Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

He came TO California from Massachusetts ip
November, 1855. He had an academic edu-
cation. He Is by occupation shorthand
writer. He has engaged in mining snd has
been a clerk. He was member of the As
sembly OF Nevada from Storey county in
1864 and 1865 BE is Democrat. In rslig.
ion be is Presbyterian. As member OF the
Democratic State Convention of 1879 he in
troduced the resolution the sdoption IF which
dsfested the fusion of the Democracy with
the :" III. B." party, so called.
GILLIs DoTY,
OF Sacramento county, is native of Penn
sylvania. aged AZ and married. He csme to
California from Iowa in September, 1862.
He had a common school education He is a
farmer, q Democrat, and member Of the
NJ. Z. Church South. He was Master Of a
Grange Of the Patrons of Husbandry for
three years. He has been an active worker
10 the canIch since he was 20 years cid. and
has been a minister of the church in the local
relation. He has advocated the cause of
temperance before the people. and declares
himself to have always been independent in
All things. Mr.. Dcty enjoys the esteem OF
the community.
MICHAEL FARLEY,
OF Dowpieville, Is native Of Alabama,
aged "a, married, Democrat and In RELIGION
a Presbyterian. He came to California from
Texas in 1869 lie had common school and
seif-educati9n. BE engaged fret as school
teacher and was thereafter admitted to the
bar. H was District Attorney of Monterey
county from 1874 80 1876 He went 80 Texas
in 1853. He was at first private and then g
commissioned ctieer in the Confederate army
When &c came 60 California he settled ct Sa-
linas City. He became City Clerk there,
vas the suthoT If the city charter, and was
Police Jodge of the city. He came to Sierra
county about three years ego.
THOMAS F. FAw,
OF Gonzales, Monterey county, was born in
North Carolina and raised in Eastern Ten
nessee. He is aged 80, aad married his wife
in Petaluma in 1880. He came TO California
from Tennessee IL October, 1873. He has
had a limited common school education. For
four yesrs past he has been engaged in ware
housing and grain buyiTg 6, and has extensive
warehouses al Gonzales, ChuaIar and Soledad
From the age of II to "a De was engaged in
mercantile or farming pursuits. He has filled
no flee heretofore except that Of Justice of
the Peace. He is a Missionary Baptist
Mr.. Faw is Democrat.
JOHN FIELD,
CloverdaIe, is a native OF Greenup county,
Kentucky, and is nearly 81 years Of age. He
csma from Missouri to California in 1864.
He is married, and is merchant snd stock
raiser. In Missouri he followed farming.
He had in youth a common school education.
He ia o Democrat in politics. He served as
one OF the Supervisors of Sonoua county for
the years 1877, 1873 and 1879 He was a
Captain in the Missouri State militia in the
late war, and was in active services for two
years.
TAnrES rnSppur u,rvNNr
OF San Francisco, is sged 26 and married,
aad is 3 native CT San Francisco. He had q
common school education. He is clerk and
has been bookkeper and q contractor for
plastering work. He is Democrat. He
was secretary of the San Francis co delegation
in the late Constitutional Convention, and
for two years was chief bookkeeper ia the
Office of the Sheriff of San Francisco.
STEPHEN RIGLER FoBTNA,
OF Yuba City, is native of Pennsylvania,
aged 81 and married. He came TO California
from Illinois. He received a common school
education. He is farmer, but IN hic
ounger days was q bcokkseper. He is q
Demo RAT. Is rot churehman. He is
President OF the Sutter County Board of Ed,
ucation.
EMILE A. GAUssAII.
OF San Francisco, is a native of France,
aged rs, and a wido1er. He came to Cali.
fornia in 1861 He had common school
education. He is a Democrat, and in religion
is a Catholic. He worked seven and ball
years for Francis & Valentine, printer, ssh
Franciaeo. aud for nineteen months as
book.keeper for Chevalier & Comte whole
sale liquor dealers. He is now wine and
liquor merchant.
LEwIs G. GRANGER,
Assemblyman-electf from Butte, was born in
1920 al Granville, Licking county, Ohio in
the settlement of which county bis father and
the fathers of General Rosecrans, ii. Ell.
Bancroft and Colonel W. W. Hcllister, now
of this Coast, were among its pioneers. His
paterDsl ancestry came Of the HugueDot COL
opy that immigratei to and settled on Long
Island shortly after the revocation OF the
edict Of Nantes, in 1856. He received co..
Legiate education at JEFF srson College, Pa. ;
read law in the offoe Of Hon. Wn'. Stan
bury. Newark, O.. immigrated to this COST
q 40 settled and practiced law at Los An
geles, afterwards in Butte and Ventura coun-
Ties mas twics served as District Attorr ey,
IS Private Secretary Of Governor Downey,
and was the Democratic candidate for Attor-
ney General Of this State in 1868 He is 8
Jealous advocate Of the emancipation of la.
cor aud the wealth.produeing industries as
the paramount political issue now before the
American people.
SIDNEY HALL,
OF San Francisco, is native of Schenectady,
N. Y. aged So and unmarried He came to
California frcm New York in 1853. He had
a common school education. He is tin.
smith by trade He is Democrat, and in
religion is an Epiecopalian. he was dele.
gate to the State Democratic Convention at
San Jose in 1892.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER HAMILTON,
Of Crescent City, Dsl Norte county, is a
native of kentucky, aged 60 and married.
He came from Kentucky to California in
1850. He had common school education.
In 1872 he was miner; from 1858 to 1860
merchant at Crescent City; has siDcs en-
gagged in other vocations, ard is now law
YER real estate agent and notary. He is an
Independent Democrat" He was Under
Sheriff OF Del Norte two yesrs, District At
torney two years, County Judge eight years,
and was President Of the Crescent City Com
mon Council and first President of the Cres-
cent CITY Plank Road and Turnpike Com
pany. He read law early in youth, but
abandoned it to engage as q clerk on river
steamers for several years. He was sn inde-
PENDENT candidate for the Assembly two
wears ago aud was beaten by but nine votes
DIV the RepuDncan nominee, Dut leu GnS reg
uiar Democratic nominee forty votes. He
has been a resident Of Crescent City for
tggenty-nine and a half years.
JOEL AINswoRTH HARVEY,
OF Vallejo, ia native of Herkimer. New
York. aged A. and married. He came to
California from Nevada 10 November, 1869
He received an academic education. He is
now Clerk of Solano county. and is an at
, torney at Law. He has been clerk, an express
proprietor, and a warehouseman. He was a
n enber of the Constitutional Convention Of
1878. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a Protestant. He was County Clerk of
Douglas county, Nevada, from 1861 to 1867,
and has served three terms in like capacity
in Solepo county, California. He is also a
Notary Public. IL 1877 he was the Republic
can candidate for County Judge IN Solano.
When he left his native State he went to
Elein, ILL.,, and resided there for two years.
and then left for California, arriving in
Placerville IN 1859. In all the positions he
has flied he has won credit for himself and
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