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 . g episodes. He hassimply gone on from year to yearimproving his business, extending itsconnections, and has laid abroad anenduring foundation for increasedsuccess in the coming year. He wasmarried in 1856 to the daughter ofDr. C. H. Booth, of Newtown, Conn., who is still living. He has hadmany requests made to him toaccept public positions of trust buthas always declined, an
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 . g episodes. He hassimply gone on from year to yearimproving his business, extending itsconnections, and has laid abroad anenduring foundation for increasedsuccess in the coming year. He wasmarried in 1856 to the daughter ofDr. C. H. Booth, of Newtown, Conn., who is still living. He has hadmany requests made to him toaccept public positions of trust buthas always declined, and though heis a strong Republican and has beenin active service in the last campaignboth in New York and Connecticut,has steadily refused all offers of is largely identified with variousrailroad and steamship interests onthis coast, among the number arethe Oregon Improvement Com-pany, Oregon Railway and Navi-gation Company, Oregon Short LineCompany, Northern Pacific Railroad,together with Union Pacific andAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-roads. Though having passed thehalf century mile-stone, he is yet bothphysically and mentally a young man,and has still a long and useful bus-iness career before Sol. Sreed Haymond Creed Haymond. y-gfONSIDERED as an orator, a«J| i legislator, a politician, or a law-<t yer, there arc few men in Cali-fornia to-day who are the peers ofCreed Haymond. It is seldom thatwe meet with a character which com-bines in an equal degree his qualitiesof brilliancy, industry and tenacityof purpose. Creed Haymond is a Virginian bybirth, having been born in Beverly,Randolph County (now in WestVirginia), fifty-four years ago. Whenho was a child his parents removedto Fairmount, where he resided un-til he came to California in father, Hon. W. C. Haymond,was a distinguished lawyer, and itwas from him the son inherited thatlegal talent which afterward shapedhis own career. Between the fatherand son there existed a remarkableaffection ; fro
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