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Colonel Hubbard is indebted to the public school system of Chicago for the educational privileges which he enjoyed in his youth. He attended school until the 25th of April, 1853, when he put aside his text-books in order to enter upon his business career, being at that time about fifteen years of age. He became connected with the telegraph service as messenger and while thus employed learned telegraphy, which he followed until 1855, and is a member of the old time Telegraphers and Historical Association. Through the succeeding five years he was engaged in commercial and trans- portation business, and in 1860 became connected with a local express com- pany as freight solicitor. He was afterward engaged in different capacities until 1865, and the close of the war found him in New Mexico as staff officer of the territorial troops there. In 1866 he came to California as quartermaster's cierk with the last detachment of the California Volun- teers to be mustered out.
After arriving in San Francisco Colonel Hubbard became connected with the warehouse business and was superintendent of a local express com- pany for a few years. Various business interests have claimed his attention, including a service of six years in the United States mint from 1880 until 1886. In 1893 he became a clerk in the dental department of the Univer- sity of California and occupied that position until 1901. In public affairs he has taken a very prominent and influential part, his labors extending to many lines of activity which have had direct bearing upon the improvement
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and progress of his city. In 1867 he became identified with St. Luke's Epis- copal church, was one of its lay founders and became its first clerk. For several succeeding years he was a member of the board of managers of the Young Men's Christian Association and served as its recording and corre- sponding secretary. In 1886 he was appointed deputy superintendent of streets, acting in that capacity for two years and from 1888 until 1890 he served as deputy county clerk. In 1876 he became one of the organizers of that patriotic body known as the "Sons of Revolutionary Sires," which subse- quently, in 1889. became the great national organization known as the Sons of the American Revolution. At the first national congress of the latter held in Louisville in 1890 he was made a past president general by a unanimous vote of the congress. He was also recognized as the founder of the society in California in July, 1876. He became one of the incorpora- tors of the national society January 17, 1890, and has served the parent body in all of its offices during the twenty-eight years of its existence. Pub- lic recognition was made of his services in this direction by resolutions passed by the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution as follows :
"In regular meeting assembled on this third day of September, 1892, the one hundred and ninth anniversary of the Treaty of Paris-where- by King George III. acknowledged the United States of America to be free, sovereign and independent states,-having received and adopted the report of the committee, appointed at the last regular meeting to investigate and report concerning the history of this society and matters connected there- with, on motion of the Rev. Charles Morris Blake, U. S. A., seconded by Mr. Charles D. Wallace, unanimously resolve-
"Ist. That the society places on record that its existence to-day is the to the zeal, untiring devotion and unceasing labors of Past President Colonel A. S. Hubbard, who aided in its inception and has almost single-handed brought the society, through trials and discouragements which beset all new societies, to its present prosperous condition ; therefore it recognizes him as the founder of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revo- lution. and therefore founder of the society at large.
"2d. That the national society of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion is earnestly requested in its proceedings and publications to recognize Colonel A. S. Hubbard as the founder of the California Society and thereby founder of the society at large, an honor which by his patriotic labors he has merited, and to which he is justly entitled.
"3d. That a copy of these resolutions, also a copy of said report as finally engrossed, be transmitted to General Horace Porter, president gen- eral, also to the secretary general with the request that they be incorporated in a supplementary form in the proceedings of the third annual congress.
"4th. That the Hon. Lucius P. Deming, the society's delegate at large, is respectfully requested to use his official and personal influence to bring the above properly before the national society and that he deposit a copy of the action of the society taken this day in national archives.
"Finally that in appreciation of the long continued and valuable serv-
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ices rendered to the California society by Past President Hubbard, there be appropriated from the treasury a sum sufficient to purchase a badge of the first-class with the following words engraved thereon :-
Presented to Col. A. S. Hubbard, Founder of the California Society, S. A. R. By his compatriots of the society July 4th, 1892.
"ROSCOE S. GRAY, Secretary.
JOHN W. MOORE, Chief Engineer U. S. N., President."
The resolutions adopted by the congress of the Sons of the American Revolution in Louisville, Kentucky, May 1, 1890, reads as follows :
"Whereas, The society of the Sons of the American Revolution was first organized in the state of California on the fourth of July, 1876; and
"Whereas, to Col. A. S. Hubbard, of the California Society, is due in a large degree the credit of organizing that society, and, in a still greater de- gree, the credit for maintaining that society through trials which would have discouraged a less patriotic man; now, therefore,
"Resolved; That in the publication of the names of the presidents-gen- eral of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the name of Col. A. S. Hubbard be hereafter included.
"Resolved : That the secretary general be, and is hereby, instructed to inform Col. A. S. Hubbard of the honor which this congress has conferred upon him."
In 1901, on the occasion of President Mckinley's visit to California Colonel Hubbard was one of the committee to make arrangements for the reception tendered the president by the California Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He is also one of the founders of the California Geneological Society and presided over its first meeting on the 9th of April, 1898. He was one of the organizers of the California commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars and a member of the New Hampshire Society of Colonial Wars. He has ever been deeply interested in historical research, and has done everything in his power to stimulate a love of history among the peo- ple of this nation. In 1886 he became an active member of the California Historical Society and has served as its secretary and director since 1890. He is likewise an honorary member of the New Hampshire Historical Soci- ety and a corresponding member of several prominent historical associations. He has been long and prominently connected with the Masonic fraternity and was one of the organizers of the Oakland Commandery No. 1I, K. T. He is now an honorary member of Ashlar Lodge No. 308, F. & A. M., of Chicago.
Col. Hubbard was married on the 29th of February, 1872, to Miss Sarah Isabel Sylvester, a daughter of John and Hannah (Gooderich) Syl- vester, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, the former a leading shipbuilder of
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that place. They have one son, Theodore Worthington, a practicing law- yer of San Francisco. Mrs. Hubbard has the distinguished honor of being the founder of the first chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on the Pacific coast and has been honorary state and chapter regent and also a delegate to the national congress of the society, and also a charter mem- ber of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, incorporated by an act of congress. Approved February 20, 1896. She organized and is now the president of the Valentine Holt Society of the Children of the American Revolution, and she has long been an active, in- fluential and valued worker in St. Luke's Episcopal church.
Thus Colonel Hubbard and his wife have labored together for the moral development and patriotic progress of the country. He is widely and favor- ably known throughout his city and state, his abilities well fitting him for leadership. The terms progress and patriotism may well be considered the keynote of his character, for throughout his career he has labored for the improvement of every public interest, with which he has been associated, and at all times has been actuated by a fidelity to his country and her welfare.
NATHANIEL BULLOCK.
Nathaniel Bullock, who is filling the position of postmaster at Eureka and has long been deeply and actively interested in community affairs, wherein as the champion of many measures for the public good he has won recognition from his fellow townsmen, who rank him with the leading and representative men of the city, was born in western New York in 1833, his parents being Benjamin . and Cynthia (Barry) Bullock, both of whom were natives of central New York and were representatives of old Ameri- can families. The father was a farmer by occupation and became one of the early settlers of western New York, where he remained until about 1848, when he removed with his family to Michigan and was there en- gaged in farming for many years. He died in Detroit, that state, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. His wife died of cholera in 1852, leav- ing a family of nine children, seven sons and two daughters. Those still living are Nathaniel, of this review: Jeremiah, of New York; and Cynthia, the widow of James Van Voorhies.
Nathaniel Bullock was educated in the common schools of New York and of Michigan, and his early youth was spent upon his father's farm, where he became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, for at the time of early spring planting he took his place in the fields and continued to assist in the various duties of the farm until after crops were harvested in the late autumn. At the age of nineteen years he left home and made his way westward. After a short time spent in Minnesota he continued his journey to California, where he arrived in 1854, locating in Tuolumne county. For two years he followed mining, and then in 1856 returned eastward to Lansing, Michigan, where he joined his brother Charles A. in the manufacture of wagons and carriages. He was connected with that business until 1859, when he again came to Cali-
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fornia, this time locating in Arcata, Humboldt county. He has lived in Eureka since 1862, and after about four years spent in carpentering and kindred industries he became associated with Joseph Russ, with whom he. was connected for twenty years as manager and accountant in the butch- ering business. Changes occurred in the firm, which at one time was Russ, Pickett & Company, of which he was a member, and later J. Russ & Com- pany. Under this firm name a lumbering manufacturing business was car- ried on at Eureka, and Mr. Bullock continued as one of the firm and busi- ness manager, and upon the death of Mr. Russ in 1888 he was appointed one of the administrators of the estate by the will of Mr. Russ. Mr. Russ was one of the pioneer settlers of Humboldt county, arriving here in 1852. He became very successful and at his death left a large estate, valued at more than a million and a half dollars. In 1892 Mr. Bullock became inter- ested in the real estate and insurance business and was. thus engaged until 1897. In July of that year he was appointed postmaster and has held the position up to the present time, so that he is now serving for a second term. In the discharge of the duties of the office he is prompt and business-like in his administration, and has given uniform satisfaction to the people of Eureka.
In 1862 occurred the marriage of Mr. Bullock and Miss Sarah Heustis, a daughter of A. J. Heustis, who was a pioneer of California, coming to Humboldt county in 1850. He crossed the plains in 1849 from Iowa, mak- ing the long and arduous journey across the sandy stretches and through mountain passes, and at length his eyes were gladdened by the sight of the green .fields of California. After locating in Humboldt county he became prominent and influential in public affairs and served as county judge and also as a member of the general assembly. He was a minister of the Meth- odist church for many years, and his efforts in behalf of the political inter- ests and the moral development of his community made him closely asso- ciated with the early history of the county, while his labors were an effec- tive factor in shaping its pioneer policy and development. To Mr. and Mrs. Bullock were born seven children, namely: Minerva, wife of Denver Sevier, an attorney of Eureka: Nellie C., the widow of H. A. Libby, who was cashier of the Humboldt County Bank; Blanche A., the wife of Will- iam B. Snow, of Santa Anna, who is secretary of the chamber of com- merce; Gertrude, the wife of Dr. Milton McMurray, a dentist of San Fran- cisco: Bertram N., who is a graduate of Stanford University and now deputy postmaster of Eureka; Russ R., a practicing physician of San Francisco; and Edna, who is living at home. Mrs. Bullock died in Janu- ary, 1902, and her loss was deeply lamented by many friends who had come to respect and love her because of her excellent traits of heart and mind.
Mr. Bullock is identified with the Masonic fraternity. In politics he has always been a stanch Republican and has labored untiringly to promote the growth and extend the influence of his party. He was formerly presi- dent of the Humboldt chamber of commerce, is a member of the Hum- boldt Club, and at the present writing is serving as a member of the build-
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ing committee of the new Carnegie library. He manifests a deep and abid- ing interest in Eureka and its welfare, as has been shown by his tangible and far-reaching efforts for the welfare and progress of his community. His business career has ever been one that would bear the closest investiga- tion and scrutiny, having been characterized by unfaltering industry and integrity, and as a public officer he is most loyal to the trust reposed in him.
J. M. WALLING.
J. M. Walling, a member of the California bar residing at Nevada City, was born in 1841, in Scott county, Iowa, in which state he resided until twenty years of age. His father, Ladis A. Walling, born in New Jersey of Welsh parentage, came to California in 1850, making his way across the plains, and settled in Nevada county. He made his business that of conducting a hotel, and he was prominent and well known in the circles of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to which he belonged for many years. His death occurred in 1873, while his wife passed away during the early boyhood of her son J. M. Walling.
Judge Walling, deprived of a mother's care at an early age and thus bereft of many of the benefits which he might otherwise have enjoyed, re- ceived but limited school privileges. Upon the outbreak of the war of the rebellion he enlisted for three years' service as a private of a company which was being organized in Clinton county, Iowa. On the Ist of January, 1864, he re-enlisted with his regiment as a veteran volunteer, and was afterward commissioned as first lieutenant in the Sixty-first United. States Colored Infantry, with which rank he remained with his regiment until after the cessation of hostilities. He was finally discharged December 30, 1865, and returned to his home in Iowa. He had participated in all of the engagements in which his commands had taken part, and at the battle of Shiloh in 1862 he was captured and was detained as a prisoner of war for more than six months, after which he was paroled, then exchanged and returned to duty with the army. He served under Generals Grant, Sher- man and Canby, and thus took part in a number of the most hotly contested battles of that long sanguinary conflict.
On the Ist of March, 1866. Judge Walling sailed from New York for California, where he arrived on the 23d of the month and joined his father, L. A. Walling, at Rough and Ready, Nevada county. He resided there until 1872, when, having been elected county recorder, he removed to Ne- vada City, and it was about that time that he entered upon the study of law. During the years 1874 and 1875, and a portion of 1876 he was justice of the peace of Nevada City. He was admitted to practice in the superior court on April II. 1876, and in June of that year was duly admitted to the bar by the supreme court of California and at once commenced practice. In 1884 he was elected superior judge of Nevada county and served for one term of six years, when he voluntarily returned to the practice of law, in which he is now successfully engaged. On the bench he displayed a thorough mastery of the fundamental principles of the law, a comprehensive
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knowledge of precedent and great accuracy in applying the law to the points in litigation, and moreover he was largely able to divest himself of personal prejudice or previously formed ideas and of all the individual peculiarities of disposition that might interfere with the dispensing of " even-handed justice." Since his retirement from the bench mining law has received his special attention, that industry being dominant in the sec- tion where he resides.
Judge Walling is an earnest Republican and was a Mckinley elector in the presidential election of 1896. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a past commander of the department of California and Nevada. He is also an ardent advocate of the cause of temperance, and filled the office of grand chief templar of the Independent Order of Good Templars of California for three terms, while for the past fifteen or sixteen years he has been one of the board of trustees of the Good Templars Home for Orphans at Vallejo. He is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Order of Chosen Friends, the American Legion of Honor and other fraternal societies.
Judge Walling was married May 12, 1872, to Miss C. E. Snell, a native daughter of Nevada county, California, and a daughter of Jonathan D. Snell, an early miner of California. Judge and Mrs. Walling have six children living, four sons and two daughters: J. M., who is studying law and assisting his father in his office work; Mamie, the wife of John Arthur, a traveling agent residing in England; Ladis A., a hotel clerk in Nevada City; J. E. Walling, who is in the oil regions at Bakersfield, Cali- fornia ; George E .; and Vesta, at home.
Judge Walling is a man of strong convictions and high principles, and his influence is ever given on the side of right, justice, reform, truth and progress. He has many very warm friends throughout the state, and it has been observed by one of them that " Aside from the credit due him for the able and conscientious fulfilment of every public trust, and for priv- ate acts of a worthy nature, he is entitled to much praise for the efforts he has made to improve his intellectual faculties, and which efforts have fitted him for the forum and the platform."
FREDERICK W. GEORGESON.
One of the strong and valued elements in American citizenship is that furnished by Scotland, for the sons of the land of the heather have brought to America the thrift and enterprise which are so characteristic of their native country. Of this class Frederick W. Georgeson is a representative. He was born on the Shetland islands in 1858, and his parents, George and Catherine (Mowat) Georgeson, were natives of Scotland. The father was a ship owner and general merchant, conducting a good business. In the family were six sons and four daughters.
Frederick W. Georgeson was educated in the public schools on the Shetland islands, where he continued his studies until fifteen years of age. He afterward gave his father the benefit of his service until 1876, when at
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the age of eighteen years he bade adieu to friends and native land and sailed for California. During the succeeding year he was employed in the lum- ber camps in Mendocino county and then came to Sonoma county, where he engaged in clerking in general mercantile stores. After three years, having from his earnings saved some capital, he came to Humboldt county, and, locating at Blocksburg, was there interested in a general mercantile business. He also acted as postmaster at that place for five years, and on the expiration of that period he removed to San Francisco, where he be- came connected with the firm of Shoobert, Beale & Company, wool commis- sion merchants, with whom he continued until 1895. That year witnessed his arrival in Eureka, and for a year thereafter he was business manager of the Humboldt Standard, a leading newspaper of the county. In 1896 he was elected cashier of the Humboldt County Bank, which position he has filled continuously since and is a most popular officer, carefully discharging the duties of his position and at the same time winning the trust and friend- ship of many patrons of the bank through his unfaltering courtesy and obliging manner.
In 1886 Mr. Georgeson was united in marriage to Miss Ella Thomp- son, a native of Iowa and a daughter of James F. Thompson, now a resi- dent of Eureka. They have two interesting sons, Frank and Donald. Mr. Georgeson belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In poli- tics he is a stanch Republican, having been a delegate to county conven- tions and taking an active part in promoting the growth and success of the organization. He has found in the opportunities of the new world the business advantages which he has sought, and, improving his time so that the passing years have seen consecutive development in his business years, he has at length won for himself a creditable name and a fair measure of prosperity.
JOHN E. FOULDS.
John E. Foulds, who is engaged in the practice of law in San Fran- cisco, was born in England in 1848, a son of James and Elizabeth Foulds. The Foulds family was one of the most ancient of the northern part of Eng- land, while the mother was a representative of an ancestry that lived in Wales and in South Lancastershire, her geneology being traced back through many centuries.
John E. Foulds pursued his early education in King Edwards school in Birmingham, England, continuing his studies until he reached the age of sixteen years, when he put aside his text-books and entered upon a business career. He was connected with various commercial enterprises for a con- siderable period and then took up the study of law. The year 1869 witnessed his arrival in the new world. He located first in Chicago, afterward became a resident of Kansas City, Missouri, and finally arrived in San Francisco, becoming connected with the law department of the Central Pacific Railroad Company in 1871. He was employed as court stenographer and general law clerk. Here he continued his legal studies under the supervision of Judge S. W. Sanderson, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1876, since which
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time he has continuously engaged in the practice of law. He was attorney for the Central Pacific Railroad Company and its allied corporations, and after the creation of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company he became its legal representative and has been identified with the law department of that corporation up to the present time. There has been very little important liti- gation in this portion of California with which Mr. Foulds has not been connected either directly or indirectly. He has acted for many years as counsel for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and for the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Company. He has made a close study of corporation law, and few men on the Pacific coast have a more comprehensive, accurate knowledge of this department of jurisprudence. That he has long been the legal representative of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company is an indica- tion of his capability in this direction.
In 1880 Mr. Foulds was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Frick, a native of New York and a daughter of August Frick, of San Francisco. They have three children: Grace, Evan and Charles.
CHARLES PARSONS SOULE.
Charles Parsons Soule, president of the Bank of Eureka, at Eureka, California, has been prominently identified with financial institutions in this city since 1889, and has been the promoter of business enterprises of far- reaching importance to northern California. His has been a busy career typical of the west, exemplifying its possibilities and advantages to many who realize the dignity of labor and realize that in consecutive endeavor guided by sound judgment lies the open path to success. Close application and energy formed the keynote of his character, and as the years have ad- vanced they have taken him out of humble family surroundings to the plane of prosperity, where with a broader view and greater business scope he has so labored as to advance the general good as well as individual success.
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