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been received by mail and at the meeting, announced that 210 ballots had been cast, and that the following 1 5 had received the majority of votes:
Anson S. Blake John D. Galloway Mrs. Alfred McLaughlin
Allen L. Chickering Mrs. John O. Gantner F. W. McNear
Templeton Crocker Morton R. Gibbons C. O. G. Miller
Aubrey Drury A. T. Leonard, Jr. Mrs. Silas H. Palmer
Sidney M. Ehrman George D. Lyman Walter A. Starr
The President therefore announced that the foregoing had been elected Directors to serve during the ensuing year and until their successors are elected and qualify.
The Secretary then presented a report for the year 1942, and on motion duly made, seconded, and carried, the report was accepted and ordered spread upon the minutes. The report follows:
Report of the Secretary
For the Year Ended December 5, 1942
MEMBERSHIP
The California Historical Society is increasing steadily in membership, and in the midst of trying times has maintained its position in an effective way, as an outstanding institution devoted to the preservation of things historical pertaining to California and the West.
In the year 1942 the membership of the California Historical Society recorded a net gain of 23 members. According to our last annual report, at the end of the year 1941 we had 602 members, of whom 18 were patron and 25 were sustaining. During the year 1942, 80 new members were elected (including 1 patron and 1 sustaining member); 4 former members (including 1 sustaining member) were re-elected; 33 resignations were accepted; 3 members were dropped for non-payment of dues; 18 died (including 1 patron and 4 sustaining members) and notice was received of 3 deaths which had occurred during the previous year. At the end of the year 1942 we had 625 members, of whom 15 were patron and 27 were sustaining members.
MEETINGS
Six directors' meetings were held during the year, and ten luncheon meetings, the first of which included the annual business meeting of the members of the Society. The subjects and speakers at the luncheon meetings were:
Jan. 23— "Lansford W. Hastings, Man of Action and Vision," by Mr. Leon O. Whitsell.
Feb. 17— "Progress Made, and Work Ahead, in Preserving Our Historic Landmarks," by Hon. Joseph R. Knowland.
Mar. 17— Mr. Sidney M. Ehrman sketched the history of the earlier Calif omia historical societies, and Mr. William E. Colby spoke on "A Half Century of Conservation in California."
Apr. 21— "Recollections of the San Francisco Disaster of 1906," by Mr. J. B. Levison; Battalion Chief Fred J. Bowlen gave a brief history of the San Francisco Fire Department, and recalled his experiences in the Great Fire of April 18, 1906.
May 19— "The Territory of Nataqua: An Episode in the Frontier Period of California East of the Sierra, 1 850-1 865," by Dr. William Newell Davis.
June 16— "William Keith in the History of California," by Brother Cornelius. Aug. 18— "Jessie Benton Fremont — A Great American," by Dr. James A. B. Scherer.
Sept. 29— "Cabrillo and California, 1 542-1942," by Dr. Max Savelle.
Oct. 27— "The Early Relations of California with British Columbia," by Judge Frederic
W. Howay. Nov. 17— "The California Academy of Sciences and the Early History of Science in
the West," by Dr. Robert Cunningham Miller.
NEW DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
In January Mr. Anson Blake was elected to the Board of Directors, to take the place of Mr. J. K. Moffitt, who could not serve because of pressure of other work. In June, Mr. Allen L. Chickering was elected to the Board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Robert E. Cowan. At the same time, Mr. Aubrey Drury was elected secretary and Dr. George D. Lyman was elected treasurer, to succeed Ensign Warren R. Howell, who had resigned as secretary-treasurer to go into active service as a member of the U. S. Naval Reserve. At the Board meeting on August 25, Mr. John D. Galloway was elected to fill the vacancy on the Board caused by Ensign Howell's resignation.
GIFTS AND LOANS
For gifts and loans of books, pamphlets, pictures, maps, manuscripts, and historical items, the Society is indebted to the following:
Alameda County Library, Mr. Harris S. Allen, Automobile Association of Southern California, Binfords & Mort, Miss Alma Birmingham, Mr. Anson S. Blake, Mae Helene B. Boggs, Book Club of California (The Albert Bender Fund), Mr. Frederick J. Bowlen, Mrs. Philip R. Bradley, Miss Frances Bramhall, Mr. Thomas P. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Warner Brown, Mrs. Edna B. Buckbee, Mr. W. E. Burden, Jr., California Railroad Commission, Mrs. Martha W. Caughlan, Mr. Allen L. Chickering, Miss Fanny J. Chipman, Mrs. Edmond D. Coblentz, Mrs. E. M. Coffin, Dr. Peter T. Conmy, Mr. Mortimer
E. Cooley, Mr. Templeton Crocker, Mr. James H. R. Cromwell, Hon. Homer D. Crotty, Mr. William H. S. Demarest, Miss Lucie Dobbie, Mr. C. S. Donning, Mr. Aubrey Drury, Miss Alice Eastwood, Mr. William T. Ellis, Mrs. Milton H. Esberg, Mr. Francis P. Farquhar, Mr. Joseph Fauntleroy, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Mr. James K. Fisk, Mr. J. H. Furst, Mr. John D. Galloway, Mr. Vallejo Gantner, Mrs. Frances T. Gardner, Mr. Arthur Gradwohl, Mr. Louis W. Hage, Mr. H. S. Hamlin, Miss Ray Harris, Mrs. Jerome A. Hart, Mr. Robert P. Hastings, Miss Edith Hecht, Dr. Robert F. Heizer, Mr. H. Hewlett, Miss Alice Hilgard, Mr. B. F. Howard, Mr. John Howell, Mr. John Thomas Howell, Ensign Warren R. Howell, Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, The Huntington Library, Mrs. A. Jannapolis, Mr. Abraham Kamber, Miss Florence R. Keene, Mr. Glenn A. Kennedy, Mr. Lawton R. Kennedy, Mr. Edmund G. Kinyon, Miss Bertha A. Kirkpatrick, Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, Mr. Robert J. Koshland, George H. Kress, M.D., Mr. Carl Larson, A. T. Leonard, Jr., M.D., Mr. R. G. Lillard, Mrs. Hans Lisser, Los Angeles City College, George D. Lyman, M.D., Mr. M. Hall McAllister, Rev. Francis
F. McCarthy, C. K. McClatchy Senior High School, Mr. Augustin S. Macdonald, Mrs. Charles E. MacKenzie, Lt. Comdr. J. F. MacMullen, Mr. Douglas C. McMurtrie, Mr. J. W. Mailliard, Jr., Mrs. Alice B. Maloney, Mr. Garfield D. Alerner, Mr. George A. Merrill, Meyer Supply Company, Mr. Franklin Mittau, Montana State University Library, National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Norwegian-American Historical Association, Capt. R. E. O'Neill, Mrs. Silas H. Palmer, Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies, Mr. Emmet Perry, Polish Roman Catholic Union Archives and Museum, Dr. Charles P. Porter, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Mr. Milton Ray, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rhein, The Roxburghe Club, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Mateo County Historical Association, The Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc., Miss Sue O. Shoemaker, Capt. Albert Shumate, Dr. A. A. Soule, Miss May H. Southern, Stanford University Press, Mr. Harold F. Taggart, Miss Ruth Teiser, Miss Ina Love Thursby, Mr. Archibald J. Treat, Mr. D. Q. Troy, U. S. Dept. of the Interior National Park Service, U. S. National Archives, U. S. Works Progress Administration, University of California Press, University of Colorado, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas, Mrs. Daniel Volkmann, Mr. Henry R. Wagner, The Ward Ritchie Press, Mr. Willard O. Waters, Miss Caroline Wenzel, Mr. Carl I. Wheat, Mr. C. E. Whiteside, Mrs. Francis Williams, Miss Anna Cora Winchell, Miss Harriet Winslow, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Mrs. William A. Wood, Miss Lottie G. Woods.
Contributions of money, to assist the Society in carrying on its activities, were received from Mr. Anson S. Blake, Mr. Allen L. Chickering, Hon. Jeanette Daley, Mr. Sidney M. Ehrman, Mr. Raymond C. Force, Mrs. John O. Gantner, Morton R. Gibbons, M.D., Mrs. E. S. Heller, Mrs. L W. Hellman, Mr. L. A. Hopkins, George D. Lyman, M.D., Mr. J. K. Moffitt, Mr. George A. Pope, Mr. Lou^ell R. Smith, and Mrs Daniel Volkmann.
PUBLICATIONS
During the year the Society issued one new special publication. Archaeological Evidence of Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeno's California Visit in 1^95-, by Robert Flem- ing Heizer, with an introduction by Alfred Louis Kroeber and a report by Colin Garfield Fink and Eugene Paul Polushkin on the examination of ten iron spikes recently found
at Drake's Bay.
Respectfully submitted,
Aubrey Drury, Secretary.
The report of the Treasurer was presented in the form of a summary prepared by Francis P. Farquhar, auditor for the California Historical Society. The report will be printed in our June issue.
The President then called for any other business which any member might wish to present. There being no further business, on motion duly made, seconded and carried, the meeting adjourned.
Aubrey Drury, Secretary
Gifts Received by the Society
December i, 1942, to March i, 1943
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
From MR. HARRIS S. ALLEN-Fourgeaud, Victor J., The First Calif orniac, Being a Reprint of Prospects of California . . . , San Francisco: The Press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen, 1942.
From BINFORDS & MORT, PUBLISHERS-U. S. Works Projects Administration, Provo, Pioneer Mormon City, Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1942.
From MISS JEAN MacGREGOR BOYD-[Scott, W. A.], My Residence in and Departure from Calif ornia [Paris, 1861 (?)].
From DR. JOHN DENTON CARTER-Carter, John D. Before the Telegraph: The News Service of the San Francisco Bulletin, i8js-i86i, reprinted from The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. XI, No. 3 (September 1942).
From THE CHINESE CONSOLIDATED BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION- Hoy, William, The Chinese Six Companies . . . San Francisco: The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association [1942]. From JUDGE FREDERIC W. HOWAY-Howay, F. W., Presidential Address: International Aspects of the Maritime Fur-Trade, from the Proceedings of The Royal Society of Canada, 3d Ser., Vol. XXXVI, 1942.
From MR. J. W. MAILLIARD, JR.-Millard, Bailey, History of the San Francisco Bay Region . . . Chicago, etc.: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924, 3 vols.; The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery . . . Wisconsin Volume, Chicago, etc., 1877, Young, John P., San Francisco, a History of the Pacific Coast Metrop- olis, San Francisco, Chicago [191 2], 2 vols.
From MR. GEORGE A. MERRILL-Merrill, George A., comp.. The Story of Lake Dolores and Mission San Francisco de Asis [Redwood City: priv. prtd., 1942].
From MR. GRANT D. MILLER-Cummings, G. A., and Pladwell, E. S., Oakland, a History [Oakland, Calif.: The Grant D. Miller Mortuaries, Inc., 1942].
From THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA RESIDENT IN . . . CALIFORNIA-Allen, Alice Mayhew, Early Roads and Trails in California, San Francisco: The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1942.
From THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY-Haskell, Daniel C, The United States Exploring Expedition, 18^8-1842, and Its Publications, 18 44- 18-] 4, New York: The New York Public Library, 1942.
From MR. THOMAS W. NORRIS-[Fages, Pedro], Letters of Captain Don Pedro Pages & The Reverend President Fr. Junipero Serra at San Diego, California in October 1772, tr. by Henry R. Wagner; [Forbes, James Alexander], The Battle of Santa Clara, an Unpublished Letter; Riley, Bennett, Proclamation . . . the Third Day of June 1849 . . . (The foregoing were privately printed at The Grabhorn Press, 1938-1942.)
From HON. THOMAS F. PRENDERGAST-Prendergast, Thomas F., Forgotten Pioneers, Irish Leaders in Early California, San Francisco, The Trade Pressroom, 1942.
From STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS-Chalfant, W. A., Tales of the Pioneers, Stanford University, Calif.: Stanford University Press [1942].
From MRS. FRANCIS WILLIAMS-Chapman, Arthur, The Pony Express . . . New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1932]; King, Elmer R., comp., Handbook of Historical Landmarks of California, Los Angeles [priv. prtd., 1938].
From MISS LOTTIE G. WOODS-The Aha California Almanac and Book of Facts for the Year 188^, San Francisco, 1883; Constitution and By-Laws of the Merchants^ Club of San Francisco, San Francisco [1886].
MAPS, DOCUMENTS and MANUSCRIPTS
From MISS FANNY J. CHIPMAN-Map, "Plat of the Rancho Miramontes," copy made in 1862 from the original survey; Map of Pulgas Ranch; Deeds to Alameda property, 1871; Cancelled promissory notes of the 1880's; Correspondence of John W. Dwindle and of William W. Chipman, 1 860-1 880; Daily appointment book of John W. Dwindle, 1873; Letter written by Bishop Ingraham Kip from San Francisco to Hon. J. W. Dwinelle, May 16, 1879.
From MR. J. W. MAILLIARD, JR.-The Evening Post. San Francisco, July 30, 1906. and other documents of the 1870's.
From MR. THOMAS W. NORRIS- Jackson's Map of the Mining District of Cali- fornia, and Appendix, The Signers of the California Constitution . . . and Governor Bennett Riley's Constitutional Proclamation; M. G. Vallejo's Release from Fort Sutter, August 2nd, 1846; The Volunteer's Vision, a poem written by Lieut. R. M. Morrison of Stevenson's Regiment, while aboard the Loo Choo on the way to California. (The fore- going facsimiles were privately printed at The Grabhorn Press, 1 936-1 941.) PICTURES
From MISS ALMA BIRMINGHAM-Portrait of Arnold Genthe, on glass.
From MISS FANNY J. CHIPMAN-Photographs: Joaquin Miller, June 26, 1891 (2), John W. Dwindle and members of his family (8), Hon. Stephen J. Field, Judge Clifford.
From MR. ARCHIBALD TREAT-Photograph: Panorama of San Francisco water front, 1927.
From MISS LOTTIE G. WOODS-Photographs (ca. 1890-1900): San Francisco buildings, homes, and scenes (9), Yosemite Valley (5), Del Monte Hotel, Beach at Santa Cruz, Business section of San Jose.
MISCELLANEOUS
From MISS FANNY J. CHIPMAN-5 Scrapbooks: "Notes of Travel," 2 vols., (Vol. II contains John W. Dwinelle's letters to the Rochester Daily Advertiser reporting his trip to California in 1849) ; Biographical material in re Timothy Guy Phelps (newspaper clippings, letters, docs.); Newspaper clippings concerning the water question, 1877, collected by John W. Dwinelle; Newspaper articles concerning San Francisco, Ala- meda, etc.; invitation to the marriage of Flora Sharon and Sir Thomas Hesketh, Belmont, 1880; Biographical newspaper clippings; Autographs and calling cards of California pioneers, etc.
From MR. C. S. DONNING— Newspaper article on early history of Paso Robles district.
From MR. V. HOWARD— Volume of programs of the San Francisco Municipal Band, 1912-13.
From MR. J. P. HUTCHINS— 5 pages from the French newspaper Le Charivari containing advertisements of companies formed for emigration to the California gold regions (1849-50).
From MR. J. J UEDES— Program commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Johann Strauss, San Francisco Auditorium, October 15, 1894.
From THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES-3 cuts of maps used in the Society's publications.
From MISS LOTTIE G. WOODS-Program of Trinity School, Annual Exhibition,
May 25, 1882; and other items. ,
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lln fiDemoriam
Charles Caldwell Dobie 1881-1943
When Charles Caldwell Dobie died on January 1 1 San Francisco lost not only one of its most distinguished literary figures but a gallant gentleman, a man of intellectual and personal integrity and a versatility so uncommon that he was as popular socially for his liveliness of mind, humor, and good- fellowship, as with the reading public for his admirable stories and such thoughtful and enduring works as San Francisco, a Pageant, and San Fran- ciscans Chinatown. Hostesses competed for him, and no one was invited more frequently to "Montalvo" when the late Senator James D. Phelan was entertaining so brilliantly, no one was more welcome to both host and guests.
He was born in San Francisco on March 15, 1881, and attended primary and grammar school, but, forced into a business career at an early age, he educated himself thereafter with diligent study of the best in literature. It was not long, however, before he discovered that he was a born writer, and devoted his spare time to practising the difficult art of the short story. For years he met with only local recognition, but finally Henry L. Mencken, then editor of the Smart Set, bought one of his stories. Shortly after that two acceptances arrived by the same mail, one from Scribnefs, one from the Atlantic Monthly. Orders poured in. William Dean Ho wells praised him. Dobie was "made." He said farewell to the insurance business and devoted himself entirely to writing.
When, in 1923, 1 was asked by John Galsworthy to form a P. E. N. chap- ter in California I could think of no one so likely to make it a success as Mr. Dobie. He was distinctly the leader of the younger group of writers in central California, was popular with all of them, enterprising and enthusias- tic. He made a tremendous success of the dinners given every season for so many years, and of our P. E. N. in general.
His short stories received other recognition. They were included in The Best Short Stories of Edward O'Brien and in Harper's Prize Short Story Collections; he was the only author asked to contribute two stories in one year to the Harper volume, and he received two awards from the Common- wealth Club of California for literature.
He is survived by his only brother, Mr. Clarence W. Dobie, with whom he lived for many years at 840 Green Street.
Gertrude Atherton
Lillian Eichelroth Fricot 1864- 1942
One of the most widely known and universally beloved women of Cala- veras County, Mrs. Desire Fricot died at her home in Fricot City on July 31, 1942.
Lillian Eichelroth, daughter of Dr. William E. Eichelroth, a pioneer of Sonora, was born in that Mother Lode town in 1 864. On November 10, 1898, she married Desire Fricot, the son of Jules Fricot, who had come to California from France in 1851.
Until Desire Fricot's death in December 1940 the Fricots made their home on San Antone Ridge, near Angels Camp, in what is now known as Fricot City. Together they devoted their lives to the preservation of the beauties of the Sierras, the accumulation of knowledge of California and Calaveras County history, and the education and welfare of young people. Though childless, they gave much of their time and money to the Boy Scouts of Calaveras and San Joaquin counties.
When Desire Fricot, a patron member of the California Historical Society died, his widow became an active member. In spite of her failing health she sought in every way to carry on the good works they had shared.
Besides the Calaveras County Museum at San Andreas, the Fricots will be remembered for their participation in the crusade to have the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees preserved as a state park.
Dolores Waldorf Bryant
Samuel Knight 1863-1943
Samuel Knight, distinguished California lawyer, died in San Francisco, on January 28, 1943, after a brief illness.
Born in San Francisco on December 28, 1863, he was of pioneer stock. In 1 86 1 Abraham Lincoln appointed his grandfather, Samuel Knight, to the bench of the Federal Court in San Francisco. Mr. Knight's father, also named Samuel, was early identified with the historic Wells, Fargo express company and was killed in an explosion which wrecked the old Express Building at Montgomery and California Streets, San Francisco. An uncle, Henry Haight, was an early governor of California.
Samuel Knight was graduated from Yale in 1887. Two years later he obtained his law degree from Columbia University Law School and began practice in San Francisco. He was assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of California from 1893 ^^ i^95» ^^^ United States attorney, 1896-97. At the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of Knight, Boland & Riordan.
Mr. Knight was a member of the San Francisco, California State, and American bar associations, the American Society of International Law, Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and many clubs.
In 1 899, with the late Federal Judge William Morrow, Mr. Knight founded the local chapter of the American Red Cross, and in 1927 he became a member of the national central committee. At the time of his death he was an honorary national committeeman.
He was a one-time town trustee of Hillsborough, and during the first World War, was a major in the United States Army, serving as judge advo- cate in the 91st Division.
Samuel Knight was married in 1895 to Mary Hurd Holbrook, also a member of an eminent early San Francisco family. Besides the widow, he is survived by a brother, Robert Knight.
George H. B. Wright 1875-1942
Born on April 14, 1875, in Toronto, Canada, with his death on December 12, 1942, in Berkeley, California, Canon George H. B. Wright completed a span of sixty-seven years, the first decades of which were devoted to school- ing in preparation for his life's work, and the last thirty-six years to service as a church and social service leader in the communities in which he lived.
The canon received his early scholastic training at the Modell School, Toronto. From Stanford University, where he graduated in 1898 with an A.B. degree, he entered the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, then at San Mateo. By his thirty-first year he was a deacon and a year later an ordained priest. From 1906 to 191 1 he was the rector of Christ Church, San Jose.
For the next twenty years he served the parish of St. Stephen, San Fran- cisco. It was natural that he should go from St. Stephen to Grace Cathedral to become canon precentor .No more gracious leadership has ever presided over diocesan council. The canon had a message not only for his church, but one that was heard and heeded by all the youth in his parish as well as the community at large.
Probably this work began at Stephen's. There he founded Boy Scout Troop No. 16, of which he was a counsel minister at the time of his death. Not only was he a leader in the boy scout movement but also in other organizations demanding service, such as the Travelers' Aid and the Indian Association, and St. Dorothy's Rest.
The canon was blessed with a presence, a full voice, and natural leader- ship. From his followers he received not only respect but personal devotion. Neither were his gentleness, reality, courtesy, nor simplicity lost upon them. Some looked upon him as a saint. All appreciated his approach to the ideal. Marginalia
In addition to those recorded on the foregoing pages, we regret also to report the deaths of the following persons whose obituaries were not received in time to be included in this issue: Mr. John D. Galloway, on March lo, 1943; Mrs. Lee A. Phillips, on Decem- ber 9, 1942; and Miss Frances Taylor, on February 15, 1943. It is hoped to include them in the June number.
Lack of space has forced us to hold over the "Check List" until the June issue, and only brief mention can be made here of some of our new members.
Alexander Richards Baldwin* was born in San Francisco, received the degree of Ph.B. from University of California in 1896 and LL.B. from Hastings College of the Law in 1899, and has practiced law in California ever since. He has been president of Western Pacific Railroad Corporation and vice-president of The Western Pacific Railroad Company.
Eva Benson Buck is the widow of our late Member, Congressman Frank H. Buck,* whose obituary was printed in the December Quarterly.
Robert Grannis Cowan is the son of Robert Ernest Cowan,* noted California bibli- ographer and long-time member of our Board of Directors, who died last May.
Mrs. Craig Carrier, librarian of the California State Society of the D. A. R., is the granddaughter of Noah Sanford Arnold who came to California in 1848, engaged in business in Shasta County, and became a merchant in San Francisco in the early sixties.
The Right Rev. Thomas A. Connolly, Pastor of Mission Dolores, is the first native- born San Franciscan to become auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in that archdiocese.
William P. Dwyer is the son of Captain Thomas Dwyer who came to California in i860 and in 1862 organized the Sacramento Wood Company which later developed into the Sacramento Transportation Company. William P. Dwyer was born in Sacramento, graduated from Saint Mary's College in 1892, and adopted river transportation as a career. He was elected president of Sacramento Transportation Company in 19 18 and since 1932 has been president of The River Lines, a merger of the California, Fay, and Sacramento transportation companies.
Leo Eloesser* was born in San Francisco, the son of Arthur and Molly (Heyneman) Eloesser. Holding a B.S. degree from the University of California and an M.D. from Heidelberg, he has served as assistant in surgery. University of California; clinical pro- fessor of surgery, Stanford University; consulting surgeon U. S. Veterans Bureau, U. S. Marine Hospital; and is chief of Stanford surgical service, San Francisco Hospital.
Sandford Fleming,* born in Adelaide, Australia, has been professor of Church His- tory in the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School since 1926 and its president since 1937. He is an authority on early Baptist history on the Pacific Coast.
Raymond LeRoy Haight,* bom in San Jose, California, holds degrees of A.B. and J.D. from the University of Southern California and since 192 1 has practiced law in Los Angeles, where he has been senior partner of Haight, Trippet & Syvertson since 1927.
Mr. Charles Hoehn, president of the Enterprise Engine and Foundry Co., has lived in San Francisco all his life. His parents came to California from Europe in 1875.
Edward Hohfeld,* the son of Edward and Rosa (Hillebrand) Hohfeld, was born in Oakland. He holds the degree of A.B. from the University of California, and an LL.B. from Harvard. Since 1907 he has practiced law in San Francisco and is now senior partner of Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Shuman & Clark.
Theodore Jesse Hoover,* born in West Branch, Iowa, received the degree of A.B. from Stanford in 1901, has been professor of mining and metallurgy at Stanford University since 19 19, and is now dean of engineering emeritus. His wife, the late Mildred Brooke Hoover who was co-author of the series of books on Historic Spots in California, was a member of our Society. He is a brother of former President Herbert Hoover.
William B. Johnston was born in Washington, D. C, received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1897, M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1901, and retired in 1919. His wife, the former Janet Newlands, is the daughter of Senator Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada, and granddaughter of William Sharon, of San Francisco, who completed the building of the Palace Hotel. Dr. Johnston's paintings illustrating the life of Junipero Serra have been exhibited in Boston; one, an oil, depicting the founding of the Mission Dolores is in the Sharon Building, San Francisco.
Garret McEnemey II is the nephew of Garret McEnerney* who died last August and whose obituary was printed in our September 1942 issue.
Eugene Meyer,* is publisher of the Washingtoji Post. His father, Eugene Meyer, came to San Francisco from France in 1859, two years later went to Los Angeles, and even- tually became head of Eugene Meyer & Co. There he married Harriet Newmark (daughter of Joseph Newmark). Returning to San Francisco in 1883 he engaged in banking. Eugene Meyer, the son, was born in Los Angeles but left California in 1893. He attended the University of California and holds the degrees of A.B. and LL.D. from Yale and LL.D. from Syracuse University.
Robert Burns Motherwell,* born in Ohio and educated at Western Reserve Univer- sity and the University of Oregon, has been banking commissioner of the State of Washington, has held various positions with the Federal Reserve Bank and is now presi- dent of Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co.
Haig Patigian,* sculptor, was born in Armenia. He received honors for his work in the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915, and his statue of Thomas Starr King stands in National Statuary Hall, Washington, D. C. Among the many examples of his sculpture in San Francisco are the pediment of the Metropolitan Life Building, groups and figures for San Francisco Memorial Museum, statutes of General Pershing and Lincoln, and the monument to William C. Ralston.
All four of the grandfathers of Rita Johns Post came to California before 1855. One of them, William Johns, was one of the trustees of the Sutro Tunnel; another, Victor Waldron Seaman, of San Francisco, was one of the owners of the bark America that took Harry Meiggs to South America.
Jackson Harvey Ralston* is the son of Harriet N. Jackson and Judge James H. Ralston who came to California from Illinois in 1850. Judge Ralston was a member of the Illinois legislature of 1837 which included Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and Edward D. Baker. In 1852 he was state senator from Sacramento, where his son Jackson was bom in 1857. He lost his life on the Nevada desert which bears his name. The present Jackson Ralston was American agent and of counsel in the case of the Pious Fund of the Cali- fornias against Mexico, the first dispute submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague under The Hague Peace Convention of 1899.
Bernard Ransome is the son of Ernest Leslie Ransome, an early machinery manufac- turer and designer of San Francisco. For the past fifty years Bernard Ransome has been associated with engineering and contracting organizations in California and is now president of the Ransome Engineering and Contracting Company.
Miss Raymonde Rooney, of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, comes of pioneer stock on all sides of her family. She is a niece of the late Mrs. Desire Fricot.
Nat Schmulowitz,* born in New York, received his B.S. from the University of Cali- fornia in 1 9 10, studied at Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, was admitted to the California bar in 191 1 and has since practiced in San Francisco. Since 1928 he has been a member of the firm of Gavin McNab, Schmulowitz, Wyman, Aikins & Brune.
The great-grandfather of Robin Warne Skewcs-Cox, Dr. Thomas Stokes Page, emi- grated from New Jersey to Valparaiso, Chile, in 1838. In Chile he first met Faxon Ather- ton (later Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's father-in-law) and there both men were married and their children were born. Sometime in the fifties the Atherton family moved to California. Before following them in i860, Dr. Page wrote to Mr. Atherton, asking him to buy a ranch for him. The Cotati Ranch, north of Petaluma, was bought and remained in the possession of the family until 1932. After Dr. Page's death in 1872 the family moved first to San Rafael and later to San Francisco, where most of its members live today.
Archibald Treat was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1864, and after the Comstock fire of 1875 came to San Francisco. He served as messenger boy and telegrapher for the Central Pacific Railroad and about 1884 became secretary to Stephen T. Gage, the assistant of Leland Stanford and a director of the Southern Pacific Company. After Stanford's death Mr. Treat became clerk in the office. Mr. Treat was admitted to the bar about 1895. He has been associate editor of the Sausalito Advocate, the Western Field and other publications, has lectured on patriotic subjects and has written many plays and stories. His wife is the former Helen Bosqui, daughter of Edward Bosqui.
Donald B. Tresidder, born in Indiana, received both A.B. and M.D. degrees from Stanford University. In 1920 he married Mary Curry, daughter of the pioneers of Camp Curry, in Yosemite, and since 1925 Dr. Tresidder has been president of the Yosemite Park and Curry Co. He was elected a trustee of Stanford University in 1939 and became president of the Board of Trustees in 1942. In January of this year he was elected president of the University and will take over his new duties in September.
Thompson Webb,* a native of Tennessee, is the founder and head of the Webb School of California and director of the California Junior Republic. He is also a director of Scripps College, Norton School (both at Claremont) and Pomona Valley Hospital.
Eli Hecht Wiel, bom in Baltimore, Maryland, came to San Francisco in 1875 v/here he has lived continuously, with the exception of four years spent in study in Boston. He is a director or office holder in many civic, industrial, and charitable associations. He is president of Buckingham & Hecht, boot and shoe manufacturers founded in San Francisco in 1857 by Isaac Hecht and Thomas Buckingham.
Ray Lyman Wilbur* was graduated from Stanford University in 1896, and received the M.D. degree from Cooper Medical College (now the Stanford Medical School) in San Francisco in 1899. After serving as instructor and as assistant professor in physiology, then as professor of medicine, at Stanford University, he became dean of the Stanford Medical School in 191 1. In 1916 he was elected president of Stanford University and continued in that office until 1941. He has been chancellor of the University since 1942. From 1929 to 1933 he served as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Hoover.
James David Zellerbach* was born in San Francisco in 1892, the eldest son of the late Isidore Zellerbach, pioneer paper manufacturer who was bom in Moores Flat, Nevada County. James D. Zellerbach graduated from the University of California in 191 3 and since 19 14 has been associated with Crown Zellerbach Corporation, succeeding his father as president. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, a director of the San Francisco War Chest and of the Hebrew Home for the Aged Disabled, and past president of the Mount Zion Hospital.
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