A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . aquin, Maggie andRose. Among the more settled conditions ofhis life Mr. Martin has augumented his knowl-edge of the sea by persistent research alongpractical educational lines. The result is .hehas a well-trained mind, is well posted oncurrent events, and thoroughly in sympathywith scholarly gifts and acquirements. He isprominent in Ihe social life of the community,and is a member of the I. D. E. S. and U. Politically he is a Republic
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . aquin, Maggie andRose. Among the more settled conditions ofhis life Mr. Martin has augumented his knowl-edge of the sea by persistent research alongpractical educational lines. The result is .hehas a well-trained mind, is well posted oncurrent events, and thoroughly in sympathywith scholarly gifts and acquirements. He isprominent in Ihe social life of the community,and is a member of the I. D. E. S. and U. Politically he is a Republican. Mrs. Mar-tin is a devout member of the Catholic Church,and is fraternally connected with Queen Isa-bella Lodge. J. FREDERICK HILDEBRAND. Steam-boating in some phase of the work has been theoccupation of J. Frederick Hildebrand since thebeginning of his independent business is a fine engineer and mechanic and is nowfilling the position of chief engineer on theCabrillo for the Wilmington Transportation Com-pany in San Pedro. He is of German nativity,born December 25, 1870, in Eniden, Hanover,where his father, Frederick, still resides as a. St o^i^ HISTORICAL AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. pensioner, having been in the government em-ploy as a custom office inspector. His mother isdeceased. The youngest member of a family ofnine children j. F. Hildebrand was reared inHamburg and was there educated in the commonschools. In 1885, at the age of fourteen, he cameto the United States, where he became interestedin steam-boating. After coming to the Pacificcoast he went to the Behring Sea and enteredthe employ of the Alaska Packers Association,remaining with them for eleven years, duringthe greater part of this time making his homein Oakland. Subsequently he accepted a positionas first assistant engineer with the John S. Kim-ball Steamship Company, and afterwards workedas chief engineer successively for the Dollar Com-pany, Sudden & Oiristensen, and again for theDollar Compan\-. I
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