t ho FQ&sZi B5b 1878 * - ELEGA TKSt A m ,E To Frame a New Constitution -?OR THE- STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1878. Together with a succinct review of the facts leading to the formation of the Monterey Convention of 1849. a °f its Members, and the Constitutional Act of 1878. Waldron & Vivian, - Publishers and Editors. T. J. VIVIAN. D. G. WALDRON. SAN FRANCISCO: FRANCIS Forty-eight years ago Rush McComas was born in Virginia, the time being the first month of 1830. His early life was spent in daily toil, with little or no spare time for education. In 1811, being then eleven, he removed with his family to Platte County, Missouri. The same sort of angular life was passed until 1850, when he engaged in mercantile pursuits. From that year up to 1861 he went on gra¬ dually prospering, and then fell, crushed beneath the juggernaut of the Civil War. Penniless, he came to California, arriving here in November of the fatal year, 1861, settled near the town of Santa Clara, and has remained there an addition to the agriculturalists of the County. Mr. McComas is married and has eight children. In politics, Mr. McComas was a Democratic before the war, but radically changing his opinions then, he became a Republican, and expects to live and die one. He was elected Delegate to the Con¬ vention on the Non-Partisan ticket. This is not Mr. McComas’ first opportunity for making a record, as he is a member of the 51 Assembly, having been on the Committees on Claims, Agriculture and Education, during the last Session. Considered by his fellow-Asssemblymen to be one of the economi cal members, it will be found by his fellow-Delegates that no extravagance will be glossed over where he is concerned. His belief is in the rights of the people, and he puts no faith in monopolies. IION. CLITUS BARBOUR, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. This gentleman is a native of the State of Illinois, having been born in Knox County, and is now forty-one years of age. On the paternal side he is of Irish extraction—the maternal representing a German and Welsh descent. He was partially educated at Knox College, Illinois. When in his sophomore year, being attracted by the golden yield of the Pacific Coast, he came to California, in 1854, and followed mining, principally in Siskiyou County, until the Fall of 1860, when he returned to his native State, and began the study of law in the office of Carlos Haven, Escp, of Chicago, and in the Law Department of the Northwestern University. Upon the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he volunteered in the Union army under the first call for troops, returning to Chicago at the expiration of his term of service, and to his legal studies; was admitted to practice in the Winter of 1863-4, when he again came west, lived in Montana Territory until the Fall of 1869, going thence to Loon Creek, Idaho, where he remained about one year, being engaged for the most part in mining. In 1870, he removed to Boise City, Idaho, where he edited a paper and practiced law for nearly five years, coming to California in the Summer of 1875, since which time he has followed the practice of his profession in the Courts of San Francisco. When the first arrests of the leaders of the Workingmen’s party were made, Mr. Barbour’s conduct of these trials, the earnestness of his sympathy and the boldness of his defense brought him squarely to the front, and made him the prominent figure in the cases. His 52 identification with the party was full and complete from his first connection with them although he kept strictly to his own department as legal adviser of the leaders. When the time came for selecting candidates for Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, there was a universal desire that he should be named, and he was accordingly chosen to head the ticket of the San Francisco Delegation ; from this time he was actively engaged in the campaign, speaking every night, sometimes twice and thrice, and to his efficient services and able exposition of the strength of the party’s position, it was in a great measure indebted for the result obtained. As a speaker, he is clear, logical and forcible, possessing a ready command of language, and, while in the court room or upon the stump, under the incitement of direct opposition, he rises to a certain degree of eloquence, it is rather to the solidity of his reasoning and plain, terse and smooth expression that he owes his high position in the estimate of the Workingmen’s party. He is industrious and methodical in his profession, and thoroughly temperate in habits. HON. CHARLES F. REED, KNIGHTS’ LANDING, YOLO. FOR SOLANO AND YOLO. Massachusetts has its representative in this Convention, in the person of Charles F. Reed, who was born in that State in 1826. When sixteen he was appointed through the influence of Hon. Daniel Webster, a cadet at W r est Point, and was the first officer in his class. On leaving, he engaged in civil engineering on the Old Colony Rail¬ road, thence on the Vermont Central Railroad, where he had charge of the construction of the Division adjoining that of Calvin Brown, now Chief Engineer at Mare Island. He was then engaged as Assis¬ tant Engineer on the Northern Canal to the Hon. James B. Francis, the eminent Hydraulic Engineer. Came to California through Mexico as Captain of a large company, and arrived in April, 1849. Was engaged in mining operations for some years, and finally selected agricultural pursuits as more congenial to his disposition. Mr. Reed had always taken a very lively interest in all matters 53 tending to promote agricultural pursuits, and in 1863 was unani¬ mously elected President of the State Agricultural Society, which he found crippled by a debt of over $37,000. He at once set about restoring confidence with the creditors. The year 1864 was an exceedingly unfavorable one to reduce the debt, but nevertheless it was cut down $10,000. Mr. Heed held the position for nine years, paid the entire debt, and purchased over $30,000 worth of property, placing the society in an exceedingly favorable position, free from encumbrances, and then retired. During the period of his adminis¬ tration, the press of the entire State awarded him the highest praise for his energy, honesty, and executive ability. Mr. Reed was also a prominent stockholder in the Southern Pacific Railroad, and took a great interest in the same until combinations effectually closed him out. He was run as an Independent candidate for the Assembly in Yolo County, in 1864, and was elected. His term was marked by the persistency with which he pressed the irrigation question upon the members of the Senate and House, finally introducing a bill, which was passed, authorizing an expenditure of $8,000 for a survey of the Sacramento Valley. A company was incorporated, called the Sacra¬ mento Irrigation and Navigation Canal Company, and Mr. Reed was elected President. A thorough survey was made and report published, Mr. Reed devoting his whole time during the season the engineering corps were in the field, and expending several thousand dollars out of his own pocket. But Mr. Reed was in advance of the times, and he was compelled to abandon the enterprise for want of proper sympathy and support. After serving a term in the Assembly, he was nominated for Senator in his District, failed of securing an election, and, in 1867, was nominated for Surveyor General. Mr. Reed was strongly urged to run for Congress in 1871. He finally consented, made a canvass of the District for nomination, and in the convention, on the second ballot, was defeated by two votes on the first count. In 1874, he was elected President of the Board of Reclamation Fund Commissioners. In 1875, when the Indepen¬ dent Congressional Convention met, it was found that Mr. Reed was their unanimous choice. A delegation waited on him, and he refused to accept the nomination, telling them to choose the strongest man. This they did by selecting him. 54 In 1876, lie was unanimously elected by tlie State Convention as a Delegate at large to represent the State of California in the National Convention at Cincinnati, and was selected by the delegation as a member of the important Committee on Resolutions, and the intro¬ duction of the Chinese plank was entirely due to the efforts of Mr. Reed. His nomination for Joint Senator was entirely unsolicited on his part, and he urged the delegates of his own county to select the strongest man. The nomination was given him unanimously. The last, though by no means least honor accorded him is that of being elected as Delegate to the Constitutional Convention for Solano and Yolo Counties. A thorough Republican in politics, he was elected on the Republican ticket, there being no such thing as majority at the election as there was no such thing as opposition. Mr. Reed’s present occupation is that of farmer and grain dealer, his warehouse at Knight’s Landing, having a capacity of 15,000 tons. He is also engaged in mining, being the Superinten¬ dent of the California Quicksilver Mining Company near Clear Lake. Foremost in all enterprises of a public character for the general good, always ready to assist measures of advancement, a prominent man, not only in his County but in his State, there are few worthier or better known men in this Convention than the Hon. Charles F. Reed. IIOK HORACE C. ROLFE, SAN BERNARDINO. FOR SAN DIEOxO AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES. San Bernardino has few men more entitled to be called represen¬ tative than Judge Rolfe. Leaving the East when a boy of about sixteen, he crossed the plains, and, in 1851, passed with an ox-team right across the spot where the town now stands. In San Bernardino he attended school about three or four months, in 1852—such a school as was usual in California at that time. This was the only education he had since he was fourteen, though up to that time it had been more than ordinarily good. Going north, to try his fortune in the gold fields, he passed two years, 1853 and 1854, in Nevada County, mining; since that time he has been a resident of San Bernardino County. Judge Rolfe did not tfet alontr very amic- ably with the. Mormons, who occupied the valley for several years, being one of the few who gave them strong and unrelenting opposi¬ tion. In 1856, he commenced the study of law in San Bernardino, without any means of his own or assistance from others, indeed, he had to work at manual labor and do most of his studying at night. He was at Holcomb Valley in the Summer of 1861. His advance in his profession was such that he soon became District Attorney, being first elected in 1861, and again in 1863. He was appointed District Judge on the creation of the Eighteenth Judicial District- H. C. Rolfe takes rank as one of the safest counselors in Southern California, his duties as Judge being discharged with marked ability. In politics a Republican, the Delegate for San Diego and San Bernardino was elected on the Republican ticket. His reputation of being a safe counselor is more than local, and as safe counsel is what is needed in the amendatory proceedings of the Convention, his being here is particularly desirable. IION. CHARLES J. BEERSTECHER, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. • From its extent and organization the Delegation from San Fran¬ cisco is naturally cosmopolitan. Mr. Beerstecher is of German nativity, having been born in the City of XJrach, Wurtemberg, Ger- many, January 15tli, 1851, and is now in his twenty-eighth year. His father, A. W. Frederick Beerstecher, was an active patriot in the struggle of 1848, and in consequence of his identification with the revolutionists, was obliged to flee his native land, coming to the United States in September, 1851, being followed by his wife and the subject of this sketch, who was then only one year old, in the Spring following. They settled in Philadelphia, Penn., remaining there until the Spring of 1868. Young Beerstecher, during the meantime, was being educated in the Lewisburg (Penn.) Academy and University. Coming thence with his parents to the State of Michigan, he entered the law office 56 of Wm. Allison, Esq., afterwards transferring his legal studies to the office of Judge Melendy, of Centerville, Michigan. In 1870, he entered the law department of the University of Michigan ; graduat¬ ing and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1873 ; practiced his profession at Union City, Michigan, until April, 1873, and at Centreville, Michigan, until the Summer of 1877, when failing health induced him to seek “ the glorious climate of California.” Locating in the City of San Francisco, he opened an office, and was, on the 13th day of November, 1877, admitted by the Supreme Court of the State as a practicing attorney, since which time he has actively pursued his profession, being at the present time in the enjoyment of a comparatively large and increasing practice. He has for years been identified with, and actively interested in labor reforms, and as a delegate from the German-speaking section of the Socialistic Workingmen’s Party of the United States, took an active part in the deliberations of the Charter Oak Hall Convention, intro¬ ducing many of the important resolutions, and contributing in a great degree to the formation of the party platform. He was subsequently nominated by the German Club as their candidate in the local delegation from San Francisco to the Consti¬ tutional Convention, and worked unremittingly up to the day of election; and to his labors and influence the party was greatly indebted for the development in its favor of the support which it received from the German element. Mr. Beerstecher is of strong, nervous temperament,. In speech he is quick, impulsive and fiery, and carries the sympathies of an audience with him more by an ardor and intensity of his expression and convictions, than by the more ordinary appeals of argument. IION. EUGENE FAWCETT, SANTA BARBARA. FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY. There will be no mistaking the personel of this Delegate when he rises to address the President, as he is the tallest man in the Con¬ vention, standing six feet five inches in his shoes. He was not so tall as this thirty-three years ago. Eugene Fawcett was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1845. He was brought up on a farm and educated at the Common Schools. His school days over, he learnt telegraphy, and from fifteen to twenty, engaged in operating and building telegraphs. The transmission of messages led to his writing them, and for a short time he was em¬ ployed as a journalist. Having labored some time, pro pleye , he, in making up his determination for a profession, decided pro leye. He studied law and was admitted to practice in Iowa. Shortly after his admission, he decided to remove to California, and coming to this State in 1871, he took up his abode in Santa Barbara. In the ordinary practice of law, lie remained until 1875, when he was appointed by the Governor, as Judge of the First District Court, to till the vacancy, occasioned by the death of Judge Murray. At the Judicial election in the same year, he was elected District Judge for the full term, running {is an Independent candidate, and beating the regular Democratic nominee in a Democratic District by more than two-thirds majority. In politics, Judge Fawcett is conservative and independent with a Republican leaning. His nomination to the Convention was the voluntary act of his fellow-citizens, his election taking place on the Non-Partisan ticket. The calibre of the man can be well judged from the above few facts, it will be further measured by the influence he exerts on this Assembly. His rapid rise to honor and position would be remark¬ able, if his fitness and talent were not so patent. HON. JOHN G. McCALLUM, OAKLAND. FOR ALAMEDA COUNTY. Born on a farm in Indiana in 1830, Mr. McCallum is fortv-ei"lit years of age. He is of American descent from revolutionary stock on his mother’s side, and of Scotch descent on that of his father, who built and owned one of the first steamboats on the Ohio. He died when the subject of this sketch was six, leaving, as was believed, a competency in Cincinnati, but which, after years of litigation, was lost, and the family left to struggle on the humble farm. Here a 58 steam saw-mill was erected, and as tlie children had to help make a living, the boy destined to become a part of the history of this State, commenced work when about eight years of age at the engine. Young McCallum’s genius was not in that line, and although he learned the trade of an engineer he was not much of a success at it. He attended school every Winter, using for “readers” such books as he could find about the house, especially the history of McCallum More, the head of the Clan, with whom his relatives, like many other Scotchmen of that name, claimed kinship. After mastering the elementary studies, lie attended a course at the County Seminary. W orking then as an engineer, until he had saved a little, he com¬ menced the study of law in Cincinnati, and finally attended the Law Department of the Indiana University, where he received its diploma in 1848, was licensed soon after, practised in that State a few years; left for, and arrived in California in May, 1854; settled in El Dorado County that year, where he followed his profession, and the next year became proprietor and editor of a newspaper. Did some mining, also, but having no success therein, soon quit it. The follow¬ ing vear he was elected a State Senator, when about t wen tv-six years of age, and took an active part in all the leading questions during the sessions of 1856 and 1857. He was President of the Union American State Convention, and was admitted to our Supreme Court in 1856. At the commencement of the Civil War, he assisted in the organization of the Union Party in 1861, and was married in the same year. In 1864 and ’65 he was President of the Union State Conventions, being placed at the head of the Union State Ticket for Presidential Elector in 1864, and was elected bearer of the vote to Washington. In 1865, he was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, and whilst in the National Capital, witnessed the closing scenes of the War and assassination of President Lincoln. Returning to California, he was appointed Register at Sacramento, in 1869, resigning his office in the Fall of 1871, to resume his law practice. Removing to Oakland with his family in 1872, he opened his law office, and settled down tlieie, speaking, however, several times for the Republican cause in Alameda County in the late Presidential election, and in the election of 18/7. After the new political movement called the u M orkingmen s Party ” had carried the special election for Senator in that County by a large majority last Spring, and had great success in the local 59 election, still later, there was a general expression in favor of a thorough canvass for the Citizens’ Non-Partisan movement. When the Comity Convention met, Mr. McCallum was placed at the head of the ticket for one of the Delegates to the Constitutional Conven¬ tion. The public canvass that followed was in some respects the most remarkable local canvass that has taken place in the State, the election, too, being an exciting affair. His political views were first those of the Union-American party, which ceased to exist after I860. He then supported the Union-Republicans from the time it was organized, co-operating with the Independents within that party. He has opposed Chinese emigration at all times, by lawful means, and was an advocate of the construction of the Pacific Railroad from the time that enterprise was first agitated. As a member of the Pacific Railroad Convention of 1860, he drafted the resolution in favor of the Central route, which, being adopted by that body, it was embraced in the Pacific Railroad bill ; but always insisting upon the right and expediency of legislative control of all monopolies deriving their authority from the Legislature, including Railroad, Gas and Water Companies, having taken that position once twenty years ago as a member of the Senate. Mr. McCallum has usually preferred private life, having declined several nominations for important offices, such as he has accepted invariably leading to election. As a public officer, a speaker, and sometime editor, the Delegate from Alameda has taken such earnest part in the leading questions of the times as have made him well known throughout the State, whilst his education and brains make him capable to assist prominently in the Amendment of the Con¬ stitution. HON. CHARLES CARROLL O’DONNELL, SAN FRANCISCO, FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. * The subject of this sketch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 3d, 1834, and is therefore forty-four years of age. He is the fourth son of John O’Donnell, of Maryland, and Mary Palmer, who was a native of New \ork and a niece of Alexander Hamilton. He has also the distinction of being the god-son and namesake of Charles 60 Carroll, of Carrollton, Maryland, one of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence. Dr. O’Donnell is a nephew of General Columbus O’Donnell, who was an officer of the American army in the last war between the United States and England : he has, therefore, some reason to be proud of his antecedents. In the Spring of 1850, while he was yet a youth, he embarked on board the .ship Pioneer , at Baltimore, for California, and arrived in the Golden State in time to witness the celebration of her admission into the American Union. In 1861, when the war of the Bebellion cast a dark shadow over the western continent, Dr. O’Donnell left California, and was one of % the first to enlist as a field surgeon. Like all Californians, he did his duty, and returned to the State with a practical knowledge of at least how to treat sword and gunshot wounds. He has resided in San Francisco ever since, practising his profession. One of the best abused men in the country, Dr. O’Donnell has, as will be seen from this slight sketch, many points in his favor. By the American workingman he is held in high esteem as the inaugu- rator of the Anti-Coolie crusade, a war which he takes every oppor¬ tunity to carry into the enemy’s country. That the workingmen appreciate his services in this and other directions, and consider him capable of representing their party and looking strictly after its interests, is a supposition that receives full proof by his sitting in the Constitutional Convention of California. HON. ALPHONSE PROSPER VACQUERAL, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. The only Frenchman in the Convention, Citizen Vacqueral was born in Paris, November 28th, 1841, being now thirty-seven years of age. In France, he studied until the age of seventeen, with the view of being received at the State Central Lycee, to qualify himself for civil engineer. A difficulty with a Catholic priest, however, abruptly closed his student-life, and he started lor the United States, via Havre, June 19th, 1858, arriving in New l T ork on board the G1 packot-ship Arabia , July 25th. Not possessing a trade, and not knowing the English language, Vacqueral had to work in any honest situation that presented itself. After a few years on shore, he enlisted in the United States Navy, in 1863, and until 1865, served on board the Sabine, Perry, and Mahaska. Being discharged, he navigated a further couple of years in American merchant-men, and then tiring of ship-life, he resolved to return to France, embrace his parents, after nine years’ absence, and see the Exposition of 1867. He had not, however, the satisfaction of carrying all his projects into execution. Arriving in Paris, he found the manner of French Government so averse to his Americanized feelings, that he was una¬ ble to resist the somewhat too public expression of his ideas. This grated harshly on the ears of the police, and forty-eight hours after his arrival in his native land, found him on an express-train, bound for England, with the Channel before and imprisonment behind. A few weeks in England, and he took passage for the United States, where he could express himself freely. From the date of his return to California, he has worked at several trades, but always keeping out of politics until the Workingmen’s movement began to attract attention. The principles of this organization drew him to join the Party, for in it he found many ideas and claims that he had long cordially indorsed. HOIST. WILLIAM HENRY PROUTY, • IONE, AMADOR. FOR AMADOR COUNTY. William Henry Prouty was bom in Ivnox County, Ohio, March 27tli, 1837. At the age of nine years his parents emigrated to Iowa, in the year 1846, and located in Jasper County, his father entering the land and assisting in laying out the town-site of what is now the City of Newton, county seat of Jasper. There he received his early training in agriculture, with the benefit of a short term in the public school during the winter. This life continued till 1852, when, at the age of fifteen, his father again decided to emigrate to a new country, this time the choice being California. He had but barely commenced his journey, when he was called to a better country, 62 leaving William and two other brothers, one younger and one older, in the care of an aged mother, to continue the journey as best they could. They moved onward with sad hearts, and after four months of toilsome journeying and an occasional skirmish with the Indians, arrived in this State in August, 1852. ITe settled in Amador County, and at once entered on agricultural pursuits, at the same time devot¬ ing his spare hours to books and study. At the age of twenty-one, business required that he should return to his old home for the pur¬ pose of adjusting some land titles, and when there he availed himself of the benefits of another term at school. There, too, he married and settled down to farming again, until 1863, when he returned with his family to California, once more selecting Amador County, where he has been following the same occupation until the present time. Mr. Proutv has never taken any active part in politics, but his principles are Democratic, and he was one of the first in organizing the Grange in Amador County. He was a member of the State Grange in 1876-7. On the 8th of June he was nominated by an anti-monopoly convention for Delegate to the Constitutional Conven¬ tion, and was indorsed by the Non-Partisan Ticket Party, June 17th. It can safely be said that this Convention is representative, and when such earnest, dutiful and able men as Mr. Prouty have seats in it, it can as safely be said that the State is well represented. The people of Amador have made a good choice in this Delegate. IION. JAMES CAPLES, SACRAMENTO. FOP SACRAMENTO COUNTY. It has been said that Hayes holds to the belief of no good men being found outside of Ohio ; fortunately, then, Mr. Caples may claim the endorsement of the President, for he was born in that State on Big Stillwater, Tuscarawas County, November 29th, 1823. His father, Charles Caples, was a farmer of Maryland, emigrated to Missouri with his family in 1839, when the boy was sixteen, and settled on the Missouri River, in Andrew County, where he is still living. James, in the choice of professions offered him, chose that 63 of medicine, and in the year of 1847 located for practice in Hancock County, Illinois, where he almost immediately became the center of a paying circle of patients. October 12th of the same year he mar¬ ried the daughter of the Hon. George Walker, of Hancock, and March 21st, 184 ( J, lie closed up his surgery, bought an ox-team, and started overland with his wife and infant daughter, for California. That infant daughter was the youngest emigrant met with on the plains, and is now' the w r ife of Dr. Durant, of Folsom. 0 The family party arrived in Placerville August 28th, where the father, abandoning his profession never to resume it, commenced the business of merchant. In 1851, he moved to Sacramento County and engaged in stock-raising and farming, a calling which lie has ever since followed on the same place. In 1853 he took his family back to Missouri, by the Isthmus, and then returned overland with them, crossing the plains a second time. The family at present con¬ sists of nine living children, the most of whom are men and women. Mr. Caples is a Democrat, but when the Convention tickets were being made up, he sank his party-feeling and took an active role in the organization of the Non-Partisan movement. Not content with embracing the principles of and giving his adherence to the new party, he worked most strenuously for it and against his opponents. At every possible opportunity he showed that lie belonged to the politi¬ cal body militant, making war d Voutrance on the Workingmen’s candidates. The result was an exceedingly bitter struggle and a sharp contest, in which Mr. Caples drew upon himself the acrimony of those whom he had attacked. He was, in fact, the rock which, by its prominence, had to stand the greater part of the buffeting of the storm. Although the waters were very muddy at times, he does not consider himself seriously injured, and is convinced that, were the fight again to take place, he would again take up arms against “ a sea of troubles.” In the Convention, Mr. Caples will undoubtedly be looked upon as the leader of the Sacramento County Non-Partisans, and from the past experience of his prowess, those who elect to oppose him may prepare themselves for the sturdiest resistance. 64 i HON. JOHN A. EAGON, JACKSON, AMADOR. FOR AMADOR COUNTY. The farmer-Delegate from Amador is introduced elsewhere in these pages; the present is, strangely enough, a lawyer. John A. Eagon was born in the city of Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, Decern- ber 9th, 1827, being now fifty-one years of age. Until just under majority, he remained in Old Virginia, when he moved to Ports¬ mouth, Ohio, settling there from 1847 to 1851. In that year he determined to see what the stories of California’s riches were worth, and came here in pursuit of that determination. The mines of Ama¬ dor seemed most desirable to the new immigrant, and for the next five years he worked for the nuggets and dust of that county. In the belief that there were better things than mining, he gave up his claim in 1856, and having had a good primary education he decided not to lose what he had already learned, but to add to it and study for a lawyer. He was then only twenty-three, so had the world before him yet. His law study soon resulted in his admission to practice, and having a liking for Amador and its people he chose to be a lawyer where he had been a miner. That his choice was well made, and that the people of Amador returned the liking for the young attorney, is shown by the fa?t that he was sent as member of Assembly in 1859, and elected to the Sen¬ ate in the same year. He served in the sessions of that body in 1860 and 1861, representing the district composed of Amador and Cala¬ veras Counties. For three years, too, he served as Supervisor of Amador County, and was again elected to the Assembly, serving in the session of 1871 and 1872. Having occupied so many places of trust and importance, and having filled them in the highest satisfactory manner, it was but natural that the Hon. John A. Eagon should be selected by the voters of Amador for Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. A Republican in politics, lie was mutually supported by Republicans and Democrats, being nominated and elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. It will be found that he religiously carries out the principles of his constituents in this Convention, and allows himself to be swayed by no party feeling. 65 IION. THORVALI) IvL AU13IUS NELSON, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Tf names are any indication of nationality, then Tliorvald Nelson should come of the old Norse stock, and his history be written in a Saga. One is not surprised to find that he was born in Bergen, Nor¬ way, September 13, 18-19, being now thirty years of age. In 1862, having heard much of the Great Western Continent, he decided to visit it, and on the 31st of May of that year sailed for America. He arrived in Quebec in June, and after a short stay in the Frencli- Canadian city, came on to Chicago. There he gained a living as carver of meerschaum pipes. With the exception of a little time in Cincinnati, he lived in Chicago, following his craft, until 1873, when he came to San Francisco. Arriving in July, 1873, he has lived here since, wisely giving up meerschaum work in a country where cigars are found in everybody’s mouth, and taking to wood-turning instead. Mr. Nelson was married in Chicago, and has a family of three children. When the Workingmen’s party was formed, Mr. Nelson, formerly a Republican in politics, joined the organization, giving his adherence to its principles, and working earnestly to carry out his convictions. Mr. Swensen and the present Delegate are fortunate in being the rep¬ resentatives of the Scandinavian-Americans, their fellow-countrymen being noted among those making the best of citizens. HON. GEORGE A. JOHNSON, SANTA ROSA. FOR SONOMA COUNTY. From Sonoma County, two farmers and two lawyers have been elected; Mr. Johnson is one of the latter. He was bom at Salisbury, Maryland, July 27th, 1829, and is now forty-nine years of age. His education was a superior one, as he was entered at Y r ale College, from which he graduated in 1853. While there he was established President of the Board of Editors of the Yale Literary Magazine. A 5 study of dead tongues, in which he had made a mark at Yale, led to his filling the chair of Professor of Ancient Languages in the West¬ ern Military Institute, Kentucky, in 1853-54. He was afterwards invited to the same chair at Nashville, Tennessee. The invitation was declined, because he had formed the determination to study law. To this end he read in Indiana, and attended the law school at that State’s University. Admitted to practice, he soon attracted atten¬ tion, being, while yet a young man, twice nominated for the Legisla¬ ture by the Democracy of Wayne County, Indiana. Llis political honors were supplemented by judicial ones, as, by election, he filled the bench as Judge of the Common Pleas District, embracing Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties. By Governor Hendricks, he was also appointed Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Indiana, corresponding to the District Court in California, a re-nomination being given him at the expiration of his term. The latter part of 1853, he removed to California, and, in 1874, formed a law partnership with the Hon. Barclay Henley, at Santa Bosa, which still continues under the firm-name of Johnson & Henley. Though so recently a resident, the Santa Bosans have shown their appreciation of the stranger by making him their Mayor, his election being on the Non-Partisan ticket. It was on the Non-Partisan ticket, too, that he was elected as Delegate to this Convention. Such marks of esteem as these mentioned usually come in California from a long acquaintance with the recipient, but in this case it is not sur¬ prising that Mr. Johnson’s attainments should be instantly appraised. Clever, cultivated men, who are practically versed in their profession, and who have not taken it up as they would street paving, are acqui¬ sitions to the upper stratum, of which we get, by no means, a crush¬ ing quantity. Mr. Johnson will leave the Convention a better-known man than lie enters it. In politics he is a Democrat. G7 HON. WILLIAM PEYTON GRACE, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. The proportion of born Americans elected on the San Francisco ticket to the Constitutional Convention is a very small one ; Mr. Grace is one of the minority. He first saw light under the Stars and Stripes, having been born in Johnson City, East Tennessee, April 5th, 1837, and is now forty-one years of age. He was raised and worked on a farm until twenty, and then, in 1857, the new art of the daguerreotype beginning to attract attention, he purchased an outfit and traveled with his plates and camera through Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi. After three years of this itinerant life he fancied digging gold instead of fixing faces on silver, so leaving his kit at Denver, went to Colorado, mining in that Terri¬ tory, Montana and Nevada until 1868. In that year he came to California and San Francisco, where he has since followed the trade of carpenter and architectural draughtsman. In politics, Mr. Grace has always been what may be called a free Republican. Being a man who thinks deeply and speaks strongly on the present position of the laboring classes in California, he joined the movement last year, and soon becoming a prominent member of the organization was elected to the Convention on the Workingmen’s ticket. Mr. Grace has never advocated any violent measures, nor will he be found in the ranks of the unreasonable here. Reforms he believes must be brought about, but only by lawful and orderly means. HON. PLEASANT B. TULLY, GILROY, SANTA CLARA. FOR FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. This Delegate adds another lawyer to the Convention. Born in Tennessee in March, 1830, he is now in his forty-ninth year. His father was a farmer, and on the paternal estate he remained until 1839, when the family moved to Arkansas. Here, he was educated 68 and worked at home until a man, when, looking out for himself, he moved to Texas, and joining the band of the Texas emigration came to California over the southern route in 1853. Starting from Texas, in the Spring he passed through San Diego in November. The emigration company scattering, Mr. Tally went to Campo Seco and mined there until January, 1854. Thence he moved to Shaw’s Flat in Tuolumne, again to Chinese Camp, and finally staked at Indian Gulch, Mariposa, where he remained until 1859. Having had enough mining, he moved to Gilroy with the intention of following something better, and in pursuance of this intention, married and began studying law. His wife was a Miss Mary Mar¬ tin, oldest daughter of Julius Martin, who came to this country in 1843, from Jackson County, Missouri, with old Captain Joe Walker, she being three years old at the time of immigration. The Martins had settled at San Ysedro in the midst of the Indians, the only white people for many a league. Shortly after marrying this pioneer lady, he was admitted to the bar by Judge Sam. Bell McKee, Judge of the then Third District Court, Chief Justice Wallace and S. O. Hough¬ ton, being amongst the Committee. Since that time, which was in 1863, Mr. Tully has remained in practice in Santa Clara County. There he has established for himself the reputation of being one of the first criminal lawyers in the State, having appeared amongst other causes celebres as defendant for Vasquez, Theodore Moreno, (saved from the gallows to linger in the Penitentiary), and Cummins. From 1859 to 1862 he was Justice of the Peace for Gilroy Town¬ ship. In politics, Mr. Tully is and has been a consistent, life-long Democrat, the crew pulling in the same boat being a very small one, desertion having considerably thinned the ranks. He was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket, with a handsome majority of about four thousand, this majority showing how exceedingly popular a man he is. More than popular, he is esteemed capable of efficiently playing his part in the Amendment of California’s Constitution. GO HOY. ROYAL MILLS LAMPSOY, M. D., CHINESE CAMP, TUOLUMNE. FOR TUOLUMNE AND CALAVERAS COUNTIES. It is rather remarkable that the Delegates from Tuolumne County, and from Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties jointly, should both be physicians. Dr. Lainpson was born in the State of Vermont, 1831, which date makes him at present forty-seven years of age. After studying medicine and enjoying the reputation of a successful young practitioner, he decided when twenty-nine to try his fortunes and cures in California. In the practice of his profession he has resided in this State ever since 1852, his life being marked by no particular incidents outside those of a busy professional career. The apprecia¬ tion of his ability in the art curative was shown in his having held the position of visiting physician to the State Insane Asylum at Stockton for four years, and the appreciation of his publie worth is shown by his election by the voters of Tuolumne and Calaveras to the position of Constitutional Delegate. A Republican in politics, Dr. Lampson was elected on the Yon-Partisan ticket. HOY. HENRY W. SMITH, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. An American, of American parents, H. W. Smith was born in Orono, Maine, 1838, being at present forty years old. At the age of four, he, with his parents, removed to East Boston, Massachusetts, where he received a public school education. He remembers the solid, useful information he received there with such satisfaction that he has ever since been a firm supporter of the system. Leaving school at sixteen, he was apprenticed to the plumbing business, and when, at the end of two years, the firm with which he was, suspended, the family moved to Walnut Grove, Iowa, to follow farming. Per¬ ceiving that a country life was not suited to him, he returned to Boston, where he engaged himself to the house of Tompkins A Son 70 for two and a half years to finish his trade. In Boston he remained until 1863, when, having previously married, he determined to see if a move to California would not he advantageous. On arriving in San Francisco he was employed by Messrs. Briton Rey and O’Brien until the firm retired, in 1872, when he was engaged by the house of J. K. Prior, as foreman. He still retains this position, and is likely to, as he is a conscientious workman, and particularly temperate, never having partaken of any intoxicating liquors in his life. Mr. Smith has always been a staunch Republican up to the time of the organization of the Workingmen’s party. Joining that move¬ ment, he threw the whole force of his character into its work, and has ever since been actively engaged in promoting its principles. The tenets of his political belief are that the State needs reform and puri¬ fication, one of the prime necessities being the abolition of Coolie labor, which he considers detrimental to the rights of American citizenship. HOST. PATRICK T. DOWLING, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Among the very many letters received by the editor and publisher of this book in response to their circulars, have naturally been those of every variety—voluminous and curt, good-natured and crusty, orderly in facts and mixed as to dates, written with good-will and penned with a grudging spirit. With scarcely an exception, the let- lers have been taken either as furnishing data on which to form a biographical sketch, or as histories which have to be pruned down, to allow of a publication of reasonable size. The following let¬ ter is so characteristic, however, so terse and yet so complete, that it is inserted here as the best pen-picture of the Hon. P. T. Dowling that could be furnished. It is so open, too, in its manner that we are acquitted of any breach of privacy in printing it. He sa} s: “Dear Sir: As one of the Delegates-elect on the Workingmens ticket to the Constitutional Convention, in complying with your request to obtain a brief synopsis of my life, I have but to state : That I was born in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. I am thirty years 71 old. T received a common-school education. I came to the United States in 1865, and to California in 186G. I have experienced almost all the vicissitudes of a western life—have followed mining for a liv- ing in this State and Nevada. Recently, 1 have been engaged in the commission business in San Francisco. I have property in the City and County of San Francisco, and also in Los Angeles County, and am a living witness to contradict the calumnies that the Delegates of the Workingmen’s party are ignorant, houseless and homeless vagabonds.” o There is the true spirit of independence in every phrase of this communication, and it says, as plainly as possible, that Mr. Dowling will be one of the workers and fighters of the party he is not ashamed to represent. IION. HENRY LARKIN, DIAMOND SPRINGS, EL DORADO. FOR EL DORADO COUNTY. The gentleman to whom the People, not people, of El Dorado County have intrusted their interests in the framing of a new Constitu- tion was born at Oneida Lake, Madison County, New Y T ork, January 2d, 1826,being now fifty-two years of age. His history is marked by the usual quiet youth at home, restlessness on hearing of the gold in California, and final starting out for the West across the plains. He arrived in El Dorado September 1st, 1849, and has remained in that county ever since. Though this El Dorado was not the golden country he might perhaps have imagined, Mr. Larkin had not been long in his new home before he experienced the substantial benefit of his change of location. He was Deputy Sheriff of the county from 1852 to 1855, and in 1855 was appointed the Census Marshal for El Dorado. Always moving upward, he was elected to the State Senate in 1869 ; and finally, was a candidate for Congress in 1875 ; no, not finally, as on June 19th, 1878, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention. There were three tickets in the field at this election in El Dorado— Non-Partisan, Independent, and Workingmen. A popular Demo¬ crat, Mr. Larkin was the Workingmen’s nominee, being elected by a vote of 025, a majority of 710 over the Independent, and of 562 over the Non-Partisan candidate. Mr. Larkin was married on the day of his Independence, July 4, 1854, and is a farmer by occupation. “ The interests of the people,” is Mr. Larkin’s watch-word. He believes in general advancement, and has no idea of allowing any measures to be taken that will result in the aggrandisement of a few to the inconvenience of many. The Constitutional Amendments that he proposes will surely, if adopted, result in the public good. HON. JOHN I). CONDON, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. John D. Condon was born in Ireland, in 1846, and is now thirty- two. He landed in New York, June 27th 1858, went to Renssalaer County, New York, and worked on a farm for three years, attending school in the winter; moved to Troy, New York, in 1861, and learned the car-building trade at Gilbert Bush & Co’s of that city. Remained and worked there until he came to California, in the Spring of 1868. Failing to find work at car building, he turned his attention to cabinet-making, which trade he has worked at ever since. Mr. Condon soon began to move actively in labor organizations, and, as prior to 1871, there was no cabinet-makers’ society in the city, he set to work and succeeded in effecting a permanent organiza¬ tion of the craft, March 24th, 1871. The society was afterwards called the Cabinet-Maker’s Protective Union, and of this Mr. Condon was elected Recording Secretary. He was also elected delegate to the Mechanic State Council, then the only labor representative body in California; he was elected Secretary of the Council, and filled that position for six years. He was next elected President of the Ninth Ward Anti-Coolie Club, in 1876, and was a delegate to represent said Club in the Anti-Chinese Central Union, which was organized by the representatives of the several City and State Clubs. He was also chosen to Represent the Union before the Congressional Com¬ mittee. One of the charter members of the first English-speaking section of the Workingmen’s party of the L nited States, he sei \ ed 73 as its Secretary until the present labor movement was organized by Denis Kearney. At the last General Election Mr. Condon received the unanimous nomination for the Assembly from the Twelfth Dis- trict Convention, and also from the Workingmen’s party of San Francisco, the nomination being accepted in order to establish the principle that the workingmen had now a party of their own, although an election was known to be impossible. When the [(res¬ ent Workingmen’s party was organized he joined it immediately and has always worked hard for its success, being elected Delegate to this Convention by the Ninth Ward Club of the Workingmen’s Party of California. Mr. Condon is a man of fair education, is strictly temperate in habits, and is a married man with three children, his wife having been born in California. IION. CHARLES W. CROSS, NEVADA CITY. FOR NEVADA COUNTY. The people of Nevada County seem to have been well determined to have all walks of livelihood represented here, as they have elected as Delegates, a lawyer, a merchant, a miner and a school-teacher. The [u-esent gentleman is the first of this group. Charles W. Cross was born in Syracuse, New York, May 28th, 1848, being at present thirty years of age. He was educated at the Northwestern Univer- sity, and after a course of preparatory studies was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1869, being then just twenty- one. It was not long after this that he came to California, and set¬ tling in Nevada City, has there, in partnership with J. B. Johnson, Esq., established a liberal practice. Mr. Cross is conservative in his political opinions, and was elected, as were all his fellow-delegates from Nevada on the Workingmen’s ticket, by 2,048 votes out of a total 2,378. Possessed of a particular geniality of disposition, of most agreeable address, working steadily upward as a busy and successful lawyer, prominent among his fellows, though yet a young man, this Delegate from Nevada has a most promising future. 74 HON. JOSEPH C. GORMAN, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. The political Irishman is always a power among his associates, and the Irishman who is not a politician has yet to he discovered. Mr. Gorman was born on the loveliest island in the world, in 1844, being now in his thirty-fifth year. When but a child of four, he was brought to this country with his parents, the family living in Massa¬ chusetts until 1861. At that date he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained for five years, and where he cast his first vote, it being for Joseph R. Hawley, Republican candidate for Governor of the State. Soon after, the new American came to California, and in 1868, went up to Washington Territory as civil engineer in the ser¬ vice of the Northern Pacific Railroad. After two years’ duty he returned to San Francisco, and since 1870 has followed the business of tinner. Mr. Gorman had always supported the Republican party until the commencement of the Workingmen’s movement. He felt himself drawn by sympathy and belief to join the new organization, and by his activity, faithful practice of its doctrines and personal exposition of its principles, has become recognized as one of its leaders and elected as one of its Delegates to the Constitutional Convention. O ALEXANDER R. ANDREWS, SHASTA CITY. FOR TRINITY AND SHASTA COUNTIES. One of the sixty-odd lawyers in the Convention is Alexander R. Andrews. He was born in the State of Kentucky, in 1820, and is now therefore forty-nine years of age. His life has not altogether been passed in the peaceful profession of law, he having served in the Mexican war, in the Third Kentucky Volunteers, but this was when he was a young man. In 1849, he left the land oi the Buck-eye and came to the land of gold. He settled in Shasta County, and has remained under the shadow of the great northern mountain e% er since. The people o f Shasta and he are very well known to each other, and he has frequently had to represent their interests in public, having been Assemblyman from this county in the Seventh, Eight- o 1/ 1/ ’ o eentli and Nineteenth Sessions of the California Legislature. Lastly, that is, lastly up to this date, he has been chosen the Constitutional Delegate for Shasta and its neighboring county, Trinity. A Demo¬ crat in politics, Mr. Andrews is elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. He is a married man. The position this Delegate has always occupied at home is that prominent one which only those who are useful and honest can attain ; his election to this Convention shows that to these qualities his friends and acquaintances think he adds that of being a clever man. TION. PETER BELL, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. The canny Scot appears in this Delegate, who was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, December 2d, 1845, and who is therefore but thirty- three years old, although with his massive head and bushy beard he looks up in the forties. Mr. Bell’s education has been chiefly self- imparted, as at the age of nine he was set to work in his native city as a baker. When under eighteen, he came to the United States, landing in Boston, December 18th, 1862. The February following, he enlisted in the Union army, and served three } r ears under General Duane, in the United States Engineers. Receiving his discharge, he remained East until 1867. Coming then to California, he arrived in San Francisco, September 23d, 1867, and has followed the business of house painter ever since. Mr. Bell’s past politics were those of the independent Democrats. He joined the Workingmen’s party September 15th, 1877, and is considered by his fellow-delegates from San Francisco to be one of the shrewdest and most reliable men in their number. He considers himself as much an American as though born in New York instead of Glasgow, and loves the country as truly as if he spoke with a twang instead of a burr. 76 TfON. BERNARD F. KENNY, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Not only a native of the State, but of the city, Bernard Kenny was born in San Francisco, December 15tli, 1854, and is now in his twenty-fourth year. His parents being Irish and members of the True Church, he was educated by the Jesuit professors of St. Ignatius’ College, in this city. An after education was into the mysteries of Dr. Morse’s invention, and it is as telegraph operator that he makes his living. Democratic in politics, he was elected on the Workingmen’s ticket, having made himself prominent during the late campaign of labor against capital. Mr. Kenny does not believe in unlawful measures, but is very strongly impressed with the necessity for speedy and stringent reforms in certain directions. HON. JUSTUS SCHOMP, ACAMPO, SAN JOAQUIN. FOR SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. In compiling a gazetteer of Californian counties, San Joaquin might be briefly described as being “Agricultural.” Out of the four Dele¬ gates to the Constitutional Convention which it has elected, three are farmers, and Justus Schomp is one. He was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1835, and is consequently forty-three years of age. The first twenty years of his life were passed on eastern homesteads, and then, in 18-55, he left the scenes of Iris youth and plodded across the plains for California. The level wheat fields of San Joaquin have had more attractions for him than the gold fields of the broken country, and Justus Schomp is well satisfied to write down that he is “ by occupation a farmer.” Of no prejudiced political views, he was elected on the Non-Parti¬ san ticket, those who voted for him knowing that they were support¬ ing a man who would look after their welfare with quiet watchful¬ ness, and knowing, too, that behind his absence of fuss there was a keen sagacity which would enable him to hold his own with the hundred and fifty-two. IION. EZRA PERKINS SOULE, SUSANVILLE, LASSEN. FOR PLUMAS AND LASSEN COUNTIES. In the history of the gentlemen forming this body the instances in which those who have not come to California to remain in it will be found exceedingly rare. In reading the following sketch, it will be seen that Mr. Soule belongs to that minority. The Delegate for Plumas and Lassen was born in Clermont County, Ohio, and and is therefore fifty-one years of age. He was educated at the town of Marietta, in that State, and was brought up to the trade of millwright. When twenty-five, he came to California, but after remaining in it two years only, seemed to find it somewhat below his expectations, and returned to Iowa, in 1854, and resumed his old business of milling. Ten years passed, and the recollections of the Pacific Coast, which had kept by him for a whole decade, drew him again to California. This time, having remained fourteen years, he does not think of again leaving us. He is at present in Susanville, where he has a large wagon-making business, and is proprietor of a planing mill. Instead of leaving California, he has identified himself with the State, his share in the amendment of its new Constitution showing at once that the residents of his district esteem him capable of carry¬ ing out their views and wishes, and that he feels such an interest therein as to give his time and energy to their furtherance. HON. WILLIAM PROCTOR HUGHEY, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Mr. Hughey is an Americanized-American, his family for many generations past having “ played many parts ” in the history of the United States. To go no farther back than the third generation, his grandfather, who was born in Virginia, near the western foot of the Blue Ridge, served as captain of scouts in Colonel Dick Johnson’s famous mounted regiment in the war of 1812. His career was closed by the Creek Indians, near Nickjack Station, Northern 78 Georgia, hard by the present city of Dalton. Mr. Hughey’s father was a Kentucky Pioneer, and William was born in Mason County of that State, August 13th, 1831, in the historical region where Simon Kenton built his first cabin, on the “ dark and bloody ground.” When the Rebellion began, the present Delegate was a citizen of Atlanta, Georgia, and became a volunteer in the Confederate service. For two years and eight months, he was Captain of Co. I, Seventh Georgia Infantry, was in Longstreet’s Corps, and present at eleven battles in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Wounds and ill-health compelled his resignation from field service, and he was then appointed by Mr. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury at Rich¬ mond, as clerk in his department. Once more well, he returned to fight, his last battle being Gettysburg, where, acting as Quarter¬ master, he was captured by Kelly’s Cavalry, took the oath, and was reconstructed. Having so long fought against the North, he now concluded to live in it, went to Cincinnati, married there, and came to California in 1875. Here he has followed his trade of sign painter “ pretty steadily,” has made money, spent and lost it, and is now fully alive to the issue that either he or “ the Chinese must go.” A Democrat in politics, he was elected on the Workingmen’s ticket. JO SI All BOUCHER, CHICO, BUTTE. FOR BUTTE COUNTY. Ask any one in Butte to mention the foremost men of the county, and the chances are that he will begin the list with the name of Mr. Boucher. He was born in Summit County, Pennsylvania, 1819, and is now fifty-nine years of age. In the year 1841, we find Mr. Bou¬ cher, a young man of twenty-two, connected with one of the earliest enterprises of the State of Pennsylvania. In that } r ear, and at that age, he was filling the position of one of the officers of the Columbia Railroad Company, now what is known as the Pennsylvania Central. Ten years after, he emigrated with his brother to the Pacific Slope, where they for some time followed mining very successfully. His 70 brother became quite a prominent man, being elected to the State Senate for one term, any re-election being frustrated by the unhappy event of his death, which occurred just after the session. Turning his attention to farming and stock raising, Mr. Josiah Boucher set¬ tled in Butte County, and was quite successful in his new vocation until the hard winter of 1861-62, when he lost no less than live thousand head of fine stock in the flood. Notwithstanding this lit¬ erally overwhelming set-back, Mr. Boucher’s virile energy brought him out clear of debt, and to-day he is counted one of the firmest self-made men of the State. He still goes about among his numer¬ ous friends bearing the free title of Bachelor of Hearts. Mr. Boucher is of Republican principles, but content to put his political leanings in abeyance when the State’s general welfare was in question, he gave his adherence to, and was elected on, the Non-Par¬ tisan ticket. Neither the State’s general welfare, nor that of his county, will suffer while men of such sound and sincere views as those held by Mr„ Boucher have a say in its direction. HON. CHARLES SWENSON, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. This man, destined to suffer much and rise, was born in Balle, a little country village in Denmark, May 5th. 1847, being now thirty- one years of age. His father followed the usual custom of having a trade and tilling the ground, being at once carpenter and farmer. Charles received such education as the village school furnished, and when fourteen, left with his parents to settle in Aarlmus, one of the most important sea-towns of Denmark. It was here that he first entertained the idea of a sea-faring life, and at the age of fifteen ship¬ ped as boy on a vessel and made a few voyages, mostly to England, finally deserting a Danish brig and shipping on board the American Congress. In the three months’ voyage that followed, the young Dane endured many hardships, wanting clothing and shoes, and land¬ ing in New York, February 26th, 1864, barefooted, half-clothed, and with the enormous sum of eighty-five cents in his pocket. The first 80 partial investment of this capital was in food, the charitable pie-man giving him a cup of coffee. Hardships and semi-starvation followed for six days, when he took passage on board a vessel for the Medi¬ terranean. Until 186G, he sailed to and from the port of New York, and then came to San Francisco, where, until 1869, he navigated the Bay as seaman and master. Wood-chopping and mining in Chico and Howland Flat, Sierra County, were tried as a change, but the change brought on sickness, and he was compelled to return to San Francisco for treatment. He again went to sea, and saving a small capital, tried land work as expressman, and latterly as boarding-house and restaurant keeper. In politics, Mr. Swenson has always been a Republican, although in local politics he has exercised his judgment and voted indepen¬ dently of party. He was elected to the Convention on the Work¬ ingmen’s ticket, receiving the support of the American Scandinavian voters, by many of whom he is considered a representative man. IIOH. THOMAS HINCKLEY" ESTEY, / NICASIO, MARIN. FOR CONTRA COSTA AND MARIN COUNTIES. Thomas II. Estey is a native of Massachusetts, in which State he was born in 1826, being now fifty-tw'o years of age. When twenty- three years of age he decided to leave the East for the West. This was somewhat before the days of a trans-continental railroad and sleeping cars, and Mr. Estey came in the footprints which every month were growing closer, across the plains. He arrived in Cali¬ fornia September 12th, 1849, and now, by his long residence here, and sharer in her advances considers himself one of the State. So closely has he her interests at heart that he lias temporarily given up his cpiiet life of dairy-farmer to take part in the amendment of the Constitution. A Republican in politics, Mr. Estey was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket, and will certainly adhere to the platform on which he was nominated, i. e., to work for the general good, uAbiased by his political education. 81 HON. BENJAMIN BROOKES GLASCOCK, SPRING VALLEY, COLUSA. FOR COLUSA COUNTY. The Delegate for Colusa was bom in Ralls County, Missouri, in 1843, and is therefore thirty-live years of age. In 1852, Mr. Glas¬ cock came to California, when twelve years old, and settled in Yolo County, where he resided until the year 18G7. Feeling that his edu¬ cation needed a better polish, he entered the Hesperian College of Oakland, where he completed his scholastic course with honors. Moving to Colusa County, he began his working life as farmer and stock breeder. Here he has remained until this date, receiving the esteem of all classes in that wealthy district, that esteem having been first shown by his election to the office of County Supervisor, and now to his unanimous nomination and unopposed election as Delegate to the Convention. In politics Mr. Glascock is Democratic, and was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. He is unmarried. A gentleman of collegiate acquirements, pleasing address and easy manners, and held in high esteem by the whole population of Colusa, Mr. Glascock’s future looks very bright. His many friends are con¬ vinced that this present office is the first of many to be held in a brilliant career. HON. PATRICK M. WELLIN, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Born in Ireland, February 12th, 1836, Mr. Wellin is now forty- two. He lost both parents when but an infant, and was raised by his grandfather, who had him educated at the country schools. In 1852, he emigrated, arriving in New Y r ork the April of that year. He immediately went to learn the carpenter’s trade, and after three years engaged in that business with his brother, the firm meeting with fair success for some time. During his apprenticeship he attended the Mechanics’ Institute and Cooper Union of New Y r ork, passing at the head of the drawing class. 6 82 Leaving New York, lie made an extensive trip through the West¬ ern, Middle and Southern States, where he saw the first secession flag raised in Georgia. He hastened back to New York in January, 1861, and with some others raised a company to go to the war, but Mr. Seward having issued his “ ever to be remembered ” order to stop recruiting, the company disbanded, he resigned his commission as First Lieutenant and came to California. He settled in San Fran¬ cisco and has always considered it his home, but like most others had his turn in the gold fields, and was one of the pioneers of Austin. He met the miner’s usual luck, hardships, misfortunes and losses. During the eight-hour agitation Mr. Wellin took an active part therein and so made many enemies, he believes; enemies who seem unwilling to understand that he was actuated by honest motives. He had no new doctrine to learn when Denis Kearney took the stand, and no new declaration to make, as he had always advocated the same measures, but in a more modified form. As an advocate of these measures, too, he was elected to the Convention by the Work¬ ingmen of San Francisco. HON\ II. C. BOGGS, LAKEPORT, LAKE. FOR NAPA, LAKE AND SONOMA COUNTIES. Forming an agricultural district, Napa, Lake and Sonoma have chosen an agriculturist as their Delegate to the Convention to frame a new Constitution. Their choice has fallen on H. C. Boggs, who was born at Sibly, Jackson County, Missouri, on the 1st of June, 1820, and who is therefore fifty-eight years of age. In Missouri, he remained until thirty, devoting his time to stock raising and other branches of farming. In 1850, he crossed the plains bound for California, and reached Sacramento on the 20th of August, in that year. Mr. Boggs was one of that exceptional few who came to support and not to be sup¬ ported by the new country. Turning his broad back on the mines, he took up a ranch in Napa Valley, settled down, and except that his neighbors were fewer, his farm a more extensive one, and the climate not quite so harsh, he might have been still in old Missouri. For fifteen 83 ' years lie remained in the Napa Valley, and then, in 1865, moved to Lake County, and at Lakeport has resided ever since, always keep¬ ing to his agricultural pursuits. Mr. Noel and Mr. Boggs are the men of the young county, and have both been largely instrumental in placing her on a level with her surrounding sisters of older organiza¬ tion. Mr. Boggs' interests in this part of the country are quite extensive, and his solid support has been felt all around the Winder- mere of California. His long residence in Napa has made his name a household word there, and the voters of Sonoma were well aware of the good qualities of the Delegate they had their share in electing. Mr. Boggs is a good old-fashioned Democrat, but is yet sufficiently broad in his views to be here as a faithful Non-Partisan. IION. JAMES O’SULLIVAN, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Mr. O’Sullivan was born in the county of Cork, Ireland, in 1825, being now fifty-three years of age. He was educated in the city of Cork until his sixteenth year, when he emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York, June 1841. Choosing a trade, he became an apprentice in 'a newspaper office, remaining at this busi¬ ness until 1846. In that year, war having been declared between the United States and Mexico, he enlisted in the First Regiment of New York Volunteers, Colonel J. D. Stevenson commanding. That regiment being ordered for service in California, was dispatched Sep¬ tember 26th, 1846, via Cape Horn. Mr. O’Sullivaq arrived in San Francisco March, 1847. His company was ordered to repair to Santa Barbara, for garrison service, and on the fourth of July, following, sailed thence for La Paz, Lower California, to occupy and garrison that town. Two companies went to La Paz, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Burton, and occupied the place until the close of the war. In November, 1847, Colonel Burton’s command (about 100 men) was attacked by 500 Mexicans, who kept up a des_ ultory fight for months. The New York Volunteers were victorious in several sharp brushes with the enemy. 84 In September, 1848, peace having been concluded, the companies ’ stationed at La Paz came up to Monterey on the U. S. S. Ohio , and were there discharged in October. Gold having been discovered, Mr. O’Sullivan started overland with many others for the mines, and arrived at the site of Mokelumne Hill in November. His party may be considered the founders of that town, which they called the Hill, as they built the first log cabins. The subject of our sketch worked at placer mining in 1848, 1849 and 1850, in Calaveras County, and in the last year moved to Tuolumne County, where he mined on Mormon Creek until June, 1851. In that month he went to work at his trade, in the office of the Sonora Herald , which was the first newspaper established in the mines. After a few months’ employment on the Herald , Mr. O’Sullivan and the late Judge Wal¬ ter Murray, of San Luis Obispo, purchased the paper from Dr. L. C. Gunn, and conducted it successfully for over two years. In 1854, Mr. O’Sullivan became sole proprietor of the paper, and remained its editor until 1859, the Herald taking rank among the best country journals of California. Since 1859, Mr. O’Sullivan has worked at his business in different parts of the State, sometimes as editor, sometimes as compositor. He is a forcible, earnest writer, always governed by his convictions of right, and is a pioneer agitator on the Chinese question, his articles in the Sonora Herald, during 1852, being instrumental in having the Chinese driven out of Tuolumne County. Politically, Mr. O’Sullivan affiliated with the Democrats up to 1856, and was a warm partisan of the Broderick wing of that party. In 1856, at the organization of the Republican party, he joined it, and was the candidate for Senator from Tuolumne County. He remained attached to the Republicans until General Grant became a candidate for thp Presidency ; since then he has acted independently, generally voting with the Democrats. When the Workingmen’s movement was inaugurated, Mr. O’Sullivan entered heartily into it. After his election as a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, the San Diego Union said of him : “Whatever may be the extreme views of some of those who have been prominent in the Workingmen’s movement, we are able to say, from a personal knowledge of the man dating back to 1851, that James O’Sullivan possesses thoroughly correct ideas on the subjects that will be discussed by the Convention. He has identified himself 85 with the new organization with the same sincerity that distinguished his affiliation with the Republican party in its early days. James O’Sullivan is a pure man, earnestly devoted to the public good, and his long connection with the California press has never been tarn¬ ished by a single surrender of principle. A proud record for a journalist.” Mr. O’Sullivan is a married man, and has raised a family in San Francisco. HOY. ALBERT PERRY OVERTOY, SANTA ROSA. FOR THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. The Third Congressional District has among its eight Delegates-at- Large three lawyers—Judge Belcher, the Hon. J. McM. Shatter and Judge Overton. This last gentleman was born at Independence, Missouri, January 4th, 1830, being now forty-eight years of age. When nineteen, he moved to Texas, in the year 1849, and was in Mexico during the war with the United States, as Army Sutler at Santa Fe. In 1850, he was in Dallas, Texas, and in August of that year crossed the continent to California. Making his way to Trinity County, he mined there in 1851 for about a month, then moving into the softer climate of Sonoma County, decided to remain in it. With this intention, he studied and. began the practice of law, making the rosy burg his home. He secured not only a practice, but position, having served two terms as District Attorney and one term as County Judge for Sonoma County. Besides these official duties, he has dis¬ charged those of President of the Santa Rosa Savings Bank ever since its inception, and still holds that position. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Overton was elected on the Yon-Par¬ tisan ticket, securing about five thousand majority over opposing nominees. There need be nothing further said to introduce Mr. Overton, for his name stands as high as any of his fellow-delegates. Legally, judicially and socially, he is a man of the first reputation. HON. LEWIS FULLER JONES 86 MARIPOSA CITY. FOR MARIPOSA, MERCED AND STANISLAUS COUNTIES. The joint-Delegate for these three counties was born in Petersburg, Rensselaer County, New York, in 1821, being now fifty-seven years ol age. Coming to California some years ago, he settled at Mari¬ posa and established himself there as attorney and counselor at law. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Jones was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. A modest man of worth, this Honorable Delegate has made his mark in his county by reason of his stable qualities and genuine endowments. His selection and election are but incidents in a series of proofs of the estimate put on him by the people of the section he represents. HON. JACOB RICHARD FREUD SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Among the youngest Delegates to this Convention Mr. Freud is to be ranked, as he was born in New YMrk, December, 1856, being consequently but a little over twenty-one years of age. Though so young a man, though so recently a man in fact, it will be found that he carries an old head on young shoulders. Mr. Freud’s parents are Hungarians, who in consequence of being sympathizers in the Hun¬ garian Revolution of 1853, were obliged to come to America as refu¬ gees. They settled in New Y r ork, where, four years after, Jacob was born. In 1864, his parents came to California with their son, then a boy of eight. A year after the arrival he entered the public schools of San Francisco, and in 1876, graduated from the University of California, receiving the degree of A. B. Since that date he has been in business as merchant with his father. When the Workingmen’s party began to assume tangible form, Mr. Freud was found among its active members, and as such, he has continued working honestly and earnestly to advance those princi¬ ples which he considers the groundwork of Republican freedom. It may be held by some that the leaven of the old Hungarian revolu- 87 tionary feeling prompts him to advocate measures slightly too pro¬ nounced, but it should he remembered by those who cry out against these reformers, that without a somewhat similar revolutionary stock, America would not he to-day what she is. The position Mr. Freud holds in his party may be arrived at, when it is stated that he polled first vote at the City and County election of San Francisco of dele¬ gates to this Convention. IION. JOHN MANSFIELD, LOS ANGELES. FOR FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Among the well-known lawyers of Los Angeles, John Mansfield is to be prominently ranked. He was born in the State of New York, in 1822, being now fifty-six years of age. When the People’s / Non-Partisan ticket was made up, Mr. Mansfield’s name was thir¬ teenth on the list, he having been selected by the representative citi¬ zens of his district. His election meant the enrollment of another friend of order and good government, and his position here means the opposition of one Delegate, at least, to everything sinister and communistic. HON. JONATHAN M. DUDLEY^, DIXON, SOLANO. FOR SOLANO COUNTY. Solano County went heavily Republican, its three Delegates being of that political aspect and elected on that ticket. The first on the ticket was Jonathan M. Dudley, who was born in Oswego County, State of New York, September 7th, 1830, and who is consequently forty-eight years of age. At six, he moved with his parents to Orland, Steuben County, Indiana, where he remained until 1852. He was brought up on a farm, and received the advantages of a common school education, solid but not extensive. In 1852, he left Indiana for California, taking company with an overland train (not the C. P. 88 R. R.), and on his arrival went to the mines. He did not pass the best years of his life grubbing for gold, however, but worked on a farm, taught school, married a wife (1857), and having saved a trifle, began farming for himself. He settled in Solano, and has there grown up in years, comfort and honors. Mr. Dudley’s first public appearance in the political field was in 1861, when he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Solano County in the State Legislature. He was re-elected to the same office in 1862. In 1873, he received the Republican nomina¬ tion for joint-Senator in the Seventeenth Senatorial District (Solano and Yolo), but was defeated at the election. As has been said above, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Republican ticket. Strikingly consistent in his politics, it will be found that Mr. Dud¬ ley is quite as consistent in his conduct in this deliberative body; not that he will allow his political sympathies to run away with him, but it will be his aim only to support the passage of those proposed amend¬ ments that are honest on their face and efficient in working the State’s good. IION. THOMAS IIAHRISON, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. This gentleman, who is of Irish descent, was born in Cornwall, West of England, in 1837, and is now in his forty-first year. When at an early age, his parents moved to Liverpool, where his boyhood was passed. Here he received the ordinary educational advantages of that period. A brother-in-law, who was engaged in the pottery business, took the boy into his office, but he did not allow the work to interfere with his studies, which he continued through the system of night-schools then in vogue. At the age of fourteen he was appren¬ ticed to a grain broker of Liverpool, with whom he remained some¬ what over a year, when, his health failing under the confinement of desk-work, lie was obliged to relinquish the position. He then sought for some little time an opportunity to learn the trade of machinist, but circumstances preventing this, he finally, at the age of sixteen, 89 cut loose from home ties and went to sea, making several voyages in the ensuing three or four years. He landed in the United States O J % first, in 1857. In 1858, he abandoned the sea, and for the succeed¬ ing seven or eight years followed mining with the fluctuating success peculiar to that branch of labor. He came to San Francisco about ten years since, engaging in the business of rigger, which occupation he has since followed. He is industrious and temperate in his habits, and faithful in his business relations, and as the result of his labors in the city is the owner of his homestead. He was married in this city, in November, 1873, and now has three children—two girls and a boy. He is a naturalized citizen, having taken out his papers immediately after his marriage. In pol¬ itics he was formerly identified with the Democratic party, from which lie cut loose upon the first steps being taken in the agitation which resulted in the formation of the Workingmen’s party. He has since been prominent as a representative man in his ward, active and earnest in all the various steps of its progress. He was a delegate to all the various party conventions, so that when the time for naming candidates for the Constitutional Conven- tion arrived, his nomination was a foregone conclusion and his election showed that he carried the full strength of his party vote. GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHELL, MODESTO, STANISLAUS. FOR FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Mr. Schell was born in Schoharie County, New York, December 23d, 1837, which makes him forty-one years of age. He worked at home on a farm until his majority; his working-time, however, allow¬ ing him sufficient leisure to receive a good academic education. Making choice of the law as a profession, he studied with this view, a portion of his student-course being passed with the Hon. Lyman Tremaine, in the city of Albany, New York. In that city he was admitted to the bar, May 9 th, 1861. The same year, but five months later, he came to California, in which State he has ever since prac- 90 ticed. Stanislaus lias been his home and the scene of his labors, his first official position being that of Superintendent of Schools for the county, to which position he was elected in March, 1863, and in which he served his term of twm years. From September, 1864, to January, 1869, he occupied the bureau of Deputy U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue, for the Fifth Division, Third District of Califor¬ nia. Rising still higher, he sat on the bench as County Judge of Stanislaus County from January 1st, 1874, to January 1st, 1876. From the date of organization of the Farmers’ Savings Bank at Mod¬ esto, he has been its attorney, with the exception of the two years he was County Judge, and since January, 1874, has been one of its directors. Mr. Schell has passed through no change of politics, having always been a Republican. His election as Delegate-at-Large from the Fourth Congressional District on the Non-Partisan ticket shows him to be possessed of those qualifications which the candidates on this ticket were required to have. The demands of partisanship he sinks in his regard for the welfare of the people, and his patriotism he holds to be of greater moment than political affiliation. His ability and reputation are unquestioned by those who cast their votes for him. IION. JOHN C. STEDMAN, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Mr. Stedman is a native of San Francisco, in which city he was born on the 17th of April, 1851, and is consequently in his twenty- eighth year. He received his primary education in the city’s public schools, and after leaving the High School attended the Santa Clara College. Upon the completion of his collegiate course he was engaged for about a year as clerk in a grocery house in San Jose, after which, in recognition of the value of a mechanical avoca¬ tion, he apprenticed himself to learn the carriage, sign and ornamental painting, continuing at the trade until he had fully acquired it. His health suffering materially, lie was forced to relinquish the business, and going to San Diego, again engaged in clerking, for a lumber firm 91 of that city. Returning to San Francisco in 1872, he entered the employ of a book and stationery firm as book-keeper, since which time he has been engaged for the most part in the practice of his pro¬ fession as an accountant and expert, with considerable success. He is now a member of the firm of Stedman & Leonard, General Accountants, Conveyancers and Searchers of Records. Of his former political connections it may be said that he lias been generally independent; although affiliating with the Republican party in national politics, he has never held himself bound to the policy of the party in local or State politics. He became identified with the Workingmen’s party at its inception, and was one of the first mem¬ bers of the first Workingmen’ clubs formed in liis ward, in which lie has always been a prominent and trusted member. W lien the time for nominating Delegates to the Constitutional o n Convention arrived lie was at once put in nomination. His personal standing in the community is indicated in some measure by the fact that in the election which followed, although on the Workingmen’s ticket party lines were closely drawn, he ran somewhat ahead of the average of his own ticket. He was married about three years since to a daughter of Nathaniel Beal, Esq., of Calaveras County, the fruits of the union being two children—a boy and a girl. IION. TYLER DAVIS HEISKELL, OAK DALE, STANISLAUS. FOR STANISLAUS COUNTY. The gentleman from Stanislaus, who is independent enough to bear the name of a Northern and a Southern President, was originally from Virginia, where he was born in Lee County, December 21st, 1823, being now fifty-five years of age. Moving to Tennessee, he afterwards made the greater move, via the plains, to California. He arrived in this State in 1849, and making himself a home in El , Dorado County, he was sent as its representative to the Legislature, serving as Assemblyman in the session of 1856. At present he is, and has been for some time past, a farmer and stock raiser in Stanis- 92 laus County. A Democrat, lie was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Heiskell is a man of singularly retiring habits, being content to let his qualities speak for themselves. It would not be in good taste to intrude on this modesty other than to say he possesses both the inbred and cultivated qualities of a gentleman, the name being as deservedly applied, as it is honorably held. IION. HENRY NEUNABER. SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Mr. Neunaber was born near Oldenburg, Germany, April 8th, 1838, being now forty. He was educated in the quiet village of Hessel, and after his school-days were over, was placed by his careful parents— parents who, perhaps, little expected their son would bear the title at the head of this sketch—to gain an insight into business. To this end he was put in the stores of merchants in Jever and Bremerhaven, being engaged in such occupation until he was twenty-two. At that age he decided to make a grand stride out in life, and so with a mod¬ erate sum in his pocket started for America. He did not remain long in New York, but taking only two days to see the sights of the metropolis, came on at once to San Francisco by way of the Isthmus, arriving here in April, 1861. Here he has remained ever since, hav¬ ing married and been successful in making a modest competency out of the grocery business. Previous to his appearance among the nominees for Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Mr. Neunaber had taken no active part in any political movement, indeed, his nomination was a matter of surprise to him, and his election depended entirely upon the unso¬ licited votes of his numerous friends. His politics have always been ( Republican with an independent coloring; indeed, Mr. Neunaber is moderate in all things, and will prove, perhaps, a balance to the more rapid members of the party. 03 1IOX. JAMES SMITH REYNOLDS, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. This Delegate is a native of Warren County, New Y"ork, and is forty-seven years of age. In 1845, his father with his family settled in Walworth Countv, and afterwards, in Racine County, Wisconsin. As far back as there is any record, his ancestors were natives of Massachusetts. In 1854, lie came from Wisconsin to California, set¬ tling at Jackson, Amador County, where he experienced three years of the average pick-and-shovel fortune of those days. His first political venture was to lead the forlorn hope of a candidate on the Republican ticket for member of the Assembly from that county in 1857. In December of that year he went to Salem, Oregon, to report the proceedings of the Legislature, then in session, for the Portland Oregonian. At the end of the session he began the study of law, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of that State, in the class of 1861. After three years’ successful prac¬ tice, and on the organization of the Territory of Idaho, in 1864, he purchased a newspaper and job-printing outfit and established at Boise City the Idaho Statesman, which for eight years, under his control, was acknowledged to be the best interior newspaper of the Pacific Slope. The condition of affairs in that new Territory at that time was peculiar. The population was, by a large majority, composed of adventurers attracted by the wonderfully rich placer mines, besides receiving large accessions from the disorganized armies at the close of the war. These influences had just the effect they might be expected to have upon society and politics. Legislation and official misappropriation of the public revenue ran with a loose rein, against which Mr. Reynolds with his paper maintained a vigorous though unequal contest. It was frequently impossible to stay the wild extravagance of the reckless legislatures, and so, on several occasions, Mr. Reynolds, without assistance, transferred the contest to Wash¬ ington, and by his individual efforts induced Congress to annul acts of the Legislature, notably those allowing members of the Legisla¬ ture and all Federal officers in the Territory extra compensation out of the Territorial treasury ; also the foreign miners’ tax, which, under 94 the pretense of raising revenue, was really a method of raising funds to corrupt politics and the administration of justice. It was almost wholly due to his determined efforts that the fast accumulating, public debt was checked and the Territorial credit restored. The value of this service is illustrated by the fact, that even with yearly decreasing revenue, Territorial bonds advanced in two or three years from forty to ninety cents on the dollar. Mr. Reynolds made his paper a financial as well as a political success under circumstances, as here obtained, most exceptionally adverse. Failing health admonished him to quit the business, and in 1872 he sold out his interests in Idaho, and about two years ago he resumed the practice of law in this city. His first connection with the Workingmen’s party dates from his being associated with Mr. Barbour in the defense of the Workingmen at the so-called riot prosecutions of last winter. He has always been a Republican in politics, but aside from any party faith or affiliation he has always been opposed to land monopoly in every phase—to the absorption of the sovereignty of the State by corporations, and to all the methods by which the people’s substance is squandered by extrav¬ agance and misgovernment. This being his history, his nomination by the Workingmen as candidate for Delegate to the Convention came almost as a matter of course. HOH. RUFUS SHOEMAKER, GRASS VALLEY, NEVADA. FOR SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 9 Another Delegate froni the Second Congressional District, and one of the notably few journalists in the Convention, is Mr. Rufus Shoe¬ maker. He was born, as he says, “ at Linden when the sun was low.” It was not, however, on the historical battle-field that he added a new dignity to his father’s life and began his own, but at the town of that name, in Copiah County, State of Mississippi. The event happened on the fifth day of January, 1830, which makes Mr. Shoemaker forty-eight winters (and summers) older in this year of grace than he was in that. His school-boy days and college terms I 95 being over, lie decided on a legal course of studies, but feeling some, how convinced that his was not “ the skull of a lawyer,” and having always had a liking for paragraphs and paste, he took to the news¬ paper business. Among papers, and filling the editor’s chair (gene¬ rally the worst in the office), he has remained until a very recent date, his energetic conduct of the Grass Valley Union having made that journal one of the brightest interior publications of the State. Nevada County has not been unmindful of Mr. Shoemaker’s capabilities, having made him its Clerk from 1857 to 1859, while the State showed him that his talents were by no means buried in Grass Valley by making him the Secretary of its Senate at the last session. In politics, Mr. Shoemaker has always been a Democrat of the straightest kind, but so convinced were those who voted for him that his prejudices would in no way blind his good judgment, and that he would honestly do his best for all parties, that lie was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. He is a man of crisp, healthy thought, a vig¬ orous penman, and will certainly prove as capable of making the Constitution of 1878 a better one than that of 1849 as any who sit around him. IION. JOHN FREDERICK LINDOW, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. John Frederick Lindow was born in the village of Papenbruck, by Wittstock-on-the-Dosse, Kingdom of Prussia, 1833, and is now in his forty-fifth year. His education, which was by no means classical, was received in his native village, and when at the age of fourteen he was taken from school and sent to work on a farm. After labor¬ ing in the fields for four years, he was placed as apprentice to a tailor, plying his needle for three years longer without a cent of pay. He thoroughly learned his trade, however, and after finishing his appren¬ ticeship, followed the usual wandering life of the young German journeyman, and traveled all over the land, visiting its principal cities and halting at its smallest hamlet, according to the free Bohe¬ mian custom of the country. 96 In 1858, being then twenty-five, Mr. Lindow sailed for England and remained in London, following his trade for a little over three years. He was followed, too, by his sweatheart, Anna Margratta Hustetd, to whom he was married on her arrival. In 1861, he decided to emigrate to America, and leaving London, he arrived in New York a fortnight after, remaining in the Atlantic Gotham until 1864. From New York he came to San Francisco, landing in this city March 12th*of that year. He worked in employ about nine months, and then opened in business for himself, in which for venture he has been quietly successful for the past thirteen years. He became a citizen of the United States November 12th, 1870. Always taking an interest in political matters, and always being in sympathy with the welfare of his own class, he joined the Working¬ men’s party in 1877, and was in the early part of this year signaled out as the representative of the Fourth Ward, being elected to the Constitutional Convention with a majority of about five thousand over the opposing ticket. HON. CONRAD IIEROLD, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. In deference to the sentiment good fellowship two Germans are placed together, separated only by a dash. Mr. Herold was born in Beverungen, Germany, in 1831, being now an American and forty- seven years of age. He is also a married man with a family. When twenty-six, he left untied Germany for the L T nited States, landing in Baltimore in the year 1857. He remained east for two years, and then followed the sun and came west, arriving in California in April, 1859. Through the mines seemed the easiest road to fortune, and he washed and dug, and cradled until 1866, when he came down from the moun¬ tains, and in the following year, having found a promising corner, engaged in the grocery business which he has followed ever since. Mr. Herold has always voted on the Democratic ticket, taking no interest in politics, however, until the formation of the Working¬ men’s party, when lie cast in his lot with it, and becoming prominent has been chosen to represent his ward in this Convention of the State. This he will do faithfully. 97 IION. HUGH M. LA RUE, SACRAMENTO. FOR SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Four Republicans and four Democrats were elected for each of the four Congressional Districts, Mr. La Rue being one of the second group. He was born in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, August 12th, 1830, and is now forty-eight. When nine years of age his father moved to Lewis County, Missouri, where he was brought up on a farm, attending such schools as there were during the winter months, when the snows were too deep for plowing and the frosts made every thing as brittle as glass. Ten years of this life were passed, and then, in 1849, being a young man of nineteen, he crossed the plains for California, arriving inside the State about the twelfth day of August. During the Fall and Winter of that year Mr. La Rue worked in the mines, and then, in the Spring and Summer of ’50, teamed and traded to the mines. This proved profitable, and in October (still of 1850), he was able to take up a farm in Sacramento County, hard by the Capital. Confin¬ ing his operations to this and the neighboring counties of Yolo and Colusa, he has been engaged ever since in the business of farming and stock-raising. Since October, 1870, Mr. La Rue has resided in Sacramento City. The present is not this Delegate’s first and only office, since he was elected Sheriff on the Tax-payer’s ticket of Sacramento County, in 1873, holding the position for one term, and was on the State Board of Agriculture for three years. In politics, Mr. La Rue is a Demo¬ crat, and was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Non- Partisan ticket. The members for the Second District are all men of high standing and mark. By them and the people of the Sacramento Valley Mr. La Rue is looked upon as one well able to sustain the dignity of his place and take more than a passive part in the proceedings of this body. i 98 HON. MORRIS M. ESTER, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. There are some Delegates who will need little introduction to their co-amendors other than the mention of their names. Amon£ these is the present Delegate, yet the following few brief facts will doubt¬ less be of additional interest to those who make a study of the Origin of Man. Mr. Estee was born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, November 23d, 1833, and is now forty-five. In 1853, he lefG Penn’s wood for Drake’s New Albion, arriving in San Francisco a young man of twenty. For thr6e years he mined in El Dorado and Amador Counties, settling in Sacramento in the Winter of 1858-59, where and when he commenced the study and the practice of law. He soon became a prominent member of the bar, having been elected member of the Assembly in 1863, and made District Attorney of Sacramento for the term of 1864 and 1865. Soon after this, he removed to San Francisco, and in 1874 was chosen as Assemblyman for that City and County, his fellow-Assembly men making him Speaker of the House. At present he is sharing a lucrative practice with JiuRe John H. Boalt. Mr. Estee is married. O Though Mr. Estee’s social qualities are no proof of his fitness for this position, it is a pleasure to know that his early struggles and present success have not spoiled his simple-heartedness nor blunted his geniality. It is as a clever lawyer, a practical parliamentarian, a man of clear American ideas and right principles, that he is well qualified for Constitutional Delegate. I 99 1I0N. JAMES JOSEPH AYRES, LUS ANGELES. FOR FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. “ Bevant ’Tweed ” claims this Delegate, as lie was born in the citv of Glasgow, Scotland, August 27th, 1830, being now forty-eight. - He knows but little of Lanarkshire’s busy chief town, as he was brought to this country in 1831, being then a puling infant. In 1848, lie moved to St. Louis, remaining in Chicago’s rival but a short time, as on the 2d of February, 1849, he started for California by way of the Isthmus. The journey was more than ordinarily full of incidents, as whoever had charge of the Atlantic at that season buf¬ feted them into Bolize. Thence proceeding to Onisa, Honduras, Mr. Ayres and companions crossed the narrow continent to Puerte La Union, a seaport of San Salvador. In July, finding a northward bound ship at Realijo, he took passage on board her, sailing through the Golden Gate, October 5th, 1849, having taken over eight months from point of departure to destination. In California he has labored ever since, with the exception of time consumed in his visits to the East, and a short residence in Honolulu. Having been brought up to the case, Mr. Ayres found his first employment in California as a printer. Then he became a publisher, and in 1856, with others, started the San Francisco Morning Call. As editor and senior partner in the proprietary firm he passed ten years, and then, in May, 1866, sold out to the present owners. In 1872, Mr. Ayres settled in Los Angeles, where, since July, 1873, he has been the managing editor of the Los Angeles Evening Express, a paper of weight and character, and of almost metropolitan influence. A type of good Scotch metal, open-faced and well-shouldered, Mr. Ayres is a man of note. He occupies a prominent position in the literary history of the State, is known as a speaker who is always clear and often fervid, occasionally drops into poetry, one wdio fills the position of editor as cleverly as he used to the stick, a good judge of men and matter, an adept at revision, of much political influence and personal magnetism, it was to be expected that the southern part of the Fourth Congressional District should fix on Col. J. J. Avres to go as Delegate to the Constitutional Convention; a natural choice, and a wise one, or the gentleman will belie his record. IION. EDMUND NASON, SAN FELIPE, BENITO. ' % FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY. San Benito is honored by having a Delegate all to itself, and Mr. Nason is the gentleman honored to fill that position. He was born in the town of Eaton, Strafford County, New Hampshire, April 29th, 1825, being now fifty-three years of age. His days of schooling and early labor were passed in his native State, and then he came to this, where, between the Gabilan and Monte Diablo ranges, he has busied * himself trying to obtain an honest living as dairyman. Mr. Nason is fully impressed with the responsible duties laid on him, and has prepared himself to so discharge those duties that they who elected him will have no cause to regret having given him his seat. HON. ISAAC SAWYER BELCHER, MARYSVILLE, YUBA. FOR THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT- President pro tem. There are few men whose influence will be more keenly felt in the shaping of this Convention’s method and action than Judge Isaac Sawyer Belcher, of Marysville. He was born at Stockbridge, Wind¬ sor County, State of Vermont, February 27th, 1825, being at present fifty-three. The Belchers are of English ancestry, their settlement in Massachusetts being of such early date, however, that there is record of one occupying a high public position in those first days Nathaniel Hawthorne loved to dream about, Jonathan Belcher having been sometime Colonial Governor. Mr. Belcher graduated at the University of Vermont, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1846, being then just twenty-one. Immediately after his investment he commenced the study of law, and three years later was admitted to the bar. He practised his 101 profession in liis native State until 1853, in which year lie came to California, arriving in June. He chose Yuba as his new home, its county-seat at that time belonging to the active and rich Is, and not to the shadowy Was. In that and the few following years Marys¬ ville was the home of some of the brightest men of the day, and counted among its residents the owners of as much “gray matter” as any city of its size in America. The young lawyer did not spend much time measuring the ladder or counting those who were struggling up it, but at once began to climb. He reached the round of District Attorney for Yuba County in 1855, and served his term of two years. In 1863, he had attained the stave of Judge of the Tenth Judicial District, and in 1872, lie was at the rung of Justice of the Supreme Court, the date of his first grasping it being March, 1872, and the hand that lifted him to it being that of Governor Booth. So, always mounting, he lias arrived at the prime of his manhood, his grand climacteric neither of life nor position being yet reached. In politics, Judge Belcher is a Republican, being elected as Delegate to the Constitutional Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket. His name went first on this ticket because he sincerely held the progress, prosperity and good government of the State to be of more conse¬ quence than the color of his election ribbons. It would be easy to draw out the laics stop and sing that Isaac Belcher is a jurist of fine ability, a man of broad and comprehensive views, dispassionate judgment and fine sense of justice—but his life, his twenty-three years of honored residence in one city, shows better than twice that number of well-turned phrases that lie has done nothing to be ashamed of, and much that enables him to look backward down the hill with a pleasurable pride. Without attempting to rival Chesterfield, and content to gather instruction from Blackstone, he is nevertheless a courteous scholar—that is, a gentleman. 102 HON. HENRY CLAY WILSON, TEHAMA CITY. ’ FOR TEHAMA COUNTY. The Delegate from Tehama was born in Floyed County, Kentucky, August 9th, 1827, and is therefore fifty-one years of age. His father died when Henry Clay was but thirteen. Not long after this loss, becoming lonely and restless, he left his home and wandered north¬ ward to the State of Illinois, where in Vermillion County he led an unsettled and purposeless life, for a few months. A train being formed, bound for the feed-plains of Texas, he joined forces with it and again turned back South. Amongst the members of the company were Captain James George and family, Drs. David and * Yv illiam Knight, of Danville ; Enoch Oxley, Dr. Anderson, John Ham and family, Franklin Runyon, and George Lemmon. They arrived in Texas in the Spring of 1842. At this time, a grand coales¬ cence of Indian tribes was formed, to combat the settling of the frontier. The raiding army was composed of the Comanclies, the Wichitaws, Iron Eyes, Bead Eyes, Wakoes, Cadoes, Tiwalkinees, Tonkaways and Lapans. Against this formidable body of liostiles the Texas Rangers were pitted, and young Wilson, then but a lad of fifteen, joined these Irregulars, under the qommand of Colonel Thomas J. Smith. The station of Colonel Smith’s corps was on the north-western border, and there it remained doing effective service until the trouble was over. Similar raids being made on the River Nueces, Wilson became a member of the company of Captain Sutton, and remained there assisting in the protection of the settlers of that region until the breaking out of the Mexican War, when he joined Captain Eli Chandler’s company, a portion of the famous Colonel Jack Hayes’ regiment, which was on the way to the field of battle. After fighting through the campaign in General Taylor’s division, he started overland to California in the early part of 1849, and arrived in Los Angeles, August 17th of that Pioneer year. Passing up through the southern portion of California, Mr. Vv ilson reached Stockton and the gold mines of Don Pedro Bar. For a short time he used the pick and cradle, but finding no solid profit in the occupa¬ tion, he took up the business of packing provisions and supplies to 103 the mines. In 1852, lie returned to Los Angeles, purchased a band of cattle, drove them to Shasta, and there established a meat-market. In the following year he made a trip to Arkansas for the purpose of buying stock, the supply in California at that time by no means equaling the demand. Becoming an “ArkansaVv Traveler,” he drove his band of cattle across the plains and mountains to his rancho on Thomas’ Creek, Tehama, which he had previously purchased. There he has ever since resided, following the Arcadian occupation of farming and stock-raising. A veteran, a man of adventurous habit and thorough self-reliance, Mr. Wilson is one of the best known and most respected men of Tehama. That his fellow-countymen fully appreciate his sterling qualities is evidenced by his position in this body. * HON. JOHN M. KELLY, WOODLAND, YOLO. FOR THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Amongst those who emigrated from the Southern States to Mis¬ souri, when that State was being first settled, in the beginning of the present century, was one Marshall Kelly. He came from Rich¬ mond, Virginia, in 1820, and fixed himself in Palmyra, Marion County, Missouri. Five years after his arrival there, a second son was born, who is the subject of this sketch. To be particular, the date was April 30th, 1825, consequently Mr. Kelly is fifty-three years of age. He gained such education as the facilities of a new country afforded ; but though at that early day these facilities were both meagre and limited, young Kelly made such good use of them that, at the expiration of his short educational term he was by no means to be classed amongst the illiterate. Pie remained at home until he had become a man, and then in 1846, joined a volunteer company which was being raised in his native town, to take part in the Mexican War. As a private, he 104 passed twelve exciting and dangerous months under the command of Colonel, afterwards General Sterling Price. The active campaign being over, and the Border troubles ended, Private Kelly received his honorable discharge. The tidings of gold having been discovered reached Palmyra as they did every city, town and village in the Union, so exchanging his musket for an ox-goad and his knapsack for pick and shovel, he crossed the plains in the “ days of ’49,” and after an adventurous pilgrimage found himself on the western side of the Sierras. Instead, however, of haunting the mining camp, he turned his attention to the soberer and more healthful occupation of the farmer. After a survey of several portions of the State he settled in what is now known as Yolo County. There, or in that neighborhood, Mr. Kelly has resided ever since, his landed proprietorship having its chief interest in Colusa County. Mr. Kelly is now living at Wood¬ land, Yolo County, where he has seen a family grow up about him, and where he has gauged the measure of esteem in which he is held by his fellow-countrymen, by having been twice elected as member to the Assembly from Yolo. He served in the Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Legislative Sessions, and though a quiet member, his was always looked upon as a valuable vote, because it was ever cast on the side of honesty and fair dealing. He was elected to the Con¬ vention on the Kon-Partisan ticket. In 1872, Mr. Kelly buried his first wife, she having left him a widower with four children, all of whom have reached full stature. There is now a second Mrs. Kelly. Throughout Colusa and Yolo Counties, this gentleman enjoys the reputation of being a thoroughly honorable man. He is respected because of his self-respect. He is given rather to mature delibera¬ tion than impulsive action, is experienced and observant, and will be of material aid in the rectification of whatever errors exist in the present Constitution. 105 IION. WILLIAM II. L. 13ARNES, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Thisgentleman, of alphabetical nomenclature, was bom in Springfield, Mass., in the year 1832, being now forty-six. He lived in the pleasant active city on the banks of the Connecticut until his college days, being brought up in the midst of one of the first families of the place, for his people were all of position, his father holding rank as General during the war. He was educated at Yale, at which college he gained distinction by an ingenious improvement on the Dean’s system of water-works. He did not confine his attention to the profession of engineering, however, but went to New York city, where he read law and was admitted in the Supreme Court of that State. In New York he practised and was married. At the breaking out of the war Mr. Barnes associated himself with the famous Seventh Regiment, and was with it in Washington on a three months’ detail. Not long after this, he came to San Francisco, and soon after his arrival was fortunate enough to be taken into law partnership with the Hon. Eugene Casserly. Mr. Barnes is now associated with no one as sharer in the profits and losses of his practice; a practice which is sufficiently extended and lucrative to insure him a much larger proportion of the first than of the second. Mr. Barnes is about as well known in San Francisco as any of its residents. A fluent speaker, a prominent attorney, a patron of all deserving artists, there are few people who are not acquainted with the Colonel-lawyer. There are many who suppose him a superficial man in his profession, but it is the opinion of those who have been either with or against him in some knotty case that there are few more capable, cfeeper and better read lawyers than he. As an inti¬ mate and intelligent knowledge of the administrative Lex is necessary to the review and conduct of legislative work, such men as Colonel Barnes have been rightly elected here. In politics, a Republican, he was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. 106 IION. PATRICK REDDY, INDEPENDENCE, INYO. ' FOR MONO AND INYO COUNTIES. The Delegate from these two counties jointly, which have recently been almost as much talked of as the Bonanza District, was born in Woonsocket Falls, State of New York, on the 15th of February, 1839, the last two figures of which date give his present age. He attended school in the same village and lived at home until the age of twenty-two, when he emigrated to California to better his fortunes. He arrived in this State on the 22d of February, 1861 (George Washington’s birtli-day, by the bye), and engaged in mining in various localities, until 1865, when, keeping up the association of ideas connected with the date of his arrival, he settled in Independ- dence, Inyo County. There he held the office of Notary Public for a lengthy period, and practising law, soon attained dignities and position. He is a married man. On the Secretary of State’s list of Delegates, Mr. Reddy’s former politics are inscribed as Democratic. He was elected on the Non- Partisan ticket, and indeed it scarcely matters on what ticket he had been nominated, as in his district he is held to possess such liberal ideas, and to be so well posted in matters appertaining to our State that the choice for Delegate could scarcely fall on any one else. IIOK. DAVID HUNTER COWDEN, * MARYSVILLE, YUBA. FOR YUBA COUNTY. Among those who have added to the amount of “ grey matter,” heretofore spoken of, by their residence in Marysville, is Judge Cowden. He was born in New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, in 1839, the last two figures of this date indicating his present age, as in the case of the honorable Delegate from Mono and Inyo. He came to California in 1860, and settled in Downieville, Sierra. For some time, lie was the most classical and prominent school teacher in that county, and hav¬ ing added to his other studies that of law, was admitted to practice in the courts. For tive years he held the office of Under Sheriff, then was District Attorney for two years, and subsequently filled the seat of County and Probate Judge for four years more. Decently, he has resided in Marysville. He is a married man, having been fortunate enough to gain as helpmate, the daughter of Judge Van Clief, of San Francisco. In politics, Judge Cowden is a Republican, having been elected to this Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket, because of his staunch¬ ness in the support of right, his sturdiness in opposition to wrong, and because his ability and stability of character have gained him many warm friends, irrespective of party. IION. BYRON' WATERS, SAN BERNARDINO. FOR FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. The other member of the law firm of Waters & Swing has already been introduced, as both partners are Constitutional Delegates. Mr. w aters was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the year 1849, and is there¬ fore not yet thirty. He emigrated to this Coast nine years ago, and settled at San Bernardino, where he is known socially as one of the city’s best men, and professionally as a rapidly advancing lawyer. Politically, he has gained reputation as an untiring and zealous mem¬ ber of the last Legislature, and now as a Delegate-at-Large on the Non-Partisan ticket, representing the Fourth Congressional District. It is to Mr. Waters’ credit that he is self-made; further, that he is an accomplished scholar, and still further, that he is what we want in our Legislative Halls of the present day, an honest man, free from the trammels of Party and intrigue. 108 HON. JOHN PATTERSON WEST, COMPTON, LOS ANGELES. FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY. One of the three Delegates from the county which the Mission Fathers considered beautiful enough for the angels, is J. P. West. He was born in Newton Hamilton, County of Armagh, Ireland, February 9th, 1825, being now fifity-three. In 1828, his father came to America, bringing the boy and the rest of the family with him. They settled in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, resided there six years, during which time young West helped in the arduous toil of making a farm in a new country, and then, in 1834, moved to Trumbull County, Ohio. His education had been limited to the common schools, with the exception of six months’ academic instruc¬ tion in Southington, Ohio. In 1856, he moved to Iowa, and settled in Henry County as a farmer. Politically, he began as a Henry Clay Whig, then became an active member of the Free-Soil party in Ohio, and at a later date gave his hearty allegiance to the Republicans. It was as a Republican that he was elected, in 1861, as Representative in the Ninth General Assembly of Iowa, and again, in 1865, to the Eleventh General Assembly, as Representative from his home county. In 1869, he was elected to the State Senate, and again, in 1872, served in the second session of his first term in the Senatorial office. The war broke out while the Legislature was in session, and leaving it, Mr. West enlisted in the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, a regi¬ ment that did much loyal service, and which, forming a portion of the famous Red River Expeditionary Corps, probably did most to preserve it from annihilation. Pie requested that his per diem should be stopped while he was fighting, but the House, struck by his high sense of duty, continued it to the* end of the session. • Returning from the army, Mr. West again engaged in the pacific art of farming, and then, in 1875, turned to the Pacific and set out for California. How much appreciated Mr. West’s services were, may be gathered from the following letter, addressed him by the Governor of Iowa. Writing from the Executive Department the Hon. C. C. Carpen¬ ter said, under date March 30th, 1875 : My dear sir, I have your 109 letter tendering your resignation as a member of the State Senate from the Eleventh Senatorial District, and in accepting it, permit me to say that I regret the circumstance which impels you to sever your connection with the Legislative Department of our State Gov- eminent. And that one who served with the ability and industry which distinguished your membership of the Legislature during the Ninth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth General Assemblies , and who, in the meantime, gave three years to the service of his country in the army, will leave his impress upon the Institutions of the State, and deserves an honorable place in her history. Mr. West arrived in California in April, 1875, landed first at Santa Barbara, and thence proceeded direct to Los Angeles County, where, purchasing a stock farm near Compton village, he settled down. He was married in 1848 to Miss Elizabeth Harshman, of ashington County, Pennsylvania. During his residence in Los Angeles County he has been elected to serve as Justice of the Peace for Wilmington Township, being del¬ egated to this body by a joint-convention of Farmers and Working¬ men. Mr. West has an active mental temperament, works diligently to successful issues, and demands respect for the general tenure of an upright life. i HON. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, OAKLAND, ALAMEDA. FOR ALAMEDA COUNTY. Coming first on the list of Delegates, and standing there, too, perhaps as much by his ability as by the chance alphabetical priority his county holds, is Judge Campbell. He was born in the Island of Jamaica, West Indies, 1820, and consequently is fifty-eight years of age. He was one of the early pioneers of the west coast, coming around the Horn, in the bark Peytona , and landing in San Francisco while the city was in its swaddling clothes, made mostly of tent can¬ vass. He, like one or two others in this Convention, has used the law as 110 • a stepping-stone to prominence, his career in the profession being such as to make him to-day undoubtedly one of the ablest lawyers in California. Reserved in his manner, a most modest and retiring gentleman, he has never aspired to official honors, although he occupied the seat of * County Judge from 1851 to 1853, and was a member of the State Legislature in 1860-61. A Republican, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket, receiving a very high vote from people of all parties. HON. JAMES EDWARD MURPHY, CRESCENT CITY, DEL NORTE. \ FOR DEL NORTE COUNTY. The gentleman from the North was born in Calais, Maine, in 1846, and is now thirty-two. From Maine to Minnesota, was one of his changes of locality, and from - Minnesota to California another. He arrived in this State in 1860, being then but fourteen, and located in Crescent City, Del Norte, where he has since resided, and where he has established an extensive law practice. There, too, he has established for himself a reputation of no small moment, having been elected to the State Legislature of California from that district for the sessions of 1869-70, 1873-4, 1875-6, and again in 1877-8. For the sessions of 1875-6 and 1877-8, he was elected Speaker pro tern, of the Assem¬ bly. He has also filled the office of District Attorney of Del Norte for two terms. He is married and has two children. Though Mr. Murphy in politics is a staunch Democrat, and a fearless exponent of sound Democratic principles, he was elected to the Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket, because, upon vital topics, he binds himself only by the policy of Right. A young man, he is nevertheless possessed of firm executive power, while his commanding appearance, his high moral and intellectual standing have made him, not only a general favorite in his neighborhood, but have gained him instant friends among comparative strangers. Ill Hon. james McMillan shafter, SAN FRANCISCO.. FOR THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Few members of tlie Constitutional Convention have had a larger experience in public life than the Hon. J. McM. Shafter. Both East and West lie has attained prominence, and it is not alone in California that he is reckoned among Men of the Times. He was born in the State of Vermont, May 27th, 181G, and is now sixty-two, although his hale appearance, resonant voice and quick wit are several decades younger. Those that look out of the windows are a little weak, but the pillars of the house are sturdy, and the grasshopper is by no means a burden. Mr. Shafter closed his education by graduating from the Wesleyan University, Middle- town, Connecticut. When about twenty-five, having previously studied to belong to that profession the members of which Jack Ca\le would have killed wholesale, he combined politics with law, and was elected a member of the State House of Representatives. So well did the young member carry himself, that from 1842 to 1849 he was each vear elected Secretary of State. At the latter date he decided to strike tent and essay life in another State. The pole was newly pitched and the pegs set at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. That his arrival was not unnoticed is seen by the fact that, in 1851, he was elected member and Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly. It was soon seen that he wanted more room, so, in the following year, J. McM. Shafter was nominated for Congress, running far ahead of his ticket and receiving in his district over one thousand more votes than were counted by General Scott, then a candidate for the Presidency. He was re-nominated for the next term but declined a re-election. In 1855, he was nominated Judge in a District Court of Wisconsin. Resigning “the ceremony of the Judge’s robe,” he started for the farther Occident, arriving in California December 15tli, 1855. As in Wisconsin, so here he was not allowed to extinguish his light with a bushel, and in 1862 and 1863 was an active member of the Senate of California—sufficiently active to be its President } )ro tern., and President at the impeachment trial of Judge Hardy. Mr. Shafter 112 did not forget liis profession in his senatorial duties, but established for himself not only a practice that brought him lucrum but also one that gained him fama as a conspicuous lawyer. He has not been galled by legal harness for some time past, having largely given uj) efforts forensic for pleasures agricultural. His estates in Marin are extensive, so extensive, in fact, that he has recently avowed his will to change his arithmetic, and practice division instead of addi¬ tion. The retired lawyer is, too, a breeder of fine stock, and is just as good a judge of cattle’s strong points as he was of the weak ones in his opponent’s case. Mr. Shatter is a widower with three children, between whom and himself there is a very pleasant mu good feeling and affectionate fellowship. A Republican in politics, James McMillan Shatter was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. The above brief sketch of his life cannot be better closed than by quoting the paragraph which officially endorsed his nomination as Delegate to the Constitutional Conven¬ tion. “ Long recognized,” it says, “ as at the head of the California Bar, but now and for some years devoted wholly to agricultural pur¬ suits, he is a man who will in the Constitutional Convention be one of its ablest members, and whose deep and clever mind, profound erudition and sound judgment will be of vast weight in that body. He is a citizen of high character and his reputation is untarnished.” tuality of HON. DANIEL TUTTLE, PAJARO, SANTA CRUZ. FOR SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. The sole Delegate from Santa Cruz County was born in Mansfield, State of Ohio, in the year 1823, being now fifty-five. In 1844, he emigrated to Iowa, and in 1852, moved west until he looked out on the Pacific. The road of the emigrant in that early day was by no means an easy one \ the hardships of the journey, the difficulties with the Indians, the weary way over the burning sands, were all troubles of no minor character, although mostly endured by the pioneer miner, 113 and it was not surprising that Mr. Tuttle found beautiful Pajaro Val¬ ley a haven of rest. He has remained there in rest and contentment ever since, living on an extensive ranch, and turning his attention to the products of the soil and stock raising. He is married, having an excellent wife, and being blessed with five children. A Republican in politics, Mr. Tuttle was elected on the Working¬ men’s ticket, his election being the consequence of his bearing an unimpeached record, because he represents the Farmers and Work¬ ing men of the county, and because he is the great friend of industry in all its branches. HON. CHARLES R. KLEINE, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. This gentleman, who is at once a Reverend and an Honorable, was born in Prussia, Germany, May 7, 1830, being now forty-eight. In 1850, he left der Vaterland for America, and first settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Remaining in that city four years, he took steamer and sailed via the Isthmus, to California, dropping anchor in San Fran¬ cisco Bay in 1854. In the work of a miner he passed the first years of his residence on this Coast, taking tribute from the mountains and rivers of Shasta and Yuba Counties. Returning to San Francisco and turning his attention to affairs of the sole, he opened a boot and shoe business, and was licensed as a Baptist minister. In 1863, he went to Virginia City, and resided there ten years, following the same trade and preaching in the Baptist Church of that city. In 1873, he once more returned to San Francisco, and here has since resided. He is still a bachelor. In politics, Mr. Kleihe is a Republican, having voted for Lincoln. He was elected from the Tenth Ward, San Francisco, on the Work¬ ingmen’s ticket. In these later times of loose habits and rough talk, it is perhaps worth mentioning that Mr. Kleine never smokes, drinks or chews, and that he strictly carries out the command to “ Swear not at all.” 8 114 * IIOE". CHARLES V. STUART, GLEN ELLEN, SONOMA. FOR SONOMA COUNTY. Of the four Delegates from Sonoma County—all elected on the Non-Partisan ticket—two are Republicans, two Democrats; two are farmers, two are lawyers; both lawyers are Democrats and both farmers are Republicans. The gentleman who bears the name of one of England’s most unfortunate kings is a farmer and a Republican. He was born in Nippenoos Township, Lycoming County, Pennsyl¬ vania, May 19th, 1819, and is now fifty-nine. His father and mother, who strangely enough were called Charles and Mary Stuart, were natives of Pennsylvania. His early days were spent on his father’s farm, which life, with winter sessions at school, lasted until his fourteenth year, when he was placed at Owego Academy, Owego, New York. His education finished, he went to Ithica, and engaged in mercantile business as a clerk until 1839. Close study and con¬ finement told on his constitution, and for a year he traveled in search of information and better health, wandering from Maine to Texas, and from New Orleans to the upper waters of the Mississippi. Returning to Ithica with mens sana in corpore sano, he formed a mer¬ cantile connection, which lasted until he came to California. That was in 1848 (Anno Pioneeri 1), when a band being formed to cross over to the Great Unknown West, Mr. Stuart was made its captain. In command of the party, he traveled along the' Arkansas River, took the Southern route, passed through Los Angeles, and arrived in San Francisco November 20th, 1849. The old Mission Dolores attracted him, and there, for nearly twenty years he made his home, a few days’ fence-building having gained him his first estate, ten acres. In April, 1850, he was elected to a seat in San Francisco’s first Board of Aldermen, John W. Geary being Mayor. One of Mr. Stuart’s most extensive ven¬ tures about this time was that of renting the New Almaden Quick¬ silver Mine for a term of twenty-one years from the Barryessa family, supposing them to be the true owners. After years of unproductive labor, he sold the mine, as much to escape troublesome litigation as to end a profitless undertaking. In 1851, he built the % 115 first brick house in San Francisco, and eight years after, purchased property in Sonoma Valley, and there began one of the earliest essays in viniculture. In 1860, Mr. Stuart left San Francisco and went to live under the shadow of his own vine (and tig-tree), gave the place the euphonious title of Glen Ellen, and there has resided ever since. In this name he has perpetuated that of his wife, who was Ellen Mary Tourtillat, daughter of Major Jeremiah, of that name ; seven Stuarts have followed the union. As a Pioneer of so many years’ standing, as one who has seen Cal¬ ifornia grow out of semi-chaos into order, Mr. Stuart intimately knows what the State requires for further advancement, and as one of Sonoma’s best known and liked men, he must have been the natural selection of those who voted in that county for representative men. HOST. RAYMOND LAVIGNE, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. It is not surprising that Raymond the Vine should come from where vines are plentiful, he having been born in Bordeaux, France, February 3d, 1848, being now thirty years of age. He came to San Francisco on the 28th of the same month, 1868, and here has remained ever since, following his occupation as lithographer. Dur¬ ing his ten years’ residence in the Bay City he has taken a fore¬ most place in the formation of several GallicoAmerican societies, among thefri being the French Zouaves, which for a long time he commanded as Lieutenant and Captain. Mr. Lavigne is a married man. His political feelings are Democratic, but he was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Workingmen’s ticket, having taken a lively interest in the claims and progress of that party. Although a Frenchman born, he is an American now, as well by feeling as by name, and regards himself with sentiments of esteem for being an American Workingman. 116 HOK EDWARD 0. SMITH, SAN JOSE, SANTA CLABA. FOR SANTA CLARA COUNTY. Another Delegate from Santa Clara, and another Non-Partisan, is Mr. E. O. Smith, who was born in Montgomery County, in the State of Maryland, when but seventeen years of this century had run out, being now sixty-one. It was not in his native State that he first made his mark, as emigrating to Illinois, in 1837, being then twenty, he grew up and identified himself with that country. Making many staunch friends by his energetic and straight-forward course of busi¬ ness, he was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention, held in Springfield, Ill., in 1847, so that he does not take his seat here as a tyro. Mr. Smith was an able worker then, and set himself to right affairs. The State was overwhelmed with an enormous debt, rating into the millions. State bonds were almost worthless, touching only eighteen cents on the dollar, and one of the body of honest, nervous men, he helped make such new laws, a new Constitution, in fact, that after its ratification by the people, Illinois bonds rose to par in less than three years. The mayoralty of the beautiful city of Decatur. Illinois, was another of his positions. In 1853, he came to this Coast for the first time, but has crossed and re-crossed the plains at four different periods, once taking a large band of sale-horses from Los Angeles to Texas. When the starving one hundred and twenty emigrants were being attacked and robbed by Indians at the renowned Mojave Crossing, in 1858, and had almost given up to despair, it was Edward O. Smith who appeared as their savior, at the head of a relieving band. For six long weeks he % kept the distressed people in beef and bread, and there are those of that company living to-day who often and prayerfully wish him a blessing. Since 1871, Mr. Smith has resided in San Jose, engaged in farming and stock raising. He is a married man, and eleven children take pride in calling him father. In politics, Mr. Smith is a Democrat, his election on the Non- Partisan ticket being due to the fact that he holds himself unpledged to an specific course upon any subject, having at heart the best inter¬ ests of the whole people of the State of California. 117 HON. HENRY K. TURNER, SIERRA VALLEY. FOR SIERRA COUNTY. Born in Whitefield County, Maine, in the year 1828, Mr. Turner is now Hfty. After being educated at the Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine, he engaged in the avocation of farming at home until he emigrated to California, in 1853. Arriving in San Fran¬ cisco, he remained in this city but a short time, and then went to Downieville, Sierra County, where for ten years he was engaged in mining. The next eight years of his life were passed in Nevada County, whence he moved to Sierra Yalley, where he has since been a farmer and stock-raiser. In Sierra County he has attained public distinction, having been elected to the State Senate for four different terms. This distinction is added to by his seat in the Constitutional Convention, to which, a Republican in politics, he was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. His constituency has had every reason to be satisfied with him as a legislator, and from his proved capability and honesty of purpose, will be equally satisfied with him as Constitutional Delegate. Mr. Turner’s family consists of a wife and two children. HON. JAMES E. HALE, AUBURN, PLACER. FOR SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Almost without exception, the leaders of the different counties have been elected to the Delegacy, and so, too, as a rule, the repre¬ sentatives of the various districts are those who have given previous evidence of their high official capacity. One of these is Mr. Hale, who was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, October 15th, 1824, and is now fifty-four. When at the age of twenty-two he emigrated to Illinois, and three years later, 1849, crossed the Conti- 0 118 nent to California. From tlie date of liis arrival until 1852, be sought to make his fortune as a miner, but in that year gave up the idea and turned lawyer. Two years after, he had so established his reputation as a man of worth and weight that he was elected on the W hig ticket to be Judge of Placer County. This position he held for four years, filling his terms with such satisfaction that he was next chosen as member of the State Senate from Placer County, occupying his seat during the sessions of 1863-4 and 1865. Leaving the Senate, he then filled the office of Supreme Court Reporter for 1868, 1869 and part of 1870. • The next step in his public life was his appointment as one of the Presidential Electors for the California Republicans, and the next, his election on the Non-Partisan ticket as Helegate-at-Large to the Constitutional Convention. Though a pronounced Republican, Mr. Hale is not prejudiced, and is fully aware of how much more im¬ portant the State’s interests are than those of his party. HON. CHARLES G. FINNEY, SAN BUENAVENTURA. FOR VENTURA COUNTY. The second notable' bearer of this name was born in New York city, 1830, being now forty-eight. His father, Charles G. Finney, Senior, moved with the son, and the sun, to Oberlin, Ohio, in 1835, and there founded the renowned Oberlin College. From this insti¬ tution Charles graduated with the highest honors in 1851, then, set¬ ting out for Cleveland, he became a law student with the well-known Judge Andrews. In 1857, he moved to Wisconsin, settled in the thriving town of Oshkosh, following his profession and adding to it that of letters by becoming the sole proprietor and editor of the Weekly Democrat. This publication, afterwards called the Oshkosh Northwestern, in consequence of Mr. Finney’s popularity and the ability of his articles, became, and is now, one of the leading journals of the State. Christmas Hay, 1874, found Mr. Finney in the mud and slush of a 119 Sacramento rainy season. He had that day arrived in California, and leaving its capital for the Southern counties, returns to it now for the first time. It was in San Buenaventura that lie had decided to make his home, and there he now lives, entirely engaged in sup¬ plying the fruit markets. He is married, and has two children. A Republican in politics, Mr. Finney was elected by the Republic¬ ans and Workingmen of his district. This was but just, as he is a workingman proper with Republican ideas. A staunch advocate of everything native American, he yet furthers the greatest good for the greatest number. IION. RANDOLPH S. SWING, SAN BERNARDINO. FOR SAN BERNARDINO. The Delegate for San Bernardino was born in Bethel, Cleremont County, State of Ohio, in 1845, and is now thirty-three years of age. The major part of his education he received at the Michigan Univer¬ sity, Ann Arbor. At the close of his University career, he studied law and was admitted to practice. The aspirants to a legally-won fortune seemed more numerous at home than he cared to contend with, and California as a new and pleasant land presented advantages not to be overlooked, so, in 1872, being then twenty-seven, he came to this State. He settled in the town of San Bernardino—a town which has vitality enough to let no fire retard it—and there has become the law partner of the Hon. Byron Waters, who is also a fellow-Delegate. He is married and has four children. In politics, Mr. Swing is an unswerving Democrat, and was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Independent Democratic ticket, beating the regular nominee on the straight Republican ticket at long odds, and by a large majority. When this proof of public esteem is mentioned, it need scarcely be added that Mr. Swing is looked upon by the people of his district to be one of the rising young attorneys of the State. He is blessed with an attractive appear¬ ance, is pleasantly mannered, and is considered to have a by no means confined future. 120 RON. WILLIAM VAN VOORHIES, OAKLAND. FOR ALAMEDA COUNTY. These sketches, it is believed, will be found a trifle more interest¬ ing than a collection of hard biographical dates, as nearly all of them are the vehicles for some valuable scrap of pioneer history. The following is adduced as a case in point: Wm. Van Voorhies was born in Columbia, Maury County, Ten¬ nessee, in the year 1820, being now fifty-eight. He was educated at Jackson College, of the same place. At the age of twenty-one, he left his home in Tennessee, considering himself capable of walking alone. Reaching Washington, District of Columbia, he received an appointment under President Polk to the responsible desk of Chief Clerk ^of the Sixth Auditing Office, in the General Post Office Department. Remarkable for a pronounced firmness of character and reliability, he was singled out by the Government, in 1848, as bearer of dispatches to General Riley, then Military Governor of California. Starting on this important mission at the close of that year, he arrived in San Francisco early in 1849. His mission over, he was appointed General Postal Agent for this coast, locating offices and arranging postal routes for the new country. On the election of General Taylor as President of the United States, Mr. Van Voorhies commenced the practice of law in San Francisco with the late Edmond Randolph as his associate partner, and so well known were these men for their energy and ability that they were both elected to the first Legislature of California, in 1850. In six days after the organization of the first Legislature, he resigned to accept the appointment of the first Secretary of State, which posi¬ tion he held under Governor Burnett, Governor McDougal and Gov¬ ernor Bigler. When half of Governor Bigler’s second term had expired Mr. Van Voorhies was called to the important office of Surveyor of the port of San Francisco, and resigning his Secretary¬ ship, held so many years, he accepted and filled the new place with credit during the administration of President Pierce. In the year 1854, he removed to Oakland, Alameda County, where he now resides. 121 In politics, Mr. Van Voorhies is a staunch Democrat, his election to the Constitutional Convention being on the Non-Partisan ticket. He is an able writer and, as has been seen, a man of more than ord¬ inary administrative ability. It was said of him, and that, too, by a political dissentient, that could he alone frame the new Constitution, a popular ratification would be insured. IION. ELI T. BLACKMER, NATIONAL CITY, SAN DIEGO. FOR SAN DIEGO COUNTY. The element of harmony is at all events ensured through the presence of this Delegate, as he is by profession a music-teacher. Eli T. Blackmer was born in Worcester County, State of Massachusetts, February 14th, 1831, having since then counted forty-seven Saint Valentine’s Days. Pie was educated in the district schools of his native place, and continued along the even tenor of his way on the other side of the great Basin until five years ago, when he came to Cali¬ fornia, the date of his arrival being October, 1873. Being impressed with the idea that there was a field for his abilities in San Diego County as a professor of music, he settled there, his present residence being National City. He has not confined himself to the instruction of the relative value of notes, but has proved himself capable of a wider field of education by efficiently filling the office of County Superintendent of Schools. Though a Republican in politics, Mr. Blackmer was elected on the Workingmen’s ticket, his nomination by that Party being on account of his having always considered himself the earner of an honest live¬ lihood and therefore entitled to as respectful an attention when he discussed the affairs of State as those far ahead of him in wealth. The honesty of these opinions, advocated in no minor key, and always delivered con spirito , secured him his position as Constitutional Delegate. < 122 HON. DENNIS WILLEY HERRINGTON, SANTA CLARA, FOR SANTA CLARA COUNTY. Mr. Herrington furnishes an instance of the vari-national fractions that make up an American integer, as he was born of German and Irish descending parents, in Jefferson County, Indiana, December 23d, 1826, being now fifty-two. From a boy, young Herrington despised the warning adage against playing with edged tools, and for twenty years handled the saw and plane as a prosperous carpenter and builder. Feeling the want of a knowledge beyond that of a trade, however, he entered the Asbury University, at Greencastle, Indiana, and received an education under the celebrated pedagogue, Bishop Simpson. In 1850, he left his native State for that of California. Arriving in Hangtown, now Placerville, he remained there a year, and then proceeded to Sacramento, where he embarked in an exten¬ sive furniture business. The desolating fire of 1852 swept out his store and almost ruined him, but nothing daunted, he moved to Sut- terville and opened a lumber yard. In that suburb he continued until 1854, when he settled at Santa Clara, first taught school for a time, and then turned his attention to the study of law. He was admitted to the Supreme Court and has practiced for seventeen years. He was soon appointed District Attorney of Santa Clara County, and in 1863, was elected member of the State Legislature. He is now President of the City Board of School Trustees, having been one of its untiring members for four years. Mr. Herrington was married in 1858, his wife having been Miss Mary H. Hazelton, of Michigan. They have six children. In politics, Mr. Herrington was a Democrat until 1861; since then he has acted with the Republicans. He was elected to the Conven¬ tion on the Workingmen's ticket, the only man elected in the county on that ticket, a proof of the high personal favor in which he is held by the party. It has been Mr. Herrington’s endeavor to make him¬ self a useful member of society, and his record shows that he has succeeded in that laudable ambition. » 123 IION. JOSEPH COLMORE BROWN, FOR TULARE COUNTY. There are many points of similarity between the history of this Delegate and that of the Workingmen’s representative from Santa Clara, as, indeed, there are in a large number of these sketches. Mr. Brown was born in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in 1821, being now fifty- seven. He was educated near Genteryville, Indiana, the neighborhood in which “Abe Lincoln used to hang ’round.” He moved with his parents to Meade County, Kentucky, and settled near Brandensburg, subsequently making a change of location to Bardstown. After this, he moved for himself, and went to Louisville, determined to gain a superior education and a better knowledge of men and manners. He graduated with honors at the Louisville College, and at once com¬ menced the study of law under the Hon. Charles H. Thruston, of that city. Continuing in scholastic affairs awhile, he was appointed Princi¬ pal of the Haverhill Academy, in Cooper County, Missouri. In the year 1850, he had given up his pupils, and was on the plains, following an ox-team and sharing the hardships of that tedious journey. Until 1856, he mined in the Northern districts and Placer County, when he was nominated for the Assembly and defeated by James O’Neal, Esq. In 1857, he moved to Tulare County and there became Under Sheriff for 1861-2. Here, too, he was nominated for the State Leg¬ islature, and served in 1863-4, and again for two terms after on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Brown was married to Miss.Mary Maria Lovelace, in 1867, the family circle being completed by three children. A staunch Democrat, Mr. Brown was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Democratic ticket. Fitted by education, experi¬ ence and natural ability to rise above the common level, the Delegate from Tulare has here attained another elevating gradus . j 124 i HON. EDWARD EVEY, ANAHEIM, LOS ANGELES. FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY. An Englishman once met a lost brother whom he had not seen for twenty years, while traveling through Khan Tartary, and the presence in this body of two Delegates who had both been members of the Constitutional Convention of Illinois, thirty-one years ago, is an accidental meeting scarcely less peculiar. One of these Delegates was E. 0. Smith, from Santa Clara, the other is this gentleman, from Los Angeles. Mr. Evey was born in Washington County, Maryland, May 5th, 1813, and is now sixty-five. His parents, John and Frances Evey, moved to Montgomery County when he was five, and there they lived until Edward had reached twenty-two. Thence he changed to Shel¬ by ville, county seat of Shelby, Illinois. In his new home he was elected Probate Judge, which office he held for four years. He was also Superintendent of Public Schools for a number of years. In 1847, Mr. Evey was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Illinois, and on the adoption of the Constitution, in 1848, he v r as elected to the Legislature to represent his constituents in Shelby County. In 1854, he emigrated to California, and while in Napa County bought and first brought the now renowned White Sulphur Springs, of St. Helena, into public notice. In 1857, he was elected one of the Board of Supervisors, serving the term of three years, and in the Fall of 1861, took his seat in the State Legislature as a Union .Democrat. In Napa he remained, filling the office of Justice of the Peace until the close of 1869, when he went South and settled in Los Angeles. Here, in 1873, he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors of that district, serving three years. When the nominations for Delegates to the Constitutional Conven¬ tion were in progress, the people wanted a thoroughly good man to represent them, and Mr. Evey was nominated by the Farmers, and endorsed by the Workingmen. He has a family of seven, his present wife being formerly a Miss Bosana A. Lillie, of Shelby County, Illinois. He is held by them, his friends and his constituents to be a man of sterling worth. IION. DANIEL INMAN, LIVERMORE, ALAMEDA. FOR ALAMEDA COUNTY. Following Mr. Campbell, as Delegate from the same county, like him elected on the Non-Partisan ticket, but neither like him in pro¬ fession nor politics, as he is one of the two farmers from Alameda, and is an Independent Democrat, comes Mr. Daniel Inman. He was born in Coke County, East Tennessee, in 1827, being now fifty-one. His father was one of the early settlers in Virginia, and was a vet¬ eran in the war of 1812. At the age of nine, young Inman’s parents moved to the State of Illinois, settling in Adams County, on a farm, the boy, however, learning the business of cooper. In 1849, he made the great move of his life, that of emigrating to California. He crossed the plains, and then for eight years mined in the moun¬ tains, at one time playing “ Mine Host ” in the city of Sacramento. Giving up both gold seeking and the hostelry, he bought a ranch in the fecund Livermore Valley, and on it has since thriftily lived. He is a married man, his wife, Miss Josephine J. Jones, a native of Cal¬ ifornia, changing her name in 1863. The union has resulted in the addition of seven other representatives to the “ Inman line.” Mr. Inman has already officially visited Sacramento, as he was a member of the Legislature of this State in the session of 1869-70. In his own county, he has been a member of the Alameda Board of Supervisors for two terms. Having filled the other places with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents, it is certain that he will add to that credit and renew that satisfaction in this. 126 HON. SAMUEL ASHE HOLMES, BORDEN, FRESNO. FOR FRESNO COUNTY. Mr. Holmes was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, December, 1830, being now forty-eight. He emigrated to the State of Missis¬ sippi in 1858, and thence to California, arriving in 1868. Settling in Fresno County, he engaged in farming, and there, in that occupation, has since resided. In politics, Mr. Holmes is a Democrat, and was elected to the Constitutional Convention upon the Democratic ticket to represent the people and his constituents in Fresno County. HON. NATHANIEL GRIGSBY WYATT, SALINAS CITY, MONTEREY. FOR MONTEREY COUNTY. A man whose life has been more of an epic than an idyl, Mr. Wyatt was born in Warren County, Missouri, September 23d, 1828, being just five days over fifty at the meeting of this Convention. He was a farmer-boy until the age of eighteen, when he went to Bards- town, Kentucky, to attend St. Joseph’s College. The collegiate period of his life being over, he commenced the study of law, and in 1850 was in practice in Lamar, Texas, but on account of ill-health emigrated to Council Bluffs, Iowa, from which place he was sent as member of the Legislature of that State, serving during the session of 1856-57. And now comes a remarkable incident in Mr. Wyatt’s life. In the winter of 1858, he crossed the Missouri River on the ice with a saw-mill, and was the first man that carried a steam engine into the Rocky Mountains. He took it to Denver, Colorado, then a small burg, arriving there March 1st, 1859, and set up the steam saw-mill on Cherry Creek, being the site of Russellville, where Russell found the first gold that led to the wonderful Pike’s Peak excitement. In May, 18G2, he proceeded to the Salmon Kiver mines, and thence via Salt Lake and the Southern route, reached San Bernardino, Califor- fornia, October 20th, 18G2. Sutter County was the next point of attraction, and at Yuba City he resided until May, lbG^>. After this date he- moved to Salinas, Monterey, and there resides, practising as a lawyer. He is married, his contribution to "Young California being two children. A Democrat, Mr. Wyatt was elected on the Workingmen’s ticket, his varied career having taught him by experience that Labor omnia vincit. IION. JOSEPH R. WELLER, MILPITAS, SANTA CLARA. FOR SANTA CLARA COUNTY. The gentleman, who bears the name of Pickwickian fame, was born in the State of New Jersey, in the year 1819, and is now close on to sixty. His parents were among the early settlers of that State, while his father had shouldered a musket in the war of 1812-14, being in one of the regiments stationed at Sandy Hook. When the boy was at the age of five, they emigrated to the Genessee Yalley, New York, and there, while still very young, he was placed in Tem¬ ple Hill Academy, at Geneseo, under the tutorship of Horatio N. Robinson. He was afterwards elected to the State Normal School, and, graduating in 1846, took charge, when but twenty-three, of the large Agricultural College in the Genesee Yalley as locum tenens for Professor William Wadsworth. Full of determination and the spirit of go-aheadism which lie had inherited from his progenitors, he set out for California, and arriving in this State in 1850, put his agricultural college tuition to practical purpose by settling in the Santa Clara Yalley, as farmer and stock-raiser. He was looked upon as such a promising citizen, that in 1853, he received a nomination to the Legislature of the State, and in 1854, was candidate for the County Clerk of Santa Clara. He is a married man, having an amiable wife and two children. 128 In politics, Mr. Weller was formerly a Democrat, but on the formation of the Republican party became one of its adherents, and has for years been its firm supporter. He was elected to this Con¬ vention on the choice of his friends and the people as a Non-Partisan, and will certainly not fall below the expectations of the many who love to honor him. HON. THOMAS McCONNELL, SACRAMENTO. FOR SACRAMENTO COUNTY. Vermont is well represented in the Convention, and among those who hail from that State is this Delegate. Mr. McConnell was born in Pittsford, in the year 1827, and is now fifty-one. When twenty* three he emigrated to California, and settled at Garden Valley, El Dorado County, where, in 1850, he opened the largest store and banking-house of that mining district. In the early times of El Dorado he soon became a prominent man of the county, and together with the Hon. John Conness, Dan Gel wicks and Dan G. Waldron (one of the editors and publishers of this work), started that pioneer journal, the Miners' Advocate , and afterwards assisted in bringing the Empire County Argus before the people of Coloma. In 1856, Mr. McConnell moved down near Sacramento, and taking up a ranch on the Cosumnes River, began the first extensive import* ation of sheep into California. Since that time he has devoted most of his attention to the “ woolly herds,” and is to-day one of the largest sheep-breeders on the Coast. Though not a literary man, he yet lives by the pen, and though not a judge, has made a fortune on the wool- sack. He was married in 1856, and has four children, two young ladies having contributed diplomas from Mills’ Seminary to the family documents. In the days of the Advocate and Argus Mr. McConnell was a Douglass-Democrat, but at the selection of Mr. Lincoln as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States he took sides with the 129 Republicans. He was elected as Delegate by the Non-Partisans, receiving the largest vote of any person on his ticket. His election means the addition of another honest man to those who have to amend California’s Constitution. HON. JAMES MONROE CHARLES, NEAR PETALUMA, SONOMA. FOR SONOMA COUNTY. There are few Delegates whom this gentleman will not be able to look upon as his juniors, for it was sixty-nine years ago (1809) that James Monroe was born to the Charles’ of Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the same town, remain¬ ing there until 1832, when he moved into Illinois, being remembered there as one of its earliest settlers. He made his home in what is now the large town of Carthage, until 1846, when he migrated to Clarke County, Missouri. In both States he had held the office of Deputy Sheriff of his county. In 1853, Mr. Charles took up stakes again and crossed the plains “for Californy.” Reaching Sacramento, he resided there until 1854, when he crossed the plains again, but this time only to Yolo County. He was in Yolo until 1856, when Sonoma attracted him, and settling on a ranch in Vallejo Township he determined to make but one more move, and that the final one. He is a married man, and has sons living. In politics, Mr. Charles is a Republican, being elected to the Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket. During his residence in Sonoma he has held the position of Supervisor of that county, and has also been a trustee of the city and township of Petaluma. He has discharged the duties of those offices with faithfulness, and will attend with ecpial fidelity to the responsibilities of this. 9 130 HON. JOSEPH W. WINANS, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. One of the eight prominent lawyers elected to represent this district, Mr. Winans was born in the city of New York, July 18th, 1820, being now fifty-eight. His paternal ancestors came to this country from Windermere, or Winansdermere, England, about the year 1700. His grandfather, John Winans, fought in the battles of the Revolu¬ tion, and his father, William Winans, served in the war of 1812. Mr. Winans entered Columbia College in 1836, and graduated at the age of twenty, with the degree of A. B., having as class-mates Hon. A. C. Munson, formerly Judge of the Sixth Judicial Court, and Hon. Ogden Hoffman. He was licensed as attorney at law, in 1843, received the degree of A. M. from his college in the same year, and his license as counselor at law, in 1846. He continued in the practice of his profession until 1849, when, in conjunction with a few friends, he purchased a vessel, manned and fitted her for the voyage, and set sail for California via Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco, August 30th, of the same year. After a few days spent at the Bay, he went to, and opened a law office in, Sacramento, where he resided for about ten years. The firm of Winans & Hyer will be remem¬ bered as the leading law partnership of the Capital. In the Winter of 1860-61, Mr. Winans removed to San Francisco, and entered into partnership with D. P. Belknap, the compiler of a valuable work on Probate, the firm of Winans & Belknap still continuing. In politics, Mr. Winans was formerly a Whig, but since the disrup¬ tion of that party he has uniformly acted with the Republicans. He was elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket. Although never an office-seeker, this is, by no means, the first honorable and responsible position he has held. In 1850, he was Whig nominee for Recorder, for Sacramento. In 1852, he was elected by the Board of Aldermen of Sacramento to the office of City Attorney or Corporation Counsel. In 1853, he was appointed President of the Pioneer Society, of Sacramento, being afterwards twice re-elected. In 1859, he attended the Protestant Episcopal General Convention, in Richmond, Virginia, as Delegate for California. Hi 1861, the 131 Legislature of California made him one of the Trustees of the State o Library, and subsequently he was chosen as President of the Board. In 1805, lie was elected School Director of the Sixth Ward in San Francisco, and President ol the Board of Education. Upon the organization of the Bar .Association of San Francisco, in U72, Mr. Winans was elected a member of its Board of Trustees, and has been annually re-elected to that office. When the Legislature chartered the San Francisco Law Library, he was elected a member of its Board of Trustees, and by the Trustees its Treasurer, holding these offices ever since. In 1873, he was appointed by the Governor one of the Regents of the State University. In 1874, he was duly elected bv the Legislature to the office for a term of sixteen years. In 1875, he was made President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. With such a list of high offices, ably filled, and with the reputation of being a leading member of the California Bar, it is esteemed but natural that lie should become one of the modelers of the State’s new Constitution. Mr. Winans is a classical scholar in addition to his other attain¬ ments, one of the most voluminous writers on the Pacific Coast, an occasional poet, and while in Sacramento, edited for many years the Index and Times , also contributing to the editorial columns of the Sacramento Union. In 1864, he married Sarah Adelaide, daughter of Alexander Badlam, Senior, by whom he has three children living. HON. EUGENE CASSERLY, SAN FRANCISCO. FOR FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. For the same district and following the same profession as Mr. Winans, but unlike him in political feeling, Mr. Casserly comes next. He was born in Mullingar, County of West Meath, Ireland, in 1822, being now fifty-six. He arrived in San Francisco, in the August of 1850, and here, a short time after his arrival, he started a daily paper entitled the Public Balance. This journal, which soon acquired the 132 confidence of tlie community, was afterwards changed in title to The Standard. It will be well remembered by the San Franciscans of that early day. At the first session of the California State Legis¬ lature, Mr. Casserly was elected State Printer, the revenue from the office scarcely compensating, however, for the loss sustained at the disastrous fire of May 3d, 1851, when his whole property was turned to ashes and charcoal. When a young man of twenty-two, Mr. Casserly had been admitted to the Bar in the city of New York, and when visited by what the facile-penned reporter calls “ the devouring element,” he determined to devote himself to the practice of that profession, the stock in trade being carried on his shoulders, and therefore less liable to a conflagra¬ tion. In that practice, he made a rapid success, and has achieved a reputation at the Bar of a by-no-means secondary importance. So remarkable did he become among his associates, and in the opinion of the people, that, in 1867, he was elected to the United States Sen¬ ate, to serve for six years from March 4th, 1869. He had made a name, too, in New York, having there filled the position of Corpora¬ tion Attorney. These two offices, and that of Constitutional Delegate, are the only ones he has occupied, although it is certain that, had he wished it, each year of his professional life might have recorded some public honor. He has preferred his profitable briefs to the “ brief authority ” of being either a National or State official. In his early days, Mr. Casserly connected himself with the Democratic party, and his adherence to it has suffered no lapse. He was elected to the Con¬ vention on the Non-Partisan ticket, being one of the first nominees for Delegates-at-Large. With his reputation for clever and lasting qualities, an honorable record at Washington, favorably known throughout the State, and being what is spoken of as “a represent¬ ative man ” of San Francisco, Mr. Casserly’s seat here follows as a natural sequence to that record and reputation. In 1854, Mr. Casserly married a daughter of the late John Doyle, Esq. 133 IION. THOMAS II. LAINE, ■ SANTA CLARA. FOR SANTA CLARA COUNTY. One of the few who have crystalized their idea of what an amended Constitution should be, Mr. Laine was born in Missouri, in 1832, and is therefore forty-six years of age. He emigrated to California when quite young, arriving when the then Territory was still younger, the date being September, 1847. His education was concluded by a course at the University of the Pacific, from which he graduated with honors. Embarking in the profession of the law, he soon estab¬ lished liis reputation as counselor and attorney. Becoming prominent, he was elected to the State Senate of California, serving in the ses¬ sions of 1874-5 and 1876-7. Mr. Laine is a Democrat, and was « _ • elected to this Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket. His draught of the new Constitution shows how complete is his knowledge of the legislative needs of the country, and coupled with this, it should be mentioned that he is an able writer and a man of sound j udgment on all the live questions of the day. HON. JOHN RICHMOND WILLIAM HITCHCOCK, CASTORIA TOWNSHIP, SAN JOAQUIN. FOR SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. The Pioneer Delegates received an addition by the election of this gentleman, who was born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, October 21st, 1825, and who is now fifty-three. The books of the Baptist College of that city bear his name, and when he left the institution, having always had a liking for practical hand-work, he turned his attention to machinery and blacksmithing. At the news of the first nugget turned up in California, young Hitchcock concluded to become an emigrant and a gold-seeker. With this intent he embarked on the good ship Glenmore , in April, 1849, and sailed round the Horn, land- 134 ing in San Francisco, October 5th of the same year. After three years working in the mines of old Tuolumne and Merced Counties, he found he had gathered up enough to settle down on an estate of his own. This he secured in Castoria Township, San Joaquin, eleven miles southeast of Stockton, on what was known to all travelers of that time as the French Camp Road. There he has a comfortable home and a profitable farm, and there, too, he lives amidst his cosy family of a wife and four children. 3Ir. Hitchcock’s public life has not been a very active one, as he has never aspired to be an office-holder. He has, however, been Vice- President and Director of the District Agricultural Society for three years, was one of the promoters and organizers of the Farmers’ Coop¬ erative Society of San Joaquin County, and now has been elected a member of the Constitutional Convention. A Democrat, he was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket, both Democratic and Republican voters feeling sure that though there might be some few as good men counted in their respective parties, there was none better on whom they could unite. HON. FERDINAND O. TOWNSEND, ' • URIAH, MENDOCINO. FOP MENDOCINO COUNTY. The old Roman did not leave his green fields to assume the Dictator’s purple with a more honest sigh of resignation than this Delegate uttered when chosen to represent Mendocino in Sacramento. Being here, however, he will do his duty. Mr. Townsend was born in the State of New York, in 1845, being now thirty-three. When quite a lad, he moved with his parents to Canada West, stayed by the great Northern Lakes until 1851, and then came to California. Purchasing a ranch near where Ukiah now stands, by the rushing Russian River, he turned his attention to farming and stock-raising. He is married, and has two children. In politics, Mr. Townsend is a Democrat, and was elected on the Democratic ticket. Though one of the best-known men in the county, he has always hitherto declined the favor of office, preferring the quietude of his farm, family and friends. Endowed with good busi¬ ness qualifications, of high literary tastes, and, as has been said, deter¬ mined to do his duty, the Delegate from Mendocino will sustain the dignity of the county he represents. HON. DAVID SMITH TERRY, STOCKTON, SAN JOAQUIN. FOR SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. There are few better known men in California than Judge Terry, and few who have had a more stirring life. This sketch should be presented in the bold lines of Gustave Dore, rather than in the delicate etching of a Birket Foster. Unfortunately, it will only be a feebly drawn pen-portrait. David Smith Terry was born in Hinds County, Mississippi, in 1827, being now fifty-one. Mrs. Terry, his mother, was a daughter of Colonel Smith, an intimate friend of, and war associate with Gen. Jackson at New Orleans. When he was about ten years of age his father moved to Texas, and there farmed extensively. In 1849, he came to California, and went back in 1850, to fetch a wife. He set¬ tled in Stockton when it was but a shanty-town, began the practice of law there and did much by his influence and presence to make the flourishing county seat of San Joaquin County what it is. He also held valuable property in the neighborhood. In 1855, he was elected Judge of the Supreme Court, and afterwards became Chief Justice, serving on the Bench until 1859, when he resigned. At the breaking out of the war in 1861, he sold his property and went to the South, and served as general in the Confederate army, being wounded in one of the numerous engagements in which he took part. His faithful wife followed him with her children, taking steamer to Mazatlan, and crossing Mexico on muleback, joined him in Texas. During this most adventurous journey, a bright boy, Frank Cheatham Terry, died, and The mother, making a willow bas¬ ket, had the body carried to a town, where it was given Christian 136 burial. After the war, Mr. Terry went to Mexico with his family, and there leased a rich hacienda for a long term of years, but the troubles consequent upon the Maximilian regime, caused him to give up his lease and leave. He came back to California, re-bought his old property at Stockton, and there again resumed his legal career. A Democrat in politics, Judge Terry was elected to the Constitu¬ tional Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket. He is altogether one of the remarkable men of the Convention, possessing vast power of thought, holding bold opinions, and being rigidly honorable to him¬ self in their vindication. If OK SAMUEL BLAIN BUR T, BATH, PLACER. % ' FOR PLACER COUNTY. Though published on the official list as a Democrat, Mr. Burt is, and always has been, a Republican. This correction is made because, whilst elected on the Non-Partisan ticket, he does not wish any mistake to be made as to his political fealty. He was born near the town of Elmira, Chemung County, State of New York, in the year 1828, and is now fifty. He was raised on a farm, receiving his education at Alfred College, Alleghany County. On leaving college, he assumed the birch, being then but seventeen. Five years after (1850), he emigrated to California, and settled in Placer County, where he has ever since resided. He first engaged in mining, then in the lumber business, in Auburn, the “ loveliest vil¬ lage of the ”-mountains, and afterwards as a merchant, until burnt out, in* 1872. Since that time he has been engaged in quartz mining on what is known as the Hancock and Watson claim. In 1873, he was made Supervisor of Placer County,- and in the same year was elected to the Legislature of 1873-4. He is a married man. As has been said, Mr. Burt is a Republican, and elected on the Non-Partisan ticket, and singular as it may appear, though the Workingmen had *a hundred majority in the county, he polled one hundred and four ahead of their highest nominee. This superiority is an excellent instance of the popular favor in which this Delegate is held. 137 HON. HENRY EDGERTON, * SACRAMENTO. FOR SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Again a gentleman from Vermont. Mr. Henry Edgerton was born in Windsor, of the Green Mountain State, a branch of as good a fam¬ ily tree as grows there. Disuniting himself from 1 lie family stock, he came to California in 1853, after having received a superior education at home. Taking to the law, he soon became a peer at the Bar, and there are few in Sacramento or elsewhere who will contradict the assertion that he stands to-day in the very van of his profession. In politics, Mr. Edgerton is a Republican, his election to the Constitutional Convention as a Delegate-at-Large for the Second Con- gressional District, from Sacramento, being on the Non-Partisan ticket. With a reputation for wisdom in council, remarkably impres¬ sive either as an argumentative or an oratorical speaker, he will not show dimly in this collection of lights. As an example of the power of his oratory and the shrewdness of his political tactics, the election of Gov. Booth to the U. S. Senate may be mentioned, for there can be little doubt that to the Hon. Henry Edgerton’s ability and zeal Booth owes his position. HON. JOHN BUCHANAN HALL, STOCKTON, SAN JOAQUIN. FOR SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Among the births recorded in the good old burg of Hagerstown, Maryland, in the year 1819, was that of John Buchanan Hall. He graduated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, having first attended St. John’s College, Annapolis, studying law with the distinguished jurist, the Hon. W illiam Price, in his native town.. He was admitted to the bar in 1840. Feeling within him that love of freer action so prevalent among rising young men, Mr. Hall started for California in 1849. He arrived here in August, 1850, and losing no time, w as admit¬ ted to practice in the Supreme Court in the hall of that yeai. In 18G5, he was a candidate for the Judgeship of the Supreme Coin t. He is married and has one son, who holds the position of State Engineei. Mr. Hall is an old-line Democrat, being elected on the Non-Par¬ tisan ticket as Delegate-at-Large for the Second Congressional District to this Convention. A marked amiability is his great cnar- acteristic in private life, and a thorough statesmanship has been equally characteristic of his public career. HON. JAMES HASKELL KEYES, NICOLAUS, SUTTER. FOR YUBA AND SUTTER COUNTIES. The Delegate for these two counties was born in the town of Ash ford, Windham County, Connecticut, in the year 1831, being now forty-seven. When at the age of thirteen, he moved with his parents to Worcester County, Massachusetts, there receiving his education. He aided on the family farm until 1849, when he started via Panama for California, arriving at San Francisco on the 11th of June, having been a passenger on the old steamer Oregon on her second voyage. For six years he was a placer miner, subsequently settling on Bear River, in Nicolaus Township, Sutter, where he went back to his original occupation, and became again a farmer. Mr. Keyes is widely known as the prime mover in the much-talked-of debris or “ Slickens” case, in which suit was brought against the Little York Gold Mining and Water Company. This active regard for the people’s welfare, together with other evidences of an honest public spirit, brought Mr. Keyes into notice, and he was compelled to emerge from private life and take his posi¬ tion in the California Constitutional Convention. Being for the State, and not for party, he was elected on the Non-Partisan ticket. 139 HON. JE1IU BERRY, YREKA. FOR SISKIYOU AND MODOC COUNTIES. The Delegate from these northern counties was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, iu 1826, and is now fifty-two. After attending school at Wyandotte, he became connected with a large mercantile establish- 0 meat in Carey, continuing the connection for nearly twenty years. In 1849 he emigrated to California, and mined extensively in the counties of El Dorado and Amador. He afterwards removed to Siskiyou, where he was appointed County Assessor by the Court of Sessions. In the year 1857, he ran Independent for the Stats Senate, beating his two opponents and occupying his seat for the session of 1858-59. In December, 1860, he married Miss Mary Jane Price, who has borne him five children. He at present resides in Yreka, where he enjoys a lucrative practice as a lawyer. For twenty-one years, Mr. Berry has been an unfaltering Demo¬ crat, and was elected to the Convention for Siskiyou and Modoc on the Democratic ticket. He was elected, too, without opposition, his unanimous choice being in consequence of an unimpeached record, because he is known to be a good friend to all deserving classes and because he possesses an honest heart. HON. WILLIAM J. GRAVES; SAN LUIS OBISPO. FOR FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. M ith two exceptions, the Delegates-at-Large for the Fourth Con¬ gressional District are lawyers. Mr. Graves* is not one of the ex¬ ceptions. He was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, in 1830, being now forty-eight. He was educated in the same county, and at an eaily age, commenced the study of law in St. Louis, Missouri. During the war between the United States and Mexico he served as 140 Lieutenant under General Sterling Price, and so added the title of Mexican veteran to the others that he bears. From Mexico he came to California in the year 1849, first residing in San Francisco, then settingup his tabernacle in San Luis Obispo from 1852 to 1859, afterwards moving around somewhat and finally settling perma¬ nently in San Luis Obispo in 1865. The people of his district look on him with very favoring eyes. During the first period of his residence there, he was elected to the Assembly of the State for 1855 and ’57, and during this latter period has been sent to the State Senate for the sessions embraced in the dates of 1873 and 1877. He is a married man, his family consisting of a wife and seven children. Democratic in his political leaning, he was elected on the Non- Partisan ticket, as he is prepared to employ his patriotism and ability in the revision of the Organic Law of California, independent of any particular organization. HON. MARK ROBERTSON COCKRILL PULLIAM CHEROKEE, BUTTE COUNTY. * FOR BUTTE COUNTY. The sketch of Mr. Pulliam’s life presents facts in an inverse order to that which the incidents of most Delegates’ careers run in. Instead of giving up mining to study law and become District Attorney or County Judge, or some such “ re-markable man, sir,” he gave up the law to become a miner. Whether this was a movement in advance or retrogression is scarcely to be discussed here. But to begin at the beginning, he was born in Saline County, Missouri, in 1824, and is now fifty-four. He was educated in Howard and Saline Counties, and after the usual course of instruction studied law and was admitted to practice in the superior and inferior courts of Missouri. In 1850 he emigrated to California, sailing from New Orleans on the barque Laura Snow , Captain Thorndike commanding, and arriving in San ’ Francisco about Midsummer. In 1853 he settled in Butte County, at the old town of Cherokee Flat, and engaged in hydraulic mining. 141 At present lie is a member of the Spring Valley Mining and Irrigat¬ ing Company. In politics, lie has always been Democratic in feeling, having been elected to the Constitutional Convention on the Non-Partisan ticket. A man of ability, quick perception, and a ready, reliable reasoner, he is fitted to fill his position. The only thing to be urged against him is that he is still a bachelor. 1I0N. WILLIAM FRANCIS WHITE. WATSONVILLE, SANTA CRUZ. FOR SANTA CRUZ, MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES. This gentleman narrowly escaped being an American-born, as he was but eighteen months old when brought to this country. His birth-place was the County of Limerick, Ireland, the date being 1822, which makes him fifty-six. An involuntary emigrant to the United States, he came here with his parents in 1823. The earliest years of his life were passed on a farm in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, his education being received at the Academy of Oxford, Shenango County, New York. When the first exciting reports of the new El Dorado buzzed about his ears, he set out with a just wedded companion, with the setting sun in bis eyes and a rising hope in his heart. Sailing from New York City in January, 1849, on the ship South Carolina , were one hundred and fifty passengers bound for California, among them being Mr. and Mrs. White. Of this number one . hundred and forty-nine were men, so that as sole lady passenger it is to be surmised she was the recipient of more than ordinary attention. After a long and tedious voyage they arrived safely in San Francisco on the last day of June, 1849. For three years Mr. White was a merchant in this city, but preferring a country life, he removed to Santa Cruz, where, for the past quarter of a century, he has lived a farmer. His family of one has been increased in that time by the addition of eight children. Mr. "W bite is a Democrat, and was elected on the Wor k i n . '•} l:f V