. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. at No. 1353 Tenth avenueand both within and without reflects the com-fort and culture with which he is able to sur-round himself and wife in the evening of theirdays. Although always actively engaged in busi-ness affairs Mr. McDonald has taken an active in-terest in the public welfare of his country; for afew years after his location in this country heaffiliated with the Democratic party, but has sinceendorsed the principles advocated
. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. at No. 1353 Tenth avenueand both within and without reflects the com-fort and culture with which he is able to sur-round himself and wife in the evening of theirdays. Although always actively engaged in busi-ness affairs Mr. McDonald has taken an active in-terest in the public welfare of his country; for afew years after his location in this country heaffiliated with the Democratic party, but has sinceendorsed the principles advocated in the plat-form of the Republican party, especially on allstate and national issues. He is a prominentMason, being a member of St. Johns LodgeNo. 9, at Seattle, Wash., of which he is pastmaster, and was presented with an honorary mem-bership for being the oldest past master in thelodge. He also belongs to the Ancient Order ofUnited Workmen in the same city. The suc-cess which has attended the efforts of Mr. Mc-Donald along a business line has been entirelythe result of his own personal qualities, for hebegan life with nothing but the courage, ability I. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 413 and energy characteristic of the Scot, and againsthardship and deprivation worked his way to thetop, accumulated property, and in his decliningyears seeks the rest and retirement which hehas so justly won. He is held in high esteem byall who know him and is appreciated for hisworth as a citizen. WILLIAM M. MENDENHALL, In the closest sense implied by the term, Will-iam M. Mendenhall is a pioneer of California,and as such has passed through the hardshipsand dang-ers which were of a necessity the warpand woof of its present greatness. Mr. Menden-hall comes of a New England family whosemembers were prominent in the colonial historyof our country. His father, William Mendenhall,was born in 1794 in Tennessee, and following theexample of his forefathers, served in the warof 1812. He married in
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