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P. J. Kelleher
T HERE is no better known Irishman in San Francisco than P. J. Kelleher, "The Irish Tailor." He left County Kerry, Ireland, 23 years ago, going first to Philadelphia, thence to Chicago, where he remained a year, and com- ing thence to San Francisco. He was married when he was 25 years old, is now 43, and has nine children. He is associated with George A. Browne in the firm of Kelleher & Browne, The Irish Tailors.
Mr. Kelleher is the champion Gaelic dancer of the Pacific Coast, and has been president of the Original Gaelic Dancing Club for ten years. He is active in every Irish movement tending to benefit his native land, and is also prominent in many fraternal organizations. Politically he is a Democrat, but at the last election was the Union Labor Party's nominee for Public Ad- ministrator. He' was defeated by "Billy" Hynes by a small majority.
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H. L. Metcalf
H L. METCALF, one of the substantial . men in railroad circles of San Francisco and a man who is keeping step with the general march of advancement, was born in the State of New York in 1877. He did not stay long ir his native state, but migrated west and grad- uated from the University of Nebraska.
He became active in railroad circles about twelve years ago, being connected with the legal department of the Southern Pacific. Later he served in the executive department of the Pull- man Car Works. Mr. Metcalf is now Chief Clerk to Vice-President and General Manager E. E. Calvin, of the Southern Pacific Company.
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George B. Keane
G EORGE B. KEANE is one of the most prominent as well as one of the most popu- lar young men taking an active part in San Francisco's political life. He was born in San Francisco, February 26, 1875, his father being George B. Keane, a native of Ireland, who came to this city in 1850. The elder Keane was the fourth graduate from the Santa Clara (Jesuit) College, and later was instructor in chemistry in Toland Medical College at the time it became the medical department of the University of California. Mr. Keane is an attor- ney, being a graduate of the Hastings College of Law with the class of 1895. He was sec- retary to the mayor and clerk of the Board of Supervisors from 1902 to 1909, when he was elected State Senator from the Twenty-third Dis- trict, San Francisco. He has affiliated politically with the Republican and Union Labor parties.
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John O. Gantner
B ORN in California in 1868, of pioneer parents, John O. Gantner has long been identified with the business life of his native city. He is president of the Gantner & Mattern Com- pany, manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers of knitted goods, underwear and hosiery. Mr. Gantner has been in the knitting business all his life, and comes from a family of knitters. The company of which he is the present head has been in existence since 1900. The Gantner & Mattern Company employs about 275 San Fran- ciscans. Its knitted goods are sold in almost every first-class furnishing goods and department store from San Francisco to Chicago. Its retail store at Grant avenue and Post street is one of the most unique as well as one of the finest spe- cialty shops in America.
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Pierre Alexander Bergerot
P IERRE ALEXANDER BERGEROT. general counsel for the French American Bank of San Francisco, is an attorney who en- joys a wide practice and an acquaintance that extends over practically the whole of California. He was born in San Francisco on February 4, 1867, but as befitted his French ancestry, was educated at the University of France, from which he was graduated in 1889. Returning to San Francisco, he entered the Hastings College of Law, graduating from that well known institu- tion in 1892 and immediately beginning practice here.
He is one of the most influential men among the French residents of San Francisco. He was president of the Board of Education in 1899. and has been chairman of congressional and municipal conventions on various occasions. Mr. Bergerot was married in 1897 to Miss Amanda Dupuy, and has two children, a boy and a girl.
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Frederic W. Eaton
F REDERIC WARD EATON, secretary and treasurer of the Pacific States Tele- phone Company, is the son of a California "forty- niner." His parents were both New Englanders, al:d he himself was born in Boston in 1844. His father came to San Francisco in 1849, and his mother followed with her three children in 1852. Mr. Eaton was educated in the pub- lic schools here and graduated from the City College in 1860. He was in the drug business for a few years, then went to Idaho, returning in two years to go into the tobacco business here. From 1872 to 1889 he was in the grain and freighting business, entering the service of the telephone company in 1889. From 1875 to 1877 he was a member of the Board of Super- visors. He was married in 1869 to Rose L. Miller. He has one living son.
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Joseph H. Kirk
B ORN in Chicago in 1859, Joseph H. Kirk just missed being a native son, for he was brought to Marin County, California. when he was but three months old, and spen! his boyhood there. He was admitted to the bar in 1880. In January, 1887, he was ap- pointed Assistant District Attorney of San Fran- cisco, and later became Acting District Attorney. During his term as public prosecutor he took an active part in the famous trials of Alexander Goldenson, charged with murder; John A. Din- ring, accused of causing the mysterious death of Henry Benhayon, and Seneca Swahn, who was found guilty of the larceny of the McDonald jewels. Since May, 1888, Mr. Kirk has been chief counsel for the Board of Trade. He issued the first call for the meeting of the wholesale merchants after the fire of 1906 and was largely instrumental in locating sites for their immediate resumption of business. He was married Sep- tember 1, 1888, to Josephine Louise Miller, youngest daughter of James Miller of Miller Hall, San Mateo, California.
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Leo G. Kaufman
L EO G. KAUFMAN has come into promi- nence in the ranks of realty dealers in recent years, the firm of Leo G. Kaufman & Co. now standing among the foremost in the city. This is due in large measure to the work done by Mr. Kaufman since the big fire, he having been in- strumental in negotiating 216 leases during the period of re-establishing the downtown business district.
He has also organized a number of invest- ment companies, some of which have bought properties and erected substantial buildings, while others have taken fifty-year leases on ground on which they have built. In several of these Mr. Kaufman has invested his own capital, being in- terested chiefly in Market street properties.
Before coming to San Francisco Mr. Kauf- man was a prominent citizen of Bellingham, Washington, where he was president of the Mer- chants' Association. He also operated in real estate in Spokane, Washington. He is a staunch Republican, and is 41 years old. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Kaufman, reside in San Fran- CISCO.
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W ILLIAM AMBROSE BISSELL, one of the active and prominent railroad offi- cials of the Pacific Coast, holds the responsible position of assistant traffic manager of the Santa Fe system. He was born in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, his father, W. H. A. Bis- sell, having been Episcopal Bishop of Vermont from 1868 up to his death in 1893. The sub- ject of our sketch came to the Pacific Coast in May, 1868. Ten years later he was married al Sacramento to Miss Cora A. Mesick, two sons being born to them, William H. and Daniel R. Bissell. Besides his position with the Santa Fe, Mr. Bissell is president of the Livermore Water and Power Co. and vice president of the Richmond Light and Power Co. He is a mem- ber of the Pacific Union, Claremont Country, Athenian and Encinal clubs and the California club of Los Angeles.
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Charles J. Hamilton
C HARLES J. HAMILTON, undersheriff of San Francisco, was born in his home city on April 4, 1882. His parents, Samuel and Mary Hamilton, were natives of Ireland. Mr. Hamilton graduated from Sacred Heart College in 1902, and was married on May 16. 1906, to Miss Rosalie Hollohan. Two chil- dren have been born to them, both daughters, Dorothy and Marian. Mr. Hamilton is a mem- ber of the Union Labor Party.
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Llewellyn B. Dutton
F EW men have had more to do with the upbuilding of San Francisco than Llewellyn B. Dutton. His successful work in the recon- struction of a great many of the city's prominent buildings has contributed in a large measure to the present up-to-date appearance of San Fran- cisco.
Llewellyn B. Dutton was born at Elma, N. Y., Feb. 27, 1860. His father and mother were descendants of early English colonists.
At the age of 21, Mr. Dutton went to Chi- cago to study architecture under W. L. B. Jenny, and afterwards with Cobb & Frost.
He was later sent by D. M. Burnham & Co. to open an office for them in San Francisco. He put up the Merchants Exchange and Chronicle buildings.
After the big fire of 1906 he reconstructed the Crocker Bank building, built the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank, the Mechanics Savings Bank, and many other large buildings in and around the city.
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Bernard J. Joseph
B ERNARD J. JOSEPH is one of San Fran- cisco's leading young architects. He was born in this city in February, 1875. After at- tending the public schools he obtained his pro- fessional education, or rather the beginning of it, at the Technical College of San Francisco.
He was formerly employed by J. B. Kraft and by Tharp & Holmes, and to Mr. Kraft he gives the credit for most of his technical knowl- edge.
He was associated with G. Albert Landsburgh in the construction of the Orpheum Theatre, the Gunst building, and a number of other big down- town structures. He has done a vast amount of architectural work in San Francisco.
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T HE younger generation of western attorneys includes many native Californians, who have risen to considerable prominence. Among these is Harold Louderback, who was born in San Francisco on January 30, 1881.
Mr. Louderback's legal mind is a heritage, his father, who was a pioneer of '49, having been a judge in San Francisco back in the '60's. His mother, who before her marriage was Miss Frances Caroline Smith, was herself a native of San Francisco, and on both sides of his family Mr. Louderback traces his ancestry back to American colony the days before the Revolution.
Graduating from the University of Nevada in 1905, Mr. Louderback went to Harvard, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1908, being admitted to the bar in Boston, Mass., in the same year.
He at once came to California to practice. He is a Republican in politics and is first lieuten- ant of the Fourth Company, Coast Artillery Corps, National Guard of California.
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Oscar Hocks
O SCAR HOCKS, who as a member of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco has occupied a prominent place in politics, was born in Germany on September 20, 1870. He is a son of Wilhelm Hocks and Emma Gibsen, both of whom were born in his own native town of Aachen. Mr. Hocks was elected a Supervisor first in 1904, his first term expiring in 1905. He was re-elected in 1908, and again in 1910, and still holds the position. Politically he is a Demo- crat. Mr. Hocks is a merchant by profession, and is engaged in the wholesale liquor trade. He graduated from college in Germany in 1887, and was married on September 7, 1899.
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Dr. C. R. Bricca
C ONSTANTINE RAPHAEL BRICCA, widely known as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, was born in San Francisco in 1880. He is a graduate of St. Ignatius College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and also of the medical department of the University of Cali- fornia. In his special line of practice he has had extensive experience both in the East and in Eu- rope, having studied with the master minds of this particular branch of the medical profession.
Dr. Bricca was chief medical inspector of the San Francisco public schools during the last ad- ministration. having inaugurated a system of med- ical inspection and examination never before known in public school work. He resigned in the latter part of 1909. Dr. Bricca's activities have not been confined to his profession. He is president of the Harlow-Bricca Company, an exclusive mail order house doing an extensive business. He is married and has a family.
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Daniel M. Hanlon
S ON of one of the early pioneer shipbuilders of California, Daniel M. Hanlon was born in San Francisco, June 4, 1868.
Mr. Hanlon is vice-president and man- ager of the Mark Sheldon Company, prominent real estate owners of San Francisco. His com- pany built the first brick building erected in San Francisco after the fire of 1906. This stands on the old location at the corner of Kearny and Commercial streets that all old Californians will remember as the old I X L corner.
The Mark Sheldon Company started the con- struction of the Sheldon building in the late fall of 1906 and had it completed and occupied by the early part of 1908. Mr. Hanlon is a mem- ber of the Family and the Press clubs of San Francisco.
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J. Emmet Hayden
J. EMMET HAYDEN is a member of the firm of Kilborn & Hayden, proprietors of the Ferry Cafe, one of the first restaurants to be established in San Francisco following the great fire. He was born in San Francisco on July 14, 1869, and has always been a resident of this city.
While he has been an active and successful business man, his activities have not all been confined to business channels. He is a member of Tamalpais Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and has been prominent in the affairs of the order for many years.
He received his education at the College of the Sacred Heart, and was graduated from that institution in 1889.
Mr. Hayden is a member of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco.
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John Hermann
J OHN HERMANN, president of the Her- mann Safe Company, has for years figured as one of the progressive, substantial business men of San Francisco. Born in Hermannstadt, Austria, in 1857. he finished the prescribed high school course, learned his trade, and left his native city in 1874. He spent several years in the leading safe and vault factories of Europe, coming to the United States in 1882 and visit- ing the big Eastern factories. He came to San Francisco in 1883, and in 1889 started his present business in an unpretentious way in a small shop on Commercial street. Practical krowledge, persistency, hard work and honest business methods built up for him the largest safe and vault factory on the Pacific Coast. Hermann safes and vaults are installed in the new postoffice, the United States custom house, the Mint, the Appraisers' building, the Parrott Estate, Alaska Commercial ard many other buildings, besides many banks, not only in San Francisco but all over the state. They have also been in- stalled in the Portland postoffice and custom house, and in the postoffices of Oakland and Los Angeles.
Mr. Hermann is president of the German American League of California, being recently elected for a fifth term. This is the highest office that a German-American can be honored with in social and fraternal life. He is also a member of the Two Hundred Ways and Means Committee for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
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Bozo Mitrov Gopcevic
A N Austrian by birth, a Californian by adoption, a progressive, public-spirited citi- zen, who believes in the present and has faith in the future of San Francisco-this is Bozo Mitrov Gopcevic, capitalist.
Born at Orahovac, Austria, November 15, 1854, he came to San Francisco in 1877.
As proprietor of the Servian American, which was the first newspaper of its type ever published outside of Europe, he made a successful record for over twelve years.
He was appointed to a position in the United States Mint in San Francisco by President Har- rison. He also held a responsible position in the United States Land Office.
Mr. Gopcevic has always been a staunch Re- publican supporter. He stands to-day a fine example of the self-made man.
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William J. Gorham
W ILLIAM J. GORHAM, president and manager of the Gorham Rubber Com- pany, operating stores in San Francisco, Seattle, Spokane, Los Angeles, Portland and Oakland, started in the rubber business in the Goodyear Rubber Company's factory when he left school some 30 years ago. In two years' time he became superintendent of the factory, holding the posi- tion for sixteen years, when he started his pres- ent business in the old J. Hendy building, in a little 20x40 room, with a boy whom he paid $3 weekly as his sole assistant. That boy now holds one of the most responsible positions with the firm. Mr. Gorham started business with $2,000 of borrowed capital, which he paid back during his first year. The concern's last inven. tory showed assets of more than $5,800,000. The main office and store is located at No. 56 Fremont street, San Francisco, and is one of the largest rubber establishments in the country.
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Samuel G. McMeen
S AMUEL G. McMEEN is a member of the firm of McMeen & Miller, electrical engi- neers of Chicago and San Francisco, making his home in the latter city. He designed and con- structed the telephone system of the Bay Cities Home Telephone Company, all new property built since the fire of 1906. He holds the posi- tion of vice-president and consulting engineer for the Bay Cities Home Telephone Company, and is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the Western Society of Engineers. He obtained his technical training at Purdue University. Mr. McMeen says his age is one secret that he refuses to reveal, but he confesses to having a grand- daughter. He says he expects to live in San Francisco until 1986, or longer, and to pursue in the meantime his two hobbies, fishing and the telephone business.
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Louis Metzger
T HE name of Louis Metzger is one that has long been associated with active business and political life in California. Born in New York on December 28, 1856, Mr. Metzger came to California in 1866, graduating from the Lincoln Grammar School of San Francisco in 1870. For seven years he worked in the paper and stationery business, then went into business for himself, selling out in 1884 and entering a co-partnership under the firm name of Metzger & Franklin, general brokers.
For 26 years Mr. Metzger was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Iroquois Club. Twice he represented California in Democratic National conventions, and he was many times delegate to state conventions. He has been in- terested in mining development in Nevada, besides being concerned with several mercantile and manufacturing concerns in San Francisco. Mr. Metzger lost his sight in a runaway accident in 1888. He has always taken an interest in charitable and fraternal organizations.
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Charles Mortimer Belshaw
C HARLES MORTIMER BELSHAW, thrice elected to the Assembly Chamber of the California Legislature, and twice to the Senate (1895-1909) is one of the big men of the state of California. He was born at Fid- dletown, Amador County, Cal., March 11, 1861.
His father and mother were both natives of New York State, and come of a long line of old time New England stock. Senator Belshaw has always been a staunch Republican, and was elected to the Senate on the Republican ticket.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1883, and married Miriam E. White the same year.
He has extensive business interests in Califor- nia, chiefly in general merchandising and mining.
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F. W. McNear
7 THE name of McNear is one widely known in California. Fred William McNear, son of George W. McNear and A. M. Church McNear, was born in San Francisco in 1870. His parents were both natives of Maine, and the family has been known in New England for upwards of two centuries. Mr. McNear graduated from the University of California in 1889 as a Bachelor of Letters. He obtained an A. B. degree at Harvard in 1891, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the same uni- versity in 1894. He has since been a practic- ing attorney in San Francisco, and is now prom- inent in the oil producing field. He was mar- ried in 1902 to Miss Georgina Hopkins, and has two children, Edward Hopkins McNear and Fred William McNear, Jr.
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Samuel A. Moss
S AMUEL ARTHUR MOSS was born in New Berlin, Central New York, July 2, 1867. His parents were Horace O. Moss and Isabel A. Moss, nee White. In 1874 the fam- ily came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and traveled in California the following two years. Soon after that they went to Europe and traveled there for the following five years. Returning to this country, Mr. Moss entered St. John's School, near Syracuse, N. Y., where he prepared for college. From there he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, being a member of the Class of '90. In July, 1890, he married Edith Estelle Adams, of Montpelier, Vermont. They have one child, Horace W. Moss, born February 14, 1898.
Mr. Moss is interested in gold dredging, be- ing president of the Calaveras Dredging Com- pany, and is engaged in numerous mining and other enterprises in California and in Mexico, and is a member of Bohemian, University and Union League Clubs.
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Clarence M. Smith
P ROMINENT among the insurance men of the Coast who have contributed to the de- velopment of San Francisco, stands Clarence M. Smith, of the firm of Smith, Thomas & Thomas, general agents for the Northwestern Mutual Life.
Mr. Smith was born August 5, 1854, in Wisconsin, where he spent his early life on the farm. Of English, Scotch, Irish and French ancestry, Mr. Smith was endowed with the in- herent old world thrift, and upon attaining his majority had accumulated the tidy sum of $1,405 with which to begin business life.
On October 24, 1885, he arrived in Cali- fornia, and on June 1 of the following year was made general agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life for Northern California. Five years later he succeeded to the office of general agent of this company for the state of California, and on July 1, 1897, he formed the firm partner- ship of Smith, Thomas & Thomas. Under the able management of Mr. Smith the Northwest- ern Mutual Life shows a gain in business from January 1, 1897, to January 1, 1910, of from $6,915,000 to $29,264,297.
Mr. Smith is a married man and has one daughter, Margaret.
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Joseph H. Scott
J OSEPH H. SCOTT has been prominent in the public life of San Francisco for many ycars. Born in the City by the Golden Gate on March 16, 1862, he received his education in the public schools. Republican in politics, he has always enjoyed the support of the vot- ers of other parties. He was elected tax col- lector of San Francisco in 1900 as the nominee of the Regular Republican, Citizens' Repub- lican and People's Party, serving two years. On May 7, 1905, he was appointed by the mayor to fill the unexpired term ending January, 1906. On November 6, 1906, he was elected a member of the State Board of Equalization for the First District as the nominee of the Repub- lican and Union Labor parties.
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Henry J. Small
H ENRY J. SMALL, general superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Southern Pacific Company, holds this high posi- tion as the result of a lifetime of industrious and conscientious labor in the railroad service. Born it Coburg, Ontario, November 15, 1849, Mr. Small was educated in the Normal School at Toronto, entering the railway service in 1868 as a machinist for the Chicago & Northwestern.
Then with positions constantly growing in re- sponsibility and importance, he was with the Kansas Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the To- ledo, Wabash and Western, the International and Great Northern, the Galveston, Houston & Henderson, the Texas & Pacific, back again to the Northern Pacific, then to the Philadelphia & Reading, and finally to the Southern Pacific, with which he took his present position in 1902. From 1893 to 1895 he was vice-president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Donzel Stoney
D ONZEL STONEY, attorney at law, is. a native of California, his birthplace be- ing Napa and the date February 1, 1870. He is a son of Thomas P. Stoney. He graduated from the University of California in 1890, be- ing married in 1894, and having three children. Mr. Stoney is a Democrat in politics, but has never held public office nor taken an active personal interest in political affairs. While his profession is that of the law, he makes a business. of handling oil investments.
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