Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1881, Part 17

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Publication date: 1880
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Officers .- Augustino Calamira, President; S. Deneri, Vice-President ; G. B. Solari, Secretary; A. Deluchi, Treasurer.

SEAMAN'S BOARDING MASTERS' ASSOCIATION. -Organized January 1, 1873. Objects: Mutual pro- tection and support, and to sustain the United States Shipping Law, approved June 7, 1872. All saflor boarding-house keepers, duly licensed under the laws of the State of California, may become members, The society now numbers twenty-five. Meets first Monday of each month at 603 Front street.

Officers .- Thomas Chandler, President; Edwin Lewis, Vice-President; Richard Chute, General Man- ager.

SEAMEN'S PROTECTIVE UNION OF SAN FRAN- CISCO .- Organized February 1, 1878. Incorporated May 11, 1878. Number of members, eleven hundred. Meets every other Friday evening at 54 Sacramento street.

Officers .- James Carr, President; O. Swenkanson, Vice-President ; J. D. Griffiths, Recording Secretary; James Carr, Treasurer.

SECURITY SAVINGS BANK .- Incorporated March, 1871. Capital stock, $300,000. Office, 215 Sansome street.

Officers .- (Vacant), President ; Jerome Lincoln, Vice-President ; Winfield S. Jones, Secretary.

SHIP AND STEAMBOAT JOINERS' ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized March 21, 1857. Re-organized June 3, 1864. Meets second Friday of each month at place designated in call.

Officers .- Peter R. Black, President ; T. F. Cranmer, Vice-President ; James D. Galloway, Secretary.

SOCIETE CULINAIRE COSMOPOLITE DE SE- COURS MUTUEL .- Organized Sept. 4, 1876. Num- ber of members, fifty-eight. Mests first Monday of every month at 508 Bush street.

Officers .- August Portal, President ; Henry Le Clair, Vice-President ; Henry F. Tyson, Secretary ; Joseph Mouthon, Treasurer.

SOCIETY OF GERMAN PHYSICIANS .- Organized 1869. Number of members, thirteen. Meets first Tuesday of each month at eight o'clock P. M., at 29 Kearny street.

Object: Advancement of medical science. .

Officers .- Adolph Barkan, M. D,, President ; Adolph Aronstein, M. D., Secretary.

STONE CUTTERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION .- Organized May, 1863. Number of members, one hundred and thirty-five. Meets first Wednesday of each month, at Irish-American Hall, 818 Howard street.

Officers .- Peter Hopkins, President ; William Lewis, Vice-President ; Francis Mclaughlin, Corresponding Secretary ; James McFarland, Treasurer.

TAILORS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized Sep- tember 29, 1873. Number of members, one hundred. Meets second and fourth Monday of each month at

Humboldt Hall, southwest corner of Morton and Kearny streets. Objects: The better protection'of the trade and to promote the interests of its members.

Officers .- Peter Shultzberg, President ; John Petch, Vice-President ; Charles J. Anderson, Recording Sec- retary ; Louis Bruneiti, Treasurer.

TRADERS' ' ASSOCIATION .- Organized May 13, 1862. Meets quarterly.

Officers .- Charles Kohler, President ; Fabian Joost and Nicholas Bruns, Vice-Presidents ; A. A. Hobe, Secretary : John Wieland, Treasurer.

UNITED WORKINGMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURING CO .-- Incorporated January 13, 1868. Number of members, thirty. Capi- tal, $80,000. Office and depot, 416 Market street.

Officers .- J. D. Sullivan, President ; John Markham, Vice-President; William Rosie, Secretary ; Dennis McCarthy, Treasurer.

WAITERS' COSMOPOLITAN SOCIETY OF CALI- FORNIA .- Meets first Tuesday of each month at San Francisco office, 508 Bush street (Café Lafayette). Number of members twenty-five.

Officers .- Charles Pinot, President ; A. Jourdain, Vice-President ; Jean L. Bordes, Treasurer ; Henry F. Tyson, Secretary.

Literary, Historical, Etc.

ADELPHI SOCIETY .- Organized June 30, 1874. Number of members, about forty. Meets every Fri- day evening during the term of college, at Academy of Sciences Hall, southwest corner California and Du- pont streets.

This society was organized by the students of the California College of Pharmacy, for the especial pur- pose of discussing the lectures of the faculty, and their mutual improvement in matters appertaining to pharmacy.

Officers .- Fred. Graser, Ph. D., President ; Charles Elwert, Ph. D., Vice-President; Samuel Oberdiener, Secretary ; John Perry, Treasurer.

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES .- Organ- ized April 22, 1853. Number of members, five hun- dred. Academy Building, southwest corner of Cali- fornia and Dupont streets.

Officers and Council. - Prof. George Davidson, President; J. P. Moore, First Vice-President;' Her- mann Behr, Second Vice-President; S.B. Christy, Corre- sponding Secretary; Charles G. Yale, Recording Sec- retary; Elisha Brooks, Treasurer; C. Troyer, Libra- rian; W. G. W. Harford, Director of Museum; B. B. Redding, Robert E. C. Stearns, William Ashburner, Thomas P. Madden, George E. Gray, J. M. McDonald, and Ralph O. Harrison, Trustees. Secretary's address, Charles G. Yale, Mining and Scientific Press, 414 Clay street.

Curators-Dr. Albert Kellogg, Botany; Dr. A. B. Stout, Entomology and Osteology; Henry Chapman, Mammals and Birds; W. N. Lockington, Fishes, Rep- tiles, Crustacea, and Radiates; Herman Behr, Ento- mology; Josiah Keep, Conchology ; Amos Bowman, Geology and Palaentology; C. D. Gibbes, Mineral- ogy.

Committee on Publication-Robert E. C. Stearns, George Davidson, and Charles G. Yale.

The regular stated meetings of the Academy are held on the first and third Mondaya of each month. The regular stated meetings of the Board of Trustees and meetings of the Council take place twice a month.

CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. - Incorpo- rated July 14, 1870. Number of members, fifty. An- Dual meeting at College of Santa Clara, on day of commencement. Objects: Cultivation of the history, antiquities, and ethnography of the west coast of America, and the publication of early relations and documents connected therewith. Rooms, 323 Cali- fornia street.

Officers .- Rev. A. Varsi, Charles H. Sawyer, Tibur- cio Parrott, and John T. Doyle, Trustees; Ralph O. Harrison, secretary.

CALIFORNIA PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY AND COLLEGE OF PHARMACY .- The society was incor-

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porated December 10, 1871. The college wsa incorpo- rated August 7, 1872, and affiliated with the Univer- aity of California June 18, 1873. The society and college were consolidated January, 1878. Lectures given at the Hall of Academy of Sciencea, southwest corner of California and Dupont streets, for a term of six months, commencing Tuesday, May 3d, 1881.

The main object of the institution is to unite the apothecaries of this State in organized efforts to ele- vate the standing of those engaged in the profession, by raising the qualification of its members. This is sought to be accomplished by giving instruction, by lectures and otherwise, in those branches of science on which depend the practice of pharmacy. Four chairs have been established in the College, viz., Chemistry, Botany, Materia Medica and Pharmacy. The society meets quarterly or oftener for the discus- sion of topica of scientific and practical interest to the pharmacist.

Officers .- Emlen Painter, President; S. A, McDon- nell, First Vice-President; J. H. Dawson, Second Vice- President ; E. A. Schreck, Recording and Correspond- ing Secretary; William J. Bryan, Treasurer; William M. Searby, Editor; P. L. Vreeland, Librarian and Cu- rator; Emlen Painter,, S. A. McDonnell, John Cal- vert, A. L. Lengfeld, E. A. Schreck, Fred. C. Keil and William J. Bryan, Trustees.

CALIFORNIA RIFLE ASSOCIATION. - Incorpor- ated June. 1875. Objects : To encourage rifle prac- tice ; to promote a system of armory drill and target firing among the National Guard; and to provide a suitable range for the use of the members of the As- sociation. Office, 523 Pine street.

Officers .- Gen. John McComb, President; Major A. F. Klose, Vice-President; Sergeant Ed. J. Smith, Sec- retary ; Colonel A. Andrews, Treasurer; Lieut. C. P. Le Breton, Capt. J. H. Robertson, Lieut. M. N. Lsu- fenberg, Major A. F. Klose, Cspt. John F. McMenomy, Lieut. John P. Warren, Capt. A, J. Fritz and Corporal T. E. Carson, Directors.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS. - Incorporated March, 1876. Objects: To educate Cali- fornia boys and girls in the mechanical arta and trades. Has an endowment of $475,000, left by James Lick, which has not yet been paid over.

Officers-Horace Davis, William Ashburner, Lor- enzo Sawyer, J. D. B. Stillman, and A. S. Hallidie, Trustees.

CALIFORNIA STATE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY -- Incorporated December 27, 1876. Number of mem- bers, sixty. Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month, at rooma of State Mining Bureau, 313 Pine street. Object: To make a Pacific Coast geological collection, to be offered to the State of California gratis, upon such terms and conditions as the Society may determine, and as may be agreed upon, and to encourage the study of geology in all its branches.

Officers .- Henry G. Hanks, President; F. Vassault, Vice-President; S. Heydenfeldt, Jr., Secretary.

CALIFORNIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SO- CIETY .- Organized September, 1879. Number of members, one hundred. Meetings held the last Fri- day of each month at rooms of the Academy of Sci- ences, southwest corner of California and Dupont. Objects: To promote the science and practice of hor- ticulture in all its branches. Secretary's office, 414 Clay street.

Officers .- E. W. Hilgard, Berkeley, President; J. V. Webster, Fruit Vale, Vice-President ; G. P. Rixford, San Francisco, Treasurer; E. J. Wickson, San Fran- cisco, Secretary.

CALIFORNIA WING SHOOTING CLUB .- Organ- ized 1871. Number of members, twenty-two. Meeta monthly at law office of Robinson, Olney and Byrne, 310 Pine street.

Officers .- Crittenden Robinson, President ; M. W. Stackpole, Vice-President; C. H. Catton, Secretary ; H. J. Brand, Treasurer.

FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC .- Organized February, 1876. Meeta third Tuesday of February, May, August and November, at rooms 418 California street. Object: Mutual im- provement.

Officers .- Louis L. Bromwell, President ; George A. Grant, Vice-President; James W. Staples, Secretary

and Treasurer; George W. Spencer, C. Mason Kinne and E. W. Carpenter, Executive Committee.

HASTINGS' DEBATING SOCIETY. - Organized September 1, 1878. Number of members, about sev- enty. Meets at Academy of Sciences, corner of Cali- fornia and Dupont streets, every Thursday evening.

Officers .- H. H. Davis, President ; J. Rosenthal, Vice-President ; J. P. Kelly, Recording Secretary ; A. W. Kaplan, Corresponding Secretary ; D. I. Mahoney, Treasurer.

JUNIOR PHILHISTORIAN SOCIETY .- Organized October, 1877. Meets every Monday afternoon at St. Ignatius College.

Officers .- J. J. Cunningham. S. J., President; Jo- seph A. McGeary, Vice-President; Joseph A. Lynch. Recording Secretary; F. P. Hughes, Corresponding Secretary; M. J. Kast, Treasurer; S. Vulicevich, Li- brarian.

LIGUE NATIONALE FRANCAISE .- Organized Au- gust 4, 1871. Meets third Monday of each month, st 120 Sutter street. Objects: To promote friendship, harmony, and intelligence among the French resi- dents of California, and enable them to co-operate in enterprises of general importance.

Officers .- Daniel Levy, President; E. Raas, First Vice-President; Henry Payot, Second Vice-President ; Paul Husson, Treasurer ; C. Meyer, and R. Blum, Sec- retaries.

The library belonging to the society contains about eleven thousand volumes, all voluntary donations. Any person may have access to the reading room, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees and paying an initiatory fee of one dollar, and fifty cents monthly, due in advance. Open every day from twelve to six o'clock P.M., and from half-past seven to ten o'clock . P. M., except Sundays and legal holidays.

Officers .- Daniel Levy, Librarian; Emile Marque, Second Librarian; P. Husson, Treasurer ; E. Francoz, Secretary.

MARINERS' FREE READING ROOM .- Northeast corner of Sacramento and Drumm streets. Estab- lished March 21, 1876, for the purpose of affording mariners visiting thia port, and others, opportunity of reading the local, Eastern, and foreign newspapers, and periodicals, free of charge. A library is also in course of formation, towards which already over five hundred volumes have been donated.

Officers .- Henry Chester, President; Charles Ferris, Treasurer: W. D. Bishop, Secretary and Librarian.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE .- Organized March 29, 1855. Location, 27 Post street.

The objects of this institute are the establishment of a library, reading room, collection of a cabinet, scientific apparatus, works of art, and other literary and scientific purposes. The society has s Reading Room well supplied with the leading scientific and literary periodicals of the day, and a valuable library containing thirty thousand volumes, including many rare scientific works. Among these is a complete set of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soci- ety, the full collection of Annales des Ponts et Chaus- sees, the full set of British Patent Office Reports (three thousand five hundred volumes). Dingler's Polytech- nisches Journal, Poggendorf'a Annalen, Guy's Hos- pital Reports, etc., etc. Any person may become s member, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees, and paying an initiation fee of one dollar, and one dollar and fifty cents quarterly dues in advance.

Officers .- G. B. Cornwall, President; A. W. Star- bird, Vice-President ; J. A. Bauer, Treasurer ; James Spiers, Corresponding Secretary ; E. Fretwell, Re- cording Secretary ; Horace Wilson, Librarian ; Arthur Jellison and J. S. Harville, Assistant Librarians.

MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION .- Organ- ized January 24, 1853. New Mercantile Library Build- ing, north side of Bush street, between Sansome and Montgomery.

The rooms of the association are commodious and well arranged. The library contains about fifty-two thousand volumes, and the reading rooms are amply supplied with papers and magazines from the Eastern States and Europe. The terms of membership are one dollar initiation fee, and three dollars per quarter in advance.

Officers .- Edward Gray Stetson, President; J. H. Wildes, Vice-President ; Albert Gerberding, Record-

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SOCIETIES.

ing Secretary ; William J. Dutton, Corresponding Sec- retary ; Henry Molineanx, Treasurer ; A. E. Whitaker, Librarian ; L. B. Wetherbee and G. Schwartzman, Jr., Assistant Librarians : John Williams, Collector.

MILITARY LIBRARY .- Incorporated January 3, 1873, for the purpose of acquiring, preserving and con- ducting a public library, to consist chiefly of books, magazines and newspapers of a military character. There are one thousand volumes and two hundred maps.

Officers .- John McComb, Archibald Wason, George W. Grannlas, W. R. Smedberg, Sheldon I. Kellogg, Jr., Samuel W. Backus, Charles M. Gilmore, David Wilder and P. R. O'Brien, Directors ; John McComb, Presi- dent; David Wilder, Secretary and Librarian. Office 328 Montgomery street, room 21.

NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST .- Or- ganized July 11, 1875. This Society is composed en- . tirely of young men native to the State and born since July 7, 1846, the day upon which the American flag was raised at Monterey by Commodore Slost, snd has for its object, aside from its social character, the preservation of the traditions inseparably bound up in the pioneer history of the State.

A Grand Lodge was instituted in December, 1878, which will hereafter meet annually in June.

Officers .- Frank J. Higgins, Grand President ; F. D. Ryan, Grand Vice-President ; Joseph Becht, Grand Treasurer ; H. Lunstedt, Grand Secretary ; A. L. Sam- son, Grand Lecturer; Frank G. Wisker, Grand Chap- lain.

One subordinate Parlor has been organized in San Francisco, viz :

PARLOR No. 1 .- Meets every Thursday evening st Red Men's Hall, 320 Post street. Number of mem- bers, one hundred.

ODD FELLOWS' LIBRARY ASSOCIATION - Organized December 30, 1854. Rooms, 325 Montgom- ery street.

The library contains nearly thirty-eight thousand volumes in the various departments of literature, in- cluding one of the most extensive collections of works on the early history of the Pacific Coast. It also contains what is believed to be the most com- plete and valuable cabinet of minerals, etc., in the State.

Officers .- Colin M. Boyd, President; Daniel Mc- Laren, Vice-President ; E. W. Nohl, Recording Secre- tary ; L. L. Dennery, Corresponding Secretary; Wil- liam H. Watson, Treasurer; George A. Carnes, Libra- rian ; Thomas Cleary, and Henry C. Johnson, Assist- ant Librarians.

PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA .- This Order was first organized in Philadelphia in 1847. In 1866 the Order was reorganized and placed upon a more substantial basis, and its membership now seek to locate a camp in every town in the United States. It has for its objects the inculcation of pure Ameri- can principles ; the opposition to foreign interference with State interests in the United States of America ; the cultivation of a fraternal and brotherly love ; the preservation of the Constitution of the United States, and the propagation of free education.

Five Camps of the Order have been established in this city, viz. :

WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 1 .- Instituted October 7, 1877. Meets every Tuesday evening at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.

WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 2 .- Instituted April 11, 1878. Meets every Monday at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.

WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 4 .- Instituted May 30, 1879. Meets every Wednesday at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street,

WASHINGTON CAMP. No. 7 .- Instituted December 18, 1879. Meets every Thursday evening at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.

WASHINGTON CAMP NO. 9 .- Instituted May 23, 1880. Meets every Wednesday evening at King's Hall, 2131 Mission street.

GOLDEN GATE COMMANDERY .- Blue Degree, or high- est branch of the Order-was instituted December 14. 1880. Meets every Friday at Washington Hall, 35

Eddy street. A. T. Enos, Commander; G. L. Mer- guire, Scribe.

STATE CAMP .- Was instituted December 15, 1880.

State Officers .- Jacob F. Miller, Past President ; C. L. Weller, President ; George West, Vice-President ; A. W. Craig, M. of F. and C .; A. K. Hollis, Secretary. Office, 2208 Mission street.

PEOPLE'S FREE LIBRARY, THE .- Organized 1879. Location north side of Bush street, between Kearny and Dupont streets.

This institution was provided for in the Act passed by the Legislature of 1877-8, authorizing the creation and maintenance of free libraries, and empowering the Supervisors to levy a tax of not exceeding one mill on the dollar for their support. This provision in the city of San Francisco would permit of ap- propriations to the amount of $250,000 annually, but in view of the burden of the already large rate of taxation, the appropriation for the fiscal year was fixed at $26,000. Pacific Hall, on Bush street, was selected for the library. Albert Hart was appointed Librarian, and $9,456 worth of books purchased, and others donsted, and on the evening of June 7, 1879, the library was formally opened. It contained at that time about 6,162 volumes, magazines, periodi- cals not included, together with a newspaper depart- ment, embracing papers from every county of the State, and from all the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast. Such is & synopsis of the beginning of the Free Public Library. During the past year, the library has been improved in every department, and 35,000 new books purchased and added to tha already large collection, and the facilities for circu- lating the same greatly improved. The library is open for reading from 9:30 A. M. to 9:30 P. M.

Officers .- George H. Rodgers, President; Andrew J. Moulder, Secretary ; F. B. Perkins, Librarian ; T. B. Bishop, John S. Hager, A. S. Hallidie, Charles Kohler, J. H. McDonald, George H. Rodgers, E. D. Sawyer, Irving Scott, Charles C. Terrill, R. H. Tobin and John H. Wise, Trustees.

PHILHISTORIAN DEBATING SOCIETY .- Organ- ized October, 1863. Number of members, twenty. Meets every Wednesday afternoon at St. Ignatius Col- lege.

Officera .- M. J. Shallo, S. J., President; James D. Phelan, Vice-President; John J. Montgomery, Secre- tary ; Joseph J. Dunne, Treasurer; Joseph Hughes, Librarian.

SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION .- Organized March 28, 1871. Objects: The promotion of painting, sculpture, and fine arts akin thereto, the diffusion of & cultivated taste for art in the community at large, and the establishment of an academy or school of de- sign. Membership in this society, which has now about six hundred contributing, one hundred and fifty life, and nine honorary members, is open to all lovers of art. Regular members' meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of March, June, Septem- ber, and December, in the rooms of the society, 430 Pine street. Annual election of officere last Tuesday in March of each year.

Officers-Daniel Cook, President; J. W. Rix snd A. McF. Davis, Vice-Presidents ; Samuel Purdy, Sec- retary : J. R. Martin, Assistant Secretary ; Bank of California, Treasurer ; Charles F. Crocker, P. A. Fin- nigan, Samuel M. Brooks, Robert Johnson, William Keith, and Edward L. G. Steele, Board of Directors.

The School of Design connected with the associa- tion was organized December 31, 1873. The school has sixty-one pupila. Its affairs are managed by a committee of members of the Art Association. Virgil Williams, Director of School.

SAN FRANCISCO BAR ASSOCIATION. - Organ- ized April 20, 1872. Number of members, about two hundred. Objects: To maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice, and to cultivate social intercourse among its members. Rooms 634 Sacramento street and 633 Com- mercial street.

Officers .- H. J. Tilden, President ; J. L. Crittenden and Joseph Rothschild, Vice-Presidents; A. P. Nee- dles, Secretary and Tressurer.

SAN FRANCISCO LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. -Organized 1865. Library contains about twenty

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thousand volumes. Rooma 27 and 28 Montgomery Block.

Officers-J. P. Hoge, President; Joseph W. Winana, Treasurer; John De Witt, Secretary and Librarian.

SAN FRANCISCO LONG RANGE, RIFLE CLUB (Amateur) .- Organized 1877. Number of members, thirty. Shooting every Saturday at range, Bay View, where the club has their club house.

Fred. G. Blinn, Secretary.

SAN FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY .- Organized April 5, 1872. Incorporated August 30, 1872. Number of active members, thirty. Meets first and third Thursdays of each month at 120 Sutter street, room 44. Object: The study of microscopical science on the Pacific coast.

Officers .- C. Mason Kinne, President ; William Nor- ris, Vice-President ; Charles E. Denison, Recording Secretsry ; Charlea W. Banks, Corresponding Secre- tary ; George C. Hickox, Treasurer.

SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS .- Organ- ized August, 1850. " Rooms, 808 Montgomery street.

The expressed objects of the society are to collect and preserve information connected with the early settlement and subsequent conquest of the country, and to perpetuate the memory of those whose saga- city, energy and enterprise induced them to settle in the wilderness and become the founders of a new State. All who were in California prior to the first day of January, 1850, are eligible to membership. Any who have rendered distinguished or important servicea to the society or State, may be admitted as honorary members. The roll of the society embraces the names of over twenty-three hundred members. Regular meetings of the society take place on the first Monday of esch month. Annual election of officers on the seventh day of July, the anniversary of the conquest of California, and of the raising of the American flag on its soil. Annual celebration on the ninth of September, the anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. The Society is pos- seased of & library, an excellent cabinet of minerals, relics of early times, and various other objects of interest.

Officera .- Joseph G. Eastland, President; R. P. Johnaon, San Francisco, Samuel Purdy, San Frau- ciaco, John 'Strentzel, Martinez, Henry M. Naglee, San José, and Alexander Campbell, Oakland, Vice- Presidents ; Ferdinand Vassault, Secretary ; How- ard Havens, Treasurer ; William Huefner, Marshal.

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Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1881, Part 17

Author: Publication date: 1880 Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co. Number of Pages: 1174

Author:
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
Number of Pages: 1174