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P. CATL1N
—Since the pioneer days of Sacramento County no name has been
more closely identified with its history than that with which this
sketch commences; thus it is, that supplementary to the chapter on the
bench and bar of the county, this article, giving a brief outline of his
life and labors, became necessary. He was born on the Livingston Manor,
Dutchess County, New York, at Tivoli, then known as Red Hook, January
25, 1823. The founder of the family in America, Thomas Catlin, came from
Kent, England, in 1643, and located at Hartford, Connecticut;
Litchfield, in the same State, finally became the family seat, and five
generations of the family were bom there, down to and including the
father of the subject. His grandfather, David, was a captain in the
Connecticut militia, during the Revolutionary War, and was at Danbury
when General Wooster lost his life resisting the attack of the British
General Tryon, He lived to pass his ninety-third birthday. The parents
of the subject were Pierce and Annie (Winegar) Catlin. The father was in
early life a school-teacher, afterward a wagon-maker, and finally a
farmer. In 1826 the family removed to Kingston, New York, where A. P.
Catlin grew up, and attended the Kingston Academy, where he was
graduated. He had also attended school for a time at Litchtield,
Connecticut, making his home during that time with his grandfather,
Captain Catlin. When in his eighteenth year he entered the office of the
law firm composed of Judges James C. Forsyth and James O. Linderman,
both of whom were in the front rank of the legal profession of eastern
New York. On the 12th of January, 1844, he was admitted to the bar of
the Supreme Court of New York, at Albany, and four days later to the
Court of Chancery. He practiced law four years in Ulster County,
frequently meeting in forensic battle such antagonists as John Currey,
afterward Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; William Fullerton, the
Judge Fullerton afterward distinguished as counsel in the Beecher trial;
and T. R. Westbrook, later one of the judges of the Supreme Court of New
York. While practicing in Ulster County, he successfully conducted an
important litigation in which he had for his client the Spanish Consul,
resident at New York. He pleaded the consular privilege of answering
only in a federal court, a privilege which was vigorously disputed, but
he succeeded in ousting the State court of jurisdiction. In 1848 he
removed to New York city, and formed a partnership with his cousin,
George Catlin, with office at No. 14 Pine street. On the 8th of January,
1849, he sailed in the brig David Henshaw for San Francisco, arriving at
that port on the 8th of the following July, he had brought with him a
costly outfit of mining machinery, and after a month at San Francisco,
proceeded to Mormon Island, where he was soon engaged in mining. He
passed the winter at that occupation, also practicing law before the
alcalde of that district. In May 1850, he formed a law partnership with
John Currey and opened an office in Sacramento. They were associated but
a short time, Mr. Currey being compelled to retire to San Francisco on
account of his health. Mr. Catlin was a witness to the squatter riots,
and took a deep interest in the matters then in controversy. In the fall
of 1850 he closed his Sacramento office and went again to Mormon Island
to attend to his own mining interests, and to settle up the affairs of
the Connecticut Mining and Trading Company, successors to Samuel
Brannan. While there, William L. Goggin, agent of the post-office
department for the coast, visited Mormon Island for the purpose of
establishing a post-office, and Mr. Catlin was requested by him to
furnish a name. He suggested Natoma, the name he had already given to
the mining company he had organized and signifying "clear water." Goggin
adopted the name and that section of Sacramento County was officially
named "Natoma Township." In 1851 he was nominated by the Whigs for the
Assembly, but was, with the whole ticket; defeated. In the following
year he was nominated for State Senator, and was elected on the ticket
when General Scott was a candidate for President. He served in that
capacity for two years, in the sessions at Vallejo, Benicia, and
Sacramento. He was the author of the homestead bill, the same as that
afterward adopted, but defeated at the time by the casting vote of the
lieutenant-governor. The location of the seat of government at
Sacramento was accomplished by Mr. Catlin, after that result had been
given up by all others, by a remarkable piece of parliamentary strategy,
invented by himself and referred to more fully in the proper chapter of
this work. During the session of 1853 he rendered important service to
the city of San Francisco, in contributing largely to the defeat of the
scheme to extend the water-front of that city 600 feet farther into the
bay. He wrote the report of the select committee having the matter in
charge in such a forcible manner as to virtually kill all chance of the
project. This powerful argument is to be found in the published journals
of the fourth session of tjie Legislature. He had meantime continued his
mining operations, and on Christmas day, 1851, located a mining canal,
starting two and a half miles above Salmon Falls, and carrying the water
of the south fork of the American River to Mormon Island and Folsom.
This undertaking was completed early in 1853. It was then a very
important work, as indeed it is now, though used for a different
purpose—that of irrigation. He continued mining until 1805, when he
permanently moved to Sacramento. During the interim, however, he had
taken an important part in other affairs than those of mining. In 1854
he was tendered the nomination for Congress on the Whig ticket, but
declined. During the height of the success of the Know-Nothing movement,
in 1855-'56, he was practically retired from politics. In the summer of
1856 he and Robert C. Clark (afterward county judge and later superior
judge) were nominated by a convention of some forty persons, composed of
old-line Whigs and ex Know-Nothings, as candidates for the Legislature,
and having been prevailed upon to run against apparently strong odds,
both were elected. John H. McKune was also elected at the same time on
the Democratic ticket. That session of the Legislature, which commenced
January 1, 1857, was a very important one. During this session Henry
Bates, State Treasurer, was impeached, and it was through Mr. Gatlin
that this result was brought about, and the gigantic raids upon the
treasury of the State were brought to light. In March, 1872, Mr. Catlin
was appointed one of three members of the State Board of Equalization,
and served as such until April, 1876. The most effective powers
conferred on the board by the Legislature were, after a. long contest,
declared unconstitutional by three of the five judges of the Supreme
Court, and this led to the abolition of the board. In 1875 he was
brought forward as a candidate for Governor before the Independent State
Convention, but was defeated by the combined votes of the Supporters of
John Bidwell and M. M. Estee, which on the final ballot were cast for
General Bidwell. In 1878 he was nominated by the joint convention of the
Republicans; and Democrats of Sacramento as delegate to the
constitutional convention, but declined. In 1878 he was one of the
nominees of the Republican party for one of the seven judgeships of the
re-organized Supreme Court, but defeated with all but one on his ticket,
Mr. Catlin has had an extensive and varied practice in the United States
Circuit and District Courts in this State, in the courts of San
Francisco, in Sacramento and other counties, and in the Supreme
Court of California, He was also, in times past, for considerable
periods, at interval, editor of the old Sacramento Union. He was thus
employed from September, 1864, at the commencement of Lincoln's second
campaign, until Aprils 1865. His political articles were generally
recognized as fair by the opponents of the war, against whom they were
aimed. His editorial on the execution of Maximilian, headed "The End of
a Tyrant," attracted wide attention and was copied in Spanish in the
leading Mexican papers. During ten years he successfully defended the
Union in eight different actions for libel. His successful prosecution
of the celebrated Leidesdorff ranch case, was one of his most brilliant
legal victories. When the Government eventually appealed the case to the
highest legal tribunal in the land, and it came up for argument before
the United States Supreme Court, in December, 1863, Mr. Catlin proceeded
to Washington and was admitted to the Supreme Court on motion of Judge
Jere Black. He was heard for the greater part of two days, and his
argument won six of the nine judges, and earned the case. His further
connection with events in Sacramento County is omitted here to avoid
repetition of matters elsewhere mentioned in this volume. His partners
in law practice since John Currey, have been:—Judge T. B. McFarland,
David A. Hamburger, Lincoln White and his present associate, Judge
George A. Blanchard. Mr. Catlin was married May 1, 1860, to Ruth
A. C. Donaldson, a native of Iowa. She died in February, 1878, leaving
four children, viz; Alexander Donaldson, John ., Ruth B., and Harry C.
Mr. Catlin is a member of the Sacramento Society of California Pioneers,
of the San Francisco Historical Society, and of the Bar Association of
San Francisco. "No man who has figured in the history of Sacramento has
a more honorable record than has Mr. Catlin. [ An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, CA, Win J. Davis, 1890. Transcribed by C.
Anthony for Genealogy Trails.]
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RT. PATRICK. MANOGUE, Bishop of the
Diocese of Sacramento, Catholic. The great spiritual see over which this
gentleman presides embraces the twenty-five northern and central
counties of California and the whole of the western and most populous
portion of the State of Nevada, and was practically created for him in
the year 1886, as will be more fully seen later un. For the laborious
duties entailed upon the Bishop of a field so extensive and including
the wild mining regions of the Sierra Nevadas, probably no one could be
better fitted than the affable Bishop Manogue, on account of his life
and training and his singularly clear judgment of human nature. He was
brn in the County of Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1831. At the city of Callan.
Kilkenny, he pursued his early studies, and there resided until in 184:0
he came to America. After a few years spent in the Eastern States, he
continued his studies at the University of St. Mary's of the Lake at
Chicago. During the cholera season of 1854 in that city he wore out his
health in the arduous labors of the time, and. for the purpose of
recuperating he for fourteen months lived the hard life of a miner in
Nevada County, California, learning by actual experience the privations
and hardy pleasures of this rougher but sturdy phase of human life. In
his own words, copying a report of an address delivered by him at the
time of the laying of the cornerstone of tbe grand Cathedral of the Holy
Sacrament in this city, he held a drill when at every stroke of the
hammer the fire flew from the flinty quartz. Whenever hard work was to
be done he referred to his associates (who had been his partners in the
mines) to prove that he was ready to take a hand in its performance. But
those were the days when the thrift, the brawn of the State, was in the
mountains. In all, he lived for three years at the mines, and then
proceeded, to Paris, where at the grand Seminary of St. Sulpice, he
completed his studies by a course extending over four years, and in 1861
was ordained as a priest by Cardinal Morlot, especially for work in the
archdiocese here. Passing through Virginia City, Nevada, on his, way to
this State, he was appointed to his first mission there, and for twenty
years occupied that field. For fifteen years previously to his being
appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese, be was Vicar general of the
whole diocese. Sharon, Mackay and Fair were personal friends, who left
monuments there which will not equal those left by the Bishop. He had
erected the first Gothic building in Virginia City, costing $80,000.
During his priesthood at Virginia City, he built three churches, a
convent, and a hospital, at a total cost of about $300,000, all of which
large sum was collected by himself, and paid for. His residence there is
remembered with the veneration, love and affection of every one in that
section irrespective of church, the kindness of heart and ready hand of
Father Manogue aiding multitudes through seasons of distress. In 1880 he
was appointed Coordinator to Bishop O'Connel, of the Grass Valley Diocese.
In 1884 he was appointed to succeed Bishop O'Connell who, by reason of
advancing years and long labor in the vineyard of the Church, was
permitted to retire. In 1880, owing to Bishop Manogue'a representations
of the decadence of Grass Valley in its importance as a center, due to
the slackening of mining matters, and the growing consequence of
Sacramento as the political head of the State and a distributing point
for trade, Pope Leo XIII decreed that hereafter what had before been
known and recognized as the Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley should be
styled and acknowledged as the Diocese of Sacramento, with the seat of
the episcopate in Sacramento city. At once he set personally at work,
utilising to the fullest that rare combination of business
qualifications and theological attainments by which Bishop Manogue is
characterized, to better the state of the diocese. Recognizing the
necessity for a more representative house of worship than then existed,
he set his energies to the task of another edifice. The result is the
grand "Cathedral of the Holy Sacrament," located at the corner of K and
Eleventh streets, completed and dedicated in the summer of 1859. On
another page is presented an engraving of this splendid structure, which
is fully described elsewhere. For grandeur, architectural magnificence,
and artistic finish, it has no equal in the West, and is a noble
addition to the attractions of California from a scenic standpoint.
Further, it should be stated that under the vigorous hand of Bishop
Manogue new life has been infused into the veins of what has been
heretofore the somewhat sluggish, city of Sacramento. Yet not alone in a
business and material sense has the episcopate of Bishop Manogue aroused
life and activity. Every branch of faith has likewise stirred at eight
of the vigor of the Church. Other church edifices are projected, the
cause of charity meets a ready response, and cognate organizations are
moving with renewed effort. Such in brief and imperfect form is a sketch
of one of whom (to copy from a local paper) " little can be said that is
not known wide and well the broad Pacific Coast over, throughout its
hills and valleys, its mountains and plains, wherever pioneer Christian
labor was to be performed. Nor has an abiding love and veneration for
him found lodgment alone in the Catholic heart; for if current history
be reliable he numbers among his most ardent admirers and dearest
friends men of all creeds and countries,—Protestant, Jew, Gentile, pagan
and heathen; moneyed men and traveling tramps alike revering the Bishop
for his qualities of head and heart."
[ An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, CA, Win J. Davis, 1890. Transcribed by C.
Anthony for Genealogy Trails.]
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HON. WILLIAM MONROE PETRIE
has been a resident in this city for over thirty years. He was born at
Warren, Herkimer County, New York, November 24, 1833. In 1845 the family
removed to Illinois, where his father located upon a farm in Lake County
not far from Waukegan and no very great distance from Chicago, which was
then but a petty village. Mr. Petrie gained a thorough fundamental
education in all the branches taught in the common schools of his
neighborhood, but had early to push for himself and make his own way.
When fourteen years of age he became a clerk in a dry-goods store in
Wankegan. This was in 1849. He continued it steadily for ten years, or
until the spring of 1859, when he came with his wife to California,
reaching Sacramento, September 7. The journey was made via Salt Lake
City, and that far in safety. Upon starting out in the morning, they had
barely rounded the point when they met a band of Indians hastily driving
stock before them and carrying plunder. They pushed out to "City of
Rocks," where they were met by other emigrants and learned that the
Indians they had seen had robbed a train of emigrants in a deep ravine
in Sublette's cut-off to the north and made their way for safety into
the timber west of Salt Lake. This train was from Missouri, and its fate
was one of the sad incidents in the history of the Indian troubles on
the plains. This circumstance caused the trains on the road to join
together, and when they finally crossed the dangerous portions of the
way they formed a train no less than six miles long. The tragic
incidents of these times were related to the writer by Mr. Petrie in a
most vivid manner and showed strikingly the dangers of those early days.
Upon reaching Sacramento, Mr. Petrie shortly entered into baseness for
himself, opening a clothing and furnishing store. In this business he
has remained almost constantly ever since, the last ten years having
been at his well-known stand, No. 622 J street. He is the owner of the
property, which presents upon the lower floor annually well stocked and
furnished store, and on the upper floor the residence of Mr. Petrie and
family, an improvement consummated during the past season. In 1883 he
was appointed one of the school directors of this city to fill an
unexpired term, and at the two following elections was chosen by the
people for the same position. In the fall of 1888 he was brought forward
by his party as their candidate in the Eighteenth District for the State
Legislature. He was elected by a majority of over 700, being well in
advance of the ticket and displaying fully the confidence reposed in him
and his great personal popularity. Of course it goes without saying that
he is a Republican, being staunch and unreserved in his views, yet broad
and liberal. Since he has been a member of the House, Mr. Petrie has
taken a prominent part in the practical and profitable legislation of
the session. He is a member of the Committees on Education,
Retrenchment, and Water Rights and Drainage, all of great importance. He
was prominent in securing an appropriation of funds for the grading and
improvement of the Capitol Park and Fifteenth street, in this city,
something that has long been needed, and also in several other important
measures, Mr. Petrie is a member in very high standings of the Masonic
order, having tilled all of the subordinate offices and many of the most
elevated; has been a prominent delegate to grand lodges. He is Past
Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of California, having filled the
high post of Grand Commander in 1884. He was also Grand Master of the
Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters in 1878. In 1883 he was Grand
High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; and is a member
of the Thirty-third Degree Scottish Rites, Southern Jurisdiction. Of
course he has passed all chairs in subordinate lodges. In 1880 at
Chicago, again in 1883 at San Francisco, 1886 at St. Louis, and in
October, 1889, at Washington, Mr. Petrie attended the National Conlaves
of the order. Mr. Petrie was married in 1853 to Miss A. L. Leigh, who
is a native of Steuben County, New York, They have but one daughter,
born in California. [ An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, CA, Win J. Davis, 1890. Transcribed by C.
Anthony for Genealogy Trails.]
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HON. FINDLEY R. DRAY,
State Senator, was born in Bedford Comity, Pennsylvania,
October 23, 1833. His father, Moses Dray, was a carpenter
and millwright, and having lost his health, came overland to
California in 1850, accompanied by his son, Findley R., the
subject of this sketch, then a youth of seventeen years, who
has from that time made this ''Golden State" his home,
although his father returned in 1853, and has since died.
Hangtown (now Placerville) was the first point struck, July
17, where for a little time mining was carried on. From
there he went to Drytown, in Amador County, and in September
of the same year came to Sacramento. He next went to Laporte,
Sierra County, in the Rabbit Creek mine, being one of the
first to go to that camp, and finding snow fully three feet
deep to welcome him. In 1852 he returned to this city and
after remaining a short time went in the fall of 1852 to the
mines at Shasta. The next spring he returned again to
Sacramento, and found it under water. For about twelve
months he was employed in a store carried on by Joseph Prat,
at McCourtney's Crossing, on Bear River, and afterwards by
McCourtney. He continued this until 1855, when he came down
and went to farming about five miles below this city. In
1858 he returned again and engaged in clerking for William
Hendrie. In 1858 he went to the Reese River mines. Nevada,
but in the fall of that year again came back, and accepted a
position in the sheriff's office under the late James
McClatchy, who had just been elected to that position. After
the close of Mr. McClatchy's term he was public
administrator one term, and then county assessor, a position
which he held to the complete satisfaction of all for a
period of no less than eight years. Next he was appointed by
Judge Clark as a supervisor to complete the unexpired term
of H. O. Seymour, deceased. After this he went into the real
estate and insurance business, continuing this successfully
until, in 1875, he became connected with the Sacramento
Bank. From that time until the present he has been a
director, and as surveyor has had charge of all the outside,
business of the bank in connection with its loans, etc. It
is not saying too much to state that his indefatigable zeal
and watchfulness has aided materially in advancing the
welfare and prosperity of that leading financial institution
of this city. Two years ago he was elected by the votes of
the. people to represent this city and county in the State
Senate, and again this year (1888) was re-elected for
another term, so highly were his efforts in behalf of this
section appreciated. Mr. Dray was married January 1, 1861,
to Miss Mary F. Orrick. Eight children have been born to
them, of whom seven are still living. Their names are as
follows: Laura E., now the wife of George H. Ferry. Esq., of
San Francisco; Carrie E., now the wife of W. O. Terrill,
Esq., also of San Francisco; Mary F., since deceased; Annie
B.; Alice M.; Arthur F.; Frank R., and Bruce L., the latter
fie being all at home. [ An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, CA, Win J. Davis, 1890. Transcribed by C.
Anthony for Genealogy Trails.] |
ANDERSON, Mary, Mme. Navarro, actor,
born in Sacramento, Cal., 28th July,1859. Her maiden name
was Mary Antoinette Anderson. Her mother was of German
descent, and her father was the grandson of an Englishman.
In January, 1860, her parents removed from Sacramento to
Louisville, Ky., where she lived until 1877. Her father
joined the Confederate army at the beginning of the Civil
War, and was killed at Mobile, Ala., in 1862. Her mother was
married again in 1864, to Dr. Hamilton Griffin, a practicing
physician in Louisville. Mary and her brother Joseph had a
pleasant home. Mary was a bright, mischievous child, whose
early pranks earned her the name of "Little Mustang."
Afterwards, when her exuberance was toned down and she had
settled seriously to study, she was called "Little
Newspaper." In school she was so careless of books and fond
of mischief, that at the age of thirteen years she was
permitted to study at home. There, instead of the usual
studies, she spent her time on Shakespeare. Fascinated by
the world that the poet opened to her, she began to train
her voice to recite striking passages that she committed to
memory. The desire to become an actor was born with her. At
the age of ten she recited passages from Shakespeare, with
her room arranged to represent the stage scene. Her first
visit to the theater occurred when she was twelve years old.
She and her brother witnessed the performance of a fairy
piece, and from that moment she had no thought for any
profession but the stage. Her parents attempted to dissuade
her from this choice, but she was known to possess dramatic
talent, and friends urged her parents to put her in training
for the stage. In her fourteenth year she saw Edwin Booth
perform as Richard III in Louisville, and the performance
intensified her desire to become an actor. She repeated his
performance at home, and terrified a colored servant girl
into hysterics with her fierce declamation. The performance
was repeated before an audience of friends in her home, and
in it she achieved her first success. Her interrupted course
in the Ursuline Convent school in Louisville was
supplemented by a course of training in music, dancing and
literature, with the idea of a dramatic career. By the
advice of Charlotte Cushman she made a thorough preparation,
studying for a
time with the younger Vanderhoff in New York. That was her
only real training-ten lessons from a dramatic teacher; all
the rest she accomplished for herself. Her first appearance
was in the role of Juliet, on 27th November, 1875, in
Macauley's Theater, Louisville, in a benefit given for
Milnes Levick, an English stock actor, who was in financial
straits. Miss Anderson was announced on the bills simply as
"Juliet, by a Louisville Young Lady." The theater was
packed, and Mary Anderson, in spite of natural crudities and
faults, won a most pronounced success. In February, 1876,
she played a week in the same theater, appearing as Bianca
in "Fazio," as Julia
in the "Hunchback," as Evadne, and again as Juliet. Her
reputation spread rapidly, and on 6th March, 1876, she began
a week's engagement at the opera house in St. Louis, Mo. She
next played in Ben de Bar's Drury Lane Theater in New
Orleans, and scored a brilliant triumph. She next presented
Meg Merrilies in the New Orleans Lyceum, and won a memorable
success. Prominent persons overwhelmed her with attentions,
and a special engine and car bore her to Louisville. She now
passed some time in study and next played a second
engagement in New Orleans. Her first and only rebuff was in
her native State, where she played for two weeks in San
Francisco. The press and critics were cold and hostile, and
it was only when she appeared as Meg Merrilies the
Californians could see any genius in her. In San Francisco
she
met Edwin Pooth, who advised her to study such parts as "Parthenia,"
as better suited to her powers than the more sombre tragic
characters. Her Californian tour discouraged her, but she
was keen to perceive the lesson that underlay ill success,
and decided to begin at the bottom and build upward. She
made a summer engagement with a company of strolling players
and familiarized herself with the stage "business" in all
its details. The company played mostly to empty benches, but
the training was valuable to Miss Anderson. In 1876 she
accepted an offer from John T. Ford, of Washington and
Baltimore, to join his company as a star at three-hundred
dollars a week. Accompanied by her parents, as was her
invariable custom, she went on a tour with Mr. Ford's
company and everywhere won new triumphs.
The management reaped a rich harvest. On this tour Miss
Anderson was subjected to annoyance through a boycott by the
other members of the company, who were jealous of the young
star. She had added Lady Macbeth to her list of characters.
The press criticisms that were showered upon her make
interesting reading. In St. Louis, Baltimore, Washington and
other cities the critics were agreed upon the fact of her
genius, but not all agreed upon her manner of expressing it.
Having won in the West and Southwest, she began to invade
eastern territory. She appeared in Pittsburgh in 188o, and
was successful. In Philadelphia she won the public and
critics
to her side easily. In Boston she opened as Evadne, with
great apprehension of failure, but she triumphed and
appeared as Juliet and Meg Merrilies, drawing large houses.
While in Boston, she formed the acquaintance of Longfellow,
and their friendship lasted through the. later-life of the
venerable poet. After Boston came New York and in the
metropolis she opened with a good company in "The Lady of
Lyons." Her engagement was so successful there that it was
extended to six weeks. During that engagement she played as
Juliet and in "The Daughter of Roland." After the New York
engagement she had no more difficulties to overcome.
Everywhere in the United States and Canada she was welcomed
as the leading actor among American women. In 1879 she made
her first trip to Europe, and while in England visited the
grave of Shakespeare at Stratford-on- Avon, and in Paris met
Sarah Bernhardt, Madame Ristori and other famous actors. In
1880 she received an offer from the manager of Drury Lane,
London, England, to play an engagement. She was pleased by
the offer, but she modestly refused it, as she thought
herself hardly finished enough for such a test of her
powers. In 1883 she also refused an offer to appear in the
London Lyceum. In 1884-5 she was again in London, and then
she accepted an offer to appear at the Lyceum in "Parthenia."
Her success was pronounced and instantaneous. She drew
crowded houses, and among her friends and patrons were the
Prince and Princess of Wales, Lord Lytton and Tennyson. She
played successfully in Manchester, Edinburgh and other
British towns. During that visit she opened the Memorial
Theater in Stratford-on- Avon, playing Rosamond in "As You
Like It." Her portrait in that character forms one of the
panels of the Shakespeare Theater. In 1885-6 she played many
engagements in the United States and Great Britain. In 1889
a serious illness compelled her to retire from the stage
temporarily. In 189o she announced her permanent withdrawal
from it, and soon after she was married to M. Antonio
Navarro de Viano, a citizen of New York. They now live in
England.
(American Women, Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol 1, Publ.
1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
Frank H. Hereford
was born at Sacramento, California, on November 21, 1861.
His parents a few years later, moved to Virginia City,
Nevada, and his home during the earlier period of his life
was in Nevada. His mother, Mary Jewel Hereford, dying when
he was six years old, most of his time was thereafter spent
in California with relatives and at school, until his 16th
year, when his father moved to Tucson, Arizona. Mr.
Hereford's home has ever since that time been in Arizona. He
attended McClure's Academy at Oakland, Santa Clara College
at Santa Clara and the University of the Pacific at San
Jose, all of the State of California. He studied law in his
father's office at Tucson, Arizona, and was admitted to
practice in the year 1885, and ever since that date has been
practicing, maintaining an office in the city of Tucson. He
has made a specialty of mining and corporation law, and is
the regular attorney and chief counsel for a number of the
larger mining companies of Southern Arizona. He is
interested in a large number of business enterprises in the
State, principal amongst which are the Consolidated National
Hank of Tucson, of which he is a director, and the La Osa
Cattle Company, of which he is a director and secretary. He
was private secretary for two years to F. A. Trifle,
Governor of Arizona: a member of the Constitutional
Convention of Arizona, which convened in the year 1891, and
was District Attorney of Pima County for two successive
terms. His father, Benjamin H. Hereford, was a lawyer of
prominence in Arizona; was a member of the Territorial
Legislature in the year 1879, and for several terms served
as District Attorney of Pima County. Mr. Hereford was united
in marriage to Miss Adeline Rockwell, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
July 30, 1901. They have three sons, Francis Rockwell, aged
11 ; Jack, aged 6, and Edgar Tenney, aged 3.[Who's Who In
Arizona Volume 1 1913 Complied and Published by Jo Connors.
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