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CHARLES PAULE
No easily-won gifts from the goddess of fortune favored Mr. Paule in his struggle against early poverty and in his persistent effort to overcome obstacles lying in the path leading toward industrial in- dependence. His was not a boyhood of ease and indolence nor yet a youth of large educational opportunities, but rather a period of preparation for self-support by physical labor. His rise to business prominence and praiseworthy achievement indicates the indomitable perseverance of his energetic temperament. Life offers him many opportunities for further advancement, with a future of continued activity and growing success presenting its attractive openings to his mental vision. Through his office of vice-president of the Sacra- mento Valley winery he has had a close association with one of the leading industries of the region, and he enjoys the further honor of having been among the original promoters and organizers of this well- known concern.
The early life of Charles Paule was passed in St. Clair county, Ill., where he was born August 27, 1874, and where his parents long lived and labored, the mother having been a member of a well-known family bearing the name of Weber. He was sent to the public schools from six until sixteen years of age and then spent two years as a student in a Roman Catholic school at Freeburg, St. Clair county, where he became familiar with the religious history of his chosen church. Always from youth he has been devoted to Roman Catholic doctrines, and his contributions to the work of the church have been regular and generous. Upon leaving school he began to earn his own livelihood as a farm hand and for some time he worked among the farmers of his home neighborhood. At the age of twenty-four he came to California and settled in Fresno, where he engaged in a vine- yard and winery as an assistant. From that place he came to Sacra- mento in 1903 and secured employment in the California winery, where he remained until 1910, meanwhile holding the responsible posi- tion of cellar master. When he resigned from that concern it was for the purpose of assisting in the organization of the new company, to whose gratifying growth he has contributed through his experience, energy and intelligent comprehension of every department connected with the business. Always from youth he has been an industrious worker, with little leisure for participation in public affairs or in politics ; indeed, his only part in such activities is the voting of the Republican ticket at general elections. In Sacramento, April 14, 1903, he was united in marriage with Miss Annie Frentrup, a native of Germany. They are the parents of five children, Charles, Gus, Annie, Lauren and Esta, to whom they hope to give the best educa- tional advantages offered by the splendid schools of Sacramento.
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DANIEL W. CARMICHAEL
Daniel W. Carmichael, president and general manager of the Carmichael Co., Sacramento, and president of the Sacramento Cham ber of Commerce.
In every group of men is found one man who, by his sterling worth of character and achievements, is fitted for the place of leader. Untoward circumstances may for a time prevent such a man from gaining the recognition due him, but sooner or later he comes into his own. Such a man is Daniel W. Carmichael, president of the Chamber of Commerce, realty operator and Democratic leader.
Mr. Carmichael was born in Atlanta, Ga., in the year 1867, the son of William and Evelyn (Fincher) Carmichael. His father was a southern planter and a well-known and respected man of his com- munity. He received his early education in the public schools of Atlanta, but gave up his studies at the call of the west, in 1885, to come to California, where for two years he followed the usual hardy life of the California rancher. Upon coming to California he located in Stanislaus county, working here and there and gaining experience of life among the world of men.
Ambitious, and perceiving the necessity of further education for the attainment of the career which he had laid out for himself, he entered the Stockton Business college and studied bookkeeping and business management. After a course in this institution he became bookkeeper for Kendall & Co. in 1887, in whose employ he was for five years.
In the year 1895 Mr. Carmichael organized and became a member of the firm of Curtis, Carmichael & Brand, which was incorporated the following year. This company was organized for the purpose of acquiring and developing Sacramento valley lands. In 1900 Mr. Car- michael bought out his partners' interests and the firm became Car- michael Company. As the head of this company he has handled, developed and colonized thousands of acres of Sacramento valley land. No company in Sacramento has been a larger factor in the aiding of the incoming settlers to acquire homes suitable to their taste and means.
At the present time the company is actively engaged in pushing the development and settlement of a large tract of four thousand acres known as the Carmichael Colony, located between Sacramento and Fair Oaks. This tract, which is located along the west bank of the American river, contains some of the best citrus land in the Sacramento valley and is being cut up into small farms of ten acres each.
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ity in which Mr. Carmichael is engaged. In 1899 he organized the Sacramento Oil Company, of which he is now secretary and treasurer. This corporation purchased oil lands in the Kern county oil district and sunk one of the first oil wells at Bakersfield. Some years later he became one of the organizers and directors of the Acme Develop- ment Oil Company, which corporation, as well as the Sacramento Oil Company, is now paying dividends.
In the political life of the city, county and state, Daniel W. Carmichael has for many years wielded a powerful influence. In November, 1895, he was elected treasurer of Sacramento city on the Democratic ticket, which office he held for two years. So well did he fulfill the duties of this office and so steadily had his reputation grown that in June, 1903, he was elected county treasurer, which office he held until 1907. In the intervening years his influence among Demo- cratic circles in California had developed to such an extent that in 1900 he was elected delegate to the National Democratic convention held in Kansas City, Mo., where William J. Bryan was nominated for president. At that time Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Bryan became ac- quainted, which acquaintanceship has grown with steadily increasing warmth throughout the succeeding years. In 1904 he again repre- sented his party at the national convention, being elected delegate at large from California to the convention at St. Louis, where Alton Parker was chosen to lead the Democratic ticket. It may be men- tioned in this connection that Mr. Carmichael is now president of the Wilson club, and with a gradnally increasing influence among the Democrats of this state.
For many years Sacramento has profited through the untiring efforts of Mr. Carmichael in the behalf of its semi-public organizations devoted to the upbuilding of its industries and the forwarding of its best interests. He became president of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce in 1910, which office he now holds. For eighteen years he has been a director of the same institution. Possibly no other man has done more to put this organization on the firm and efficient basis on which it now stands.
Fraternally Daniel W. Carmichael is well known. Among the various organizations with which he is affiliated may be mentioned the Masons, Odd Fellows, Elks and the Sntter club. In recognition of his ability in this line of work the State Realty Federation of California elected him president for the year 1910-11.
In 1892 Mr. Carmichael was married in Sacramento to Miss Myrtie Robb, daughter of Charles S. Robb, a well-known local railroad man, who for thirty-five years was connected with the Southern Pa- cific Railroad Company. In addition to his justly earned prominence in local business and political circles he has received a generally state- wide recognition as a power in California's business and political life, and it is not too much to say that his record during the past
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twenty-five years fully justifies any honor or recognition which the people of California may see fit to bestow upon him. He is now serving as chairman of the Panama-Pacific County Commission from Sacramento county.
BENJAMIN MARTY
The name of this sturdy Swiss farmer and stock-raiser was known to the people of Sacramento county principally through the successful identification of his sons with agricultural affairs and dairy interests. It was his good fortune to possess the splendid qualities that have given pre-eminence to the republic of Switzerland, where he was born in 1829 and where in 1866 he married Katharina Marty. In their native land they labored industriously on a small dairy farm and by frugal manage- ment earned a comfortable livelihood. They became the parents of six sons and all are now living with the exception of George, who died in the old country at the age of twelve years, and Joseph, who was accidentally drowned in the Sacramento river at the Monument ranch, March 18, 1912, at the age of thirty-nine years. All of the sons were educated in Swiss schools, trained to a knowledge of every department of agriculture and qualified to support themselves as farmers in any part of the world. They became men of excellent capacity for work and remarkable powers of physical endurance. Four of the five came to the United States and settled in Sacramento county, where they achieved a degree of success altogether commendable and certainly merited.
The eldest of the family, Antone, born January 20, 1869, was the first of the family to seek a home in the new world. Arriving in Sac- ramento April 30, 1890, he worked for three years as a day laborer on a ranch operated by his unele, Joseph Marty. With the savings of that period he bought a one-third interest in the dairy herd of his unele. This purchase did not include any interest in the land itself. In order to render possible the enlargement of the dairy the partners rented additional tracts of land. Eventually the young man became the owner of one-half of the dairy business and during 1902 he bought the remaining one-half interest, thus becoming the sole owner of the dairy. With the year 1909 the lease of twenty years expired and he sought other headquarters. Thereupon he removed to the Monument ranch, his present location. By his marriage to Miss Susie Durrer of Red Bluff he has three children, Hedwig, Antone and Adelhaide, all of whom are now students in the schools of Sacramento county. The family are honored members of the Roman Catholic Church and he holds active connections with the Young Men's Institute. In addi-
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tion he is identified with the Woodmen, Foresters, Turn Verein, Im- proved Order of Red Men and Helvetia Society, the last-named a Swiss organization of local prominence.
The only daughter in the family, Katharina Marty, was born in Switzerland January 20, 1870, and still lives near the old Swiss home- stead. Her husband, Peter Meister, a large land owner, extensive agriculturist and successful specialist in fruit, also is a man of promi- nence in public affairs and is well known throughout all of their dis- trict. There are ten children in the Meister family. The only other member of the Marty family to remain in Switzerland is the youngest brother, Frank, a young man of ability and a skilled worker in the cheese industry. Through his recognized thoroughness as a cheese- maker he has been retained in important positions and now is inter- ested in a large cheese factory in Bavaria, Germany, where much of his time is spent. He still considers Switzerland as his home, al- though business interests keep him elsewhere much of the time.
The father's namesake, Ben, Jr., born in 1871 and a resident of Sacramento county since 1891, worked for his uncle, Joseph, for some time after his arrival. During 1902 he bought a small ranch down the river and became interested in the poultry industry. By his marriage to Albertina Zuger he has one child living, Albert, four- teen years of age. Like his brothers he holds membership with the Improved Order of Red Men and the Helvetia Society. Joseph, born in 1873, came to the new world in 1892 and had the supervision of the ranch until his death in 1912. He was prominently connected with the Foresters, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Helvetia Society.
No member of the family has exhibited greater energy, more un- daunted courage and more sagacious judgment than has characterized the efforts of Martin Marty, a native of Canton Schwyz, Switzerland, born February 2, 1876, and a resident of the Sacramento valley since the year 1892, when he accompanied his brother, Joseph, to the ranch home of their uncle, Joseph. Although at the time he was a mere lad, unfamiliar with American institutions and Californian methods of agriculture, he was so willing and capable that he secured steady work without difficulty. For four and one-half years he worked at the old Sprague ranch on the Freeport road. At the time of the dis- covery of gold in the Klondike he went to Alaska, going over the Chilcoot pass with two others, carrying thirteen hundred pounds of food. On Lake Bennett they whipsawed the lumber and built two boats in which they made their way through Wildhorse Rapids and down the Yukon to Dawson. There he prospected for two years and then went to Cape Nome and other fields. During the four years of his sojourn in the north he staked out one claim that later proved to be very valuable and it was his intention to develop this, but his entire outfit was stolen and he was left without adequate means for recuperating his losses. On such small events do human destinies turn. The theft
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of his ontfit prevented him from making a fortune in the mines and he returned in 1902 little richer than when he started, yet possessing a wealth of information about Alaskan mines and that vast nnex- plored region near the Arctic seas.
After his return to Sacramento county Martin Marty with two of his brothers bonght out their uncle and located eight miles up the Sacramento river on the Yolo side, where they bought five hundred acres of bottom land. Of this they now have over four hundred acres in alfalfa, which has been improved from brush and tules, and in the year 1912 they cut four thousand tons of hay from February to De- cember. They have on this tract three hundred and fifty head of cattle, among them being two hundred and forty milch cows of the best grades. Eight dairy wagons are kept in constant use and two thousand gallons of milk are handled and sold daily, a milk boat being run from their ranch to Sacramento twice daily. The brothers also own a stock ranch of one thousand acres in Placer county. On December 3, 1904, Martin Marty married Miss Katharine Mente, a native of Austria, and of this union they have one daughter, Mar- guerite, born July 25, 1910. The family holds membership with the Roman Catholic Church, in which he is a liberal giver and active worker. Fraternally he is associated with the Foresters of America, the Improved Order of Red Men, Woodmen of the World and the Helvetia Society.
JOHN H. MILLER, JR.
Three generations of the Miller family have been identified with the growth of California and two of these have maintained prominent associations with the reportorial and journalistic history of Sacra- mento, where John H., Jr., now fills the responsible position of associate editor of the Sacramento Sunday News and of the Sacramento Valley Monthly. The journalistic instinct came to him as an inherited ac- quisition from his father, John H., Sr., a newspaper man of recognized ability and for years a disciple of the "art preservative," although having followed other occupations in the earlier years of his activity. Practically all of his life was spent in the west, for although he was born in Indiana November 25, 1848, he was only about five years old when the family came to California via the Isthmus of Panama. The arrival in San Francisco was followed by an immediate removal to Cold Springs, Eldorado county, where the child grew to manhood and received a public school education. At the age of eighteen he suc- cessfully passed an examination for a teacher's certificate and then began to teach at Coloma, Eldorado county. The occupation, however, proved only a stepping stone to other enterprises. During 1868 he
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began to build a telegraph line from Georgetown to Placerville. When the task had been accomplished he devoted his attention to the oper- ating of the line.
The purchase of the system by the Western Union Telegraph Company opened the way for John H. Miller, Sr., to come to Sacra- mento. After he had located in the city he organized the Capital Car- riage Manufacturing Company, and with a partner, Mr. Pritchard, conducted the business on Eighth and K streets. Selling out in 1878, he and his business associate bought the Phoenix Milling Company and gave their attention to the management of the plant for some years. Next we find Mr. Miller entering the field of journalism, for which he possessed a natural aptitude and in which he rose to a con- siderable degree of prominence. After having been employed as a reporter with the Sacramento Record-Union until 1892, he then ac- cepted a position as news editor of the Sacramento Bee. Resigning from this newspaper in 1907, he engaged with the Sacramento Union as manager of their office for two years. During 1909 he removed to Marysville and there he remained until his death in May of 1911, meanwhile ably filling the office of editor of the Marysville Appeal.
Both through his own personal influence and through the medium of the journalistic sheets with which he was connected Mr. Miller gave stanch aid to the Republican party. In local affairs he stood for progress. In associations with his fellowmen he stood for the exer- cise of charity, benevolence and kindliness. Principles were the ob- ject of his favor or his criticism rather than people. Measures for the upbuilding of community and state had his cordial co-operation. As a citizen he ever proved loyal, patriotic and progressive, and his memory is worthy of perpetuation in the annals of his community. His wife, whom he married at Georgetown, this state, in June of 1871, and who bore the maiden name of Ella Spencer, was a native of Eldorado county, born in 1853, and she passed away in Sacramento in 1885. They are survived by four children, of whom the only son, his father's name- sake, was born in Sacramento, June 8, 1880. Two of the daughters are married, namely: Mrs. M. M. Kimball, of Sacramento, and Mrs. H. Grimm, of Portland, Ore. The youngest daughter is employed as a clerk in the postoffice at Sacramento.
The completion of the high school course in Sacramento was marked by the graduation of John H. Miller, Jr., in 1900, after which he studied for one year in the University of California. Upon his return to Sacramento he took up the task of earning his own way in life and since then he has risen to considerable prominence in journal- istic circles, having enjoyed a connection of seven years with the Sacramento Bee, with which he worked in various positions from re- porter to assistant city editor. In 1910, having acquired an interest in the News Publishing Company, he transferred his activities from the Bee to the editorial department of the Sunday News, where he lias
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ably filled the position of associate editor and where he is making a success in this responsible capacity. Mr. Miller's marriage occurred in Sacramento October 4, 1911, to Miss Agnes Lister Strachan, a native of Scotland. From boyhood he has been a stanch believer in Republican principles. Men and measures having the support of the party have likewise his support and he has proved loyal to the prin- ciples of the organization which he favors. The Sutter club has the benefit of his active co-operation and his devotion to its labors in behalf of civic progress and municipal welfare.
FRANK J. MANNING
Notwithstanding the fact that he is still young in years Mr. Man- ning has had long experience in the laundry business. His selection for the responsible position of foreman, upon the consolidation of various companies into the Cascade laundry in 1903, was not the result of chance or any fortuitous circumstances, but a recognition of his eminent fitness for the responsible post. Ever since he first became identified with his present specialty he has given to the work intelligent study, wise discrimination and painstaking industry; these qualities have brought him a comprehensive knowledge of every detail connected with the industry, as well as a high reputation for skillful handling of such work economically but successfully. Having a deep faith in the future prosperity and growth of the Cascade laundry, he early became one of its stockholders and in 1907 the directors chose him to fill the office of vice-president, in which capacity he remains to the present, while also continuing to act as foreman.
Born at Aurora, Ill., July 30, 1876, Frank J. Manning is a son of Abner and Adelia Manning and was sent to the schools of his native city until he had acquired a thorough knowledge of the common branches. Next he entered a business college and for a year enjoyed the advantages offered by a thorough commercial course, which pre- pared him for business activities. Upon leaving college he began to assist his father in a meat market owned by the latter in Aurora, but later he left the market to clerk in a grocery and continued in that position until he determined to remove to California. After his arrival in Sacramento in 1894 at the age of eighteen years he secured work as a helper in the American laundry and this started him in the busi- ness which he has followed from that time to the present. For some years he was connected with the Union laundry, first as foreman only, but later as foreman and also as vice-president, continuing in these offices until the laundry became merged into the combination resulting in the organization of the Cascade Laundry Company.
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To one possessing such geniality of disposition an identification with fraternal bodies is a natural attribute of Mr. Manning, who finds pleasure in his active co-operation with the good works of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Foresters in Sacramento. While not a participant in partisan affairs nor a seeker for office, he maintains a warm interest in political issues and votes with the Republican party. His family consists of wife and daughter, Irene, the former, prior to their marriage in Sacramento April 9, 1901, having been Miss Caroline Urban. In citizenship he is loyal. Movements for the development of the resources of the city, county and valley of Sacramento receive his cordial support and to such he gives of his time and means and influence. While particularly well informed along the line of his specialty, this does not represent the limit of his business knowledge; on the other hand, he keeps well posted concerning every line of commercial endeavor in his city and watches with civic pride the growth of those industries whose success brings prestige and honor to his chosen community.
GEORGE N. RANDLE
The civil engineer of a modern institution, city or highway, is the creator thereof, and at least as long as it lasts his fame will last. Even if he only assisted or advised in the construction of a single building, it will stand to his memory. It is not necessary to formally. introduce George N. Randle, the subject of this sketch, at least to a Sacramento audience, where he has been a resident for upwards of sixteen years. All of this time he has been an engineer of the city and also in the state department of public works. He was born at Colusa, Cal., July 1, 1871. His father, S. W. Randle, came to this state from Illinois in 1852, crossing the plains and enduring the hard- ships of that time and trail. He first located in Colusa county and took up farming. He married the daughter of Maybury Davis, a prosperous ranch and stock man of Princeton. George N. Randle is one of a family of three children, all of whom are living. He passed through his school days, from grammar to high school, and graduated at Washington college as a civil engineer in 1892. He was connected with the state department of public works for nine years, resigning to go to the Hawaiian Islands, where he was engaged on works on the McBryde Sugar Company's plantations. Returning to Sacramento in 1905, he was appointed city engineer by Mayor M. R. Beard, and re- appointed by his successor, Mayor Clinton L. White.
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