San Francisco County
Biographies
M.
S. Horan, attorney, San Francisco, is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, where his
parents were early settlers, was reared there and came to California in
1863. First he engaged in teaching at
Folsom, Sacramento county; then studied law in the
office of C. G. W. French, later Chief Justice of Arizona, and was admitted to
the bar in 1866. Three years later, in
1869, he was elected a Representative from Sacramento to the State Legislature,
and served during the sessions of 1869-70.
He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in 1873, and was elected
Judge of the Police Court in 1875, and since 1878 he has been engaged in the
practice of his profession in San Francisco.
In his political views he is a Democrat, taking an active part in the
councils of his party. He received the
nomination for Judge of the Superior court in 1890, but, owing to differences
in the party, the whole ticket was defeated.
He has been prominently identified with the militia of the State,
serving in the ranks, and by promotion was commissioned Captain and afterward Major,
and in March, 1877, was appointed by Governor Irwin Brigadier General, Fourth
Brigade, California National Guards.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
page 96, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Donna L.
Becker.