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754 RECENT EVENTS.
office, so long and urgently needed, $800,000 was
appropriated by congress, a selection being made by
a committee appointed for the purpose.
One effect of the excessive rains was to deprive of
employment a very large number of mechanics and
laborers, owing to the cessation of building and other
operations. For a week or two about one thousand
were employed at the Golden Gate park, subscriptions
to the amount of over $30,000 being raised for that
purpose by the citizens of San Francisco, and a
further amount forwarded from Seattle being refused
from a feeling of pride, though perhaps of false pride,
Other prominent men not yet noticed are L. Babcock, born in N. Y.
state in 1825, and a Cal. pioneer; T. R. Bard, a banker of Hueneme, and a
Pennsylvanian by birth, who came to Cal. in 1864; Dr L. Burweli, a farmer
of Oroville, and a native of Va, who came to Cal. in 1853; M. J. Burke, a
native of Gal way, Ireland, and a leading real estate man of S. F., where he
landed in 1853; F. Adams of San Luis Obispo, a native of Penn., and a pioneer
of 1850; J. Banbury, an Englishman, and a fruit-grower of Pasadena; El A.
Beardsley, who was born in N. Y. state, came here in 1859, and is now a
merchant and real estate man of Los Angeles; H. K. Bradbury, a lawyer of
Santa Barbara, and a native of Me; D. Burbank, a native of N. H., and a
leading citizen of Los Angeles; B. F. Branham and his son, Isaac, the former
ex-sheriff of Santa Clara co.; 6. G. Bradt, born in N. Y. state, and a pioneer
resident of San Diego; C. Carpy, a wine merchant of S. F., and a native of
France; W. A. Clinton, born in Philadelphia, and a real estate man of Los
Angeles; N. Cadwallader, a native of Ohio, and a banker of San Jose; R. E.
Crittenden of S. F., a native of S. C, aud formerly state senator; G. W.
Coffin, born in N. Y. state, a banker and ex-mayor of Santa Barbara; B. Cohu,
a Prussian, a merchant and ex-mayor of Los Angeles; J. W. Cooper, a Kentuckian,
a pioneer, and a banker and merchant of Santa Barbara; H. B. Crittenden,
a lawyer of San Diego, and a native of Ind.; O. S. Chapin of Poway,
a native of N. Y. state; W. E. Carlson, a native San Franciscan, and a real
estate man of San Diego; F. E. Brown, an engineer of Redlands, and a native
of West Haven, Conn.; H. J. Crow, a Pennsylvanian, engaged in the nursery
business at Los Angeles; R. Cathcart, a Los Angeles farmer, and a native of
St Louis; J. W. Calkins, a Santa Barbara banker, and a native of Conn.; H. L.
Drew, a San Bernardino banker, and a native of Mich.; W. M. Eddy, a native of
N. Y. state, a resident of Santa Barbara, a pioneer, and one of our most prominent
bankers and merchants; G. H. Eggers, a German, andaviticulturist, residing
in S. F.; C. Forman, a famous Indian fighter, who came to Cal. in 1853; C.
Fernald, a pioneer, and ex-mayor of Santa Barbara; C. Holbrook, a native of
Me, and a leading hardware merchant of S. F., where he arrived in 1850; R.
Heath, a pioneer, and one of the most prominent citizens of Santa Barbara; D.
Hunter, a Scotchman, also a pioneer, and oue of the most enterprising citizens
of the metropolis; A. Leonard, still another pioneer, a native of Mass, and a resident
of Sacramento; J. De la Montanya, who catne to this coast in 1850, and
was one of the first to engage in the hardware business in S. F.; W. L. Merry,
a native of N. Y., and one of the leading members of the S. F. board of trade;
A. E. Maxey, a native of Mass, a pioneer, and a farmer and stock-raider of
San Diego co.; 1). J. Oliver, an Irishman, and until his death, in 1886, one
of the leading real estate men in S. F.; C. J. Richards, a prominent real
estate man of Los Angeles; and A. L. Tublw, a native of N. H., and the proprietor
of the rope and cordage works in South San Francisco.