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Arriving in California in 1849, via New Mexico and Arizona, he reached San Francisco in November, where he remained until May of the following year, when he pro- ceeded to Sonora, there settling and engaging in the prac- tice of his profession of the law. Captain Marshall at once took the prominent position to which his abilities en- titled him, and turning his attention to politics was elected to Congress in the year 1851. This office he filled with the most marked ability; returning at the end of his term to enter upon the practice of the law at Marysville. In 1856, Mr. Marshall became a candidate for the position of United States Senator, but not being successful in the can-
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vass he removed to Kentucky, and eschewing politics, devoted himself to legal pursuits. For twenty-one years he pursued his chosen calling with the greatest success, demonstrating upon occasion those rare oratorical abilities which have given him so much prominence. Even a slight allusion to each of those occasions when his voice has been eloquently raised at the bar, or in the presence of enlight- ened and applauding audiences, would consume more space than can here be spared. It is enough to say that even among the favored orators of his native State, there is no one who stands his superior in the art of convincing and logical oratory.
Proceeding with this brief epitome of the gentleman's brilliant career, we note his return to California in 1877, and his transference to the bar of San Francisco of those qualities which had made his previous fame. Since his return to this coast, he has taken high rank among the numerous gifted legal minds of that city, and has on many occasions asserted the supremacy of his ripe intelligence as attorney in some of the most important cases ever brought to trial in California. As counsel for the People in the Kalloch-DeYoung homicide and in the contest of the Mint Investigation, where Mr. Marshall acted as attorney for General La Grange, his merits show forth conspicuous.
So well have the peculiar merits of the gentleman been recognized, that he became the nominee of the Democratic party for the elevated and responsible office of Attorney General of the State of California, at the Convention held in San Jose in June, 1882.
Mr. Marshall's domestic relations have been singularly felicitous. Marrying, in November, 1852, Miss Josephine Chalfant, of Cincinnati, Ohio, a reigning belle of the West, his household now contains the wedded pair, together with three children: Louis, Fayette and Eleanor.
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JOHN B. BACON.
Mr. Bacon, who is now President of the Tuolumne Re- Union, was born in Warrington, Ohio, on the 7th of Sep- tember, 1836. In 1851, being then of the age of fifteen years, he removed with his parents to Terre Haute, Indiana, and after a residence of two years in that settlement came to California, landing in San Francisco in March of that year. For four years following he employed himself in min- ing, at the end of that time entering the service of Mr. O. L. Bemis, with whom he remained for ten years, acting also as Stage Agent for C. H. Sisson & Co., of Sonora.
Mr. Bacon married Mrs. Johanna Meagher, a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, the pair having three chil- dren: Dollie, Birdie, and George.
As remarked above, Mr. Bacon is President of the Tuol- umne Re-Union; and respecting this fact it may be well stated that that organization was founded in 1868, Mrs. Soderer, now of San Jose, and Mr. Dinsmore, of Oakland, being the originators. Its object is to give a picnic each year, whereat the present and former residents of the County of Tuolumne may gather for their mutual improvement and gratification. The plan of the founders has been faith- fully adhered to for thirteen successive years. The Society is organized by the choice of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Board of Trustees. Those of- fices were held as follows during the past year: J. J. Vas- concellos, President; J. B. Bacon, Vice-President; W. L. Cunningham, Secretary; and H. M. Rosekrans, Treasurer. The Board of Trustees was composed of Daniel Sewell, G. W. McPherson, J. B. Bacon, J. A. Sampson, C. E. Blake, James L. Homer and J. A. Benham.
The list of the past Presidents of the Association (four- teen in number) is as follows:
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Dr. W. P. Gibbons. .. 1869
Stephen Wing
1876
C. E. McCasker
1870
C. B. Rutherford
1877
J. M. Cavis
1871
H. M. Rosekrans
1878
W. G. Dinsmore
1872
C. E. Blake.
1879
Z. H. Cunningham
.1873
E. G. Jones
1880
L. P. McCarty
1874
Fred. Lux
1881
James L. Homer
1875
J. B. Bacon
1882
Through the kindness of Secretary Cunningham, the fol- lowing list of members is presented, together with the dates of their arrival in Tuolumne County :
Joseph Aldridge. 1853
J. P. Banman
1858
Joseph Armitage 1851
Chas. I. Burks
1856
Thomas Ainsley 1852
David B. Barclay
1877
Moses C. Andross 1860
Wm. H. Bruner
1851
B. F. Alley
1881
S. Blaisdell
1849
James Allen
1855
Jno. A. Brown.
1854
Oscar Allison
1850
John M. Buffington
1849
L. L. Alexander
1849
Z. H. Cunningham
1856
Florin Antoniowich
.1850
Thos. A. Cochrane
1850
W. T. Arnold
1870
Chas. H. Arnold
1870
Susan G. Chamberlain
1852
H. G. Austen
1849
Wm. H. Chamberlain.
1855
Chas. E. Blake
1850
John B. Bacon.
1853
John E. Cary
1849
William Cullinan
1852
David M. Baldwin
1858
O. P. Calloway
1850
Marie L. Baldwin
1858
Jos. M. Cavis.
1856
R. A. Cunningham
1856
P. B. Bacon.
1853
F. E. Chapin
1857
John A. Benham
1854
D. Cornel
1854
Wm. G. Dinsmore
1855
W. E. Dodge
1855
W. E. Dargie
1859
Wm. A. Davies.
1852
Henry Balch
1851
John Duffy
1850
Allen F. Bartlett
1851
Jas. H. Brooks.
1854
A. C. Bradford.
1849
Fred. Brown
1852
A. K. Benton
1850
James Craig
1850
David F. Baxter
1856
Chas. H. Chamberlain
1849
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John D. Bracy 1853
John B. Douglass 1853
Thomas Donnels 1850
George A. Hildreth
1850
Conrad Hildenbrand
1852
M. Dyer
1851
John R. Hicks 1851
John Dunn
1854
M. Drascovich
1855
Peter Dean
1849
Chas. F. Dodge
1849
William Dunphy
1849
T. G. Detlow
1855
Geo. W. Dent 1852
W. A. Duchow 1854
J. G. Divoll.
1862
J. H. Hurd
1855
Thomas C. Hogan
1852
D. W. Houlton
185I
Robert How.
1853
Charles E. Hatch
1851
George Hager
1849
Henry Harter
1851
W. N. Harris.
1850
J. M. Haskell
1856
Willard T. Fletcher
1853
William W. Fitzgerald
1852
John M. Faughnan
1849
John Ferral, Jr
1854
John Ferral, Sr.
1854
Jas. A .. Fuller
1850
O. P. Fitzgerald
1854
J. Folansbee
1854
W. P. Gamble
Geo. W. B. Green 1853
W. P. Gibbons
1856
Wm. F. Goldsmith
1851
Wm. B. Goodwin.
1853
Geo. Gros
1856
Robt. E. Gardner.
1849
Walter Gallagher
1858
D. V. Gelcich 1854
M. G. Gillet
1857
Edwin Grady
1855
John H. Grady. 1855
Charles E. Hunt 1862
James L. Homer
1849
Allen Heald.
1851
H. S. Hildreth
1851
George Hanna
1855
Frank O. Hancock,
1860
John K. Hunter
1853
William F. Hassell
1849
John Van Harlingen
1849
Mrs. C. W. Drury
1856
T. L. Darling
1852
C. L. Ellis
1856
G. S. Evans
1849
T. J. Evans
1860
Chas. H. Eaton
1853
Robert Ferral
1854
George H. H. Haskell
1856
Francis C. Haskell.
1857
Andrew J. Hatch
1852
P. J. Ipsen 1852
E. G. Jones 1856
E. O. Judd
1851
Antone Johanismann
1858
Sewell A. Knapp
1854
Louis Koster.
1849
Thomas Kent.
1850
Charles H. Klein
John T. Kelley
1858
H. H. Knight
1852
John E. Klein.
1855
Herbert O. Lang
.1880
Joel Libby ...
1851
A. B. Lawson
1855
Frederick Lux,
1846
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James A. Dyer 1854
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Thomas B. Lucas 1856
V. R. Raymond
1849
Morris Louisson
1854
Elizabeth Raymond
1854
Louis Levy
W. H. Rulofson
1850
Isaac Ripperdan.
1851
Frank A. Rutherford.
1854
E. G. Lyons
1852
Peter Lesher
1854
J. C. Rouse
1853
W. H. Love
1852
George Reed.
1851
Mrs. M. A. Riordan
1850
George Roddan
1852
John A. Roy
1854
George H. Rogers
1849
Charles M. Radcliff
1849
C. L. R. Malt
C. L. Metzger
1855
George HI. Morton
1852
A. D. Miesegaer
1853
L. P. McCarty
1861
E. W. Marsten
1852
W. L. Sears
1861
M. T. McPherson
J. T. Smith
1850
H. G. Mason
1849
George W. McPherson
Daniel Mullen
1858
E. W. Nottage
1849
Leonard W. Noyes
1852
Benjamin C. Northap.
1851
Charles B. Northap
1854
N. M. Orr
1856
A. W. Prevost.
1850
Henry Palmer
1849
Abner Pitts
.1849
Robert C. Patton
1852
J. Henry Peters
1851
M. W. Parsons
1852
Ed. Parsons
1856
L. Quint.
1850
P. B. Quinlan.
1857
C. B. Rutherford
1852
C. H. Randall
1851
H. M. Rosekrans
1852
Patrick Smith
1851
Henry Schuler
1859
Abraham Sharp
1855
James B. Stetson
1852
Peter H. Snyder.
1849
G. Sutkey
Mrs. N. Soderer
1858
N. Soderer
1849
J. A. Sampson.
1852
W. H. Smith
1849
C. C. P. Severance
1852
Charles W. Severance
1855
John Sedgwick
1850
George Schirra
1849
P. F. Scott
1854
F. Sellman
1850
Daniel Sewell
1859
Charles Schwilk
Gus Soderer
1859
Lyman C. Tibbits
1850
Thomas J. Mattison
C. E. McCusker
1856
W. P. Morehouse.
1852
Mrs. Margaret Mehen.
1850
R. A. Robinson
1853
J. W. Recard.
1849
A. C. Rulofson
1853
Theodore Reiser
1856
Charles L. Stone
1849
H. S. Stone
1852
John E. Magary
1850
C. B. McDonald
1855
Herman R. Lenz
1852
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Albert H. Tobey. 1860
J. J. White 1856
Gideon Thompson 1852
Peter R. Woodman 1852
Charles D. Turner
1865
Charles M. Weber 1841
Charles B. Turner
R. K. Weston 1855
James Taylor, Jr.
T. P. Wales 1853
Joseph J. Vasconcellos 1856
G. J. Van Vlack 1869
Charles S. Wright 1852
J. F. Wagner 1850
Allen Wildes
Stephen Wing. 1853
A. C. J. Wilson 1852
Isabella M. Wing
1856
T. M. Yancey 1850
Charles C. Wheeler
1857
W. Wyckoff 1852
JUDGE ROBERT FERRAL.
The Judge, the details of whose life are familiar to most of the former and present residents of Tuolumne and other sections of the coast, was born in Philadelphia on October 13, 1841. Coming to California a boy, in 1852, two years later he arrived in Tuolumne, in 1854. His active life began with the commencement of his labors in the printing office of the Sonoma Herald, edited at that time by J. J. O'Sullivan. After a few months he left that employment and entered the office of the Union Democrat, published by A. N. Francisco, and so acquired his trade of a practical printer. His connection with the last named paper ceased in 1862, the last two or three years having been devoted to editing it. In that year he went to Aurora, Nevada, and became editor of the Daily Times of that town, taking the place of E. D. Draper, who had been shot in a duel by Dr. W. E. Eichelroth. During his stay in Aurora, Mr. Ferral was admitted to practice law by the Hon. George Turner, Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court.
In the Fall of 1863 he removed to Montgomery, Mono County, and entered upon the publication of the Pioneer, and practiced law in addition to his cditorial duties. In
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the year 1865 he removed to San Francisco, and became editor of the Irish People newspaper. In 1866 he went to Sonoma Connty and edited the Sonoma Democrat, at Santa Rosa. In 1871 Mr. Ferral was chosen Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and shortly after the expiration of his term he proceeded to San Francisco and was appointed Assistant District Attorney, and afterwards nominated by acclama- tion District Attorney; but was defeated in a close contest.
Next chosen Secretary of the Senate, and again Chief Clerk of the Assembly, Mr. Ferral was finally appointed, by Governor Irwin, Judge of the City Criminal Court of San Francisco, and was afterwards elected by the people to the same office. This tribunal was abolished by the New Constitution. Judge Ferral was elected one of the Supe- rior Judges, which position he now fills.
Judge Ferral married in San Francisco some years ago, and is the father of a bright little five-year-old, who is al- ready widely known in the Western Addition, where the Judge resides, as " Bob Ferral," a name which will call up familiar recollections to many early residents of " Old Tuolumne."
JOHN F. BOLTS.
Mr. Bolts, who has seen much of life in Tuolumne, was born in Hanover, Germany, in April, 1838. Immigrating to America in 1853, he resided in New York city until the Summer of 1855, when he set out for California, reaching San Francisco in July of that year. Going to Tuolumne and entering first upon mining as a pursuit he worked suc- cessively at Sullivan's Creek (two months), Big Oak Flat, Kanaka Creek, which is between Jacksonville and Stevens' Bar, and at Spanish Flat (junction of Sonora and Wood's Creeks). In the Spring of 1858, the reports of rich strikes
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in the far North took him, with hundreds of others, to the banks of Fraser River, but, as did all others who could, he returned to California within half a year, and again located in Tuolumne, and entering into merctntile affairs, kept a store on Washington street, Sonora, between the "Long Tom" and Cabazet's Restaurant. His firm was known as Schultz & Co. In 1863, Mr. Bolts left Tuolumne and re- moved to Alpine County, where for a time he did business as a saloon keeper and butcher. In 1869 he set out on an eleven-months' tour around the world, which accomplish- ing he returned to Alpine, but shortly removed to San San Francisco, where he has remained since in business, at 907 Market street.
HON. STEPHEN WING.
This gentleman, a prominent resident of Columbia for eighteen years, but now an officer of the United States Mint in San Francisco, has kindly furnished the following details of his life:
Reared in Massachusetts, his birth occurring on February 16, 1823, Mr. Wing made the Cape Horn passage to Cali- fornia in the Winter of 1849-50, arriving in San Francisco in the Spring following. The Fall of 1853 found him in Tuolumne, where for a year he resided in Jamestown, en- gaging in the sale of tinware and stoves. Removing one year later to Columbia, he maintained a continuous resi- dence there until the year 1872. During these years he continued in the hardware traffic, with good success. During this prolonged residence Mr. Wing's qualities caused his election to several prominent positions of trust. Before 1860, while the town was still active and prosperous, its citizens chose the subject of this account Trustee of their interests, he becoming President of the Board. Dur-
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ing " War times " the gentleman's patriotic tendencies led to his choice as Captain of the military company known as the Columbia Home Guards, succeeding Captain A. E. Hooker. Still later, in 1868, Mr. Wing became State Sen- ator, which office he occupied for two terms.
After leaving Columbia, in 1873, his history has included a year spent in the service of the Government as Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue. In 1873 he commenced to reside in San Francisco, receiving at that time his appoint- ment as Transfer Clerk of the United States Mint, which office he has ever since held. He now resides with his wife, nee Miss Mabella Earley, at No. 23 Glen Park Avenue, San Francisco.
JOHN FERRAL.
John Ferral, father of Judge Robert Ferral, located in Sonora in 1854, and for a time kept the old " Young America " theater. He was an active, energetic man, an able writer, and a ready and powerful public speaker. Although never an office-holder, Mr. Ferral took a promi- nent part in many political campaigns, and during the Know-Nothing excitement met in hot discussion several of the ablest representatives of the American party. Mr. Ferral, senior, died in San Francisco, July 9, 1882, at the advanced age of 82 years. During the last ten years of his life he was an invalid.
ALBERT N. FRANCISCO
The subject of this sketch was a pioneer of " Old Tuol- umne," having arrived in the county in the latter part of '49 or early in '50. A more genial, pleasant and courteous gentleman, in all the relations of life, never came to Cali-
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fornia; and the memory of "Little Frank," as he was familiarly called, is cherished in grateful remembrance by his friends and acquaintances of other days. Mr. Fran- cisco was born in Ohio, but went to New Orleans when quite a young man, where he was for some years foreman of the Picayune newspaper, a leading journal of the Cres- cent City. On arriving in our State he settled on Brown's Flat, near Sonora, where for several years he followed the avocation of a miner. Oftentimes has the writer heard him speak in glowing terms of the beautiful appearance of the Flat, with its groves of towering trees, before it was torn up and washed away by mining operations. In 1854 Mr. Francisco began the publication of the Union Democrat, in Sonora, continuing the same to the date of his death, which occurred in 1867. He was widely known for his noble qualities of mind and heart, and will not soon be forgotten. He left a widow and one child, a boy, who bears his father's name.
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN).
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, generally known by his nom de plume, " Mark Twain," was born at Florida, Missouri, Nov. 3, 1835. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to a printer, and afterwards worked as such in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New York. In 1855 he went down the Mississippi to New Orleans. On his way down the river he made friends with the steamboat pilots, and was soon qualified to become himself a river pilot. In this employment he was often directed to "mark twain," that is, that there were two fathoms of water, and from this, he says, he took his nom de plume. In 1861 his brother was appointed Secretary for the Territory, now State, of Neva- da, and " Mark Twain" went with him as private secretary; then he went to the mines, where, according to his own ac-
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count, he made and lost several fortunes, and for several months acted as reporter for Californian newspapers, dur- ing which time he visited Tuolumne County. In 1864 he went to the Hawaiian Islands, where he remained six months, and thereafter delivered humorous lectures in California and Nevada. In 1867 he went to the Atlantic States, where he published " The Jumping Frog of Neva- da," a humorous sketch. In this year he embarked with a large number of other passengers on a pleasure excursion up the Mediterranean, to Egypt and the Holy Land. Of this excursion he gave a humorous account in "The Inno- cents Abroad" (1869). For a time he was editor of a daily newspaper, published in Buffalo, New York, where he mar- ried a lady possessed of a large fortune. In 1872 he pub- lished " Roughing It," a rather idealized autobiography. In 1872 he visited England, giving several humorous lec- tures, and a London publisher made a collection, in four volumes, of his humorous papers, adding, however, many which Mark Twain says were never written by him. In 1874 he produced in New York a comedy, "The Gilded Age," which had a remarkable success, owing mainly to the personation, by Mr. Raymond, of the leading character, " Colonel Mulberry Sellers." Since that time he has pro- duced several other dramas, and many humorous sketches in the magazines. He resides at Hartford, Connecticut.
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