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 . th his fond-ness for home life. He has ever dis-pensed in the family residence allthe civility, courtesies, and hospital-ity that make the social circle mostattractive. His wife has been a fit-ting companion in his busy seconding his public effortsshe has made his home-life attract-tive. She is a lady endowed bynature with unusual charms of man-ner and domest
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 . th his fond-ness for home life. He has ever dis-pensed in the family residence allthe civility, courtesies, and hospital-ity that make the social circle mostattractive. His wife has been a fit-ting companion in his busy seconding his public effortsshe has made his home-life attract-tive. She is a lady endowed bynature with unusual charms of man-ner and domestic graces. Theyhave nine children—seven sons andtwo daughters. The elder five wereborn in Kentucky—the birth placeof their mother and her family formany generations back — and theyounger four in California. Four ofthe children are married. The eldestson is a graduate of Harvard Uni-versity, practicing law in this city ;another of Amherst, Mass., and athird is now at the California Uni-versity. Two others are in businesshere. The elder daughter is agraduate of Clarkes Institute. Col-onel Jackson has a charming homeand family ; and there we will leavehim surrounded by his children andhis books he loves so S. KEITH Nathaniel Shepard Keith. [Nathaniel shepard keith was born in the city of Boston,Mass., in the year 1838, of Yan-kee parents and Scotch descent. Hisfather, a physician, shortly after wentto Dover, N. H., and afterwards toNew York city, in 1851. The subjectof this sketch had the benefit of anexcellent common school after his arrival in New York,his father established a chemical manu-factory which is still carried on underthe widely known name of B. Keith &Go. Young Keith was early put towork in the laboratory, where he ac-quired a good knowledge of ckemistryin the most thorough, practical way—that of actual work. In 1861 he invented a new processof desulphurizing and treating gold-bearing pyrites, or sulphurets. Hewent with it to Colorado
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