USA > California > San Francisco County > San Francisco > Men who made San Francisco > Part 7
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7
LUSTIG
245
1.5 DISTRICT COURT
BERT SCHLESSINGER
246
LAW OFFICE
17
...
EDGAR D. PEIXOTTO
247
H. G. BEDWELL
248
DAVID HOWARD FOOTE
Mr. Foote holds the position of Secretary of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
24?
Oscar Sutro
O SCAR SUTRO is a member of the widely-known law firm of Pillsbury. Madison & Sutro. His father, Emil Sutro, was a native of Aix la Chapelle, and came to this country in 1853. Mr. Sutro was born in Vic- toria, B. C., graduating from the University of California with the degree of B. L. in 1894, and obtaining his M. L. degree the following year. He was a member of the California Legislature in the 1901 session, and that same year went to the Philippines, where he prac- ticed law until 1904, when he returned to San Francisco. Mr. Sutro is a Democrat. He is married and has three children, Mary Ann, Barbara and Oscar Sutro, Jr.
250
Jesse Warren Lilienthal
J ESSE WARREN LILIENTHAL, Vice President of the Bar Association of San Francisco, is one of the foremost lawyers on the Pacific Coast. His firm, Lilienthal, Mc- Kinstry & Raymond, is one of the best known law firms in the West.
Mr. Lilienthal has been very active in chari table and civic affairs. He is trustee for the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society, the 'Tuberculosis Society, the Temple Emanu-El and the Child Labor Commission.
For three years he served on the Probation Committee of the Juvenile Court of San Fran cisco. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati Col lege and of the Harvard Law School.
He was born in New York in 1855 and has been a highly respected citizen of San Fran cisco for many years
L
251
H. V. CARTER
252
Charles Wellington Cobb
B ORN at Gilroy. California, in 1871. of pioneer parents, Charles Wellington Cobl took up the special study of law after completing his general school and collegiate course, and was admitted to the bar by the California Supreme Court in 1897. He began practice in San Jose, where for many years he was a partner of E. M. Rea. Coming to San Francisco immediately after the big fire of 1906, Mr. Cobb formed a partnership with Francis J. Heney, the famous government lawyer, and through the association was employed to assist in the historic San Francisco graft prosecution. This has been Mr. Cobb's sole deviation from his strictly civil practice, to which he has con- fined himself since dissolving his partnership with Heney in 1909. He has a large prac- tice, particularly in corporation, land and probate matters, being counsel for some of the largest concerns and estates in the city. Mr. Cobb is married and has one child, a daughter.
253
254
William J. Herrin.
O NE of the most competent of San Francisco's attorneys is Willam J. Hernn. A native son, having been born in Yuba County, California, he is the true type of self made man, for by his own efforts he earned the money that enabled him to obtain a college education and later graduate from the Hastings College of Law.
He entered upon his profession in Oroville, and it was but a short time before he was recognized as one of the leading lawyers of Northern California. In 1892 he removed to San Francisco, where he has remained ever since, but the practice that he built in the North did not cease to grow, so that now, besides the great demand for his services here, it extends over many of the Western States. Mr. Herrin has always been a staunch Republican, but has never held political office.
255
Jacob J. Gottlob
ACOB J. GOTTLOB has for many J years been one of the leading purveyors of amusement to the amusement-loving people of San Francisco. Born in Boston, Mass., in 1860, he came to the city of the Golden Gate as a young man and began his career in the theatrical business as treasurer and manager of the famous old Bush Street Theater.
Subsequently he was manager of the Cali- fornia Theater, and then with Melville Marx managed the old Columbia Theater, which just before the fire furnished San Francisco its finest line of theatrical attractions.
Immediately after the fire his firm built the Van Ness Theater, which housed the great stars and their companies until the opening of the beautiful new Columbia Theater in January of 1910.
Mr. Gottlob is one of the theatrical powers in the West and has never been identified with any but the highest class of attractions.
COLUMBIA THEATRE
COMEDY
TRAGEDY
TERAZ
256
J. C. B. HEBBARD
257
H. A. Jones
P ROMINENT among the army of rail- road men of San Francisco is H. A. Jones, freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company. Mr. Jones began his rail- road career when he was 17 years old, starting with the Missouri Pacific in the humble ca- pacity of a freight check clerk. After several years he moved to Sherman, Texas, where in 1874 he became yard clerk for the Houston & Texas Central, later becoming chief clerk and cashier at the same station. In 1878 he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Com- pany as its commercial agent in Texas, resign- ing that position to return to Sherman as freight agent. In 1885 he became traveling freight agent for the same company, which sent him a year later to Dallas, Texas, as its freight and ticket agent. Later he became the road's assistant general freight agent, with of- fices at Houston. His next promotion was in 1892, when he was made general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company's Texas lines. In 1901 he succeeded C. W. Bien as freight traffic manager of the same lines, and in 1905 was made traffic manager. He was brought to San Francisco as freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific in September, 1906.
WÃ
258
A. F. Rosseau
A RTHUR FRANCIS ROUSSEAU, architect and structural engineer, has been one of the most active men in his hne in San Francisco for several years, having designed more than 100 buildings in this city. They have been for the greater part large apartment houses, representing every line of construction, steel frame, reinforced concrete and frame. Mr Rousseau's father was a native of Paris, France, while his mother's birthplace was in Kentucky. He was born in St. Louis, Mo., August 13, 1885, and received private education in his profession.
259
James W. Cochrane
J
AMES W. COCHRANE has for many years been very active in matters pertaining to the municipality of San Francisco, and also in the municipal affairs of Marin County, and one of the most widely known lawyers in the state of California.
He was born at Newark, N. J., May 29, 1868, and came to California with his parents when a mere child, and has resided in the state ever since.
He was educated in the public schools of San Rafael, Cal., and graduated from the College of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco, in 1886.
He acquired his legal training in the office of that noted criminal lawyer, Hon. Charles Bendavius. In 1889 he graduated from the Hastings Law College with high honors.
He was elected to the District Attorney's office on the Democratic ticket in 1890 and re-elected in 1892.
Mr. Cochrane was president of the Marin County Board of Trade for a number of years, and is interested in a number of large mining companies. He is a member of the Order of Druids, the Foresters, Knights of Pythias, the Eagles, prominent in the Y. M. I., and the Native Sons of California. He has resided in San Francisco for a number of years and is still a resident of this city.
LAW LAW
260
261
E. L. LANGE
O. H. BERGSTROM
Hon. Carroll Cook
C ARROLL COOK is one of the most widely known of Californians. Born in San Francisco on January 15, 1855, a son of Elisha Cook, a noted attorney at law of Buf- falo, he graduated from Union University, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1874, with the degree of LL. B. He has been practicing law in San Francisco since 1876. He was First Assist- ant U. S. District Attorney from 1884 to 1888, and in 1896 was elected judge of the Superior Court, taking office in 1897, and serving six years, when he was re-elected for another six-year term, at the expiration of which on January 1, 1909, he resumed law practice. Judge Cook handled many noted cases during his service on the bench. He is a member of the Union League Club, and of all Masonic bodies, besides being an Eagle and a Druid. He has a ranch of 1,700 acres in Sonoma County, where he makes a specialty of raising thoroughbred live stock, and he is known as a great dog fancier, owning a number of "blue ribbon" winners of several breeds.
LAW
VIL.
h
BRIEF .
OPINIONS
JUDGE COOK
-
262
Edwin L. Forster
E DWIN L. FORSTER is the son of an early California pioneer family. He father, Peter B. Forster, was one of the four original publishers of the "Morning Call."
He is a prominent attorney of San Francisco, and a thorough Democrat. He attended the Hastings Law College, and was admitted to practice in 1890.
Mr. Forster maintains offices in the Mills Building and gives special attention to corpo- ration and land law.
He married Luella M. Smith, daughter of Robert and Lizzie Smith, pioneers in Cali- fornia, and has one daughter, Florence C. Forster, now completing her education in Germany.
263
J. W. Mclaughlin
J. W. McLAUGHLIN, president of "The Americans," is one of those men of untiring energy that have been as much of a factor in the development of the Pacific Coast as have the natural resources and perfect climate.
He was born at New Albany, Indiana, April 30th, 1875, and early became identified with the Insurance business. "The Ameri- cans," of which he is president, is a fraternal organization having its principal offices in the Pacific Building, San Francisco. It has an insurance feature on a small monthly premium basis, and its object is to unite in the bonds of fraternity white persons of good morals. It teaches care for the comfort of fellow men and encourages social relationship, which tends to intensify the love of home and country.
INSURANCE
...
-
INSURANCE
hned
INSURANCE
--
.
264
Richard W. Davis
R ICHARD W. DAVIS is the founder and present treasurer of the Golden Gate Yeast Company. His father and mother were both of Welsh birth. The elder Davis came to America in 1845, and for many years was chief correspondent of "Y' Drych," a Welsh paper published at Racine, Wisconsin. The subject of this sketch was born at Alton, Ill., February 25, 1865. He came to San Fran- cisco in 1892, and organized the Golden Gate Yeast Co., to which he has devoted many years. He is also president of the Oregon Transportation Company, vice-president of Fifield's Steamship Company, and president of the Mascot Oil Company, all San Fran- cisco concerns. He has also been interested in many other enterprises. He is a Republi- can in politics. He was married in 1908 at Boston to Miss Ida Chase Lee.
GOLDEN GATE YEAST CO. S. F
265
George C. Holberton
B ORN in New York City, schooled and college-trained in New Jersey, "summer- pastured" on his grandparents' farm in New England, "shop-tested" for nearly three years in the great works of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, and, when 23, launched to "go it alone" in the strange, new field of California; the first few months as a workman for a traction company in Oakland, the next year as salesman for the General Electric Company's San Francisco branch, the next two and a half as an engineering em- ployee of the gas companies at San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and Stockton, the next half-year at Centralia, Washington, as general manager of the water company of that town; the next two years and a half at Bankok, Siam, in charge of the electric lighting of that oriental capital, and the past nine with the several California concerns that have been amalgamated into the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and now, at the age of 39, engineer of electric distribution for this com- pany's system in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Berkeley and other places, and chief engineer for its water works in the city of Stockton, where pumping plants at seventeen deep wells supply water through many miles of mains to a community of 30,000 people.
GAU
.....
266
MAC DONALD
7
7 7
7
-
Kenneth Macdonald George A. Applegarth
KENNETII MACDONALD, JR., of the
architectural firm of MacDonald & Apple- garth, received his early training in the office of his father, who has for thirty years been an architect in Louisville, Ky., where his son was born. The younger MacDonald obtained his C. E. degree at Vanderbilt and his B. S. A. degree at Penn- sylvania. After a year with R. M. Hunt's Sons in New York, he went to Paris, where he studied design under M. Pascelle, taking problems of the first and second class of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He also studied water color under Vignal. He came to San Francisco in June, 1906, and formed his present partnership with G. A. Applegarth.
G EORGE ADRIAN APPLEGARTH was born in Oakland, California, in 1877. Art and architecture have been family callings for many generations. After specializing in school on architecture and its allied sciences, he spent six years in the office of his uncle, George H. Sanders, of Wright & Sanders. He then went to Europe, studying and traveling for five years and taking his diploma at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1906. But three architects on this Coast have received this diploma. Returning to San Francisco after the fire of 1906, he formed a partnership with Kenneth MacDonald, Jr., and together they have constructed a large number of the finest buildings in the city.
.
267
J. S. ROSENBLATT
-
WHOLESALE WINE DISTILLERS
268
E. FONTEILE
MENU
MAISON L DOREF
269
JOHN E. ALEXANDER
270
V. GOGHLAN
271
Normand W. Mohr.
N TORMAND W. MOHR first attracted public notice at the time he strenuously pleaded for the preservation and rehabilitation of the Old City Hall. Shortly after he served as city architect, when he successfully forced the correction and strengthening of many of our new school buildings, which had previously been dan- gerously and erroneously designed by others.
He was the first architect to design the Civic Center, combined with the 1915 Exposition- this several months before the site was selected. He has always been an ardent advocate of the plan for the improvement and beautification of San Francisco by the late famous architect, Daniel H. Burnham. He was born May 30, 1880, and for the past seventeen years has suc- cessfully practiced the profession of architecture.
-
OK
PANAMA PACIFIC EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO - 1915
272
D. McMAHON
273
F. D. SMITH
CIGARS. 100ACCO
274
32
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.