San Francisco County
Biographies
JAMES
ARTHUR FAIRWEATHER
The spirit of this age, co-operative
associations, beneficiary and fraternal orders, has enlisted the best efforts
of a large number of our prominent professional men and capitalists.
Mr. Fairweather,
a leading attorney at law, has given the subject of fraternal co-operative life
insurance a great deal of attention; and his efforts in their behalf have been
highly appreciated by his fraters. He was born in New Brunswick in 1851, and
after attaining a liberal education in his native city, St. John, N. B.,
attended several courses of lectures at Harvard University, received the degree
of LL. B., and was admitted to the Bar in 1873. He located in San Francisco in
1881, and at once was recognized as a lawyer of high legal attainments, and has
kept his position in the front rank since.
In our beneficiary orders he has accepted office only at urgent
solicitation, and at times when his services would dispel discord and bring
harmony and good feeling. This was notably the case when he took the position
of Master Workman in Franklin Lodge, 44, A. O. U. W., and also District Deputy
of District No. 2, A. O. U. W., in 1886.
Bro. Fairweather
has a commanding presence, happy expression, great influence, and has earned
the reputation of being one of the best presiding officers in the State. He is
a forcible speaker, close reasoner, and has a happy
faculty of captivating his audience without apparent effort. His happy marital
relations, popularity and high intellectuality, warrant us in predicting a
bright future and a continued life of usefulness, high esteem and honor.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Illustrated
Fraternal Directory Including Educational Institutions on the Pacific Coast”,
Page 81, Publ. Bancroft Co., San Francisco. Cal. 1890.
© 2013 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies