[Shuck, Oscar T. (editor)]:

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SKETCHES OF LEADING AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF SAN FRANCISCO: BEING ORIGINAL SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE PROMINENT POLITICIANS, LAWYERS, DIVINES, PIONEERS, MERCHANTS, ORATORS, etc., etc., OF SAN ... A collection of ninety-two short biographical sketches focusing on the prominent politicians, lawyers, clergy, businessmen, and scholars of the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California. Designed to be a continuation of Oliver Shuck's Representative and Leading Men of the Pacific, published five years earlier, this copy is illustrated with eight mounted albumen photographic portraits of men profiled – more than twice the number of portraits included in all but one of the previously recorded copies of the book. Those luminaries whose portraits appear in this copy include Henry M. Newhall (the frontispiece), a California pioneer, miner and auctioneer, president of the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad and vice-president of the San Francisco and Colorado River Railroad Company; Stephen H. Phillips, a well-known San Francisco lawyer; John Clinton Burch, a lawyer, California pioneer, miner in Trinity County, later elected Trinity County's Clerk and District Attorney, State Assemblyman and State Senator for Trinity and Humbolt Counties, United States Congressman to the 36th Congress, and practicing attorney in San Francisco; Alexander Austin, a California pioneer, gold miner, founder of Austin & Co. (a fancy dry goods retailer), stock broker, and thrice elected Tax Collector of S

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