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ISSAC M. KALLOCH

 

 

ISSAC M. KALLOCH, a member of the law firm of Wheaton, Kalloch & Kierce, San Francisco, was born at Rockland, Maine, in 1851. He arrived in California in 1876, removed to Washington Territory in 1883, where he was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1884; subsequently returned to California, and in November, 1888, was admitted to the Supreme Court of this State. The same month he was elected District Attorney of Tuolumne county. Two years later the firm of which he is now a member, was organized in San Francisco, and now ranks with the leading firms of the city for integrity and ability, and enjoys a lucrative practice.

      Mr. Kalloch is a son of I. S. Kalloch, who in his lifetime was widely known as a brilliant pulpit and platform orator. Mr. Kalloch, Sr., was also a native of Maine, having been born in Rockland in 1831. He was a remarkably eloquent and magnetic speaker, and attracted immense congregations. In 1876 he became the pastor of a San Francisco Church, and within a few years he built the Metropolitan Temple, opposite the United States Mint, on Fifth street. In the fall of 1879 Mr. Kalloch was elected Mayor of San Francisco, at the conclusion of an exciting campaign. In 1883 he removed to Washington Territory, where he died, in December, 1887

Transcribed by Donna L. Becker. 

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 461-462, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.


© 2006 Donna L. Becker.

 

 

 

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