The builders of a great city : San Francisco's representative men, the city, its history and commerce : pregnant facts regarding the growth of the leading branches of trade, industries and products of the state and coast . rgu-ment. Later a Receiver was appointedby Judge Wallace and the Refineryclosed. The proceedings were soughtto be restrained by a writ of prohi-bition issued by the Supreme Court,and the whole matter was rearguedby Mr. Pierson in that Court. A member of the profession hassaid that a mere lawyer is at most amoiety of a man—heathen and soul-less. Mr. Pierson is not a mere law-
The builders of a great city : San Francisco's representative men, the city, its history and commerce : pregnant facts regarding the growth of the leading branches of trade, industries and products of the state and coast . rgu-ment. Later a Receiver was appointedby Judge Wallace and the Refineryclosed. The proceedings were soughtto be restrained by a writ of prohi-bition issued by the Supreme Court,and the whole matter was rearguedby Mr. Pierson in that Court. A member of the profession hassaid that a mere lawyer is at most amoiety of a man—heathen and soul-less. Mr. Pierson is not a mere law-yer. Besides having fine literarytastes, which his means permit him toenjoy, he is a fine amateur astrono-mer, and at his residence on Van Nessavenue he has the lai-gest telescopein the city, the object-glass being8J inches in diameter. It is mount-ed in an observatory attached to hisresidence, and here of a cloudlessnight Mr. Pierson spends many anhour gazing at the starry cope ofHeaven. Mr. Pierson is a memberof the Pacific-Union Club and of theBar Association. He is married andhas a family consisting of a wife, whowas the daughter of Capt. L. B. Ed-wards, and two sons, both of whomare in mercantile E. B. Pond. Edward b. pond. >DWARD B. POND, who, in hishigh office, represents the repre-sentative men of San Francisco,the men who have builded the com-mercial metropolis of the Pacific, isa native of Jefferson County, New-port. He was born on the 7th of Decem-ber, 1833, the fifth of eight children,three brothers and four sisters. Hisancestors came from England aboutfifteen years after the Mayflowerlanded the first stock of sturdy Puri-tans, and were of the same sort. Hisgrandfather served with distinctionin the Kovolutionary war, and won therank of Major. His father was a Con-gregational clergyman, a gentlemanof liberal education and honorablerepute. Young Edward received an acad-emic education, principally in Gov-erneur, N. Y. But after having beenprepared for
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