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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01149 0643
Men Who Made SAN FRANCISCO
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Henry E. Bothin
H ENRY ERNEST BOTHIN is one of the energetic and progressive capitalists who have never lost faith in San Fran- cisco's possibilities and who are today see- ing that faith justified. In the fire of 1906 Mr. Bothin was a very heavy loser, seven- ty-nine buildings belonging to him being de- stroyed. Forty-two of them have been rebuilt. Mr. Bothin is president of the Judson Manufac- turing Company, and is also head of the Bothin Realty Company. He was born in Ohio in 1853. Politically he is a Republican.
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F. B. Lloyd
F. B. LLOYD is president of the Pacific Surety Company and has for several years been engaged in the insurance business in San Francisco with unusual success. His father, Frederick B. Lloyd, was English by birth, and his mother, Jane Lloyd, was Irish. Mr. Lloyd was born in New Zealand in 1873. His offices ale in the First National Bank Building and he handles some of the largest insurance policies in the city.
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Arthur G. Nason
A RTHUR GRAHAM NASON, presi- dent of the Arthur G. Nason Company, whose father, Henry Nason, was president of the New York Grain Exchange, was born in New York in 1858.
In 1880 he entered the cattle business in West Texas, and in 1885 moved to San Diego, where he married Ada Ward of San Saba, Texas, and moved to San Francisco in 1900 to take the man- agement of the Continental Fire Insurance Com- pany of New York.
He now represents that company, which made a wonderful record in the San Francisco confla- gration. Also he represents the Fidelity-Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of New York, and is general agent for the Pennsylvania Casualty Com- pany of Scranton, Pa.
Mr. Nason has held several public offices and for fifteen years has been president of the San Diego Humane Society.
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Joy B. Lichtenstein
J OY B. LICHTENSTEIN, general agent of the American Bonding Company of Baltimore, was born in San Francisco October 14th, 1874.
He was educated in the San Francisco Public Schools, and the University of California, from which institution he graduated in 1901.
From 1894 up till the time of the great fire of 1906 he was assistant librarian of the San Fran- cisco public library. He is the author of "For the Blue and Gold," a tale of life at the University ot California, and various bibliographical works. At present he writes only bonds.
He is a popular citizen, and well known in literary circles.
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Milton A. Nathan
M ILTON A. NATHAN was born on Washington's Birthday, February 22. 1879, at Colusa, California, and moved to San Francisco when a lad. He graduated from the old Lincoln school at Fifth and Market streets, San Francisco, then the Boys' High School, and was attending Hasting's College of the law when the Spanish-Amer- ican war broke out. Filled with patriotism he dropped his Blackstone for his Springfield and enlisted in the First Regiment of California Vol- unteers at Mckinley's first call, serving through- out the Spanish war and in the Philippine insur- rection. He was successively company trumpeter, corporal and sergeant. He was wounded before Manila, August 13th, 1898, and was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor.
Upon being mustered out of the service at theclose of the war he resumed his legal studies and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of California on September 14th, 1900, and before the Supreme Court of the United States, at Washington, October 24th, 1904, on motion of the Attorney-General.
Mr. Nathan is prominent in many fraternal organizations, notably the Masons, the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Foresters of America, the Knights of Pythias, the National Union, the Knights of the Maccabees, the United Spanish War Veterans, the I. O. B. B., and the Or- der of the Eastern Star.
He is engaged in the general practice of the law with offices in the Chronicle Building.
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Fernando Nelson
IT IS the boast of Fernando Nelson that he has built more houses in San Francisco than any other individual or any corporation in the city.
If all the houses built by him were placed side by side they would stretch as far as from the Ferry building to the Presidio.
Fernando Nelson was born in New York City, February 4, 1860. He is the owner and builder of one of the finest as well as one of the most picturesque residences to be found in this part of the country.
This residence is located in Presidio Terrace, San Francisco, and combines attractive architec- tural features gathered from all over the world.
Mr. Nelson is president of the Board of Trus- tees of the Richmond Masonic Temple Company. He is greatly interested in motoring, and is first president of the San Francisco Motor Club.
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G. A. Dubois
G 1 UY A. DUBOIS is a San Franciscan whose name stands high in business circles. He is president of the Byron Jack- son Iron Works, the oldest and largest pump manufactory in the West. Two hundred men are employed by this concern, which has its factory in West Berkeley and its main office at 357 Market street, San Francisco.
Mr. Dubois bought out Byron Jackson shortly after the fire in 1906. He re-equipped the fac- tory, and since then has built the multi-stage pump installed in the fireboats Scannell and Sullivan. This pump has a development of 1,800 horse- power, 700-foot head, and 1,800 revolutions. It is regarded as one of the finest pieces of mechan- ism of its kind ever built.
Mr. Dubois was born in New York in 1868. He belongs to the old Dubois family, dating back to pre-Revolutionary times in New York.
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Joseph Vincent de Laveaga
J OSEPH VINCENT DE LAVEAGA, son of Miguel and Marie Le Briton de Laveaga, was born in San Francisco, October 12, 1879.
He graduated from the University of California in 1900, and the Hastings Law College in 1902. He is one of the rising lawyers of San Francisco, and has built up a large practice among the best class of business and professional men.
He is a bon vivant, and popular with all classes. He believes in good government and is always on the side of clean citizenship.
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W. S. Davis
W INFIELD SCOTT DAVIS of the insurance firm of J. B. F. Davis & Son is a native of San Francisco. His father, the founder of the firm, sailed from Bos- ton for San Francisco in 1849, making the trip around Cape Horn. He was a carpenter and engaged in the rebuilding of the city after the fires of 1850-51. He was also a member of the Vigilance Committee of that period, and during the War of the Rebellion was chief deputy under Internal Revenue Collector Caleb T. Clay. He began in the insurance business in 1865, and his son, W. S. Davis, took up the same work in 1880. W. S. Davis is also president of the Pa- cific Fire Extinguisher Co. He was married in 1885 to Miss Clara M. Boole, daughter of Wm. A. Boole, a prominent shipbuilder. He has two children, a daughter who is the wife of Ken- neth MacDonald, the architect, and a son, who is attending a preparatory school in Tarrytown, New York. Mr. Davis is a member of the Pa- cific Union and Bohemian Clubs and the San Francisco Art Association.
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George A. Dow
G EORGE A. DOW, of the Geo. E. I Dow Pumping Engine Co., is very popu- lar among the business men of the Pacific Coast.
He was born in San Francisco, April 17th, 1874, and succeeded his father, Geo. E. Dow, as the head of the firm of that name. The Geo. E. Dow Co. is one of the largest manufacturers of pumping machinery in this country.
Mr. Dow takes very little interest in politics, being a man of business almost exclusively. He is president of the George E. Dow Estate Co., and interested in several other business firms in addition to the pumping machinery concern.
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Philip T. Clay
P HILIP TUGGLE CLAY, vice-president of the firm of Sherman, Clay & Co., music dealers, is one native son who can boast of a long line of American ancestors. His great-grandfather was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary army, and his grandfather, true to his military heritage, was a captain in the War of 1812. Mr. Clay was born in San Francisco in 1878. He graduated from the University of California in 1901, and three years later was married to Miss Edna Barry, two chil- dren, a boy and a girl, having been born to them. Mr. Clay has been prominent in the ac- tivities of the younger element of San Francisco's business life. He was chairman of the famous Portola Festival Committee of 1909, and is a director of the Panama-Pacific International Ex- position Company.
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William F. Culberson
K EEN business and executive ability, as well as the growth of the automobile industry, are responsible for the prominence in San Fran- cisco commercial circles of William Franklin Culberson, Pacific Coast representative of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company of Buffalo, New York, and secretary and general manager of the Pierce-Arrow Sales Co. of San Fran- cisco. Mr. Culberson was born in Pittsburg, Pa., February 2, 1868, his parents being Sam- uel J. and Elizabeth E. Culberson. He has always been connected with mercantile business.
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William Cluff
W TILLIAM CLUFF. president of the William Cluff Company, wholesale grocers, is regarded as one of the most sub- stantial of San Francisco business men. Mr. Cluff is of Scotch and Welsh descent, but was born in the North of Ireland in 1856. He has been in San Francisco for many years and founded the business which now bears his name. Mr. Cluff has taken a deal of interest in politics, and in 1896 was a delegate to the St. Louis Republican Convention that gave President Mckinley his first nomination. He has four daughters, three of whom are married to promi- nent business men, the other being single. Mr. Cluff's business is one of the largest in its line on the coast, maintaining a branch in Oakland as well as branches in other important cities.
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Howard A. Broughton
H OWARD ANTHONY BROUGH- TON, prominent among California law- yers, was born at Santa Cruz in 1863. He comes from early Puritan and early Quaker stock. Among his relatives are Susan B. Anthony, George T. Anthony, former governor of Kansas, and D. R. Anthony, pioneer editor of the Leavenworth Times and famed as an abolitionist. His parents were pioneers of the early 'fifties in California, his father being a news- paper editor in this state for many years.
Mr. Broughton graduated from the Hastings College of Law in 1888 and was admitted to practice the same year. He was located at Po- mona, Cal., for fifteen years, and in 1900 was elected from his district to the State Assembly. In the Assembly he fathered the "Broughton Law," under which all franchises are sold in the municipalities of California. In 1904 he was elected to the State Senate. Having become in- terested in several mining enterprises, he moved to San Francisco in 1905, and now has offices in the Shreve building. He is president and director of several mining and oil companies, notably the Purissima Hills Oil Company of the Santa Maria field. He is a Republican politically, is a Past Exalted Ruler of the Pomona Elks, and is un- married.
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Daniel M. Burns
D ANIEL M. BURNS, once a recog- nized leader in the politics of Califor- nia, is now engaged extensively in mining and farming. He was born in Ripley. Tipah County, Mississippi, in August, 1845, his parents, William and Caroline Griffin Burns, both being natives of Tennessee. His early American ancestors were Colonial Virginians, his grandfather having moved to Tennessee in 1806. Mr. Burns is a Republican and served one term as Secretary of State. His wife was formerly Miss Amelia M. Schindler, and they have one child, a daughter thirty years of age.
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John T. Burns
J OHN T. BURNS, Superintendent of Public Buildings for the City of San Francisco, was born in England, April 12, 1865. He was educated in the common schools and apprenticed to the carpenter's trade at the age of 14 years, serving seven years at his apprenticeship. When he was 21 years old he came to the United States, locating first in Sandusky, Ohio. Then in succession he lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Denver, Colo- rado, coming to San Francisco in 1892. He was employed by the city as a carpenter in 1897 and had charge of fire department building repairs after 1900 until July, 1910, when he was ap- pointed to his present position.
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E. P. Brinegar
E DGAR PRESTON BRINEGAR is one of the pioneer automobile dealers of San Francisco, having entered the busi- ness in 1900. Prior to coming to San Francisco, he was for eight years in Boston in the passenger traffic department of the Rock Island Railroad Company. At the present time Mr. Brinegar is president and owner of the Pio- neer Automobile Company of San Francisco. He is also a director and stockholder of the Chalmers Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan, and one of the promoters of the company.
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Boutwell Dunlap
B OUTWELL DUNLAP was born in Sacramento, Cal., in 1877. His father. William Dunlap, and maternal grand-uncle, Stephen A. Boutwell, were territorial pio- ncers, owning a 42,000-acre ranch in the Sacramento valley. He is of the Dunlap family of the South, of whom were Gen- eral George Rogers Clark of the Revolution and President Sam Houston of Texas.
Mr. Dunlap is a lawyer. He is a graduate of the University of California, and a post-grad- uate in law and diplomacy of the Catholic Uni- versity of America at Washington. He has been Pacific Consular representative of Argentina. be- ginning with 1909. In 1904 he was nominated for Congress in the First District, but declined. He is the author of several historical and economic studies, and has written much upon the breeding of racehorses, being an authority. He is a mem- ber of a number of clubs and learned societies, and is Honorary Historian of the Sacramento So- ciety of California Pioneers.
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Oliver Ellsworth
T HAS been said that California numbers among her lawyers more really brilliant men than any other State in the Union.
However this may be, none will deny that Oli- ver Ellsworth is one of the most brilliant men in his profession.
He was born at Mission San Jose, Alameda Co., California, April 7, 1867. He graduated from the University of California in 1888 with the degree of A. B .; and in 1893 from the Hast- ings Law College, where was conferred upon him the degree of L. L. B.
In Oakland in 1907 he was elected Councilor at Large on the Republican ticket, and has since been re-elected to that office. Mr. Ellsworth se- cured the largest vote of the entire eleven council- men elected on both occasions.
He is a shrewd business man, being president of a number of oil companies and director in two large loan associations.
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Louis Ferrari
L OUIS FERRARI was born in San Francisco in the year 1877 and was educated in the local public schools. He prepared for college in the Lowell High School and in 1897 entered Stanford Uni- versity as a law student and graduated in 1901. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and immediately began to practice law in San Fran- cisco.
In 1903 he was appointed assistant in the District Attorney's office under Lewis F. Bying- ton. In 1909 he was appointed as special prose- cutor in health matters by William H. Langdon and took charge of the prosecution of all criminal cases arising from Dr. Blue's plague fight and in the enforcement of the pure food laws.
Mr. Ferrari is a member of the Olympic Club, the Young Men's Institute and the Native Sons.
He was married on October 12, 1910, to Miss Alice Crowe of this city.
At present he is engaged in the practice of law, with offices in the Mechanics Savings Bank building.
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William P. Hubbard
W TILLIAM P. HUBBARD has been associated in the practice of law in California with some of the most celebrated legal lights of the State.
He was born at Clinton, North Carolina, in 1872, and came to California in 1895.
He received his education at the Universities of Alabama and North Carolina. He first com- menced the practice of law in California in Fresno.
He was associated with Judge George E. Church for a time at Fresno, after which he formed partnership with M. B. Harris of Fresno, which continued till 1900.
He has been associated in San Francisco with Chas. E. Naylor and C. F. Humphrey. He took part in Democratic politics while in Fresno, but now confines himself to the practice of law ex- clusively. He is a director of the Southern Club, trustee of Sons of the American Revolution and a member of the San Francisco Bar Association.
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Nathan H. Frank
N ATHAN H. FRANK was born in San Francisco, June 3, 1858. He graduated from the University of California in 1877 and the Columbia Law College in 1879.
He commenced the practice of law in San Francisco in 1879 in association with Whea- ton & Scrivner, remaining two years. In 1881 he became associated with Milton Andros, and shortly thereafter became his partner, this partnership continuing till 1900.
Nathan H. Frank is now associated with his oldest son, Irving H. Frank. His practice has been more generally in the Federal Courts, though he is engaged in general practice. All his time is devoted to his profession and his family.
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Frederic Winslow Hall
T THERE are many clever corporation attor- neys to be found in the State of Cali- fornia, but none are better known than Frederic Winslow Hall, whose offices are in the Crocker building, San Francisco.
Mr. Hall was born at Gorham, Maine, March 20, 1860. His ancestors were among the ear- liest New England settlers, and were prominent in colonial affairs.
In politics Mr. Hall is a Republican. He is an officer in many corporations and is ex-president of the Bohemian Club.
He graduated in 1880 from Bowdoin Col- lege, and in 1889 married Miss Maud E. Noyes of Washington, D. C.
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William F. Hofmann
W ILLIAM F. HOFMANN has been popular as an orchestra leader and violinist in San Francisco since 1904. He was born on August 12, 1870, of Ger- man parentage, and was educated in music fiom childhood. During his career he was for several years concert-meister with Walter Damrosch. He was also solo violinist and con- cert-meister with Madame Melba on her trans- continental tour, and acted in the same capacity with Madame Sembrich. He was also leader of the Hofmann String Quartette and Philhar- monic Club of New York City, and for three years was head of the violin and orchestra de- partment of the School of Music, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Tirey L. Ford
T IREY L. FORD was born in Mis- souri in 1857, and came to Califor- nia in 1877. He entered the law offices of Colonel Park Henshaw at Chico, passed his examinations and was admitted to the bar. He was elected District Attorney of Sierra County in 1888; in 1892 went to the Legisla- ture from the Third Senatorial District, consist- ing of Plumas, Sierra and Nevada Counties, and was thereafter appointed attorney for the State Board of Harbor Commissioners, which office he held until elected Attorney General of the State in 1898. In 1902 he resigned the office of Attorney General in order to become general counsel for United Railroads of San Francisco, which position he has since held.
He was appointed a member of the State Board of Prison Directors in 1905, and is now the president of the board. He has been re- peatedly elected a member of the Board of Trus- tees of the Mechanics Institute of San Francisco.
He is a member of the Pacific Union, Bohe- mian, Commonwealth, Press, Transportation, Merchants, Amaurot and Southern Clubs, and 's a Knight Templar.
His favorite diversion is golf.
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William Henry Avery
A MONG the prominent steamship men of San Francisco stands William Henry Avery. Born in New York City January 26, 1859, his attention was early called to the mysteries of the briny deep. Graduating from the New York High School at the age of sixteen, Mr. Avery began his career on the sea and for sixteen years served in nearly every capacity on board sailing and steam vessels. Today he holds the import- ant position of Assistant General Manager of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Steamship Company.
Mr. Avery is also a home man, having on February 14, 1891, married Jessie Ashley Law- rence.
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Irving Johnstone Morse
RVING J. MORSE, manager of the San Francisco branch of the Loco- mobile Company of America, is one of the prominent men of "automobile row" in this city. He is a pioneer of the auto- mobile industry, having previously held the position of manager of the Philadelphia branch and superintendent of the London branch of the company he now represents in this city. Mr. Morse was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1870, coming from an old family descended from the early English stock of Connecticut. Mr. Morse was married on October 9, 1906, to Miss Fran- ces Elthea Browning of Wellsville, New York.
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Richard Watts Barrett
W HILE in college Mr. Richard W. Bar- rett was one of the most popular young men among the whole student body of Stanford University, from which he graduated in 1904.
He was elected treasurer of the Associated Students, and in this office had entire charge of the financing and arranging of practically all of the student affairs.
He was born at Edwards, Miss., and previous to entering Stanford spent three years at the Agri- cultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi.
He is at present filling the office of Warrant and Bond Clerk for the City and County of San Francisco.
He is a man of keen business ability and un- questioned integrity, and one of those individuals For whom the future can hold nothing but suc- cess.
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Frank H. Johnson
W HEN the history of aviation is written in that day to come when the aeroplane is as common as the automobile, the name of Col. Frank Hansford Johnson will be set down as one of its pioneers in the West. Colonel Johnson is the head of the Frank H. Johnson Mercantile Co., but writes down his profession as "aviator." He is agent for the Curtiss Aeroplane Co., and has the distinction of having owned the first auto- mobile ever in California and much more recently of having owned the first aeroplane here. He flew with Curtiss and Paulhan at the great aviation meet in Los Angeles in January, 1910. He has also made flights at Marysville, Chico, Stock- ton, Woodland, Salinas, Alameda, Hanford, Coalinga, Merced and San Jose. Colonel John- son is a Republican, and is lieutenant colonel on the staff of the Commander in Chief of the Cali- fornia National Guard. He is married and has one child. He is a native son, having been born in this city in 1885. He is a member of the Olympic and Pacific Aero Clubs.
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H. L. A. Bates
H L. A. BATES was born in Cuddalore, India, on October 20, 1860. He is a son of General Charles Edward Bates, Madras Staff Corps. Mr. Bates left India when very young, and was educated in Switzerland and England. As a young man he became a midship- man in the English Mercantile Marine, having been educated for such on the school frigate "Conway," at Liverpool, and on graduation was commissioned a midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve.
Mr. Bates came to the United States in 1880 and resided in Minneapolis, Minn., and Billings, Mont., before coming to San Francisco, in 1889. He has been continuously engaged in fire insur- ance since 1881, and is the general agent of The Shawnee Fire Insurance Company of Topeka, Kan., for its Pacific department, comprising the territory west of the Rocky Mountains.
During Mr. Bates' residence in Montana he was City Treasurer of the city of Billings, and United States Commissioner. He is the father of five sons, and resides in Alameda. He was married in 1885 to Miss R. Helen Rixon, daugh- ter of John Rixon, Esq., of Ontario, Canada.
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L. & M. Alexander
B EGINNING at the very bottom of the ladder of business, Leo E. Alexander and Michael S. Alexander have become leaders among the typewriter dealers of the Pacific Coast. Leo began his career as a clerk and Michael as a shorthand reporter. They had very little capital when they first started their typewriter agency, but their progress into one of the sub- stantial firms of the city has been rapid. They originally introduced the Smith-Premier type- writer on the Pacific Coast, but are now agents fer the L. C. Smith machine. They now stand among the largest exclusive typewriter dealers in the United States, having branch offices at Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Spokane, in addition to their main office at 512 Market street, San Francisco.
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