiner of Titles, with residence at Alhambra, Los Angeles County; has served as President of the City Board of Trustees and President of the City High School Board; elected member of the Assembly from the Sixty-ninth District November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906, on the Republican, Democratic, and Non-Partisan tickets; elected on the Republican ticket as State Senator from the Thirty-fifth District November 3, 1908; re-elected November 5, 1912.

36. WILLIAM JARVIS CARR (Progressive) was born in Batavia, Illinois, September 12, 1879; received his education in the public schools and at the University of Wisconsin; came to California in 1906; attorney at law; resides in Pasadena; business address, 1015 Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles, California; was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of the city of Manila, P.I., from 1903 to 1905; also City Attorney of Pasadena from December, 1910, to 1913; was elected State Senator from the Thirty-sixth District to succeed Charles W. Bell, Congressman-elect, November 5, 1912; was re-elected November 3, 1914.

37. WILLIAM E. BROWN (Progressive) was born in Rochester, New York; came to California in 1882; resides in Los Angeles; is engaged in the manufacturing business; was elected State Senator from the Thirty-seventh District November 5, 1912.

38. JOHN W. BALLARD (Republican) was born in Illinois, January 3, 1843; graduate of public schools, Carthage, Illinois, lawyer; business address, 527 Douglas Building, Los Angeles; was District Attorney and Superior Judge of Orange County, California; elected State Senator from the Thirty-eighth Senatorial District November 3, 1914.

39. JOHN NELSON ANDERSON (Republican) was born at Keene, Ontario, Canada, in 1864; resides in Santa Ana, where he is engaged in the practice of law; received his education in the common and high schools of Oakwood, Ontario, Canada, at Trinity University, and at Osgood Hall Law School, both in Toronto; came to California in 1892; was elected State Senator from the Thirty-ninth District in 1903, and for the term of 1904-8; was again elected State Senator from the same district November 5, 1912.

40. EDGAR A. LUCE (Progressive) was born in San Diego, California, May 20, 1881; graduate of San Diego High School 1899 and of Stanford University 1905, with degree of A.B.; attorney at law; business address, 803 Watts Building, San Diego; was Deputy City Attorney of San Diego in 1909 and 1910; attorney for State Harbor Board of San Diego 1910 to 1913; elected State Senator from the Fortieth District November 3, 1914.

SENATE ATTACHES.

EDWIN F. SMITH (Progressive) was born in Sacramento, California; educated in public schools of Sacramento; salesman; business address, 1709 Santa Barbara street, Santa Barbara, California; was Secretary of Constitutional Convention in1870 and Secretary of State Board of Agriculture from 1880 to 1899, and also Secretary of Senate 1883-1886; was elected Secretary of State Senate, Forty-first Session, on the 4^th day of January, 1915.

THOMAS A. BROWN (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, January 7, 1873; educated in public schools; cigar dealer; business address, 1418 Haight street, San Francisco; elected Sergeant-at-Arms, Senate, Forty-first Session, on the 4^th day of January, 1915.

REV. HENRY I. STARK (Republican) was born in San Francisco, February 19, 1881; educated at St. Mary's College, Oakland, graduated 1899, also Catholic University of America, 1903, university degree; ordained priest in the Paulist Community by Cardinal Gibbons, in Baltimore, June 16, 1903; is assistant rector St. Mary's Church (Old Cathedral), San Francisco; elected Chaplain of the Senate, Forty-first Session, on the 4^th day of January, 1915.

J. W. KAVANAGH was born at Red Dog, California, November 15, 1867; educated in elementary and high schools of Vallejo, California; Superintendent of Exhibits, California State Fair; business address, Agricultural Park, Sacramento, California; was a Senate attache, 1897, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1913, and Assistant Secretary and Minute Clerk, Forty-first Session of the Senate.

ERIC JOHNSON (Progressive) was born in Sweden, July 15, 1838; rancher; address, Clearwater, California; was Journal Clerk of Illinois House of Representatives, a Member of Nebraska House of Representatives, 1889; Chief Clerk of Nebraska House of Representatives, 1891 and 1893; Assistant Secretary, Fortieth Session of California Senate, and appointed to same position at the Forty-first Session.

JAMES ANDREW MILLER (Progressive) was born in Aurora, Oregon, on October 19, 1883; educated in public and preparatory schools of Oregon, a graduate of Pre-Legal Department of Leland Stanford Junior University; business address, 440 Eddy street, San Francisco; was Assistant History Clerk of the Assembly, 1911, History Clerk Assembly (Extraordinary Session), 1911, and Assistant Secretary of Senate, 1913, was reappointed Assistant Secretary of the Senate Forty-first Session.

MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY.

1. HENRY BELDEN REAM (Democrat) was born in Yreka, California, July 3, 1865; educated in public schools of Yreka and San Francisco and at Vander Neilon's School of Engineering; is a civil engineer; business address, Sisson, California. He was foreman of United States Mint, San Francisco, for eleven years; City Engineer of Sisson two years; was elected Member of the Assembly from the First District November 3, 1914.

2. JOHN FRANCIS QUINN (Democrat) was born at Table Bluff, Humboldt County, California, April 13, 1875; attended public schools of Humboldt County and private night school; prepared for county teachers' examination; secured teacher's certificate in June, 1895; taught in public schools two and one-half years; entered University of California January 1898; took special course in College of Social Sciences two and one-half years; was admitted to the bar in December, 1899; attorney at law; business address, Eureka; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Second District November 3, 1914.

3. CHARLES CARROLL McCRAY (Republican) was born in Caldwell County, Missouri, April 28, 1861; received a common school education; traveling salesman; business address, Redding, California; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Third District November 3, 1914.

4. ALBERT FRANKLIN SHARTEL (Republican-Progressive) was born in Modoc County, February 3, 1872; resides in Alturas; educated in public schools of California and at Ohio Wesleyan University and Valparaiso University, Indiana; attorney at law; newspaper man; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Fourth District November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

5. ELMER L. SISSON (Democrat) was born on a farm near Canton, Missouri, October 5, 1871; moved with parents to California one year later; resides at Red Bluff; educated in the common and high schools, together with legal training; farmer; served as Deputy Superintendent of Schools of Tehama County from 1895 to 1897; elected Treasurer and Tax Collector of Tehama County 1902; re-elected 1906 and 1910; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifth District November 3, 1914.

6. JOHN ALROY PETTIS (Republican) was born in Ukiah, California, June 27, 1877; was educated in the University of the Pacific, San Jose, California, and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; lawyer; business address, Fort Bragg; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixth District November 3, 1914.

7. BERT BOOKHAM MEEK (Democrat) was born in San Bernardino, September 2, 1884; educated in Redlands grammar and high schools and University of California; olive grower and civil engineer; business address, First National Bank Building, Oroville; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventh District November 3, 1914.

8. LLOYD NELSON TABLER (Democrat) was born in Hyattstown, Maryland, February 15, 1865; received a common school education; merchant and cattle man; business address, Knights Landing, Yolo County, California; was member of the Board of Supervisors of Yolo County in 1902-06; on November 3, 1914, was elected a Member of the Assembly from the Eighth District.

9. FRANK M. RUTHERFORD (Progressive-Republican) was born in Wyandotte, California, October 6, 1866; educated in public schools and a graduate of the State Normal School in San Jose; attorney at law; residence Truckee, California; formerly District Attorney of Nevada County, also one of the Trustees of the State Normal School at Chico; was Member of the Assembly during the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Sessions of the Legislature; re-elected Member of the Assembly from the Ninth District November 3, 1914. Died during Forty-first Session at Sacramento, 1915.

10. HENRY JACOB WIDENMANN (Progressive) was born in Vallejo, February 11, 1881; received his education in the public schools of Solano County; occupation, brewing; business address, 508 Marin street, Vallejo; has been Supervisor of Solano County since January 1, 1905; Member of the Board of Management, Napa State Hospital, having been appointed July 23, 1913; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Tenth District November 3, 1914.

11. BISMARCK BRUCK (Republican) was born in Napa City, September 7, 1870; educated in the public schools of Napa County; farmer; business address, St. Helena, California; was Supervisor of Napa County from 1906 to 1914, being Chairman of the Board for four years; served four years as Town Trustee, 1900-1904, St. Helena; was Chairman of the Board of Trustees for two years; elected Member of the Assembly from the Eleventh District November 3, 1914.

12. KNOX BOUDE (Republican) was born at Carthage, Illinois, January 4, 1863; was educated in Carthage High School, Carthage College and Omaha Theological Seminary; poultry rancher; business address, Sebastopol; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twelfth District November 3, 1914.

13. GEORGE W. SALISBURY (Democrat) was born in Oroville, Butte County, California, April 5, 1867; received his education in the public schools of Oroville; he is a merchant; business address, Santa Rosa, California; was Chief Deputy County Assessor, Sonoma County, 1910 to 1912; Member of the City Council of the city of Santa Rosa; elected to the Assembly from the Thirteenth District November 3, 1914.

14. WALTER WM. CHENOWETH (Republican) was born in Oakland, California, August 18, 1880; educated in public schools of San Francisco and Oakland, California; journalist; business address, 309 Hagelstein Building, Sacramento, California; elected member of the Assembly from the Fourteenth District November 3, 1914.

15. LEE GEBHART (Progressive) was born in Galesburg, Illinois, April 4, 1884; educated in public schools of Sacramento; attorney at law; business address, 410 Ochsner Building, Sacramento; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifteenth District November 3, 1914.

16. ROBERT I. KERR (Democrat) was born in Amador City, California, March 20, 1874; received a common school and business college education; is an accountant; business address, Jackson; Exposition Commissioner for Amador County; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixteenth Assembly District November 3, 1914.

17. JAMES EDWARD MANNING (Republican) was born in Oakland, California, October 3, 1873; educated at Sacred Heart and St. Mary's College; graduated from latter institution with class of '92; graduate of Hastings College of the Law class of '95; attorney at law; business address, 711 Pacific Building, San Francisco; was City Attorney of San Anselmo for six years; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventeenth District November 3, 1914.

18. WILLIAM RICHARD SHARKEY (Progressive-Republican) was born in Sierra County, June 6, 1876; received a public school education; is an editor by profession, his business address being Martinez, Contra Costa County, California; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Eighteenth District November 3, 1914.

19. GEORGE WILLIAM ASHLEY (Republican) was born near Lodi, August 21, 1861; received his education in the Stockton public schools and business college; farmer and fruit shipper; business address, Stockton or Lodi, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Nineteenth District November 3, 1914.

20. LAWRENCE EDWARDS (Democrat) was born at Los Angeles, May 12, 1887; graduate of grammar and high schools and of Hastings College of Law; attorney at law; business address, I.O.O.F. Building, Stockton; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twentieth District November 3, 1914.

21. WALTER ANGUS McDONALD (Progressive-Republican) was born in San Francisco, September 15, 1881; educated in public schools of San Francisco; drayman; business address, 2744 Sixteenth street, San Francisco; elected a Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-first District November 8, 1910; re-elected from the Twenty-first Assembly District November 3, 1914.

22. WILLIAM P. KENNEDY (Progressive-Republican) was born in Ireland, November 24, 1879; arrived in San Francisco with parents in 1887; educated in public schools of San Francisco; commercial sign painter; business address, 963 Vermont street, San Francisco; was elected member of the Assembly from the Thirty-second District November 8, 1910; re-elected from the Twenty-second District November 3, 1914.

23. JAMES J. RYAN (Republican) was born in San Francisco, May 9, 1880; educated at St. Peter's School, San Francisco; business address, 401 Grant Building, San Francisco; Deputy Sheriff City and County of San Francisco for four years; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-third District, November 8, 1910; re-elected November 5, 1912; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-third District, November 3, 1914.

24. WILLIAM M. COLLINS (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, California, June 10, 1884, where he now resides; received his education at St. Peter's College; merchant; elected to the Assembly from the Twenty-fourth District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

25. CHARLES WILLIAM GODSIL (Republican) was born in San Francisco, March 6, 1882; attended St. Peter's Christian School and Horace Mann Evening School; clerk; business address, 2911 Harrison street, San Francisco; Deputy Collector Internal Revenue Service for eight years; elected member of the Assembly from the Twenty-fifth Assembly District November 3, 1914.

26. JEREMIAH JOSEPH HAYES (Republican) was born in Massachusetts, April 8, 1853; educated in public schools; business address, 4120 Twenty-second street, San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-sixth Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

27. NICHOLAS J. PRENDERGAST (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, November 16, 1871; was educated in the public schools and at St. Ignatius College; connected with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company; business address, 333 Grant avenue, San Francisco; was appointed Playground Commissioner of San Francisco in 1911; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-seventh Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

28. JAMES JOSEPH McDONALD (Republican) was born in New York City, New York, November 21, 1863; educated in the public schools of San Francisco and at St. Ignatius College; real estate; business address, 161 Sixteenth avenue, San Francisco; held the position of Deputy County Clerk and Deputy Assessor of San Francisco; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-eighth District, November 3, 1914.

29. JAMES JOSEPH BYRNES (Democrat) was born in San Francisco, January 5, 1880; educated in public schools of San Francisco; clerk; business address, 306 Fell street, San Francisco; elected a member of the Assembly from the Twenty-ninth Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

30. JOSEPH EDMUND MARRON (Progressive and Democrat) was born in San Francisco, May 8, 1885; educated at Sacred Heart College; merchant; business address, 2039 Fillmore street, San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirtieth Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

31. MILTON L. SCHMITT (Republican) was born in San Francisco, California, February 4, 1877; was educated in public schools of San Francisco and at the University of California and Hastings Law College; is an attorney; business address, 460 Montgomery street, San Francisco, California; was elected member of the Assembly from the Fortieth District, November 3, 1908; re-elected November 8, 1910; re-elected as Member from the Thirty-first District, November 5, 1912; re-elected Member of the Assembly, November 3, 1914.

32. FRANK N. RODGERS (Republican) was born in Portland, Oregon, September 2, 1882; printing; business address, 649 Jones street, San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-third District, November 8, 1910; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-second District, November 3, 1914.

33. VICTOR J. CANEPA (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, California, February 28, 1887; received his education in the public schools; engaged in real estate and insurance business; was elected a Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-third District, November 5, 1912; re-elected from same district, November 3, 1914.

34. GEORGE BECK (Democrat) was born in Indiana, July 20, 1853; received a common school education; came to California in 1865; engaged in general merchandise business; was Postmaster of Livermore, 1886-1890, and has served two terms as Mayor of that city; elected a Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-fourth District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

35. PAUL J. ARNERICH (Republican) was born in Santa Clara County, 1869; received a public school education; residence address 1318 Caroline Street, Alameda, Cal.; represented Santa Clara County in the Assembly, 36^th Session; was elected member of the Assembly from the Thirty-fifth Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

36. HARRY ALBERT ENCELL (Progressive) was born in Hannibal, Missouri, June 8, 1880; educated in the public schools of California, Los Angeles High School, University of California, 1906; attorney at law; business address, Oakland, California; was Secretary of Board Freeholders Oakland City Charter, 1910; elected a member of the Assembly from the Thirty-sixth Assembly District November 3, 1914.

37. WILLIAM THOMAS SATTERWHITE (Progressive) was born in San Francisco, April 11, 1870; educated in public schools of California; graduate of Oakland High School and of Hastings Law College; lawyer; business address, Court House, Oakland, California; he is now Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-seventh District, November 3, 1914.

38. DANIEL FERGUSON (Progressive-Democrat) was born in Ireland October 2, 1861; Resides in Oakland. Received a common school education. Was Deputy Sheriff of Alameda County. Was elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-eighth District November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

39. FRANK WILLIAM ANDERSON (Progressive) was born in Oakland, California, January 30, 1887; educated in public schools of Oakland and business college; fire insurance agent; business address 1506 Seventh street, Oakland, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-ninth District, November 3, 1914.

40. GEORGE GELDER (Progressive) was born in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 1881; resides in Berkeley; received a grammar school education; attorney and counselor at law; business address, Oakland, California; was elected Member of Assembly from the Fortieth District November 5, 1912; re-elected on Republican and Progressive party tickets November 3, 1914.

41. CLEMENT C. YOUNG (Progressive-Republican-Democrat) is a native of New Hampshire, born April 28, 1869, and came to California with his parents in May of the following year. Graduated at the University of California Class 1892. Until the fire of 1906 he was head of the English Department of the Lowell High School of San Francisco, where after a service of nearly fourteen years in that institution he resigned to take up the business of real estate, in which he is now engaged, with business and residence address at Berkeley. He is the author of a textbook on English which is widely used in the high schools of California. Elected member of Assembly from the Fifty-second District November 3, 1908; re-elected November 8, 1910; re-elected from the Forty-first District November 5, 1912; re-elected from the same district November 3, 1914. On January 6, 1913, elected Speaker of the Assembly, Fortieth Session, and on January 4, 1915, re-elected Speaker of the Assembly, Forty-first Session.

42. HENRY WARD BROWN (Republican) was born at Orland, Hancock County, Maine, October 18, 1852; graduate of Columbian (now George Washington) University, Washington, D.C.; attended the law school, and admitted to the bar (Supreme Court, District of Columbia) in 1875; came to California in 1876; graduate of Hastings College of the Law, University of California, Class 1893; Assistant and Deputy U.S. Surveyor of Customs at San Francisco, 1880 to 1886; Deputy U.S. Shipping Commissioner at San Francisco 1889 to 1893; Member of the Assembly, California Legislature from San Mateo County, sessions 1899, 1901, 1903, 1911, 1913; now engaged in the practice of the law; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-second District November 3, 1914.

43. HAROLD E. McPHERSON (Republican) was born in Santa Cruz, June 21, 1883; was educated in Santa Cruz High School and University of California and University of Colorado and in Europe; managing editor Santa Cruz Morning Sentinel; business address, Sentinel Publishing Co., 9 Locust street, Santa Cruz, California; was elected Member of Assembly from the Forty-third District November 3, 1914.

44. THEODORE M. WRIGHT (Progressive) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 31, 1868; received a grammar school education in the city of San Jose; printer; business address, San Jose; Trustee of the town of East San Jose during its entire existence, and President of its Board of Trustees; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-fourth District, November 3, 1914.

45. DANIEL R. HAYES (Republican) was born in San Francisco, January 28, 1868; received public school education; plasterer; business address, 177 N. Tenth street, San Jose; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-seventh District, November 3, 1908; was a nominee of the Republican and Independence League parties, and re-elected November 8, 1910; re-elected November 5, 1912, and on November 3, 1914, was re-elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-fifth District.

46. LEWIS LINCOLN DENNETT (Progressive) was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, January 5, 1867; educated in the public schools of California; took degree of A.B., University of Pacific, 1886; LL.B., University of Michigan, 1888; Supervisor of Census, Sixth District California, 1910; Clerk United States Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C., 1892 and 1893; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-sixth District, November 3, 1914.

47. MAURICE BRADLEY BROWNE (Democrat) was born in California, August 2, 1877; attended common school and graduated from Heald's Business College, class of 1896; stockman; elected a Member of the Assembly from the Forty-seventh Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

48. ARTHUR ELLIOTT BOYCE (Republican) was born in Stockton, California, March 13, 1875; received his education in the common and grammar schools in California and Washington; retired officer of United States Army, in which he held the rank of First and Second Lieutenant; business address, Monterey; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forth-eighth Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

49. EDWARD STANTON ELLIS (Democrat) was born in Cherokee County, Kansas, November 12, 1874; received a common school education; Editor Livingston Chronicle; business address, Livingston, California; appointed by Governor Johnson delegate to Western Irrigation Conference at Denver in April, 1914; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-ninth District, November 3, 1914.

50. LORENZO DOW SCOTT (Republican) was born near Clinton, De Witt County, Illinois, January 4, 1847; received a common school education; banker; was elected member of the Assembly from the Fiftieth District, November 3, 1914.

51. HENRY HAWSON 9Democrat) was born in Sheffield, England; was educated privately and in the public schools of his native country; lawyer; business address, 817-818 Griffith-McKenzie Building, Fresno, California; was Deputy District Attorney, Fresno County, September, 1907, to August, 1910; was elected Member of the Assembly from Fifty-first District, November 3, 1914.

52. LEONARD B. CARY (Progressive) was born in Marseilles, Ohio, June 26, 1848; received a high school and college education; came to California in 1902; residence and business address, Reedley, California; was formerly in the newspaper business, and Clerk of the District Court of Cheyenne County, Nebraska; elected a Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-second District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

53. ELMER SCOTT RIGDON (Democrat) was born in Cambria, California, July 16, 1868; received a common school education; rancher and lumber yards; business address, Cambria, California; elected a Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-third Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

54. WILLIAM ADAMS LONG (Republican) was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1848; received his education at the Washington Academy and Iowa Normal School; farmer (fruit and stock); business address, Hanford; was Supervisor of Kings County 1893 to 1899; Postmaster of Hanford 1905 to 1914; President of Hanford Union High School Board, Hanford; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-fourth District, November 3, 1914.

55. FRED CARROLL SCOTT (Progressive) was born in Woodland, California, November 13, 1874; received a public school education; taught school for three years; studied law while teaching; admitted to practice by Supreme Court, October, 1897; oil land dealer; address, Visalia, California; elected member of the Assembly from the Fifty-fifth Assembly District, November 3, 1914.

56. WITTEN WILLIAM HARRIS was born in Gentry County, Missouri, August 17, 1872; came to California in 1904; was educated in Central Christian College, Albany, Missouri; graduated therefrom with degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1897; editor and newspaper writer; business address, 1817 L street, Bakersfield, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-sixth District, November 3, 1914.

57. GEORGE HATCH JOHNSON (Republican) was born in Monrovia, California, residence and business address, San Bernardino; attorney at law; Assistant City Attorney of San Bernardino, 1911-12; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-seventh District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

58. GEORGE SHELDON PHELPS (Prohibitionist) was born in Rock Fal's(sic) Illinois, March 14, 1873; was educated in grammar schools of Rock Falls, Illinois, Lyons, Kansas, Pasadena, California, and attended Belleview Academy, Redlands, California. Packinghouse foreman and orange grower; business address, 137 Center street, Redlands, California; was elected a Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-eighth District, November 3, 1914.

59. IRA EARL KRAMER (Progressive) was born in Findlay, Ohio, February 3, 1875; educated at Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio, receiving Ph.B. degree; business address, Santa Barbara; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-ninth District November 3, 1914.

60. ROGER GAYTHORNE EDWARDS (Republican) was born in Santa Barbara, California, March 15, 1884; educated in Santa Barbara schools, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and took a partial course at the University of California; farmer; business address, Saticoy, Ventura County, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixtieth District, November 3, 1914.

61. HARRY ALBERT WISHARD (Progressive) was born in Deighton, Kansas, March 17, 1887; graduate Bloomfield, Iowa, High School; attended University of Iowa; graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College with the degree Ph.B.; took a course in law at University of Southern California and Leland Stanford, Junior, University; attorney at law; business address, 525-27 Byrne Building, Los Angeles, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-first District, November 3, 1914.

62. CHARLES W. LYON (Republican) was born in Los Angeles, California, September 13, 1887; received a grammar and high school education in Los Angeles city schools; after six years devoted to the study of law, was admitted to practice in August, 1910; attorney; business address, 212 Exchange Building, Los Angeles, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-second District, November 3, 1914.

63. ALFRED L. BARTLETT (Republican) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, October 8, 1884; educated at Amherst College and University of Southern California College of Law; attorney at law; business address, 510 Chamber of Commerce Building, Los Angeles; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-third District, November 3, 1914.

64. CHARLES ELWOOD SCOTT (Republican) was born in Trevorton, Pennsylvania, June 29 1885; attended Shamokin, Pennsylvania, High School and College of Law, University of Southern California; attorney at law; business address, 419 Federal Building, Los Angeles; he is Deputy Clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of California, at Los Angeles; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-fourth District, November 3, 1914.

65. PETER CHARLES PHILLIPS (Republican) was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1870; educated in public schools of San Francisco; real estate agent; business address, 981 North Broadway, Los Angeles; elected Member of Assembly from the Sixty-fifth Assembly District November 3, 1914.

66. RICHMOND PITTS BENTON (Republican) was born in Plymouth, Michigan, May 4, 1871; educated at Plymouth High School; ice business; residence 1012 South Boyle avenue, Los Angeles; was elected Member of Assembly from the Sixty-sixth District November 3, 1914.

67. HOWARD J. FISH (Republican-Progressive) was born in Hamburg, New York, October 5, 1869; resides in Pasadena; was educated in public and private schools and at University of Southern California; graduated from Yale University, 1893, and from New York Law School, 1895; was admitted to practice in State of New York in 1895, and has since been engaged in the practice of law at Los Angeles; was elected Member of Assembly from the Sixty-seventh District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914; elected Speaker pro tem forty-first session.

68. LEWIS L. LOSTUTTER (Republican) was born in Rising Sun, Switzerland County, Indiana, October 15, 1863; educated at Paxton College and Kennedy Business College, Paxton, Illinois; banker; business address, 450 East Holt avenue, Pomona, California; was elected Member of Assembly from the Sixty-eighth District November 3, 1914.

69. HENRY WARD WRIGHT (Progressive) was born in Chickasaw County, Iowa, March 4, 1868; was educated at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, and Omaha Commercial College, Omaha; real estate and investments, Los Angeles, California; was auditor and purchasing agent, Iowa State Institution, Glenwood, Iowa, 1892 to 1899; secretary of the State Board of Control of Minnesota, 1901 to 1905; elected member of the Assembly from the Sixty-ninth District November 3, 1914; resides in Pasadena, California.

70. JOSEPH A. ROMINGER (Republican) was born in Bloomfield, Iowa, November 2, 1871; educated at Iowa Wesleyan University, Mt. Pleasant, and Iowa State University, Iowa City, Iowa; business address, 145 East First street, Long Beach, California; high grade investments, stocks and bonds; postmaster of Bloomfield, Iowa, 1902-1906; member Long Beach School Board, 1909-1914; president Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, 1914; elected Member of Assembly from the Seventieth District November 3, 1914.

71. LEWIS ARNOLD SPENGLER (Socialist) was born in Spencer Town, New York, September 21, 1872; received a common school education; business address, 778 East Forty-fifth street, Los Angeles; elected Member of Assembly from the Seventy-first District November 3, 1914.

72. HARRY A. CHAMBERLIN (Republican) was born in Fresno, California, February 19, 1886; was educated in the public schools of Fresno and Los Angeles County and took a course in law in the University of Southern California; is an attorney at law; business address, 810-11 Security Building, Los Angeles, California; elected Member of Assembly from the Seventy-second District November 3, 1914.

73. GEORGE W. DOWNING (Socialist) as born in Minnesota, February 22, 1869; received an elementary and high school education; also attended University of Minnesota, taking a course of law therein; attorney at law; business address, 4608 Central avenue, Los Angeles; was city attorney of Perham, Minnesota; was elected Member of Assembly from the Seventy-third District November 3, 1914.

74. FRANK HOMER MOUSER (Republican-Progressive) was born at Sullivan, Moultrie County, Illinois, October 11, 1876; moved to San Diego, California, November 3, 1886; educated in public schools of San Diego, and commercial course; was clerk of Public Buildings and Grounds Committee of Assembly, thirty-fifth session; stenographer for Assembly, thirty-sixth session; resides in Los Angeles; engaged in real estate business; was candidate for Republican nomination Secretary of State, August 16, 1910; elected Member of Assembly from the Seventy-fourth District, November 5, 1912; re-elected November 3, 1914.

75. JAMES S. McKNIGHT (Progressive) was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, November 15, 1883; is graduate of grammar and high schools of Los Angeles; University of Southern California College of Law; received the degree of L.L.B., Los Angeles; attorney at law; business address, 402 H.W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles; elected Member of Assembly from the Seventy-fifth District November 3, 1914.

76. JOE CHARLES BURKE (Republican) was born at Downey, California, July 3, 1876; received a common school education, and also attended Woodbury's Business College, Los Angeles; attorney at law; business address, Santa Ana, California; was Deputy County Clerk, Orange County, from 1907 to 1912, and City Clerk, Santa Ana, 1912 to 1914; was elected Member of Assembly from the Seventy-sixth District November 3, 1914.

77. WILLIAM ALBERT AVEY (Progressive) was born in Taretum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1873; educated in district schools Butler County, Pennsylvania; graduated from Prospect Normal and Classical Academy, June, 1891; attended Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio, for two years; present address, 314 Orange street, Riverside. Member of the Board of Education of Riverside; member Board of Managers of Southern California State Hospital, Patton, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-seventh District, November 3, 1914.

78. ROBERT EZRA WILLS (Democrat) was born in Macon County, Missouri, February 18, 1859; was educated in public schools of Eugene City, Oregon, and at Oregon State University; engaged in ranching and stock raising; business address, Brawley, California; was Deputy Treasurer and Clerk in the District Court in Garfield County, Washington; Supervisor Imperial County, California; elected a Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-eighth District, November 3, 1914.

79. GRANT CONARD (Republican) was born and grew to manhood upon a farm in La Salle County, Illinois. Date of birth, August 5, 1867. Educated in common schools and business college and Kent College of Law, Chicago. Taught in public schools three years and in business college two years, also practiced law five years at Ottawa, Illinois. Came to California in 1902, locating at San Diego where he now resides, and is engaged in real estate and farming. Appointed member of Board of Public Works, City of San Diego, in 1905. Elected Mayor of the City of San Diego in 1909, serving two years. Elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-ninth District (City of San Diego), November 3, 1914.

80. FRED E. JUDSON (Progressive) was born in Sonoma County, California, June 30, 1869; was educated in the public schools of San Diego County, and at Healdsburg Academy; fruit grower and stock raiser; business address, Escondido, California; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Eightieth District November 8, 1910; re-elected November 5, 1912; and was again elected to the Eightieth District, November 3, 1914.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL BUREAU.

The Legislative Counsel Bureau, an independent department of the State Government, was created by an act of the Legislature in 1913. It is in charge of an official entitled chief of the bureau, whose duty it is to prepare and assist in the preparation, amendment and consideration of legislative bills, to advise as to needed revision of the statues, to co-operate in the manner prescribed by law in the preparation of initiative measures, and to render to the Governor such service as the latter may request during the session and, in connection with the consideration of bills which may remain in his hands for approval or rejection, for thirty days after adjournment. The members of the Legislative Counsel Bureau Board as first named, consisted of Senators Thompson and Grant and Assemblymen Clark and Guill. At the close of the forty-first session of the Legislature, the Assembly elected Messrs. Harry A. Encell and B. B. Meek to take the place of the two members of the Assembly who were on the original Board.

The work of the Bureau was organized by Arthur P. Will who at the time of his appointment as chief was a practising(sic) attorney in Los Angeles, and who, on account of his experience in legal authorship and in special investigations, was well fitted for this work.

ASSEMBLY ATTACHES.

LLEWELLYN BELL MALLORY (Progressive) was born in Nebraska, October 23, 1871; educated in Napa College and Stanford University, A.B., 1897; broker; business address, Los Gatos, California. Was Assistant Clerk of the Assembly in 1909; Chief Clerk of the Assembly, 1911, 1913, and re-elected Chief Clerk of Assembly, Forty-first Session, on January 4, 1915.

HENRY B. MILLER (Progressive) was born in Duluth, Minnesota, April, 1873; educated in public schools of Brainerd, Minnesota, and for two years attended High School; machinist; business address, 1329 E street, Sacramento; was City Machinist of Sacramento. Elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, Forty-first Session, January 4, 1915.

REV. JAMES WHITTAKER (Progressive) was born in England, December 29, 1862; education: B.L., Midland University, Illinois; A.M. and Ph.D., Allegheny College, Pennsylvania; S.T.B., Illif. School of Theology, University of Denver; S.T.D., Taylor University, Indiana; Minister of the Gospel; business address, Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Sacramento. Elected Chaplain of the Assembly of the Forty-first Session, January 4, 1915.

MOSES STERN (Progressive) was born in San Francisco; educated in San Francisco grammar and high schools, also attended business college; an accountant; business address, 1049 Monadnock Building, San Francisco; was Deputy Registrar of Voters of San Francisco; appointed First Assistant Chief Clerk of Assembly, Forty-first Session, on January 4, 1915.

DUNCAN McPHERSON, JR. (Independent Republican) was born in Santa Cruz, February 5, 1880; educated in Santa Cruz High School and graduated in 1902 from the University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, L.L.B.; one year University of Oxford, England, special course of study; attorney at law; business address, County National Bank Building, Santa Cruz; Town Attorney of Boulder Creek; appointed Assistant Chief Clerk of Assembly, Forty-first Session.

ARTHUR A. WENDERING (Progressive) was born in Berkeley, California, in 1894; educated in Berkeley High School; attended business college; newspaperman; business address, Berkeley Daily Gazette, Berkeley, California; was Reading Clerk of the Assembly, Fortieth Session; appointed Assistant Clerk of Assembly, Forty-first Session.

STATE LIBRARY.

By J. L. Gillis.

The State Library was established January 24, 1850. During the first years no funds were voted for its support, but the third session of the Legislature passed a law requiring each officer commissioned by the Governor to pay $5 to the Secretary of State for library purposes. In 1853 all fees collected by the Secretary of State began to be paid into the State Library fund, and this method of providing maintenance continued until 1901. In that year a fixed sum of $2,500 a month was given the library and this fund was increased at times until it amounted to $5,000 a month. In 1911 by mistake this was unfortunately cut to $3,500, but this error was corrected in 1913, and since that time the annual income of the library has amounted to $95,000.

The Secretary of State was named by law as the first librarian. The first library board was also ex officio and was created in 1852. A change in naming the board was made by the Legislature in 1861, when it passed a law that three of the five members should be elected on its joint ballot. In 1899 still another change was made whereby the entire board was appointed by the Governor, and this is the procedure at present. The librarian is appointed by the board to serve for four years.

The State Library consisted at first of only the hundred volumes given by John C. Fremont. When funds were available for buying books the law department was built up before any particular attention was given to the general department.

Since those first years, however, books in all departments of literature have been added, until at present the library consists of about 175,000 volumes. This number includes, besides the general collection, the following special collections: A very complete and valuable law collection; federal, State, municipal and foreign government documents; books for the blind; and Californiana, consisting of files of bound newspapers and periodicals, manuscripts, pictures, personal record cards filled out by California pioneers, artists, authors, musicians and actors, as well as books covering the history and resources of the State. The material used for legislative reference work is not kept as a special collection, all sections of the library, as well as all members of the staff, being called into use by the legislative reference librarian, especially during the legislative session.

In 1913 the Sutro heirs gave to the State Library the valuable collection gathered together by Adolph Sutro. These books are now located on the third floor of the Lane Medical Library building, San Francisco. The books and other material are being unpacked and listed as fast as possible, and the collection will be opened to the public as a branch of the State Library as soon as it can be made ready.

The State Library aims to supplement the other libraries of the State. It does not attempt to buy fiction or any material of merely passing interest. Its object is rather to build up a collection valuable for research and study and to lend its books to all readers who can not find in their local libraries the material which they need. In counties where county free libraries have been established this lending is done through the library. Where there is no county free library, books are loaned through the town public library. In cases where no libraries exist, individuals can borrow by having an application signed by a State officer, or by depositing five dollars. Up to January 1, 1915, there were twenty-six counties which had established county free libraries: Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Log Angeles, Madera, Merced, Monterey, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus, Tulare and Yolo. Loans made through a county free library to that part of the county supporting it are sent free of transportation charges.

On September 4, 1913, the California State Library School was established. The first class began work January 14, 1914, and fourteen members finished the course December 18^th. The second class, consisting of fourteen students, began its course September 23, 1914, and will end its work June 25, 1915. The lecturers in the different subjects are the heads of departments of the State Library who also conduct the practice work. It is hoped that the school will help meet the demand for California librarians.

Transcribed 5-21-17 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: “California Blue Book or State Roster 1913-1915 – Biographical Sketches” Pages 473-524. Compiled by Frank C. Curry, Secretary of State, Sacramento, CA 1915.

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