CALIFORNIA
STATE
OFFICIALS
1911
Contributed
by Natalie Huntley (NHuntley@aol.com)
Source:
California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled
by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend
W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913
Part
V.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES
EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT
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Governor.
HIRAM WARREN JOHNSON (Republican) was born at Sacramento,
Sacramento County, California, September 2, 1866. He attended the public
schools and was graduated from the Sacramento High School in 1884. He entered
the University of California with the class of 1888, but left in his Junior
year to engage in the study of law. He was admitted to practice in 1888 and
practiced his profession thereafter in Sacramento until 1902. In 1899 he was
appointed Corporation Counsel of the city of Sacramento by Mayor George H.
Clark, and served in that capacity throughout Clark's administration. In 1902
he took up his residence in San Francisco, and in partnership with his brother,
Albert M. Johnson, opened a law office in that city. He was nominated for the
office of Governor in August, 1910, at the first direct primary election held
in the State of California, and elected to that office November 8, 1910;
inaugurated January 3, 1911.
Lieutenant
Governor.
ALBERT J. WALLACE (Republican) was born in Wellington
county, Province of Ontario, Canada, February 11, 1853. He was educated in the
public school and in Victoria University. The condition of his health overthrew
his plans for a professional career and he located on the prairies of North
Dakota in 1878, engaging in farming, merchandising, and banking until 1886,
when he removed to southern California, where he has made his home for over a
quarter of a century. He has been active in oil and land business, was a member
of the Los Angeles City Council for three years, and has been closely identified
with various movements for betterment of conditions in city, county and State;
elected Lieutenant Governor on November 8, 1910, and inaugurated at the same
time as the Governor (January 3, 1911).
Secretary
of State.
FRANK CHESTER JORDAN (Republican) was born at Haycrafts
Ferry, near Redding, Shasta County, April 3, 1860. Received a common school
education in Oakland, his home from 1868 to 1906. Since 1906 has resided in
Auburn, Placer County. Engaged in commercial pursuits until 1894, when he was
elected County Clerk of Alameda County. Reelected in 1898. Elected Clerk of
Supreme Court November 4, 1902. Was nominated for office of Secretary of State
at the first direct primary election held in the State of California and elected
November 8, 1910, for the term 1911-1915.
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Controller.
ALFRED BOURNE NYE (Republican) was born at Stockton,
California, October 25, 1853; he received his education in the public schools
of Massachusetts and in the academy at Falmouth, in the same State; became a
newspaperman, and was residing in Oakland, California, at the time when
Governor George C. Pardee selected his as his private secretary, in which
capacity he acted from January, 1903, until November 23, 1906, when he was
appointed by Governor Pardee as State Controller to take the place of E. P.
Colgan, deceased; on January 7, 1907, Governor Pardee again appointed his to
the same office, vice self and E. P. Colgan, deceased. In 1910 he was nominated
for Controller by both the Republican and Democratic parties, and in the
general election following was elected for the term 1911-1915.
Treasurer.
EDWARD D. ROBERTS (Republican) was born in Cambria, Columbia
County, Wisconsin, July 8, 1864; attended public school at Pittsburg, Pa., and
Western University of Pennsylvania. In 1883 went to Bridgewater, South Dakota,
and engaged in banking business. In 1887 came to California and engaged in
banking business at Colton. Is president of First National Bank of Colton and
also of San Bernardino National Bank, San Bernardino County Savings Bank and
First National Bank of Rialto. Is largely interested in culture of oranges and
lemons. Upon the resignation of W. R. Williams he was, on February 20, 1911, appointed
to succeed his a State Treasurer.
Attorney
General.
ULYSSES SIGEL WEBB (Republican), the present Attorney
General, was born at Flemington, West Virginia, September 29, 1864. In 1870 his
parents moved to Kansas, and Mr. Webb received his education in the schools of
that State. In 1888, he came to California, and settled in Quincy, Plumas
County, and in 1889 began the practice of law. In 1890 he was elected District
Attorney and held the office until September 15, 1902, when he resigned to
accept the appointment from Governor Gage of Attorney General. He has held the
office since then, being elected for the third time in 1910.
Surveyor
General.
WILLIAM STEPHEN KINGSBURY (Republican) was born at Oakland,
California, August 3, 1870; he received a grammar school education and then
commenced the study of civil engineering under private instructors; after
perfecting himself in his profession he took up his residence at Los Angeles,
where he held the position of Chief Deputy City Engineer; elected Surveyor
General November 6, 1906; as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor
parties, and again in 1910.
Clerk
of Supreme Court.
B. GRANT TAYLOR (Republican), Clerk of Supreme Court, born
December 27, 1872, at Collins, Erie County, New York. After common school and
business college education, served as telegrapher on Erie Railroad. Later
entered New York Civil Service as stenographer and telegrapher, and while so
engaged commenced study of law by correspondence. Became a Californian in 1898,
and admitted to bar in 1902. Was official shorthand reporter in Superior Court
in Santa Clara County 1904 to 1910, inclusive. Received Republican nomination
for present office through direct primary in August, 1910, followed by election
in November. Home, Saratoga, Santa Clara County.
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Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
EDWARD HYATT (Republican) was born at Huntington,
Pennsylvania, March 8, 1858, but was educated in the public school of Ohio and
at the Ohio State University; he took up school teaching as his occupation,
came to California in 1884, and settled in Riverside County, where beginning
with 1895 he served several terms as County Superintendent of Schools, and also
acted as Instructor for Teachers' County Institutes throughout the State;
elected Superintendent of Public Instruction November 6, 1906, as the nominee
of the Republican party and Independence League; reelected in 1910, as a
Republican.
Superintendent
of State Printing.
FRIEND WILLIAM RICHARDSON was appointed to the position of
Superintendent of State Printing by Governor Hiram W. Johnson on November 23,
1911, upon the resignation of W. W. Shannon. Richardson is the editor and
manager of the Berkeley Daily Gazette, and has for the past ten years been the
president of the California Press Association. His newspaper and job plant in
Berkeley is one of the best equipped of its size in the State. He was born in
Michigan, but came with his parents to San Bernardino when a very small boy. He
was raised in San Bernardino, and later became the editor and proprietor of the
San Bernardino Daily and Weekly Times-Index. In 1901 he sold that paper and
purchased the Berkeley Gazette, which he still controls.
JUDICIAL
DEPARTMENT
Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court.
WILLIAM HENRY BEATTY (Republican) was born at Monclova,
Lucas County, Ohio, February 18, 1838; he lived for a time in Kentucky, and
came from that State to California in 1853, arriving in Sacramento in March; he
received his education in the common schools of Kentucky and California,
finishing in the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar in California
in January, 1861; served as City Attorney of Austin, Nevada, in 1864; as a
Judge of the District Court and as Judge of the Supreme Court of that State
during the years from 1864 to 1881; in 1888 he was elected Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the State of California, reelected in 1890, and again
reelected in 1902.
Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court.
FRANK M. ANGELLOTI (Republican) was born at San Rafael,
California, in 1861, and educated in the public school of this State and in
Hastings College of the Law at San Francisco; he was admitted to practice law
in 1882, and took up his profession in San Rafael; was elected District
Attorney of Marin County in 1885 and served for three terms; elected Judge of
the Superior Court of Marin County in 1890 and served two terms; elected
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court November 4, 1902.
LUCIEN SHAW (Republican) was born near Vevay, Indiana,
March 1, 1845; was educate din the common schools and at Indianapolis Law
College and admitted to practice law in Indiana in 1869; came to California in
1883 and engaged in the practice of the law at Fresno County; removed to Los
Angeles in 1886 and was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles
County in March 1889; elected for the full term in 1890 and reelected in 1896;
elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, November 4, 1902.
FREDERICK W. HENSHAW (Republican) was born in Illinois, May
24, 1858; he arrived in California in 1873 and graduated from the University of
California...
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...in
1879; was admitted to practice law in 1880; served as Justice of the Peace in
the city of Oakland, and was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda
County in 1890; resigned December 8, 1894; elected Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court in 1894 and reelected November 6, 1906.
WILLIAM G. LORIGAN (Republican) was born at Melbourne,
Australia, February 12, 1855; came to this State in 1860; was educated at Santa
Clara College, California, and at St. Vincent's College of Cape Girardeau,
Missouri; admitted to practice law in California; was elected Judge of the
Superior Court of Santa Clara County in 1890; reelected in 1896 and in 1902;
resigned as Superior Judge of Santa Clara County and was appointed Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court January 5, 1903, to fill unexpired term of Hon.
Jackson Temple, deceased; elected to full term, November 6, 1906.
M. C. SLOSS (Republican) was born at New York City,
February 28, 1869, but was brought to this State in 1872; he received his
education in the San Francisco public schools, in Belmont School, in Harvard
College, and in the Harvard Law School; returning to San Francisco he took up
his profession as a lawyer, and in 1900 was elected Judge of the Superior
Court; on February 1, 1906, he was appointed to take the place of Walter Van
Dyke, deceased, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; on November 6, 1906,
he was regularly elected for the remainder of the unexpired term of Justice Van
Dyke, ending January, 1911. On November 8, 1910, he was reelected for a full
term of twelve years from January, 1911.
HENRY ALEXANDER MELVIN (Republican) was born at
Springfield, Illinois, September 28, 1865. He came to California in 1875, and
in 1889 graduated from the University of California with the degree of Bachelor
of Philosophy; in 1892 he graduated from the Hastings College of the Law with
the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His home is at Oakland, and he has served as
Justice of the Peace of Brooklyn Township, Deputy District Attorney General of
California. In 1901 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the superior bench of
Alameda County, and in 1902 was elected for the full term of six years
beginning January, 1903, but resigned to accept an appointment, on September
28, 1908, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to take the place of T. B.
McFarland, deceased, until the next general election. On November 3, 1908, he
was elected to fill the unexpired term of Justice McFarland, ending January,
1911. On November 8, 1910, was reelected for the full term of twelve years from
January, 1911.
FIRST
APPELLATE DISTRICT
Presiding
Justice.
THOMAS JOSEPH LENNON (Republican) was born in Marysville,
California, February 25, 1866; educated in public school of Marysville and at
St. Mary's College, Oakland. Admitted to the bar in 1888. Elected Superior
Judge of Marin County in 1902; reelected 1908. Elected Presiding Justice,
Appellate Court, First District, November 8, 1910.
Associate
Justices, First Appellate District.
SAMUEL PIKE HALL (Republican) was born in Monterey County,
California, March 3, 1854, and received a common and high school education; he
then studied law, and took up the practice of that profession in Oakland;
served as Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County from 1878 to 1882, when he
was elected District Attorney, to which position he was reelected in 1884 and
again in 1886; he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County in
1896, and reelected in 1902; in April, 1905, he was appointed Associate Justice
of the District Court of Appeal, for the First District, elected to the same
position, November 6, 1906, and allotted the twelve-year term.
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FRANK HENRY KERRIGAN (Republican) was born at Green Valley,
Contra Costa County, California, September 17, 1867, and educated in the public
school; he became a lawyer, with residence in San Francisco; in November, 1893,
he was elected Justice of the Peace for that City and County, and reelected in
1895 and 1897; in 1899 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for an
unexpired term, elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal,
First District, November 6, 1906, and allotted the eight-year term.
SECOND
APPELLATE DISTRICT
Presiding
Justice.
MATTHEW THOMPSON ALLEN (Republican) was born at Greenville,
Ohio, September 17, 1848; he was educated in the common schools of his native
State, with a partial course at Otterbein University; in February, 1887, he
came to California, and took up the practice of his profession of attorney at
law in Los Angeles; for a time he served as United States Attorney for the
Southern District of California; he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for
Los Angeles County in November, 1896, and reelected in November, 1902; on April
10, 1905, he was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal,
Second District; elected Presiding Justice for the Second District, November 6,
1906, and allotted the eight-year term. At this election he was the nominee of
the Republican and Democratic parties.
Associate
Justices, Second Appellate District.
WILLIAM PARRY JAMES (Republican) was born near Buffalo, New
York, January 10, 1870; was brought to California by his parents when three
years of age and has resided in Los Angeles County every since; studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1894; appointed to fill a vacancy on the superior
bench of Los Angeles County in April, 1905. In the fall of 1906 was elected to
same position for term of six years. In July, 1910, was appointed to fill the
vacancy on the bench of the District Court of Appeal for the Second District,
to take the place of James W. Taggart, deceased. At the November election of
the same year was elected to serve the unexpired term of Justice Taggart, that
term being for eight years.
VICTOR E. SHAW (Republican) was born in Pettis County,
Missouri, December 15, 1857; he received his education in the common schools of
Missouri and Oregon, in Willamette University at Salem, Oregon, and Ann Arbor
Law School, Michigan; came to California in March, 1888, and practiced law in
San Diego, which was his home when elected November 6, 1906, as Associate
Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Second District, and allotted the
four-year term. At the election November, 1910, was elected to succeed himself for
the full term of twelve years.
THIRD
APPELLATE DISTRICT
Presiding
Justice.
NORTON PARKER CHIPMAN (Republican) was born at Milford,
Union County, Ohio, of New England parentage, his father and mother being
natives of Vermont. The family soon afterwards moved to Iowa and resided
variously at Keosauqua, Mount Pleasant, and Washington, in that State. He
attended school at these places, receiving most of his education at Howe's
Academy in Mount Pleasant and at Washington College. He commenced studying law
at the latter place, but graduated at the Cincinnati Law School, entering
practice just before the Civil War, at Washington, Iowa. At the call of
President Lincoln, in 1861, he enlisted in the Second Iowa Infantry, the first
three-year regiment from that State; was made...
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lieutenant of Company H; appointed by Col. Samuel R. Curtis regimental
adjutant; elected by the officers as major to fill the vacancy caused by the
promotion of Colonel Curtis to the rank of brigadier-general; was detailed to
serve as chief of the latter's staff; returned to his regiment and took part in
Grant's campaign on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers; was severely wounded
in a charge of his regiment upon the Confederate works at Fort Donelson; was
back at his post at the siege of Corinth, where he received promotion as
colonel and additional aid-de-camp in the regular army on the staff of
Major-General Halleck, and was assigned to duty with his old commander, Curtis,
now major-general, commanding the Department of Arkansas, and was made his
chief of staff; was sent to Washington, D. C., on special duty, his services
while there attracting the attention of Secretary of War Stanton, who refused
his earnest request to be returned to field duty, and he served in the War
Department to the close of the war; he successfully performed some important
and hazardous special service as bearer of dispatches to commanders in the
field, by the personal detail of President Lincoln, and came near capture by
"Mosby's Guerrillas" on one of these occasions and on another by the
retreating army of General Early; as judge-advocate he tried and convicted the
Andersonville Prison jailer, Henry Wirz, who was hanged in "Old Capitol
Prison" for his atrocious cruelties to prisoners of war; he also tried
many other important military commission cases as judge-advocate; was brevetted
brigadier-general of volunteers at the close of the war, and resigned to enter
the practice of law at Washington, D. C., in November, 1865; when the District
of Columbia was given a territorial form of government he was appointed
Secretary of the District by President Grant in 1870, but resigned and was
elected Delegate to Congress, where he served two terms (1871-1875) and was the
only representative ever given the district in Congress. In 1868 and 1869 he
was adjutant general of the Grand Army of the Republic on the staff of its
commander-in-chief, General John A. Logan, and was largely instrumental in
effecting a reorganization, on a sound and enduring basis, of that remarkable
society of Civil War veterans; it was while adjutant general in 1868 that he
wrote the memorable order creating Memorial Day. He came to California to
reside in 1876, since which time he has been prominently connected with the
industrial, political, and social welfare of the State. No man has written more
or with better effect or given more of his time and energies to advertise to
the world the attractions of California. For a number of years he was the
president of the California State board of Trade, and to him is due the credit
of promulgating the dictim that "the climate of California is the State's
most valuable asset." In April, 1897, he was appointed by the Supreme
Court as one of the five commissioners of that court, and served in that
capacity until appointed by the five commissioners of that court, and served in
that capacity until appointed by Governor Pardee in 1905 as Presiding Justice
of the District Court of Appeal, for the Third District; he was regularly
elected to that office in November, 1906, and allotted the twelve-year term.
Associate
Justices, Third Appellate District.
ALBERT G. BURNETT (Republican) was born in the State of
Oregon, April 9, 1856, but when two years of age he came with his parents to
California. He received a collegiate education and for a number of years he
taught in the public schools of Sonoma County. While teaching he took up the
study of the law and he was admitted to the bar in January, 1887. In 1888 he
was elected District Attorney of Sonoma County and reelected in 1890. In 1896
he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of that county and reelected in
1902. On November 6, 1996, he was elected Associate Justice of the District
Court of Appeal, Third District, and allotted the four-year term; and at the
general election held November 8, 1910, he was reelected for the full term of
twelve years.
ELIJAH CARSON HART (Republican) was born in an emigrant
wagon en route to California, on the banks of the Carson River, in the State of
Nevada, on September 9, 1857; he received a common school education, and
learned the printer's trade, ...
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occupation he followed for a time, and later engaged in various branches of newspaper
work, as reporter, editor, and publisher; he then studied law under the
direction of his brother, A. L. Hart, Attorney General (now deceased), and was
admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1885; in the spring of 1886 he
was elected City Attorney of Sacramento (the city elections then being held in
March); in the fall of 1888 he was elected Member of the Assembly from what was
then the Nineteenth District, in Sacramento, in the spring of 1890 he was again
elected City Attorney, and reelected to the same office in 1892; in November,
1892, he was elected State Senator, serving through the thirtieth and
thirty-first sessions of the Legislature; in 1896 he was elected Judge of the
Superior Court for Sacramento County, and reelected in 1902; elected Associate
Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, November 6, 1906, as
the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties, and allotted the
eight-year term.
UNITED
STATES SENATORS
GEORGE CLEMENT PERKINS (Republican), of Oakland, was born
at Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1839; was reared on a farm, and attended public
school until his thirteenth year, when he shipped on board a sailing ship for
New Orleans, and followed the calling of a sailor on ships engaged in the
European trade. In 1855 he shipped "before the mast" on the sailing
ship Galatea, bound for San Francisco, where he arrived in the autumn of that
year. Since that time he has been engaged in mercantile business, banking,
farming, mining, whale fishery, and steamship transportation. He has been
president of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco; also of the San
Francisco Art Association; is a director of the California Academy of Sciences
and other public institutions. He has also been grand master of the grand
lodge, F. A. A. M. of California; also grand commander of the grand commandery
of the Knights Templar, State of California; he is also a member of the
California commandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion. In 1869 he was
elected to the State Senate, serving eight years; in 1879 he was elected
Governor of California, serving until January, 1883; was appointed, July 24,
1893, United States Senator to fill, until the election of his successor, a
vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Leland Stanford, and took his seat August
8, 1893. In January, 1895, having made a thorough canvass before the people of
his State, he was elected by the Legislature on the first ballot to fill the
unexpired term. In the fall election of 1896 he was a candidate before the
people of California for reelection, and received the endorsement of the
Republican county conventions that comprised a majority of the senatorial and
assembly districts in the State. When the Legislature convened in joint
convention (January, 1897) for the purpose of electing a United States Senator,
he was reelected on the first ballot. In January, 1903, he was again reelected
on the first ballot for the term of six years, receiving every vote of the
Republican members of the Legislature. His election was made unanimous on
motion of a Democratic member of the Legislature. Again, in 1909, he was
reelected on the first ballot for another term of six years, receiving every Republican vote except two,
and at the same time receiving Democratic support. At the time of his election
in 1897, 1903, and 1909 he was absent from the State attending to his
Congressional duties in Washington. His term of service will expire March 3,
1915.
JOHN DOWNEY WORKS (Republican) was born in Ohio County,
Indiana, March 20, 1847; was reared on a farm until sixteen and a half years of
age; when he enlisted in the army of the Civil War, serving eighteen months and
until the close of the war; was educated in the common schools on Indiana; was
married to Alice Banta, November 8, 1868, and has six children; is a lawyer and
practiced his profession for fifteen years at Vevay, Indiana; in 1883 removed
to California; served one term as a member of the Legislature of Indiana in
1879; was Judge of the Superior Court of San Diego County, California, and a
Justice of the Supreme Court of this State; was for a short time in 1910 a
member of the City Council of the City of Los Angeles, California, and its
president; has been a member of the American Bar Association...
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more than twenty years; in 1911 was elected United States Senator for
California by the Legislature of this State, on the first ballot, receiving
ninety-two votes out of one hundred and twenty. His term expires March 4, 1917.
REPRESENTATIVES
IN CONGRESS
First
District
Counties:
Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Del Norte, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lassen, Mariposa,
Modoc, Mono, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Nevada, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity,
and Tuolumne (19 counties). Population (1910) 184,274
JOHN E. BAKER (Democrat) of Alturas, Modoc County, was born
on a farm near Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois, February 22, 1863. Soon after
his parents moved to Sedalia, Missouri, and remaining there but a short time,
removed to Knoxville. In 1873 moved with his parents to Lassen County,
California; worked on the ranch and farm and attended the public school,
working his own way; attended the grammar school at Susanville, and the State
Normal School at San Jose, California, 1882-1884. In the spring of 1885 entered
the law office of Judge E. V. Spencer of Susanville, where he studied law and
was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1885; was his party's candidate for
District Attorney of Lassen County in 1886. December 6, 1886, moved to Alturas,
where he has resided every since, engaging in the practice of the law. In 1894
was elected District Attorney of Modoc County, which office he held four years,
1895-1898; at the general election in 1898 was the Democratic nominee for State
Senator. Elected Judge of the Superior Court of California in and for the
county of Modoc in 1902 and reelected in 1908, which position he resigned
December 19, 1910. Admitted to the Supreme Court of Oregon, the United States
Circuit and District Courts of California, United States Court of Appeals, and
the Supreme Court of the United States; was elected to the Sixty-second
Congress against W. F. Englebright (Republican), W. H. Morgan (Socialist), and
C. H. Essex (Prohibitionist).
Second
District
Counties:
Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Sacramento, Sonoma, Sutter,
Yolo, and Yuba (12 counties). Population (1910) 263,070
WILLIAM KENT (Republican) was born in Chicago, Illinois,
March 29, 1864. He came to California with his parents in October, 1871, and
had his residence in Marin County from that date until 1887. He was a resident
of Chicago from 1887 to 1907. He graduated from Yale in 1887 with a degree
B.A., and received an honorary degree, M.A., from Yale in 1908. While in
Chicago he served as Alderman from 1895 to 1897 and was president of the
Municipal Voters' League from 1900 to 1901. He returned to California to reside
permanently in 1907. In 1910 he sought the Republican nomination for Congress
from the Second District at the Republican primaries and was successful, and at
the general election in November he was elected over his Democratic opponent.
Third
District
Counties:
Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano (3 counties). Population (1910) 305,364
JOHN RUSSELL KNOWLAND (Republican), of Alameda, was born in
the city of Alameda, California, August 5, 1873; was educated in public and
private school and in the University of the Pacific; is associated with his
father, Joseph Knowland, in the wholesale lumber and shipping business; in
1898, at the age of 25, was elected to the Assembly of the California State
Legislature; was reelected in 1900; in 1902 was elected to the State Senate,
resigning in 1904, after serving one session, having in the mean time received
the Republican nomination for Congress; was elected to...
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Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses, and reelected
to the Sixty-second by a plurality of 27,238 over a Socialist opponent. No
Democratic candidate filed a petition for a place on the Democratic ticket at
the direct primary on the part ballot, and as he received a majority vote was
declared to be, under the California direct primary law, the nominee of the
Democratic as well as the Republican party.
Fourth
District
City
of San Francisco; Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first,
Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forth-third, Forty Fourth, and Forty-fifth
Assembly Districts. Population (1910), 153,404
JULIUS KAHN (Republican) was born at Kuppenheim, Grand
Duchy of Baden, Germany, February 28, 1861; in 1866 he was brought to
California by his parents, and received his education in the public schools of
San Francisco; after leaving school he followed the theatrical profession for
ten years, playing with many well-known stars; in 1890 he returned to San
Francisco and took up the study of the law; in 1892 he was elected Member of
the Assembly from San Francisco; in January, 1894, he was admitted to practice
as a lawyer; in 1898 he was elected Representative in Congress for the Fourth
District, and reelected in 1900; in 1904 he was again elected to Congress, and
reelected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor
parties; again reelected November 3, 1908, and November 8, 1910, was again
elected.
Fifth
District
Counties:
San Mateo, Santa Clara, and the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth,
Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth
Assembly Districts of San Francisco. Population (1910), 372,632
EVERIS ANSON HAYES (Republican) was born at Waterloo,
Wisconsin, March 10, 1855, and educated in the public schools; upon graduating
from the Waterloo High Schools he entered the University of Wisconsin at
Madison in 1873, and graduated from both the literary and law departments of
that institution, receiving the degree of B.L. and LL.B.; he engaged in the
practice of law at Madison for four years, and at Ashland for three years;
about that time he became interested in iron mines at Ironwood, Michigan, and
at Hurley, Wisconsin, and since then has not been actively engaged in his
profession, but has devoted his time to the management of his various
properties; while residing in Madison he was City Alderman for two years, and
for one year he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Gogebic County,
Michigan; in 1887 he removed to Santa Clara County, California, where he
engaged in fruit raising, and together with his brother is publisher and
proprietor of the San Jose Daily Morning Mercury and the Evening Herald;
elected Representative in Congress for the Fifth District, November 8, 1904,
reelected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor
parties; again reelected November 3, 1908, and also November 8, 1910; at the
last election, he received 33,265 votes to 15,345 votes for Thomas E. Hayden
(Democrat), 7,052 for E. L. Reguin (Socialist), and 357 for T. E. Caton
(Prohibitionist).
Sixth
District
Counties:
Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz,
and Stanislaus (9 counties). Population (1910) 246,983
JAMES CARSON NEEDHAM (Republican), of Modesto, was born
September 17, 1864, in Carson City, Nevada, in an emigrant wagon, his parents
being at the time en route across the plains to California; educated in the
public schools of California, the San Jose High School, the University of the
Pacific at San Jose, and the law department of the University of Michigan;
began the practice of law in November, 1889, at Modesto, where he has ever
since resided; in 1890 was nominated by the Republican...
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party for State Senator, but, the district being overwhelmingly Democratic, was
defeated; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth,
Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses, and reelected to the
Sixty-second Congress.
Seventh
District
County
of Los Angeles. Population (1910) 504,131
WILLIAM DENNISON STEPHENS (Republican) of Los Angeles, son
of Martin F. and Alvira (Leibee) Stephens, was born at Eaton, Preble County,
Ohio, December 26, 1859; was educated in the public schools; graduated from the
Eaton High School; taught country school three years, beginning at the age of
16; studied law during vacations, but never applied for admission to practice,
being obliged to earn immediate money. In 1880 joined engineering corps, and for
eight years was engaged in construction and operation of railroads in Ohio,
Indiana, Iowa, and Louisiana. On account of his mother's health moved to Los
Angeles, California, in 1887, and in 1888 became manager for large retail
grocery. From 1891 to 1902 was traveling salesman for wholesale grocery house
in Los Angeles; from 1902 to 1909 was partner in wholesale and retail grocery
business of Carr & Stephens. He was director of Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce, 1902 to 1911; president in 1907; and chairman or member of advisory
committee for the building of the Los Angeles aqueduct, costing $25,000,000, in
1910. Since 1903 has been major and commissary First Brigade, California
National Guard, and saw active service at San Francisco after its destruction; was
in San Francisco at the beginning of and during the earthquake and fire which
destroyed it in 1906; was elected to the Sixty-second Congress, receiving
36,435 votes to 13,340 for Lorin A. Handley (Democrat), 10,305 for T. W.
Williams (Socialist), and 1,990 for C. V. La Fontaine (Prohibitionist).
Eighth
District
Counties:
Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis
Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare, and Ventura (11 counties). Population (1910)
346,691
SYLVESTER CLARK SMITH (Republican), of Bakersfield, was
born on a farm near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, August 26, 1858; was educated in the
district school and at Howe's Academy, Mount Pleasant; moved to California in
the fall of 1879; farmed and taught school in Colusa County, and in 1883 went
to Kern County to teach; while teaching he was studying law, and in 1885 was
admitted to practice and located at Bakersfield, California, where he still
resides. In 1886 a number of farmers bought a newspaper plant with which to
establish a paper to represent their views on a question of water right, which
was then engrossing their attention, and Mr. Smith was employed to edit the
paper--the Kern County Echo; three years later he bought the paper and
continued to edit it till 1897, when he returned to his law practice; is still
the principal owner of the paper, now a morning daily, and does occasional
editorial writing for it. He was elected to the State Senate in 1894 and again
in 1898, serving eight years; was elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and
Sixty-first Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-second Congress, receiving
28,202 votes, to 18,958 for W. E. Irving (Democrat).
RAILROAD
COMMISSIONERS
JOHN MORTON ESHLEMAN (Republican) was born at Villa Ridge,
Illinois, June 14, 1876, and came to California March 2, 1896. He worked in a
railroad camp of the Southern Pacific Company, during which time he studied to
prepare himself for admission to the University, entering the University of California
in 1898. In 1902 he took his A.B. with highest honors and in 1903 the degree of
Master of Arts. He was admitted to the bar and appointed Deputy State Labor
Commissioner under...
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Governor Pardee and Commissioner W. V. Stafford. He represented the
Fifty-second District (Berkeley) in the thirty-seventh session of the
Legislature. He was appointed, under District Attorney (now Superior Judge)
Everett J. Brown, Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County, but was compelled
by his health to remove to the Imperial Valley. On the formation of Imperial
County, August, 1907, Mr. Eshleman was elected its first District Attorney,
serving out his term. In November, 1910, he was elected Railroad Commissioner
from the Third District and chosen as president of the Commission in January,
1911.
ALEXANDER GORDON (Republican) was born in Hants County,
Nova Scotia, October 16, 1846. He received a common school education and was
brought up on a farm. In 1869 he moved to California, settling in San Joaquin
County, where he engaged in the sheep raising industry. In 1875 he moved to
Fresno and began the growing of raisins on a large scale. Since 1901 he has
made his residence in Sacramento, where he became a director and the
vice-president of the Sacramento Bank. From 1903 to 1907 he served as member of
auditing board to Commission of Public Works. From 1907 to 1911 he served as
member of Consulting River Board, Department of Engineering. Elected member of
Railroad Commission November 8, 1910, from the First District.
HARVEY D. LOVELAND (Republican) was born in new York in
1853 and received his education in the schools of that State. For nine years he
taught school in New York and Kansas, to which latter State he moved in 1876,
where he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1881, but after practicing for
a few years engaged in mercantile affairs, to which he has since given his
attention. He became a resident of San Francisco in 1887. For several years he
was connected with two of the largest mercantile institutions on the coast. He
has always taken a lively interest in public affairs; was for six years
President of the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association; has also
recently retired from the presidency of the Transmississippi Commercial
Congress. As traffic director and later as president of the Pacific Coast
Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association, he assisted in accumulating the
evidence and prosecuting the suits before the Interstate Commerce Commission in
defense of the jobbing interests of the coast in what are known as the St.
Louis Case, the State Toll Case, the Spokane Case, and others. He is
vice-president of the International Mercantile and Bond Company, and president
of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Securities Company. Mr. Loveland is also
prominent in Masonic circles and is Past Grand Commander of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar of California. He was a member of Governor
Pardee's staff and Paymaster General of Governor Gillett's staff, with the rank
of Colonel. He was appointed Railroad Commissioner for the Second District by
Governor J. N. Gillett November 23, 1907, to succeed Andrew M. Wilson,
resigned.
EDWIN O. EDGERTON (Republican) was born in Yreka, California,
January 8, 1876; educated in the common schools and University of Southern
California; admitted to the bar in 1898; practiced law eleven years in Los
Angeles, California; became secretary of Municipal League March, 1909;
appointed member of the State Railroad Commission March 13, 1912.
MAX THELEN (Republican) was born in Nebraska, 1880; came to
San Diego County, California, in 1888. Graduated from National City, San Diego
County, public schools and high school; worked five years on ranch, entered
University of California August, 1900; graduated May, 1904; Harvard Law School,
1904 to 1906; in office of Olney & Olney, attorneys-at-law, San Francisco,
November, 1906, to May 1907; assistant attorney and then attorney for Western
Pacific Railway Company from May 1907, to April, 1911; attorney for California
State Railroad Commission April, 1911, to date; appointed member of Railroad
Commission March 13, 1912; first secretary and organizer of Berkeley
Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican Club; vice-president of City Club of Berkeley;
member of Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, University of California Club,
and American Society of International Law; lecturer on International Law,
University of California; joint author with John M. Eshleman of public
utilities act.
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STATE
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
RICHARD E. COLLINS (Republican) was born in the town of
Weaverville, Trinity County, California, March 28, 1873, and educated in the
public schools of that section; he is a miner by occupation, with residence at
Redding, Shasta County; in 1902 he was elected Assessor of Shasta County, and
elected Member of the State Board of Equalization for the Third District,
November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties; was
reelected to the same office in 1910 as the nominee of the Republican and
Democratic parties.
JEFF McELVAINE (Republican) was born in San Bernardino,
California, July 27, 1862, and educated in the public schools of his native
city; his business is that of real estate broker; for four years he held the
appointment of Deputy County Tax Collector, and was Chief Deputy County
Assessor for twelve years, in 1900 he was elected City Assessor, and was
elected County Assessor in 1902; elected Member of the State Board of
Equalization for the Fourth District, November 6, 1906, and reelected to the
same office November 8, 1910.
JOHN MITCHELL (Republican) was born at St. Andrews, Canada,
January 1, 1863, and was elected in the public schools of New Hampshire, and in
Chester Academy, in the same State; he came to California and located in San
Francisco, but later removed to Oakland, Alameda County, where he has since
resided; in November, 1896, he was elected member of the Board of Supervisors
of Alameda County, reelected to the same office in 1900, and again elected in
1904, serving eight years as chairman of that board; in November, 1910, he was
elected member of the State Board of Equalization for the Second District.
EDWARD MAXIMILIAN ROLKIN (Republican) was born in Russia,
October 12, 1850, and educated in a private school; came to the United States
in 1868; sought fortune as a miner in Utah, Montana, Nevada, and California,
and finally located in San Francisco in 1884, since which time he has been
engaged in the hotel business. Elected member of the State Board of
Equalization for the First District, November 8, 1910, as the nominee of the
Republican party.
A.
B. NYE (Republican), State Controller and ex officio member of State Board of
Equalization. (See page 446 for bio)
THE
ADJUTANT GENERAL
EDWIN ALEXANDER FORBES (Republican) was born in Sierra
County, California, July 20, 1860. In 1867 moved to the Oregon House Valley,
Yuba County, where he was reared on a farm. Attended the common schools until
eighteen years of age, when he received a certificate to teach. Taught school
until 1881. Entered the Law Department, University of California, in August,
1881. Graduated in May, 1884. Was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of
the State of California in June, 1884. Elected District Attorney of Yuba County
in 1884, which office he held for four terms, until 1892. Admitted to practice
in the Federal courts of the United States. Became interested in dredge mining,
electric railroading and land enterprises to such an extent that he retired
from the practice of law in 1905 and thereafter devoted his time to private
business. General Forbes always had a strong inclination for military matters.
He enlisted as a private of the National Guard of California on May 20, 1881,
and has served on and off until the present time, having passed up through the
various grades of official rank in different military organizations of the
State until he attained the rank of brigadier general. At the commencement of
the Spanish-American war General Forbes was Lieutenant Colonel of the Second
Regiment of Infantry, National Guard of California, and volunteered his
services to the Governor of California for that war. He was commissioned as
Major in the Eighth California Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, and served until the
muster out of his regiment in 1899. In the year 1910, accompanied ...
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by his family, he made a tour of the world and studied the military systems of
the old world. Upon his return from this tour, General Forbes was appointed The
Adjutant General of the State of California by Governor Hiram W. Johnson.
SUPERINTENDENT
OF BANKS
WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS (Republican) was born at Gold Hill,
Nevada, November 6, 1870; he came to Fresno County, California, in 1879, where
he attended the public schools; was in the drug business for a time, and then
became an accountant; served as Deputy County Clerk of Fresno County for the
four years 1895-1898; from 1898 to 1907 was associated with "The
California Raisin Growers' Association." Elected State Treasurer November
6, 1906; reelected November 8, 1910. Resigned office February 20, 1911, and on
same day appointed Superintendent of Banks.
COMMISSIONER
OF BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
GEORGE S. WALKER (Republican) was born in Santa Rosa,
California, September 21, 1874, and educated in the public schools of this
State; he made his home in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, engaged for a time in
the newspaper printing business, and then became assistant postmaster at San
Jose. He is a journalist by profession; in November of 1900 he was elected
Member of the Assembly from Santa Clara County, and reelected in 1902; elected
State Senator from the Twenty-seventh District, November 6, 1906, to fill out
the unexpired term of Eli Wright, expelled from the Senate; on November 3,
1908, he was reelected for the full term. Appointed Commissioner of Building
and Loan Associations April 10, 1911.
SUPERINTENDENT
OF CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
GEORGE G. RADCLIFF (Republican) was born in Grass Valley,
Nevada County, February 6, 1868, where he received a common school education;
moved to Watsonville, California, in June, 1882, and became an apprentice in
his brother's printing office; since 1902 has been one of the two proprietors
of the Watsonville Evening Pajaronian, and most of that period editor of said
newspaper; was Clerk and Assessor of the city of Watsonville 1890-92; was
Assemblyman from Santa Cruz County in the California legislative sessions of
1899, 1900, and 1901; was postmaster of Watsonville from May 1, 1902, to
September 1, 1906; was appointed on April 6, 1911, Superintendent of Capitol
Building and Grounds.
STATE
BOARD OF CONTROL
JOHN FRANCIS NEYLAN (Republican) was born in New York City;
engaged in the newspaper profession in San Francisco for several years. Was
appointed to the Board of Control June 2, 1911.
CLYDE LEROY SEAVEY (Republican) was born in Lee County,
Illinois. Came to California in 1890. Assistant Secretary State Board of
Examiners from 1903 to 1911.
W. P. HUMPHREY (Republican) was born in Charles City, Iowa,
in 1862. He was educated in the public schools of Iowa and at the University of
Iowa. Is an attorney at law. Appointed member of Boar of Control by Governor
Johnson August 28, 1912.
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STATE
FORESTER
G. MORRIS HOMANS (Republican) was born in North Vassalboro,
Maine, December 23, 1881. He received his early education in the public schools
in Boston, Mass., and later attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Yale Summer School of Forestry, special courses at Arnold Arboretum, and the
Biltmore Forest School, Biltmore, North Carolina, from which school he graduated
in 1904, receiving the degree of B.F. He then entered the United States Forest
Service and held various administrative positions, among which was Assistant
Forest Inspector of Oregon, Washington and Alaska, finally attaining the rank
of Assistant District Forester in 1908 in charge of the office of Silviculture,
with headquarters at San Francisco. He resigned from the Forest Service in
March, 1910, to accept the appointment of State Forester of California.
PANAMA-PACIFIC
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION COMMISSION
MATT I. SULLIVAN was born in Grass Valley, in Nevada
County, California, November 3, 1857. His parents were Michael M. and Margaret
Sullivan, California pioneers who came to this State in the spring of 1852.
With them he moved to San Francisco at the age of about four years. He attended
St. Ignatius College and graduated from that institution in 1876, receiving the
degrees of A.B. and LL.D., and was admitted to the bar at San Francisco in
November, 1879. He was one of the supervisors appointed by Mayor Taylor in
July, 1897, to succeed indicted members of the Schmitz administration. In
February, 1911, he was appointed by Governor Hiram W. Johnson a member of the
Panama Pacific International Exposition Commission of the State of California
and was elected its president. In September, 1912, he was chosen dean of the
law college of St. Ignatius University.
MARSHALL STIMSON (Republican) was born in Cambridge, Mass.,
May 21, 1876, and has resided in Los Angeles, Cal., since 1887. He was educated
at Los Angeles High School, Harvard University, and Harvard Law School.
Director Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1908-1910; Executive Committee
Municipal League, 1906-1911; President Good Government Organization, 1910;
Chairman Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League, 1910; Chairman Seventh District
Republican Congressional Committee; delegate National Republican Convention,
1912; member State Republican Executive Committee; member California Club,
Union League Club, University Club, City Club, and Los Angeles Country Club.
CHESTER H. ROWELL (Republican)
was born in Bloomington, Ill., November 1, 1867, son of Jonathan H. and Maria
S. (Woods) Rowell; educated in Bloomington public schools, Illinois State
Normal University, University of Michigan and Universities of Halle and Berlin,
Germany. Clerk to Committee on Elections, U. S. House of Representatives, in
51st Congress; taught in high school and academies and in the University of
Illinois; since 1898 has been editor and manager of the Fresno Republican; is a
member of the National Advisory Board of the Associated Press and a Director of
the California Leased Wire Circuit, Associated Press; was President of the
Lincoln-Roosevelt League and is a member of the Republican State Committee.
ARTHUR ARLETT was born in Oakland, California, May 13,
1875. Went to public school there until ten years old. Entered the university
of labor and hard knocks at that age. Learned the trade of bricklayer and has
been continuously engaged in building construction. Was married in Anaconda,
Mont., in 1898. Has two daughters and a son. Resides at Berkeley. Has been a
director of the Berkeley Y.M.C.A. for ten years and is a member of the State Executive
Committee of the Y.M.C.A. Is extensively engaged in general contracting and
building around San Francisco Bay and in Oregon. Was appointed by Governor
Hiram W. Johnson as a member of the Panama-Pacific Internation Exposition
Commission of the State of California August 21, 1912, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of R. Cameron Rogers of Santa Barbara.
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CONSERVATION
COMMISSION
GEORGE C. PARDEE (Republican) was born at San Francisco,
July 25, 1857. Attended public schools, City College, San Francisco; McClure's
California Military Academy, College School, High School, Oakland; graduated
from University of California, Ph.B., 1879, M.A., 1883; studied medicine
Medical College of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1881-82; graduated University of
Leipzig, Germany, M.D., 1885. Member of Oakland Board of Health, 1889-91;
member of Oakland City Council, 1891-93; Mayor of Oakland, 1893-95; Regent of
University of California, 1889-1903; Governor of California, 1903-07; member National
Conservation Commission, 1907-08. President, two terms, National Irrigation
Congress. Director for California of the National Conservation Congress and
Trans-Mississippi Congress. Chairman Conservation Commission, State of
California, since 1911.
FRANCIS CUTTLE (Republican) was born in Montreal, Canada,
in 1864. Came to California in 1881. Was first engaged in the care of orange
orchards; in 1888 became superintendent of the Riverside Water Company and has
acted as its superintendent and president until the present time. Was one of
the organizers of the Tri-Counties Reforestation Committee and has been its
chairman since its organization, six years ago. Is also president of the Water
Conservation Association. This organization as been instrumental in conserving
storm waters of the Santa Ana River for the benefit of the irrigators of San
Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange counties. Was appointed a member of the State
Conservation Commission by Governor Johnson in May, 1911.
J. P. BAUMGARTNER (Republican)is a native of Missouri, born
at Columbia, in that State. He is self educated. Came to California in 1887 and
has ever since been engaged in the newspaper business in southern California,
as part proprietor of the Riverside Press, and sole owner of the Pasadena Star,
Long Beach Press, and Santa Ana Register, the latter of which he now owns and
edits. He was appointed a member of the Conservation Commission of the State of
California by Governor Johnson in August, 1911.
HIGHWAY
COMMISSION ADVISORY BOARD
NEWELL DYKE DARLINGTON (Republican) was born January 4,
1874, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Attended school at West Chester,
Pennsylvania, and afterward studied civil engineering at Lafayette College,
Easton, Pennsylvania. Moved to Los Angeles in 1894, where he has practiced his
profession up to the present time. Was appointed a member of the Board of
Public Utilities of the city of Los Angeles in 1911 by Mayor Alexander, which
position he resigned in June of the same year. Appointed member of the Advisory
Board of the Department of Engineering, August 1, 1911.
CHARLES DUCHESNE BLANEY (Progressive Republican) was born
in Chicago. Attended Princeton University, then in business in Chicago until
1882, when he came to California. Invested in California real estate. Retired
from active business in 1901. Appointed member of California Highway Commission
in 1911. Never held office before. Resides near Saratoga, Santa Clara County,
California.
BURTON A. TOWNE (Republican) was born in St. Paul,
Minnesota, September 24, 1874, and attended the public schools and university
of that State. After leaving the university he was in the employ of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company at Sacramento in the machinery, drafting and
testing departments. Since then, he has been engaged in viticulture near Lodi,
and during the year 1909, 1910 and 1911 he was a member of the San Joaquin
County Highway Commission, which position he resigned to take a membership in
the Department of Engineering of the State of California, as one of the three
appointed members of that board.
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HIGHWAY
ENGINEER
AUSTIN B. FLETCHER (Republican) was born at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and educated in the public schools of that city and at Harvard
University, where he received the degree of B.S. in 1893; during the years 1893
to 1910 he was the executive officer of the Massachusetts Highway Commission,
and after 1902 was its Chief Engineering Officer. During this period, the
Commission built nearly 800 miles of state highways. In January, 1910, assumed
the position of secretary-engineer of the San Diego County (California) Highway
Commission and had full charge, under the direction of the Commission, of the
main public highway work in that county until August, 1911. In 1907 he was
appointed to be a special agent of the Office of Public Roads of the United
States Department of Agriculture. In 1908 he served as a delegate from
Massachusetts at the First International Road Congress at Paris. He has been a
member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers since 1894 and of the American
Society of Civil Engineers since June, 1909. For fourteen years he was the
secretary of the Massachusetts Highway Association, and is now an honorary
member of that organization; he has recently been chosen as a director of the
American Road Builders' Association.
COMMISSIONER
OF HORTICULTURE
A. J. COOK (Republican) was born at Owosso, Michigan, in
1842; educated in public schools until 1858, working vacations on his father's
farm. Entered Michigan Agricultural College in 1858, from which he received the
degree of B.S. in 1862, M.S. in 1865, and D.Sc. in 1905. Studied at Harvard
1867 and 1868. At Cornell in 1878 and 1879. Instructor in mathematics in
Michigan Agricultural College two years. Professor of Zoology and Entomology
from 1868 to 1893. Entomologist in Michigan Experiment Station 1888-91.
Agricultural extension work, Michigan Agricultural College, 1875 to 1893.
Curator General Museum 1875 to 1893. Professor of Biology, Pomona College,
Claremont, and Curator Museum, 1894-1911. Conductor Agricultural extension
work, University of California, 1894 to 1905. First to make kerosene emulsion
(1877), and to demonstrate and advocate the use of the arsenites as a specific
against the codling moth in 1880. Author: Beekeeper's Guide, Injurious Insects
of Michigan, The Silo and Silage, Maple Sugar and the Sugar Bush, Birds of
Michigan; sponsor for Pomona College Journals of Entomology and Botany, and of
Laguna Laboratory Report; appointed State Commissioner of Horticulture of
California in 1911.
INDUSTRIAL
ACCIDENT BOARD
ARTHUR JUDSON PILLSBURY (Republican) was born in New
Hampshire, January 31, 1854; emigrated with his parents in October of the same
year to the then territory of Kansas, to which the father removed with the
purpose of aiding in making Kansas a free state. Mr. Pillsbury grew to manhood
in Kansas, was educated in the common schools, studied law and was admitted to
the bar, but practiced newspaper work instead; married and came to California
in 1881; since then has been identified with several newspapers; was secretary
of the State Board of Examiners under the administration of Governor Pardee;
appointed a member of the Industrial Accident Board, and, upon the organization
of said board, was elected its chairman.
WILLIS I. MORRISON (Republican) was born at New Orleans,
Louisiana, February 16, 1881. Father was an officer in the United State Army
and early life was spent in military posts in various parts of the United
States; graduated from Princeton university in 1902 with degree of A.B. and
from Harvard Law School in 1905 with the degree of LL.B. Moved to California
from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1904. Admitted to the bar August 28, 1905, and
since that time has been practicing law in Los Angeles, California, while
residing in Pasadena. Appointed...
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as a member of the Industrial Accident Board for a term of two years from
September 1, 1911.
WILL J. FRENCH (Republican) was born at Auckland, New
Zealand, August 13, 1871; he received a public school education, and is a
printer and journalist, with residence at Oakland, Alameda County; is a former
editor of the San Francisco Labor Clarion, and a past president of the San
Francisco Labor Council and the Typographical Union, No. 21, of San Francisco.
STATE
MINERALOGIST
WILLIAM H. STORMS, who was appointed State Mineralogist by
Governor Johnson on November 25, 1911, was born in New Jersey, April 17, 1859.
In June, 1878, at the age of 19, he went to the Black Hills of South Dakota,
and lived in that region for nearly nine years. It was there he gained his
early mining experience. He came to California in January, 1887, and has been a
resident of this State ever since. On October 1, 1892, he was appointed field
assistant to William Irelan, Jr., then State Mineralogist, and continued
through the term of J. J. Crawford, who succeeded Mr. Irelan as State
Mineralogist. In 1900 he received a special appointment from Governor Henry T.
Gage to make a study of the mines of the Mother Lode in California. The result
of that work was issued by the State Mining Bureau as Bulletin No. 18. Mr.
Storms has had the management of several large mines in California at various
times, and has a wide knowledge of the mineral resources of the State. He was
also editor of the mining and Scientific Press for over five years, has
contributed largely to the technical mining papers of the United States, and is
well known throughout the mining regions of the west.
PANAMA-CALIFORNIA
EXPOSITION COMMISSION
GEORGE W. MARSTON, of San Diego, was born in Fort Atkinson,
Wisconsin, on October 22, 1850. In 1870 he went to San Diego, California, and
there, in 1873, he started a drygoods business, which has grown with the city
until now it is the oldest and one of the largest in southern California. Mr.
Marston is president of the board of trustees of Pomona College, and has been a
member of the board for twenty-five years. He holds the vice-presidency of the
American Civic Association and is president of the San Diego Civic Association;
has been twice president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and was chairman
for five years of the railroad committee that promoted the San Diego and
Arizona railroad, which was later sold to John D. Spreckels. Mr. Marston was
first chairman of the Park Board and is now a member of the buildings and
grounds committee of the San Diego 1915 Exposition.
THOMAS O'HALLARAN, of San Diego, was born at La Grange,
Missouri, in 1857. He moved to St. Louis in 1880, entering the mural decorative
business. He continued in this business in various parts of the country, moving
about in search of health, and living in Columbus, Ohio, Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, and Denver, Colorado. In 1901 he moved to San Diego, California,
where he has since been in the real estate business. He is state inheritance
tax appraiser in San Diego County, and member of the buildings and grounds
committee of the San Diego Exposition.
RUSSELL C. ALLEN, of San Diego, was born in Boston on
January 27, 1859. He lived in Cambridge for some time, graduating from Harvard
in 1880, then attended Columbia Law School, and was in a law office in Wall
Street, New York, until 1882, when he decided that he wanted to live an outdoor
life. He went to San Diego, California, and bought a fruit ranch in Sweetwater
Valley, several miles from the city. He is now chairman of the Buildings and
Grounds Committee of the San Diego Exposition.
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STATE
ENGINEER
WILBUR F. McCLURE was born in Ohio in December, 1856, and
lived there until the fall of 1860, when he went to Pennsylvania, where he
resided until the spring of 1879. He was in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Indian
Territory, Texas, and New Mexico from 1879 to 1883, and then came to
California, where he has since resided. The period of his life in Pennsylvania
was spent in school, at work and in teaching in the public schools. One year in
Missouri was spent in teaching. The following three years were spent in
railroad surveys and construction. The time in California has been spent in
railroad, marine, municipal and general engineering practice. He was appointed
to his present position by Governor Johnson January 236, 1912.
STATE
WATER COMMISSION
S. C. GRAHAM (Republican) was born in Armstrong County,
Pennsylvania, in 1862. Common school education. Worked in the eastern oil
fields (Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Kentucky). Came to California in
1888. Lived in Ventura County, California from 1888 to 1898, and has lived in
Los Angeles from 1898 to the present time. Engaged in the production of oil, or
in work connected with the production of oil, in California for twenty-three
years. Actively identified with the non-partisan movement and the good
government organization in the city and county of Los Angeles for several
years. Served one short term as member of the Board of Police Commissioners in
Los Angeles City. Appointed member of the State Board of Control (Water Power)
by Governor Johnson, April 24, 1911.
CHARLES DAVID MARX (Republican) was born at Toledo, Ohio,
October 10, 1857; educated in the public schools of Toledo, Cornell University,
and Karlsruhe (Germany) Polytechnic. Practicing civil engineer since 1881 and
professor of civil engineering since 1884; Cornell University 1884-1890;
University of Wisconsin 1890-1891; Stanford University 1891 to date. School
trustee and town trustee of Palo Alto for a number of terms. At present member
of Board of Public Works of Palo Alto.
HAROLD THOMAS POWER (Republican) was born at Damascus,
Placer County, California, February 7, 1857; he was educated in the public
schools of his native State, taking a commercial course in the Pacific Business
College, San Francisco, afterward (1875-1880) associated with the Union Iron
Works. From 1887 to 1910 was superintendent of Hidden Treasure and May Flower
Gravel Mining companies, and Morning Star Mining Company, all of Placer County.
Representative in the California Legislature, thirty-second session.
Presidential Elector 1900. Trustee of California State Mining Bureau 1903-10.
President Board of Trustees 1908-10.
INSURANCE
COMMISSIONER
E. C. COOPER (Republican) was born in Eureka, California,
on October 6, 1868. In 1891 he graduated from the Hastings College of Law and
commenced the practice of his profession in his home city. He was District
Attorney of Humboldt County from 1889 to 1903, and was City Attorney of Eureka
from 1903 to 1907. He was private secretary to Governor Gillett from 1907 until
1910, receiving his appointment as Insurance Commissioner on June 15th of that
year.
LABOR
COMMISSIONER
JOHN P. McLAUGHLIN (Republican and Union Labor) was born in
San Francisco, June 19, 1873, and educated in the public schools of that city.
He served as a member of the Board of Health in 1908-09; was elected a member
of the Board of Supervisors, 1910-11, and resigned March 1, 1911, to accept the
position of Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, under Governor
Hiram W. Johnson.
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STATE
LIBRARIAN
JAMES LOUIS GILLIS (Republican) was born at Richmond, Washington
County, Iowa, October 3, 1857, the son of Charles and Emily Eliza (Gelatt)
Gillis. He received his education in the public schools of Sacramento,
California, and began as messenger with the Sacramento Valley Railroad Company
in 1872; on December 25, 1881, he married Kate Petree, of Sacramento. He
retired from the railway service as assistant superintendent in 1894; was
keeper of archives, Secretary of State's office, from 1895 to 1899; clerk
Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, sessions of 1895, 1897 and 1899; State
Librarian of California since April 1, 1899; president Sacramento Oil Company;
vice-president Acme Development Company; president California Library
Association from 1906 to 1909, and from 1910 to date; member American Library
Association, National Association State Libraries, American Association of Law
Libraries; member Sutter Club, Sacramento.
FISH
AND GAME COMMISSION
CARL WESTERFIELD was born at San Francisco on December 11,
1869, and attended the public schools of that city. He entered Yale College and
was graduated in 1893; entered Hastings College of Law, and graduated in 1896;
admitted to practice law in 1896. Appointed Fish and Game Commissioner November
28, 1911.
MICHAEL J. CONNELL, was born in Ireland, where he received
his early education. Arrived in Boston in 1875, where he remained for two
years. He came west to Utah, remaining there but a short time before going to
Montana, where he resided in Deer Lodge. He soon became engaged in several
enterprises in different parts of Montana, establishing large industrial
plants. He came to California in 1901, and resides in Los Angeles. Appointed
Fish and Game Commissioner June 17, 1908.
FRANK MILLARD NEWBERT was born in Sacramento County on
March 4, 1872. He is a graduate of the Sacramento Grammar School and Professor
Atkinson's Business College. He has been associated with the Kimball Upson
Company since 1895. He gained his knowledge of the wishes of the huntsman and
angler through his connection with one of the largest sporting goods houses in
the West. Mr. Newbert comes of a family of sportsmen. He is one of the best
combination field and trap shots in America today, and is authority on all
outdoor sports.
BOARD
OF STATE HARBOR COMMISSIONERS
JOHN JOSEPH DWYER was born in San Francisco, California,
November 2, 1861, and has resided in that city every since. He was educated in
the public schools, was graduated from the University of California in 1882
with a degree of A.B., and from Hastings College of Law in 1885 with a degree
of LL.B.; has practiced law in San Francisco since 1885; appointed member of
the Board of State Harbor Commissioners on March 17, 1911, and elected President
of the Board July 25, 1911. He is a retired lieutenant-colonel of the National
Guard of California.
THOMAS S. WILLIAMS, appointed Harbor Commissioner on July
26, 1911, was born in London, England, in 1856. His parents arrived in New York
City in 1859, and he attended the public school there. Since 1877 he has been
in California, and after a business career of twenty-five years as a merchant
tailor, he retired in 1902, and has taken an active interest in politics ever
since.
JOHN H. McCALLUM, appointed a member of the Board of State
Harbor Commissioners on July 30, 1912, was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1870. He
has resided in San Francisco during the last twenty-two years, and has been
engaged in the lumber business as vice-president of J. W. Schouten & Co.
for the last twenty years.
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