Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01
The LEGISLATURE.
Sketches Of Senators and Assem-
blymen. Session of 1888.
Personal Totes Concerning Members Of the
Upper and Lower Eouses Of the
California Legislature.

son,l sketches of members Of the Legislature
Of California for tire session Of 1888. So far
az data could be obtained in lime it appears
herein, and the omission of any psme is to be
accounted for by the faiiure to receive the
necessary information
Senators
FRANKLIN III MAS Baldwin,
OF Stockton, is a native q Rockville. Park
county. Indiana, sged Il and mFrlied. de
came to Californis from Illinois 10 1851. He
had neither q collegiate, university or com
mon school education, but has worked DIS
way to a good position at the bar, where ne
now practices. He is q Democrat. de was
for sixteen years Commissioner OF the Fifth
District Court, and for four years Director
of the State Insane Asylum. Hs has taken
an active part in public sffairs, and was .
delegate TO the Democratic National CenVen-
ton at St. L uis in 1876.
AUGUSTUS LEMUEL CHANDLER,
OF Nicolaus, Suffer county, is native Of
Vermont. aged 81, and married. He came to
California from Vermont in 1857 de re-
ceiysd a common school education. be is q
practical farmer, aud hes4bsen publicly iden-
tiled with farming interests as against ny
draulic mining. He served in the Assembly
in 1874, aud again in 1891, and nov
takes a seat in the State Senate.
FREDERICK COX,
Sacramento, is native of England, aged o.,
and married. He came TO the Uoited States
when mere boy. He came from Wisconsin
to California by the Piains route in July,
1850. He had common school education.
He has been all his life a succ sssful stock
raiser and farmer, and is member of the
wsll-known stock and landed firm Of Cox 4
Clark. He has been interested more or less
in banking. serving az Director, position
he sill holds IN a prominent bank. He is a
Democrat, and by religion an Episcopslian.
Mr.. Cox served term as Director OF the
State Board Of Agriculture with much credit.
and was Superintendent OF tho Park Tor four
years. He resigned as a Director, though
urged to fill Guotbsr term. Mr.. Cox has. by
hard labor, acquired handsome competence.
He is prominent citizen, and universally rs.
spected by the people Of bis district and all
who know him.
CHARLES W. CROSS,
Nevada City, is alive Of Syracuse, n. Y,
is aged "a is married and the father OF three
children. He came to California from Lii
nois ia 1872. rs received colleg late edu.
cation 10 tbs classical department. He is q
school in early manhood in Illinois and al
Marypville in this State. Hswss member
OF the last California Constitutional Conven'
ton from Nevada county, receiving more
than three fourtha Of al TIE votes cast ct the
election. In politics he is Democrat. He
was the Candidate Of the Workingmen party
for Attorney General in 1879, ami was on the
State ticket with General Steneman IN thai
year. Sincs 1873 lie has been sctive IN poll
tics, and was elected TO the present Senate
from Nevada county as Democrat by l9t
majority, when the county were over 20t
majority Republican.
REGIaAIDo FRAE CISCO DEL VALE
Is q native tf Los Angeles, il this Stste, wa
horn Decsm Der 10, 1854, sud is u married
He is o graduate of the Santa Clara College
He is a lawyer by profession, snd in politics
a Democrat. He was member of the As
sembjy from Les Angeles IL 1SS0-Sl, and fol
the extra session Of 1881 Ia religion &c is {
Catholic. He was one of ths Hancock ant
English Presidential Electors,
JONATHAN MERRITT DUDLEY,
OF Dixon, Solano county, is a native OF o.
wego, Oswego county, n. Y. is aged 81 anC
is married. He came from Indiana to Cali
) fornia overland in 1852 He received com
mon school education. He taught school j,
his early days in Indiana and Michigan, ana
IL this State. He is a practical farmer. HI
was member of the California Assembly o
1862 again in 1868. and was . delegate in thu
late Constitutional Convention. He is . Re
publican. He is a rnember Of the Methods
Episcopal Church.
wARREN B. ENGLISH,
%; Concord, Contra Costa county is a native
/ West Virginia, aged sc, married, Dem
% c.at in politics, and Protestant il religion
e came from West Virginia to Californis
/ January, 1867, received his education al
Ito oakland Military Academy, and has
s,aen respectively merchant, miner, manu-
lecturer, Government contractor, and is now
a farmer. He was member from January /
1888, to january l, 1879, of the Board o.
Supervisors OF Contra Costa county.
JOSEPH ADAMS FLICKER,
@; Auburn, is native of Burlington, Iowa
eyed 81, aud married. He came to Caiifor
n;a from Iowa in 1859, crossing the plains
He was educated in the California State Nor
nal School He is editor and publisher o.
the Placer Herald He is Democrat. HI
was a member OF the Constitutional Convsn
ten in 1889. He has held the position o
Great Sachem, the highest Office in the gift
OF the Improved Order of Red Men in
State jurisdiction. BE acquired his educa
tien mainly after reaching his majority, GnC
bv his own unaided efforts. In 1877 he wa
a candidate for the Assembly, and against
psrty majority, as shown By the Hayes vote
of 1896, he came within Ave votes of being
elscsed.
CHARLES FREDERICK FOSTER,
Of Red Bluff, is native Of Texas, aged IS
snd married He came to California from
Texas in 1869. He had common-scho ed
ucltion. He was up to January 1st Sheriff
Of Tehsma county, and is farmer. He ba
also been stock-raiser. He is a Democrat
For two years Mr.. Foster served as Sheriff
of Ellis county, Texas, and hes been Sheriff
of Tehams county, California, two terms.
THOMAS FaAsER,
OF Plscerville, is a native of Nova Scotia
aged 80. and married. He came to Caiforpi;
froun Massachusetts 10 1856. He had com
mon school education. He has been mer
chart, land attorney, engaged in mining
and is now farmer. He has slwsys been /;
Republican. In religion he is Presbyterian
He served as a member of the Assembly
from Ell Dorado il 1864, and as Senator
from the same county in 1884 and 1856
He was Assemblyman feom FL Dorado IL
1879 80 and 1881 sHd tae extra session of thai
year. be was Speaker pro tena. of the las.
two sessions Of the Legislature. He has 6ilet
the positions Of Postmaster, Supervisor Of hii
counly, and Notary Public.
JOHN J. HARRIGAN,
OF San Francisco, is native of San Fran
cisco. Csl, aged 20, and married. He re
csived his educstion and diploma at the Jes
nit College, San Francisco. He is pub
Usher. His politics is Democratic. Il
religion he is Cstholic. He had bushes:
education in tho Pacific Business College, SsT
Francisco. He was for seven years Secre
tssy of the Daily Exchange Publishing Gem
psny. At present he ia proprietor OF tht
Pacific Life, San Fiaroilco.
GEORGE AsBURY JOHNSON,
OF Santa Rosa, is $ native of Salisbury. Nc.
aeed So, and married. He came to Califor
pis frenl Missouri in March, 1874 He wa
graduated at Yale in 1858 He is an attorney
at-law. He was once Professor Of Ancient
Languages at the Western Military Institute
Kentucky. He was 3 member Of the Consti
tutionai Convention OF 1879. He is Democrat
He was Judge Of the Seventeenth Iudicia
Circuit Court of Indiana. and has filed chs
AT.,-or af Santa Rosa Ha xva,