ALFRED L. TUBBS 

Alfred L. Tubbs, a man of fine personality and exceptional ability, played a large and benignant part in the civic and business activities of the City of San Francisco, and was one of the honored and influential citizens and pioneers of California at the time of his death, in 1899. He came to this state in the early ‘50s, and in San Francisco was associated with his brother Hiram in the founding of the Tubbs Cordage Company in 1856, he having been president of this important corporation at the time of his death. Mr. Tubbs married Miss Elizabeth Chapin, and concerning their children the following brief record is available: Alfred Steward Tubbs, who is now president of the Tubbs Cordage Company, was educated at Harvard University. He married Miss Alice Hagar, and they have no children. William B. Tubbs, who likewise attended Harvard University, was thereafter connected with the Tubbs Cordage Company until the time of his death. He wedded Miss Jennie Filkins, and the two children of this union are Chapin Filkins Tubbs and Emilie Tubbs. Austin C. Tubbs, the third son, likewise was afforded the advantages of Harvard University, and he was one of the representative citizens of San Francisco at the time of his death, in 1901. He married Miss Anne Tallant, daughter of the late Drury John Tallant, to whom a brief memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work, and of the two children of this union the first born, Austin T., is deceased, the younger son, Tallant, being still a resident of San Francisco and being here actively associated with the Tubbs Cordage Company. It is interesting to record that all of the male grandchildren of the late Alfred L. Tubbs are or have been identified with the Tubbs Cordage Company. 

Transcribed by Donna L. Becker 

Source: "The San Francisco Bay Region" Vol. 3 page 323 by Bailey Millard. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.