CHARLES C. BONTÉ 

Charles C. Bonté, chief clerk of the shops of the Southern Pacific Railroad, was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1857. He is the son of the Rev. J.H.C. Bonté, Professor of Legal Ethics in the Law Department of the University, and Secretary of the Board of Regents of the University of California. When he was a child his parents moved to Washington city, District of Columbia. His preliminary schooling was obtained in the District of Columbia; his proprietary courses were taken in the city of Oswego, New York, and coming to California in 1870 he completed his course of study at St. Augustine College, Benicia, from which institution he graduated in 1884. He came to Sacramento in 1875, taking a position in the office of the chief clerk, Sacramento shops (Mr. Newton H. Foster), succeeding to that position in 1885. He was united in marriage in 1881 to Miss Anna Hall Nichols, daughter of H.L. Nichols, A.M., M.D., the oldest practicing physician in the Capital City, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Bonté have one son, named Harmon Storer Bonté.