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HON. FRANK S. BOGGS
An eminent representative of the
California realty world whose wide and valuable
experience as a man of public affairs has enabled him to become of especial
service in the rapid development of the Golden state, is the Hon. Frank S.
Boggs, state senator from the Tenth District.
He was born on his father’s farm near Colusa, California, on October 28,
1871, the son of John and Louise E. (Shackleford)
Boggs, both of whom are now deceased.
John Boggs was a California pioneer who crossed the great
plains in ’49 from Howard County, Missouri, and farmed in Colusa County
for many years; and he long represented Colusa and other northern counties in
the state Senate. He was able,
therefore, to give the subject of our story many opportunities and so to start
him well in the world.
Frank Boggs attended the district
schools of Colusa County and boarding schools in both Benicia and San
Francisco, and in 1894 he was graduated from the University of California with
the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He
located in Stockton in the fall of the same year, and began the development
1,314 acres of land in the Delta district owned by his father. The land had been flooded several times, and
Frank Boggs began a reclamation campaign; and since that time he has been
actively engaged in development the property known as the Boggs Tract. He has also sold a part of the land, 900 acres
now remaining. He has cultivated some of
it as farm land, and the remainder has been subdivided into lots known as the
Boggs Tract Subdivision or the Yosemite Subdivision, each containing half-acre
lots. This property adjoins Stockton on
the west, and a portion of it is within the city limits.
Mr. Boggs was also engaged in the
real estate and insurance business in Stockton while making these subdivisions,
being associated with the Union Safe Deposit & Loan Company, and he was
always successful in that field. He has
other real estate holdings of his own in the county, and he has been a director
in the San Joaquin County Fair Association and also of the County Farm Bureau
since their organization. It is not surprising,
therefore, that he was elected to the office of state senator of the Tenth
District, which includes San Joaquin and Amador counties in 1918, for a
four-year term, nor that it has often been remarked that he was the best
Senator the district ever had. He has
looked after the interests of the farmer in particular, and the latter
everywhere has found in him the most faithful of representatives. He was also chairman of the committee on
public morals in the session of 1921, and a member of the following
committees: navigation, commerce and
education, elections, finance, governmental efficiency and economy, irrigation,
reapportionment, revenue and taxation. A
Democrat in national political parties, he was elected by a large majority in a
strong Republican district, and has no opposition for re-election in 1922. When the World War broke out, he was made
chairman of the Stockton City Exemption Board, and served from the beginning to
the close of the War, making a fine record, so that he was highly complimented
by the Governor and U. S. officials for the manner in which he carried on the
work committed to him. He is a director
in the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, and also a director in the Morris Plan
Bank of Stockton.
At Stockton, in 1899, Senator Boggs
was married to Miss Katherine Cunningham, the youngest daughter of the late
Thomas Cunningham, sheriff of San Joaquin County; and three sons have blessed
the union: John C., who is at the University
of California, Thomas W. and Frank S. Boggs, Jr. Mr. Boggs has been treasurer of the San
Joaquin Blue Lodge of Masons and also of the Knights Templar for twenty years,
and has passed through all branches of the Scottish Rite,
Islam Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of San Francisco, and is a past commander of
the Stockton Commandery. He was a member
of the building committee having charge of the erection of the new Masonic
Temple, recently completed on Market Street, Stockton, representing the San
Joaquin Lodge; and he belongs to Lodge No. 218 of the Stockton Elks, and to the
Stockton Lions Club. He is an
ex-president of the San Joaquin County Farm Bureau, and ex-officio member of
the board of directors. He is a very
active worker in the interest of the Bureau, and devotes much time to it. He is a member of the University of
California Club, and is active in Boy Scout work; being ex-president of the Boy
Scouts; and a member of the Stockton Y. M. C. A.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
403-404. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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