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H. V. RAMSDELL Mr. Ramsdell is Manager of the Bullock & Jones Tailoring Co.
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Hamden Holmes Noble
NE of San Francisco's most prominent busi- ness men is Hamden H. Noble the presi- dent of the Northern California Power Company.
Mr. Noble has long been a resident of San Francisco, and has been identified with im- portant business enterprises in California.
He was a leading broker in San Francisco in the days of the Comstock boom, and is reputed to have made a great deal of money in those days.
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Mr. Noble was born at Fairfield, Maine, Au- gust 16, 1844. He is a staunch Republican in politics and believes in good government. It was he who started the Cypress Lawn Ceme- tery Association. He also organized the Kes- wick Electric Power Company, which has been merged into the Northern California Power Com- pany, and in addition to being president of this company, he is also president of the Noble Elec- tric Steel Company.
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JAMES A. DEVOTO
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Matthew O'Brien
M ATTHEW O'BRIEN is a member of the architectural firm of O'Brien & Werner, one of the most prominent in its line in the en- tire city. He is a native of San Francisco and for the past ten years has been practicing his profession here. Since the great fire he has planned and superintended the construc- tion of many big buildings, among them being the following :
Princess Theater, Valencia Theatre, Garrick Theatre, Scottish Rite Temple, Sutter and Van Ness Avenue; Scottish Rite Temple, Oak- land; C. J. Heeseman Building, Oakland; Golden Eagle Hotel, apartment house for the Biber Estate, new Lowell High school, and many others.
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GARRET W. McENERNEY Mr. McEnerney is a well known Attorney of San Francisco.
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M ORRIS MEYERFELD, JR., president of the Orpheum Circuit is one of San Francisco's most prominent and patriotic citizens and is always enthusiastically energetic in fur- thering the success of any movement for the ad- vancement of this city. He is indeed a man of affairs and has in addition to his theatrical en- terprises extensive property interests in different parts of the state. Mr. Meyerfeld is also a di- rector of the Anglo and London, Paris National Bank and a member of the Concessions and Ad- missions Committee of the World's Fair. He is active in social life and belongs to the Union League and several other leading local clubs. Although a clever and successful business man Mr. Meyerfeld is immensely popular and has won the approbation and esteem of those he has been brought in contact with by his just and, at the same time, generous methods.
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T. C. JUDKINS
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Frank Murphy
O NE of the most widely known and most able lawyers of the state of California, and one who has figured in as many important cases in the state as any member of the Cali- fornia Bar is Frank Murphy.
Frank Murphy was born at Elmira, N. Y., December 14, 1872. He came to California in 1895, and took up his residence in Watson- ville, where he soon demonstrated his ability in the practice of the law.
He continued to practice in Watsonville un- til his reputation outgrew the possibilities of a town of a few thousand inhabitants, and in 1901 he moved to San Francisco.
He has since been very prominent in munici- pal affairs, and today is one of the most popu- lar lawyers in the state of California.
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L. C. MULLEGARTH
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W. L. Hughson
W ILLIAM LEONARD HUGHSON is president of the Standard Motor Car Company and of Hughson & Merton, Inc., rep- resentatives of Eastern manufacturers in hard- ware, automobile sundries and automobiles. He was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1869, com- ing to California twenty years later and living here for a year. He then returned to Buffalo, but in a few months grew homesick for San Francisco and came back to this city, where he has made his home ever since. His pres- ent business was started in 1892 in very humble style. Now it has branch offices all over the Pacific Coast and handles gross sales aggregat- ing one million dollars annually.
The firm suffered great loss in the fire of 1906, but has since fully recuperated. Mr. Hugh- son was an active assistant to Mrs. Merrill, act- ing president of the Red Cross, directly after the fire. He also erected the first frame busi- ness building in Market street following the con- flagration. He is actively aiding the collection of funds for the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Mr. Hughson holds many positions of im- portance in the business world, being a direc- tor in a number of corporations. He is married and has two children.
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J. E. White
I AMES EVANS WHITE is a native of Iowa, having been born in that state on November 8, 1870. He lived there until 1896, when he came to California. He had previously obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree at Cornell College, Iowa, and after arriving in this state he attended the Hastings College of Law, gradu- ating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1902. Since that time he has been practicing his pro- fession in San Francisco, having offices in the Monadnock building. He is a Republican in politics, affiliating with the independent wing of the party. He was married in 1904 to Miss Lela Allen of Riverside. Mr. White is a mem- ber of the University of California and Common- wealth Clubs, the Bar Association of San Francisco and of the State and the Methodist Epis- copal church, and has been general secretary and president of the California Christian Endeavor Union and vice-president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union.
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WALLACE A. WISE Well known Attorney of San Francisco
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Percy W. Treat
P ERCY WEBSTER TREAT is secretary of the California Jockey Club. A son of Webster and Hannah J. Treat, he was born in Franklin, Maine, November 26, 1866. His great-great grandfather, Robert Treat, was colonial governor of Connecticut, and the family genealogical tree can be traced back 400 years in America and Eng- land. Mr. Treat's father was one of the prominent fruit growers of California during his lifetime, owning ranches in Butte, Yolo, Yuba and Contra Costa Counties. He was one of the charter members of the California Fruit Grow- ers' Association. Mr. Treat is widely known all over the West. He was married in 1893 to Miss Sara A. Slayback, and has a daughter, Miss Cecil, who is sixteen years old.
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Frank B. Anderson
F RANK BANTOW ANDERSON is president of the Bank of California. He was born in Macon, Georgia, July 15, 1863, being a son of George Wayne and Katherine Berrien Anderson, and being descended from Highland Scotch and French Huguenot an- cestry. Mr. Anderson received his education in New York State. He has been prominently identified with California banking interests for many years, and besides his present position is a director in a number of corporations. Being born in the South in the midst of war times, Mr. Anderson is naturally a Democrat. He was married in 1882 to Miss Elizabeth Jad- win, and has one child, a son 22 years old.
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Robert J. Tyson
R OBERT JAMES TYSON is one of San Francisco's leading bankers, and as such occupies a prominent place in the western bank- ing world. He is president of the Seaboard National Bank, and in addition is president of the Calistoga National Bank and vice-president of the Bank of Sausalito.
Mr. Tyson is a son of Captain L. P. Ty- sen, who arrived in San Francisco in March, 1849, and so belongs to the California pio- neers. The subject of this sketch was born in Denmark, the native land of his parents, March 16, 1868, coming to San Francisco when a small boy. He has devoted his life to affairs of business. Mr. Tyson is a Re- publican in politics. He was married at Eureka, California, July 5, 1895, to Miss Car- lctta Carson. They have two boys, aged 13 ard 8 years respectively.
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George H. Cabaniss
EORGE HENRY CABANISS, judge of the Superior Court, has been in public life in California for many years. His father, Thomas T. Cabaniss, was one of the pioneers of 1849. Judge Cabaniss was born in Yreka, Siskiyou County, November 11, 1861. He was graduated from the Hastings College of Law in 1884, and immediately began the prac- tice of his profession.
For two years he was a prosecuting attorney in the police courts, and was then elected to the office of police judge, which he held for nine years, when he was elected to the Superior bench.
He was married in 1894 to Miss Hattie Lowell, also a native daughter of pioneer parents.
George Henry Cabaniss, Jr., the judge's only son, is a Californian of Californians, having been born on Admission Day, September 9, 1900.
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Edward Robeson Taylor
E DWARD ROBESON TAYLOR, for- mer mayor of San Francisco, was born in Springfield, Ill., September 24, 1838. He grew up in Boonville, Mo., where he learned the printing business and became editor of a paper. He came to San Francisco in 1862, worked on a Sacramento river steamboat and prepared himself for medical lectures. In 1865 he graduated from the Toland Medical College. After two years of practice, he became private secretary to the governor of the State, H. H. Haight. After Haight's term, he and Dr. Tay- lor became law partners, the doctor being ad- mitted to practice in 1872 and practicing law steadily for twenty-seven years in San Francisco, until elected to the position he now holds of Dean of the Hastings College of Law. He has been on two boards of freeholders to frame charters for the city. He has four times been presi- dent of the San Francisco Bar Association, is a director of the Public Library, president of the trustees of the San Francisco Law Library, president of Cooper Medical College, an hon- orary member of the State Medical Society and the San Francisco Medical Society, and is a member of the Academy of Sciences, the Bohemian Club and the Chit Chat Club.
He was elected mayor by the Board of Supervisors on July 17, 1907, and was elected for two years by the people in November of the same year.
He has published the following books of verse: Translations of the Sonnets of Heredia; Moods and Other Verse; Visions and Other Verse; In the Light and Other Verse; Selected Poems; Lavender and Other Verse. He married Miss Agnes Stanford on April 20, 1870 Two sons of that marriage are now living, Edward De Witt Taylor and Henry Huntley Taylor. After her death he married Miss Eunice Jeffers, February 8, 1908.
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ALFRED W. WEHE Prominent in the Real Estate Business.
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Fay Charles Beal
A MONG those men who have done much to bring San Francisco to her present up-to- date position is Charles Fay Beal, Secretary- Treasurer and General Manager of the Pacific Taximeter Cab Co.
Mr. Beal was born at Topeka, Kansas, May 7th, 1882, and started his taxicab company in San Francisco January 16th, 1909.
The Pacific Taximeter Cab Company was the first of the kind to operate in San Francisco and was incorporated by Mr. Beal, to whom much credit is due for its success.
Outside of being a good Republican, Mr. Beal cares little for anything but making a suc- cess of his company. He is a member of the Family Club, the Olympic Club, the Corinthian Yacht Club and San Francisco Motor Club, and has taken part in all shows and entertain- ments given by all the above clubs.
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W. R. Bacon
W ALTER ROMAYNE BACON, attor- ney-at-law, is a descendant of Nathaniel Bacon of Virginia and John Griswold of Massa- chusetts, so that the best blood of both North and South flows in his veins. His father was Francis Marion Bacon of Pennsylvania, and his mother Sarah Felton Griswold of Vermont.
Mr. Bacon was born in Miami County, In- diana, in 1857. He was educated in the pub- lic schools, and after studying law and rising to a position of prominence at the Nebraska bar, was elected prosecuting attorney of Hall County, that state, in 1891. He is a Repub- lican politically.
Since coming to San Francisco, Mr. Bacon has established a large and lucrative practice. He was married in 1880 to Evelyn F. Smith. They have two sons, Francis R. Bacon, who is twenty-two years old, and Julian Smith Bacon, who is nineteen.
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Frank Wood Griffin
T O FRANK WOOD GRIFFIN belongs much of the credit for restoring in recent years California's right to the name of "The Golden State." He was one of the pioneers in the gold dredging industry and is still promi- nently identified with this branch of mining, which has so materially increased the state's annual output of gold. Mr. Griffin was born in Weaverville, Trinity County, in 1873, his father being a pioneer banker who came to this state in 1850 and who served as treasurer of Trinity County for twenty years without an op- ponent. Frank Wood Griffin graduated from Harvard in 1896 as a mining engineer, though his present business is that of a capitalist. He was married in 1901 and has one child, a daughter. He is president of the Western Engineering and Construction Co., the Griffin Co., and the Alaska Bonanza King Mining Co., the Douglas Island Mining Co., and the Trinity Quicksilver Mining Company; first vice-presi- dent of the Natomas Consolidated of California, and a trustee of the State Mining Bureau. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Harvard, Bohemian, University, and Union League Clubs of San Francisco, the Rocky Mountain Club of New York and the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
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Charles S. Fee
T O EVERY passenger on a railway train in California, the name of Charles S. Fee is known. That is because Mr. Fee's name as passenger traffic manager of the Southern Pa- cific Railway is to be found on all official an- nouncements of the road that deal directly with the passengers. Mr. Fee has been in the rail- road business for thirty-seven years. He en- tered it in 1873 and served two years as secre- tary to the general superintendent of the Michi- gan Central. For the next two years he was chief clerk to the general manager of the North- ern Pacific, and then from 1883 to 1904 was general passenger and ticket agent for the North- ern Pacific. On April Ist, 1904, he was pro- moted to the position he now holds. Mr. Fee was born in Laurel, Clermont County, Ohio. He belongs to several of the prominent clubs.
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A. Christeson
A. CHRISTESON, vice-president and general manager of the Wells-Fargo and Company Express, has a career in the express business extending over a period of thirty-seven years. In 1873 he began with the American Express Co., serving it in various subordinate capacities until 1884. Then he became assis- tant superintendent at Denver for Wells, Fargo and Company, and from there progressed stead- ily through its service until in 1897, he was appointed manager at Kansas City and given charge of all the company's business between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Moun- tains.
He came to San Francisco in 1899 as man- ager of the Pacific Department, was appointed general manager in 1906, and vice-president in 1908.
Mr. Christeson did able work following the fire of 1906. His company was among the first to construct temporary quarters in the old location.
He planned and directed the reconstruction of the company's splendid eight-story building at Second and Mission streets.
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H. G. SAMUELS Manager of
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Henry Louis Detjen
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over for its restaurants. Here, say the epicures of every land, one can feast as nowhere else. Consequently res- taurant and hotel men occupy a po- sition of importance in the life of the city, by
upholding its traditions and its fame. Henry Louis Detjen has the double distinction of being a restaurant man himself and of being a son of a pioneer San Francisco hotel man. Mr. Detjen was born in San Francisco of German parents. For fourteen years he has been in the restaurant and bakery business on the water front and has built up the largest business in that district. He is proprietor of the Vienna Cafeat 17 Market street. He was educated in the public schools and is a Democrat in politics. Mr. Detjen is generally regarded as one of the solid business men of the water front section of the city.
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Samuel B. Welch
P RESIDENT of the firm of Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch. Samuel B. Welch is the head of one of the leading stationery, paper and bookselling concerns of the Pacific Coast. Mr. Welch belongs to a family that has been distinguished in American history. His grand- father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his great grandfather a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was a son of Samuel B. Welch and Eliza L. Welch, and was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in March, 1849.
Mr. Welch attended college, but circumstances arose preventing his graduating. He has long been an independent in politics. His wife before her marriage was Miss Alice Crighton.
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Lewis Pierce
L EWIS PIERCE, the subject of this brief sketch, is a native and one of the fore- most residents of Suisun Valley. In fact, he Is one of Solano County's wealthiest men, and recognized by his ability as a stockman. He is a worthy successor to his father, the late Lewis Pierce.
Lewis Pierce's ranches in Suisun Valley can easily be said to be unsurpassed in Cali- fornia. His home place, in the heart of the Valley, is the very choicest fruit land, but the properties he is most interested in are his two ranges, one of three thousand acres or more of valley lands, the other of as many acres of marsh lands, over which graze his hundreds of head of fine cattle.
Mr. Pierce, personally, manages all his business affairs, spending the greater part of the year at his home in Suisun. In addition to his attention to his cattle interests, Mr. Pierce finds time always to have a few fine horses cared for at his farm. He is a life member of Vallejo Lodge No. 559. B. P. O. E., the Pacific Union, Union League and Olympic Clubs of San Francisco, and Armijo Club of Suisun.
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John William Van Bergen
T HE LATE JOHN W. VAN BERGEN was one of the men who contributed much to the upbuilding of the city of San Francisco, and a work of this nature would not be complete without mention of this worthy man.
Born in the city of New York, May 31. 1853, he came to San Francisco with his parents in 1856, and up to the time of his death in 1898 was one of the leading citizens of San Francisco.
He was a director in many of the city's financial institutions, among others the First National Bank and German Savings and Loan Society.
He was for many years the head of the wholesale liquor firm known as N. Van Bergen & Co., and was recognized as one of the lead ing Republicans of the State.
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M ARTIN BECK, Managing Director of the Orpheum Circuit, has his head- quarters in New York, although much of his time is spent in Europe in the pursuit of his business. He books all the acts for the Orpheum theatres and is a power in the world of vaudeville. He knows the merit and value of an act immediately he witnesses it and his judgment is regarded as final by the leading theatrical managers in this country and in Europe. Mr. Beck is not only a man of wonderful execu- tive ability, but he also possesses the true artistic temperament and his constant aim is the uplift of vaudeville. His experience has taught him that the public want only the very best and he never fails to give it to them; for instance, he induced David Belasco to prepare and present in vaudeville "Madame Butterfly" and "The Drums of Oude," both of which are scoring brilliant successes. Mr. Beck's greatest achievement and one which caused the entire theatrical world to gasp with amazement was the engagement of Madame Sarah Bernhardt for a tour of the Orpheum Circuit to commence this fall.
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Henry C. Smith
H ENRY C. SMITH is one of the promi- nent young architects of San Francisco. Born in San Jose, Cal., he began his architec- tural studies at an early age and has had wide experience in the practice of his profession both here and in the East.
After graduating from an architectural school and taking a post-graduate course in Philadel- phia, he was associated with a firm of able architects in the East for four years.
In 1900 he returned to his home and com- menced practice in San Francisco. He has been unusually successful here, having designed more than 125 school buildings throughout the State in conjunction with his former partner, Louis S. Stone.
Mr. Smith has gained no little distinction by his original treatment of the hills surrounding San Francisco, and the unique and artistic monuments to his artistic skill in this direction which may be seen throughout the city have earned him the sobriquet of "the hillside architect."
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C. A. Muessdorffer
C. A. MUESSDORFFER, architect, was born October 25, 1871, in California, being a son of K. Muessdorffer, a pioneer of 1853. He showed talent for drawing when but eight years old, and his parents put him in the care of Professor S. Widder, who directed his technical education for the succeeding ten years, grounding him thoroughly in architectural studies. He began to practice his profession at the age of 24, and during the past fourteen years has at- tained an enviable position. Among the buildings he has designed and erected are the Fraternal Order of Eagles' home, the Portuguese American Bank, the Family Club, the Marvin building and the St. Regis apartments, besides many others. Mr. Muessdorffer took an active part in the re- building of the city after the fire of 1906. He is a Republican in politics, and is now serving his second term as trustee of his home town of Ross, Marin County.
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Frank Cromwell Phelps
T HE subject of this sketch, Frank Cromwell Phelps, has long been one of the most widely known of the responsible officers of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Mr. Phelps comes of that sturdy New England stock that has always figured as a substantial factor in the affairs of our nation. His father was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and his mother a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He himself was born in North Brookfield, Massa- chusetts, on March 17, 1863. By profession an accountant, Mr. Phelps was traveling auditor for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and several of its associate companies before being appointed to his present position as auditor of the Pacific corporation. Although Mr. Phelps has been an interested worker in the ranks of the Republican party. he has never aspired to public office. Mr. Phelps is married and has two children.
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Walter D. O'Brien
V ALTER D. O'BRIEN was born in 1880 in San Francisco. He received his education at the California School of Mechanical Arts and the University of California. After leaving college he followed mining and rail- road engineering and rose from chainman to locating engineer. having held positions as as- sistant engineer for the Southern Pacific Rail- road, Indian Valley Railroad, and locating en- gineer for the Oregon and Pacific Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad.
While on a visit in Eastern cities, he be- came conversant with the method of financing real estate mortgage loans through bond issues. In 1906 he established the firm of Clarke & O'Brien, Bond Brokers, in the First National Bank Building. for the purpose of handling real estate mortgage loans and bonds in San Francisco. The firm is meeting with a great deal of success.
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Parker S. Maddux
P ARKER S. MADDUX, Assistant Umted States Attorney, was born at Dixon, California, May 29, 1880. He is a son of L. J. Maddux, of Modesto, who has been for several terms district attorney of Stanislaus County.
Mr. Maddux was graduated from the Uni- versity of California in 1902. He then at- tended the Harvard Law School and was graduated there in 1905, returning at once to the Pacific Coast to begin practice. His work in the United States Attorney's office has won him high praise, as his position at the California bar is already one of distinction.
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