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The new party, being one of excitement, energeti- cally entered the field to obtain control of the Con- vention, while other parties were comparatively inactive. The people of the State opposed to the Workingmen's party, organized under the name of " Non-Partisan."
In Placer County two parties presented candidates -- one called the "Citizens'," and the other the · Workingmen." The nominations of the first were S. B. Burt (R), a merchant of Bath, who had repre- sented the county in the Assembly, and had held other offices, and the other, J. A. Filcher (1)), editor of the Placer Herald. The Workingmen's candidates were John R. Winders, a printer connected with the Dutch Flat Forum, and Lee D. Thomas, a merchant at Roseville. Judge James E. Hale was nominated by the Non-Partisan Convention as a representative of Placer County in the Second District, as delegate at large.
RESIDENCE OF W. M. CRUTCHER, AUBURN, PLACER Co. CAL.
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The election was held as ordered, resulting in the election in the State of a majority of Workingmen from the counties, which was overbalanced by the election of the thirty-two Non-Partisans at large. The vote in Placer County was as follows :-
Delegates to Constitutional Convention -- J. A. Filcher (C), 848; S. B. Burt (C), 888; J. R. Winders (W), 784; Lee D. Thomas (W), 753. Total vote in the county, 1,636.
Thirty-two delegates at large were voted for in Placer County, with majorities in favor of the Work- ingmen over the Non-Partisan ranging from ten to 120, with one exception, that of Ex-Governor H. HI. llaight (N P), received a higher vote than P. S. Dorney (W). The average majority was 85 in favor of the Workingmen.
The Convention met September 28. 1878, at the Capitol at Sacramento, and organized by the election of J. P. Hoge, of San Francisco, as President, and J. A. Johnson, of Santa Barbara, as Secretary. The pay of the delegates had been fixed at $10 per diem for a period of 100 days, but the session continued for 157 days, in which the Constitution as now exist- ing was prepared and submitted to the people.
CAMPAIGN OF 1879-CONSTITUTION ADOPTED.
The first Wednesday of May, 1879, was fixed by the Act calling the Constitutional Convention, as the day when the people should vote upon the adoption of the instrument prepared as the Consti- tution of the State, or its rejection. The new organic law was regarded as very obnoxious by cor- porations and people of large wealth, and extraordi- nary efforts were made by such classes to prevent its adoption. The result of the election in the State was in favor of the adoption by about 9,000 majority. The vote in Placer County was :-
For the new Constitution, 1,649; against, 969. Total vote in the county, 2,618.
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.
With the close of the Constitutional campaign began the political campaign for the election of offi- cers under the new instrument. The most ardent advocates assumed that the duty of giving the Con- stitution a fair trial devolved upon them, and thus organized a New Constitution party. Besides this were the Republican, Democratic, and Working- men's organizations, making a quadrilateral contest. This, however, was in part simplified by the adop- tion of a portion of the nominees of the New Con- stitution party by the Democrats, and a combina- tion of these two parties in Placer County.
Conventions of the several parties were held and candidates nominated as were called for in the New Constitution, viz., Governor and State officers, a Leg- islature, including Senators-as the New Constitu- tion ent off the terms of all previously elected- four Congressmen, Chief Justice and six Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, three Railroad Com- missioners, four Members of the Board of Equaliza-
tion; Superior Judge for Placer County, and for all the counties, and Assessors for each district.
THE ELECTION.
The election was held September 3. 1879, resulting in the success of the Republicans in the State by the following vote :--
Governor-George C. Perkins (R), 67,695; Hugh 1. Glenn ( D and N C). 48,693; William F. White (W), 44,484; others, 119.
Total vote, 160,993.
In the Second Congressional District, H. F. Page (R), was re-elected over T. J. Clunie (D and N (), and II. P. Williams ( W). In the First District, Hor- ace Davis (R), was elected; in the Third, Campbell P. Berry (D), and in the Fourth, Romualdo Pacheco ( R).
The vote and candidates in Placer County are given as follows :-
Governor-George C. Perkins ( R), 1,213; Wm. F. White (W), 828; Hugh J. Glenn (D and N (), 759.
Congress-H. F. Page (R), 1,185; T. J. Clunie (D and N (), 919; 1I. P. Williams (W), 693.
Superior Judge-B. F. Myres (all parties . 2,643. Senate- S. B. Burt ( R), 1,153; J. A. Filcher ( D and N C), 947; B. K. Lowe ( W ), 695.
Assembly-T. L. Chamberlain (R), 1.129; C. A. Barrett (W), 833; L. S. Moffatt ( D and N C), 827.
Sheriff-J. C. Boggs ( R), 1.146; A. Huntley (D and N C), 1.006; A. J. Soule (W), 646.
County Clerk-T. J. Nichols (R), 2,079; H. Bock (W), 700.
Recorder-F. D. Adams (R). 1,488, J. B. Watters (D and W), 1,262.
District Attorney-W. B. Lardner (R), 1,320; Peter Singer (W), 750; James Moore ( N C and D), 725.
Treasurer-J. G. Bisbee (R), 1,140; V. V. Mann (D and N C), 956; John Thorp ( W), 713.
County Surveyor-E. C. Uren (Rand W), 1,956; C. W. Finley ( D and N C). 837.
Superintendent of Schools-O. F. Seavey ( D and N C), 1,195; F. H. Wales ( R), 866; S. J. Pullen ( W), 745.
Public Administrator and Coroner-J. D. Redfern (R), 1,165; C. H. Leavitt ( D and N C),840: - Mc- Donald ( W), 778.
Chinese Immigration-For, 9; against, 2.778.
Supervisors-E. J. Sparks (R). 1,347; J. B. Russell (R), 1,373; Thomas Dodds ( W and Di. 1.427; J. A. Culver (R), 1,297: A. G. Oliver (W). 755; E. D. Shir- land (D) and N C), 752; D. Stephenson (W .. 744.
Total vote of the county, 2.800.
Assessors elected were: J. Il. Mitchell .D and N C), in District No. 1; W. L. Munson (R), in Dis- triet No. 2; and A. ( MeKenley ( D, N ( and W), in District No. 3.
STATE OFFICERS.
State officers elected were: Lieutenant-Governor, John Mansfield; Secretary of State, D. M. Burns;
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Controller, D. M. Kenfield; Treasurer. John Weil; Attorney-General, A. L. Hart; Surveyor-General, J. W. Shanklin; Clerk of Supreme Court, Frank W. Gross; Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. M. Campbell, Republicans. Chief Justice, R. F. Mor- rison (D); Associate Justices, E. W. Mckinstry (D), for eleven years; J. D. Thornton (D), eleven years; M. 11. Myrick (R), seven years; S. B. McKee (D), seven years; E. M. Ross (D), three years, and J. R. Sharpstein (W), three years.
Railroad Commissioners -- George C. Stoneman (D), C. J. Beerstecher (W), J. S. Cone (R).
Board of Equalization -- M. M. Drew (R), J. L. King (R), Warren Dutton (R), and T. D. Heiskell (R).
The Legislature under the New Constitution met the first Monday in January. The most important bill of the session was entitled, " An Act to Promote Drainage," providing for restraining the flow of min . ing debris by building dams, and protecting land by constructing levees.
The partisan representation was, in the Sen- ate, 22 Republicans, 5 Democrats, 8 Workingmen, and 5 Workingmen siding with either Democrats or Republicans, and in the Assembly, 39 Republicans, 15 Democrats, 11 Workingmen, 3 New Constitution, 6 Workingmen and New Constitution, and 6 Work- ingmen and Republicans. Several of the Working- men elected to the Assembly from San Francisco constituted a very disorderly element, and that body was noted for its confusion and inability to proceed with business from that canse.
FRANK D. ADAMS,
Son of Thomas T. and Sarah E. S. (Drew ) Adams, is a native of Massachusetts, having been born at the Town of North Chelmsford, Middlesex County, August 25, 1851. His early recollections do not date as far back as the days he lived in the old Bay State, for, at the age of one year, he remove.l with his parents to Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa. In this latter place he remained until in the month of May, 1855, when the family removed to Fort Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Mr. Adams is a thorough scholar; his education was received in the common and high schools, and was of a nature to fit him for the responsible positions he has held and consistently filled during his period of life in the West. In 1861, at the age of ten years, he entered a school at Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota, and took a four years' course of study in the common branches of education. In the month of October, 1865, he accompanied bis parents on their removal to Monticello, Wright County, and there entered the high school, from which he graduated with high honors. In 1868 he was engaged as book-keeper for a Government supply train, and went to Dakota Ter- ritory, where he passed several months, and was concerned in several engagements with " the dusky sons of the forest," but managed to retain bis bair. After his return home in the fall of that year, his
health failed to such a degree as to warrant his remaining under the parental roof, which he did until the spring of 1870, at which time he went to Duluth, St. Louis County, and was engaged in teach- ing in the public schools of that city. until June, 1873, when he resigned his position.
In the month of October, of the latter year, he resolved to seek new fields for his labors, and, hav- ing California for his objective point, he came to the Golden State. His first location was his present one, and he has since his arrival been a resident of the town of Auburn. In December, 1873, he entered the Recorder's office as Deputy, under C. C. Crosby, a position he held until March, 1876.
When the new officers -- Recorder, Auditor and Treasurer -- assumed the responsibility of their offices, in 1876, Mr. Adams, from his thorough knowledge of the duties pertaining thereto, received the appointment as deputy for them all, a position he was well qualified for, and which he filled in a manner acceptable to all concerned. In March, 1878, he received the appointment as Deputy Sheriff, under C. C. Crosby, and served in that capacity until the time arrived for him to assume the responsibility of the office he now holds, that of County Recorder and Auditor, to which he was elected, on the Republican ticket, in 1879. His opponent, J. B. Watters, being on three tickets. This last demonstration of publie sentiment speaks volumes in favor of Mr. Adams, who, though young in years, carries a well-balanced head and holds the respect and good will of all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. Among his many accomplishments there is one of which he has reason to be proud, and that is his expertness with the rifle. He is, in faet, an artist with that weapon, and has no equal in the section of country in which he lives, and very few in the world. He has a record of 96 out of 100, and 59 out of 60, at glass-ball shooting, which denotes a quick eye and a steady nerve. The rifle is his favorite weapou, and he has achieved some decided victories with it. One circumstance in particular will tend to illustrate bis science. During his trip through Dakota, in 1868. he was matched against the best shots to be found in that section, being, in fact, but a boy at the time, and in one contest completely " walked away " with his opponents, thereby winning a purse of 8300.
He was married, October 1, 1873, to Miss Ella N. Leland, daughter of E. B. Leland, a native of Winn, Penobscot County, Maine. Their union has been blessed with two children, named and aged respect- ively, Mabel C., born September 3, 1875; Stella, born September 6, 1879.
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1880.
The New Constitution of California provided for the election of Members of the Assembly and county officers in 1880, and every two years thereafter. At this election the people were also required to cast their vote for President and Vice-President,
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and Representatives in Congress. The Republican State Convention met at Sacramento April 28th and appointed delegates to the National Convention at Chicago, which met June 2, 1880. The principal candidates for the Presidential nomination were Gen. U. S. Grant, James G. Blaine, John Sherman, and James A. Garfield, the latter receiving the nom- ination, and Chester A. Arthur for Vice-President.
The Democratic State Convention met at Oak- land, June 19th, composed of 357 delegates, of which number 72 were from San Francisco and 5 from Placer. Electors were nominated and delegates appointed to the National Convention, which met at Cincinnati June 22d and placed in nomination Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, of Pennsylvania, for Presi- dent, and William H. English, of Indiana, for Vice- President.
A third party, styled the National Greenback party, entered the field, and at a Convention held in Chicago June 2, 1880, nominated Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, for President, and Col. Benjamin J. Chambers, of Texas, for Vice-President. These last nominations were endorsed by the Workingmen's Party of California.
The Republican County Convention met at Auburn August 9th and nominated Assemblymen and county officers, and appointed the following delegates to the Congressional District Convention, recommending them to vote for Hon. II. F. Page as candidate for Representative to Congress: J. D. Pratt, O. W. 1Iol- lenbeck, G. D. Aldrich, John Butler, G. Griffith, A. D. Hathaway, James Borland, and A. F. Jewett.
The Democratic County Convention met at Auburn August 14th, nominated Assemblymen and county officers, and appointed delegates to the Congressional District Convention, with instructions to favor the nomination of J. A. Filcher as candidate for Con- gress.
The effects of the Workingmen's agitation in arousing opposition to Chinese immigration bore a heavy influence in this campaign in California. Both parties professed opposition, but the declaration that Garfield had written a letter in which expressions favorable to the employment of Chinese, was used to the advantage of the Democracy.
THE ELECTION.
The clection was held November 2, 1880, resulting in the election of James A. Garfield as President of the United States, he receiving 218 electoral votes, and W. S. Hancock 151. Of the electoral vote of California five were cast for llancock and one for Garfield, one Democratic elector, David S. Terry being defeated, and Henry Edgerton, Republican elector, receiving a higher vote, was chosen in his place. The total vote was 163,970, the average Democratic majority being 64. Of these Hancock received 80,322; Garfield, 80,267; Weaver, 3,381.
The election returns of Placer County show the names of candidates and the Fote each received as follows :-
President-James A. Garfield (R), 1,641; W. S. Hancock (D), 1,414; James B. Weaver (G and W), 58.
Congress-H. F. Page (R), 1,645; J. HI. Glasscock (D), 1,4IS; others, 46.
Assembly-James E. Hale (R), 1,554; Jo Hamil- ton (D), 1,521; A. F. Jewett (1), 35.
Total vote in the county, 3,113.
Shortly preceding the election the Supreme Court had rendered an opinion that the county officers should hold their positions until the next general election, and therefore no change was made.
Representatives in Congress elected were: First District, Gen. Wm. S. Rosecrans (D); Second, Hon. H. F. Page (R); Third, Campbell P. Berry (D); Fourth, Romualdo Pacheco (R). The Assembly elected consisted of 42 Republicans and 38 Demo- crats.
The Legislature met on the first Monday in Janu- ary, 1881, and organized by the election of Wm. Johnston President pro tem. of the Senate, and Win. H. Parks as Speaker of the Assembly. January 12th the Legislature met in Joint Convention and clected John F. Miller, of San Francisco, United States Senator to succeed Newton Booth, whose term expired March 3, IS8I.
Much of the time of the session was expended in attempting to repeal the " Act to Provide Drain- age," and to apportion the State in Legislative and Congressional Districts, but failed in both, and an extra session was called with similar results.
Supervisor Thomas Dodds dying, a special elec- tion was ordered to be held January 25, 1881, to fill the vacancy. At this election J. A. Culver. of Colfax, received 925 votes, and Fred. Grohs, of Auburn, received 607 votes.
POPULATION OF PLACER.
The population of Placer County, as ascertained by the census of 1880. was 14,226, of which 7,125 were white males, 4,923 white females, 1,843 Chi- nese, 235 colored, and 100 Indians. This shows a population of about four and one-half to each voter, a very favorable increase since the early years of its history, when more than half were voters.
JOHN CRAIG BOGGS,
Son of John and Isabel (Allison) Boggs, was born at Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 18, 1825. The father of our present subject was a physician of considerable note, and was well and favorably known throughout the section of country in which he lived. John (., the subject of this biographical notice, wceived his education in the common schools of his native town, and at the age of about twenty years was appointed manager of the Southampton Iron Works, near Shippensburgh, Cumberland County, a position he filled nearly four years. Inspired with a desire to behold the grand sights of the Pacific Coast, and to seek the fort- une he believed was in store for him, he determined
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to join the grand army that was seeking wealth in the newly-discovered gold-fields of California. Consequently he bade adien to the scenes of his youth. and on the 3d day of February, 1849, sailed for the " New El Dorado " in the ship Xylon, Captain -- Brown, commander. Between Balti- more, Maryland, and Rio Janeiro the treatment of the passengers was such, by the commander, that they resolved to try and obtain relief through the American Consul at the latter port. Upon the arrival of the ship at the latter place the larger portion of the passengers made affidavit before the Consul of the inhuman conduct of Captain Brown, and the result was the appointment of Capt. M. Bowers, who took command during the remainder of the voyage. Captain Brown was sent home in disgrace. On the 14th of September, 1849, Mr. Boggs landed in the city of San Francisco, and on the 28th of the same month he arrived at Auburn. Placer County. During his first two months' resi- dence at this camp he mined in the placers, and then engaged in the general merchandising business, his place of business being directly opposite the present site of Andrews & Hollenbeck's Bank. After a few months' trial this business was closed out, the high price of freights being a damaging feature to the trader in those days. His partner in this venture was T. B. Kennedy, now the President of the Cum- berland Valley Railroad, in Pennsylvania. They often paid as high as one thousand dollars per ton for freight from Sacramento. Mr. Boggs again sought his fortune in the mines, until 1853. Ile was the first night-watebman in the town of Auburn, a posi- tion he filled until October, 1854, at which time he returned to his home in Pennsylvania. The follow- ing spring he came again to the Pacific Coast, and soon afterward went to Los Angeles after a band of cattle for Lieut .- Gov. Joseph Walkup. Upon his return from the southern country he received the appointment as Depaty Sheriff ander W. T. Han- son, and this might be called the commencement of his official career, as he has held some office most of the intervening time to the present. For ten years he was a Constable, and accomplished more in arrests and convictions of criminals than any man that has ever served the people of Placer County. Mr. Boggs was Marshal of Auburn during its incorporation, and figured conspicuously in all matters pertaining thereto.
In 1867 he was elected District Assessor, and in 1869 was elected as County Assessor of Placer.
Upon the expiration of his last term of office he determined to devote his time and energies to the raising of fruit, and accordingly repaired to his ranch, located near Newcastle. While thus engaged he was nearly ruined by that ruthless destroyer, fire, losing nearly everything he had saved through years of toil. With his characteristic energy and pluck he soon found himself upon a firm basis once again. Immediately after the election of 1877 he was
appointed Under-Sheriff by C. C. Crosby, which position he held until he was elected to the office of Sheriff of Placer County, a position he now fills, he taking charge of the office in March, 1880. In poli- tics Sheriff Boggs is a stanneh Republiean.
In his official capacity Mr. Boggs has always been a terror to the criminal portion of the inhabitants of Placer County, and to him is " honor due " for the faithful discharge of his duties upon all occasions. The last words of the noted robber, " Rattlesnake Dick," illustrates the feeling of that class of men towards one whom they feared. They were these: "If John Boggs is dead, I am satisfied," " Dick " thinking the unfortunate Martin was his enemy, Boggs. Whole volumes might be written of the hairbreadth escapes and bloody fights in which Sheriff Boggs has figured, and a perusal of the crim- inal and other chapters in this work will explain some of his doings in the discharge of his duties in various offices.
Hle was married, November 2, 1857, to Miss L. C. HIarrington; a native of Thomaston, Knox County. Maine, and they have been blessed with two ehil- dren-Isabella A., born August 29, 1858, and John G., born January 1, 1861-both of whom are living.
JOHN GOULD BISBEE,
The present County Treasurer of Placer, is a son of Arza Bisbee, who was a native of North Adams, Massachusetts. The subject of this biographieal notice was born in Lisbon, Androscoggin County, Maine, March 31, 1837. In early life he removed to Lewiston, in the same county, where he remained until twelve years of age. About that time he had the misfortune to lose his mother by death, and soon after his father came to California, leaving his son to the care of an uncle. During the succeeding four years our subject was an inmate of his uncle's house, but at the age of sixteen he departed therefrom, and for two years was a resident of the State of Rhode Island. From the latter State he went to Philadel- phia, and leased a business in that city of another unele he had there. It was the manufacturing of kindling wood. After leaving the city of " brotherly love" he was for some time an engineer on the steamers plying the waters of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. In 1838 he went to Kansas for the purpose of loeating land, and remained about one year. On the 7th of November of the last-named year he was married, at Leavenworth City, Kansas, to Miss Mary E. Madden, and started the next day for California, via New York City, thence by steamer to San Francisco, arriving in the latter city Decem- ber 28th. After a few days' stay in San Francisco, he came to Placer County, and located at lowa Hill. where his father was then living. Mr. Bisbee made this latter place his home during the succeeding twenty years, engaged in various kinds of business, machinist and blacksmithing predominating. Subse- quent to 1866 he was engaged in the mining distriets
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as a mechanical engineer, constructing and putting in position machinery for mills of various kinds. As a practical machinist Mr. Bisbee stands second to none in the county, and has few equals on the Pacific Coast. In the fall of 1879 he was the recipient of the nomination for the office of Treasurer of Placer County by the Republican party, and was hand- somely elected. This last demonstration on the part of the people of this county illustrates the standing of our subject in the community. In Mr. Bisbee we find a warm-hearted, genial man, whom to know is to respect.
W. B. LARDNER.
The young and industrious District Attorney of Placer County, whose full name is William Branson Lardner, was born on his father's farm near the flourishing city of Niles, Berrien County, Michigan, December 12, 1850.
His father, Lynford Lardner, was a native of Philadelphia, born in 1808, and his mother, whose maiden name was Sarah K. Moore, was born near the same city in 1818. Lynford Lardner was educated for the business of a merchant in the " Quaker city," and upon attaining his majority removed to the flourishing city of Cincinnati, then the metropolis of the West. There for several years he was the discount clerk of one of the leading banks, and afterwards, in company with his cousin, Harry Lardner, became a wholesale grocer. About 1836, with his brother William and cousin Harry, he removed to Niles, Michigan, and became engaged in manufactures, establishing saw, woolen and carding mills, and subsequently engaged in farming. In 1846 be married, and upon his pleasant farm near Niles reared his family. There he remained until 1865; he then removed to Linn County, lowa, and in 1874 to California, establishing himself on a fruit farm near Penryn, Placer County, where now in his old age he enjoys his otium cum dignitate beneath his own vine and fig-tree. The celebrated financier. Nicholas Biddle, was a full cousin of Mr. Lardner, and in the old United States Bank at Philadelphia, under the instruction of the great banker, he received his train- ing in business, enjoying the entire confidence of Biddle, who intrusted him with large amounts of money as his messenger. The following anecdote is related of him, occurring at that time. Ile was familiarly called Old Nick Biddle, and was the great man of the United States Bank, then the chief feature in politics. About the bank as an indulged servant was an old negro who spent his time mostly loafing about the premises; One day, in a social mood, Biddle said to the darkey, " Well, what is your name, my old friend ?" " Harry, Sir-Ole Harry." said the other, touching his seedy hat. "Ole Harry ?" said Biddle; "why, that is the name they give to the Devil, is it not ?" Yes, sir," said the colored man; " sometimes Ole Harry and sometimes Ole Nick."
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