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G. Albert Lansburgh
P ERHAPS the architects of San Francisco more than any other class of people can be termed in truth the "Men Who Made San Francisco." They drew the plans for the actual builders to work upon, and much credit is due them for the work done since the great fire of 1906.
G. Albert Lansburgh holds an enviable po- sition among the architects of San Francisco. He was born at Panama, January 7, 1876, and is the talented son of talented parents. His mother was a famous artist, Rebecca Pyke, and his father was a prominent merchant of P. nama.
G. Albert Lansburgh studied architecture in France and graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He was also awarded aniedal by the Paris Salon in 1900.
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Edwin G. Bath
E DWIN G. BATH was born in 1879 al Bevier, Missouri, of Welsh and English parents. He graduated from the high school at Lewiston, Ill., in 1898, and later taught school for four years, at the same time taking up the life insurance business for the New York Lite Insurance Company. He continued the insurance business in Illinois until 1904, when he moved to Los Angeles as manager of a de- partment for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. A year later he was sent to San Francisco as the company's general agent of the accident and health department. He grad- uated from the Hastings College of Law in 1909, and is making a specialty of insurance law. He was married in 1904 and has one child, a daughter. Mr. Bath belongs to the University of California Club, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and Knights of Pythias. He is a Republican in politics.
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Adolph Leopold Weill
A MONG the successful lawyers and business men of San Francisco, there is probably none more deserving of being included in a work of this nature than Adolph Leopold Weill.
Mr. Weill was born in Petaluma, Cal .. Jan- uary 8, 1876, of a family that had lived in California since the golden days of 1850. To- day he is a prominent and respected citizen of San Francisco, in addition to be an able law- yer with a state-wide practice.
Mr. Weill has always been a Republican and is very strong in his political views. He grad- uated from the University of California in 1897 and from the Hastings College of Law in 1899.
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He has in late years represented large interests in the various oil fields, and went to Washing- ton as representative of the oil men in obtaining a modification of the Pickett Bill, relating to oil land entries.
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President of the Bank of Italy.
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Edgar M. Wilson
E DGAR M. WILSON was born in Fayette County, Ohio, February 22, 1855. He graduated in 1874 at the University of Woos- ter ; was admitted to practice law by the Supreme Court of Illinois in September, 1876; practiced law for three years in Chicago; and was admitted to practice law in California in June, 1880
He is descended from Virginia and Massa- chusetts Colonial families which have produced many eminent professional men, soldiers and states- men. His father and father's father were dis- tinguished clergymen of the Presbyterian church.
In July, 1888, he married Miss Maud Forbes, daughter of Alexander Forbes of San Rafael, and by her has two children, Maud and Edgar Forbes.
He has always refused public office, but has steadfastly endeavored to promote the public good. He has successfully practiced his profession in this state for thirty years.
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James Woods
J AMES WOODS, manager of the St. Francis hotel, needs no introduction in San Francisco. The work he has done in connec- tion with this splendid hostelry is known not only in San Francisco but all over the world.
Mr. Woods is the original hail-fellow-well- met and is, without doubt, one of the greatest hotel men in the world. He is an advocate of Jeffersonian Democratic principles. In 1898 he married Miss May B. Healy of San Fran- cisco.
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Walter D. Wagner
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as one of the most popular and influential office holders of Southern California, was born in San Bernardino, and in his native city rose to political prominence, being elected for three suc- cessive terms to the office of auditor of San Ber- nardino County. He is now secretary of the State Railroad Commission. His popularity has not by any means been confined to Southern California, for two of the greatest fraternal orders in the state have honored him. Long a mem- ber of the Native Sons, he held every office in Arrowhead Parlor of his home city, and then rose in the grand lodge until he became grand president. In similar fashion did he progress in the ranks of the Knights of Pythias, until he was elected grand chancellor of the California do- main. He has an acquaintance extending all over the State, and has long been recognized as one of the most efficient and painstaking clerical office holders in the Counties of California.
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E. Myron Wolf
E. MYRON WOLF, attorney-at-law, has · long been identified with insurance matters in the West. This is due, in a measure, to the fact that Mr. Wolf has made a specialty of insurance law, but in greater measure to the fact that for eight years he was State Insurance Commissioner.
Mr. Wolf was born in San Francisco on October 19, 1871. He was educated at the University of California, beginning practice here, in 1897 when he was admitted to the bar. He is a Republican politically and is vice-presi- dent of the Pacific Surety Company.
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Carlton Hobbs Wall
I T DOES not require a very great stretch of the imagination to see that those engaged in the lumber business have a good claim to be numbered among the "Men Who Made San Francisco" in the most literal sense.
Carlton Hobbs Wall is a native of California. His parents crossed the plains from Missouri in 1844 and settled in Oregon City. From there they removed shortly after to Crescent City, California, and engaged in the lumber business.
After leaving college C. H. Wall also became connected with the lumber business and built up the concern now known as Hobbs, Wall& Co.
Carlton Hobbs Wall is president of the Techau Tavern Company and of the Wall Estate Co. In addition to other business connections, he has large interests in the California oil fields.
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R. H. PEASE
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E. P. Vandercook
E DWARD PICKETT VANDERCOOK is a native of San Francisco and has made his home in this city ever since his birth here on January 31, 1864. His ancestors were among the early Dutch and English settlers in New York, in which state his father was born, his mother being a native of Michigan. Mr. Van- dercook makes a business of handling invest- ments. He is a Republican ir. politics, but has never held public office. He received his col- legiate education at Northwestern University and Amherst.
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Percy E. Towne
T HE proud possessor of one of the finest law
libraries in the state, and heir to one of the largest practices in the law profession, Percy E. Towne is considered one of the fortunate citizens of San Francisco.
Percy E. Towne was born in Chicago, Ill., August 13th, 1875. His parents were of old New England stock from Massachusetts and Vermont. He graduated from college in 1898, and became associated with Reuben H. Lloyd. When Reuben Lloyd died Percy E. Towne became his successor, and in the conduct of his large practice pays special attention to bank- ing, probate and corporation law. His office are in the Chronicle building, San Francisco.
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James Morris Troutt
J AMES MORRIS TROUTT, Judge of the Superior Court since 1890, has established a reputation for honesty and uprightness in judi cial affairs that marks him at once as a man of integrity and a judge of legal perspicuity with few equals in this country.
Judge Troutt was born at Roxbury, Mass .. Dec. 20, 1847. In 1871 he graduated from Harvard University. He was a classmate with U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, former U. S. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts.
He is a staunch Republican and one of the most respected jurists in California.
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Albert Warren Thornton
A. W. THORNTON, manager at San Fran- cisco for the London Assurance Corpora- tion and Niagara Fire Insurance Company, suc- ceeding the late Mr. Wm. J. Landers, was born at Perth, Ontario, in 1865.
After graduating from college he came to the United States and entered upon his insurance career in Minnesota in 1887 as local agent. .
Mr. Thornton came to the Pacific Coast in 1890, locating at Tacoma, from 1892 till 1901 he was special agent on the Pacific Coast for the New York Underwriters. After resigning from the New York Underwriters he entered the service of Former Manager Landers and following the San Francisco conflagration wascalled to this city by Manager Landers and placed in charge of the settlement of the agency's extensive loss claims, which were settled to the complete satisfaction of insured and company Mr. Thornton is exceedingly popular with his associates and has always taken a prominent part in matters pertaining to his calling.
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Marcus L. Samuels
M ARCUS LORNE SAMUELS, attorney- at law, was born in Oakland, California, his father, an Englishman by birth, having been one of that city's leading merchants. His mother was a native San Franciscan, and during her life- time was prominent in fraternal circles through- out the state.
Mr. Samuels was educated at the University of California. Later he studied law and was admitted to the bar. Although specializing in corporation work, particularly representing many large hotel interests, he had conducted a general practice, his offices being in the Pacific build ing.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Samuels, aside from occasional public advocacy of the party's principles, has not been an active politician, de voting his time exclusively to his business.
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W. J. MORGAN
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Isaac Henry Spiro
I SAAC HENRY SPIRO is one of the most prominent aerated beverage manufacturers on the Coast. In fact, the Majestic Bottling Company of San Francisco, which he controls does the largest soda water business west of the Rocky Mountains.
He was born in Queensland, Australia, Sep tember 30, 1863, where he spent his youth and graduated from Brisbane University.
Besides being attentive to his business, Mr Spiro has found time to be actively interested in the politics of this city. He is affiliated with the Republican party and is at present a police commissioner.
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Joseph Rothschild
O NE of the leading civil and commercial lawyers of San Francisco today is Joseph Rothschild, who was born in this city, and who graduated from the University of California be- fore going to Yale. From this latter famous uni- versity he graduated in 1879. He was then ad- mitted to law practice in Connecticut and the same year in California. He is now advocate for some of the important mercantile houses of San Francisco. He was elected to the Board of Education in 1889-1890, is a Mason, past grand president of the B'nai B'rith, past presi- dent of the Sons of Israel, president of the B'nai B'rith Hall Association, a member of the Native Sons and prominent in the Concordia and Y'ale Clubs.
He is ex-chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and in 1903 was acting chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. He is also president of the South of Market Street Improvement Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Greater San Fran- cisco Committee.
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James E. Pemberton
J' AMES E. PEMBERTON, counted among the progressive men of affairs of San Fran- cisco, writes his home address as Ukiah, Mendo- cino county, California. Born in Missouri ir 1861, he came to California as a young man and attended the Hastings College of Law, grad. uating in 1886. In that same year he was married at San Diego to Miss Emogene J. Bray- ton, three children having been the result of their union.
Mr. Pemberton established law offices ir. Ukiah, and in 1903 and 1904 was district attorney of Mendocino county. He is a Demo- crat politically, and in 1910 was the candidate of his party for the office of attorney general. His progress in his profession has been such that in recent years he has been obliged to maintain an office in San Francisco, where he is constantly increasing his number of clients and his volume of important business. He still main- tains his Ukiah office and residence, however.
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Hartley Fiske Peart
H ARTLEY FISKE PEART was born in San Francisco in 1877. His father, Ben- jamin Peart, was a pioneer mining man, being for many years associated in big mining deals with Alvinza Hayward. His mother is now a trus- tee of Mills College and a director of the Chil- drens' Hospital of this city. Mr. Peart was edu- cated in the San Francisco public schools, sub- sequently attending the University of California, whence he graduated in 1898. He then at- tended the Hastings College of Law and grad- uated from that institution in 1901, immediately afterward entering on the practice of law in San Francisco. He is a Republican in politics and is attorney for the State Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. Mr. Peart was married in June, 1909, to Miss Loretta O'Brien. He is a member of the Family Club.
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John McGaw
T HE head of the well known real estate firm of John McGaw & Company was born in Brentford, England, July 3, 1865. His father was of Scotch and his mother of English birth. Mr. McGaw left England in 1889, com- ing to America in the service of the Bank of Brit- ish North America. He first went to Montreal, was then moved to New York, where he remained for seven years, and at the end of that time was transferred to the San Francisco office of the same concern. In 1900 he quit the banking institution to become a member of the real estate firm of O. D. Baldwin & Son. Within two years both O. D. Baldwin and his son retired .4 from the business, leaving McGaw to carry it on as sole proprietor under its original name. After the big fire of 1906 the name was changed to that of John McGaw & Company. Mr McGaw was married in 1898 to Blanche E. Baldwin. They have three children.
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Augustus S. Macdonald
A UGUSTUS S. MACDONALD was born in San Francisco, being descended from an old Scotch family. He was educated in the pub- lic schools and graduated from Sackett's Col- lege. He has always been engaged in develop- ment work and has been identified with some of the largest land, power, water, mining and rail- road enterprises in the State. Mr. Macdonald in his private life has been long known as a gener- ous patron of the arts, in recognition of which he holds a life membership in the San Francisco Art Association. He owns the largest private collection of books relating to California that is in existence, and he is one of the founders of the American Historical Society on the Pacific Coast. He has also always taken an interest in the cultivation of flowers. He has held public offices as president of the Park and Playgrounds Commission of Oakland.
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John O'Donnell
J OHN O'DONNELL, attorney-at-law, was born at Belvidere, Illinois, but has been a Californian by adoption for many years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar of California in 1903. Immediately after the fire of 1906 he formed a partnership with Judge D. E. Alexander, under the firm name of Alexander & O'Donnell. The firm still con- tinues.
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John Morrisey
OHN MORRISEY who for the past J twenty years has been Manager of the Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, can truth- fully boast that his friends are legion. Every- body knows and likes "Genial John" as he is affectionately called and he always has a willing ear and a kindly handshake for every one he meets. Morrisey is to San Francisco what Beau Brummell was to London in the days of the Prince Regent for his sartorial equipment is al- ways perfect and he has long enjoyed the repu- tation of being the best dressed man in the state. In his early life he was highly successful as a singer and dancer and an immense favorite throughout the country. He has always been a careful man and has provided against a rainy day. He recently built himself a hand- some manor in the Piedmont Hills. He prob- ably knows more theatrical people than any other man in the United States and it cannot but be a consolation to him to know that the performer has yet to be discovered who has an unkind word to say of John Morrisey.
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U. S. WEBB Attorney General of California
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Smith O'Brien
S MITH O'BRIEN was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1868, and comes of a promi- nent Irish family, his mother being a sister of Sir Abraham Sutton.
He came to San Francisco in 1887 and there studied in the offices of various prominent architects. In 1902 he entered into a part- nership with F. H. Meyer under the firm name of Meyer & O'Brien. They were the archi- tects for many of the largest buildings in the city both before and after the fire of 1906. Among these buildings are the Rialto, Monad- nock, Humboldt Bank and office building, Hastings, Gallen, Foxcroft, Hotel Cadillac, and many others.
In January 1908 the partnership with F. H. Meyer was dissolved and since then Smith O'Brien has practiced his profession alone. Among the prominent buildings which he has designed are the Rucker-Fuller Desk Com- pany's building on Mission street, the Youths Directory, Burns' Hammam Baths, and the auditorium and lodge building of the Knights of Columbus.
He was married in 1899. He is a member of the Bohemian, Commonwealth and Auto- mobile Clubs, and also of the S. F. Chapter of architects and the Knights of Columbus.
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John Alfred Marsh
C OUNSELOR-AT-LAW, president of the Pierce-Arrow Sales Co., and a member of a half dozen of the leading clubs and organi- zations of San Francisco, John Alfred Marsh stands as a type of those men who have done much towards the development of our city.
Born in San Rafael, California, in 1871, he graduated from University of California with a degree of A. B. at the age of 22 years, and was admitted to the bar in 1894.
He applied his legal training and powers of organization to the automobile business and his ability was soon recognized. For several years he has been president of the Pierce-Ar- row Sales Co., and secretary and attorney for Pacific Coast Auto Supplies Jobbers' Club.
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Thornwell Mullally
T HORNWELL MULLALLY, assistant to the president of the United Railroads of San Francisco, was born at Columbia, S. C., January 17, 1868. He is a son of Francis Patrick Mullally, by birth an Irishman and one of the distinguished Presbyterian clergymen of the South.
Mr. Mullally was educated at Adger College, South Carolina, and the University of Virginia Law School, graduating subsequently from Yale with the class of 1892. He gained much college distinction as editor of the Yale Literary Maga- zine and as one of the Yale team in the debates of 1892. His brilliant scholarship won him the Thomas Glasby Waterman prize for scholar ship.
Leaving college, Mr. Mullally continued hislegal studies at the New York Law school, and began practice as soon as he graduated as a member of the firm of Arterbury & Mullally. The firm handled much big business, and Mr. Mullally, having shown great executive ability and a grasp of big affairs, was asked to cometo San Francisco in his present position.
He arrived here early in 1906, and hadhardly adjusted himself to local conditions when came the great disaster that threw the city into chaos. No greater testimonial of Mr. Mullally's ability as an executive can be given than to relate that within twenty-four hours after the earthquake and fire had laid the city's business section in ruins, he had the street cars running in Fillmore street on their regular schedule.
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Roy Bernard Lindsay
R OY BERNARD LINDSAY is a widely known member of San Francisco's younger business set, and has won his standing in the business community by unswerving attention to his duties. He has never held public office, nor has his time permitted him to take more than a passive interest in politics. Mr. Bernard was born in Wisconsin on February 6, 1876. He has lived in this State for many years. He is manager of the Johnson Service Company for California and Nevada, and has offices in the Monadnock building.
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Dr. C. A. Glover
D R. COSMOS A. GLOVER is one of the most widely known of Native Sons. He was born in San Francisco on June 5, 1873. His mother was a native of Ireland, while his father, Andrew Glover, who was born in Austria, has been for forty-three years official interpreter of languages in the criminal courts of San Francisco, having been for ilve- years before that time a police officer. Dr. Glover graduated from the University of Calı- fornia Medical Department in 1894. For five years he was a surgeon in the Emergency Hospi- tal service, and is now autopsy surgeon to Coroner Walsh. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Native Sons, Young Men's Institute, Red Men, Druids and Eagles, besides being physician for each of these fraterni- ties. He was married in 1897 to Lottie L. Bralich, and has two children, a boy aged 11 and a girl aged 9.
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William H. Toepke
W ILLIAM HENRY TOEPKE, architect, was born in San Francisco on July 12, 1870. He attended the public schools of the city, and then entered the office of William Mooser in 1886 to study architecture. Four years later he became an employee of C. I. Havens, with whom, in 1897 he formed a part- nership under the name of Havens & Toepke. He has designed many beautiful residences both in San Francisco and down the Penin- sula, notably at San Mateo, Menlo Park and Palo Alto. Among prominent buildings he has designed since the fire of 1906 are the Mackey building, the Doe Estate Co. block, and the office building for the Hornlein In- vestment Company. He is a member of the San Francisco chapter of Architects and an associate member of the American Institute of Architects.
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George H. Stoffels
G 1 EORGE HENRY STOFFELS, man- ager of the George H. Stoffels Co., build- ers, is one of the younger set of business men who has advanced with rapid strides since embark ing in the local field. Mr. Stoffels was born on December 23, 1876, in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was a native of Germany, while his mother was born in Freeport, Ill. Mr. Stoffels early became interested in building, and through work in every department of it became a master ol the business. He arrived in San Francisco or: November 6, 1906, and in the rebuilding period since the fire has succeeded in making his firm one of the prominent ones in its line. Mr. Stof fels was married on October 10, 1899, to Miss Huldah J. Nelson.
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James D. Phelan
J AMES D. PHELAN has been active since the disaster of 1906 in public work and private enterprise. After the disaster, he was elected Chairman of the Relief and Red Cross Funds, and was designated by President Roose- velt as the custodian of the Relief Funds, amount. ing to $9,000,000. He has also served under Mayor Taylor's administration as a member of the Board of Park Commissioners, and was sent by the Board of Supervisors as chairman of a committee of citizens to appear before Congress in behalf of the Hetch Hetchy water supply The House committee reported favorably just before Congress adjourned, and the people voted for the bonds.
Mr. Phelan has erected one of the largest and best equipped office buildings in San Fran- cisco, and he has engaged in much construction work both in San Francisco, San Jose, and other places. He is President of the Mutual Savings Bank, and the Hall Association of the Native Sons. He is prominent also in the management of the First National Bank, which erected one of the handsomest bank buildings down town Mr. Phelan is a San Franciscan, and has always been devoted to the welfare of his native city, which he served as Mayor for five years. His activities are multifarious.
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