of Laws was conferred upon him. During the two succeeding years he engaged in the practice of his profession in Madison, and in the spring of 1882 moved to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he entered into partnership with Colonel John H. Knight, and in 1883 his brother E. A. Hayes became a member of the firm. This business relation was continued for four years, when Mr. Hayes and his brother retired from the firm and removed to Ironwood, Michigan, where they had extensive mining interests in the Gogebic iron range. The fall of 1887 witnessed their arrival in San José, and they purchased a splendid ranch near the city for their home. In 1900 they became proprietors of the Herald, the leading evening paper of San José, and in 1901 purchased the Mercury, the only morning paper of this city. These papers under their management have become the most valuable factors in journalism in the state outside of the publications of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Their circulation is extensive and they exert a wide influence in molding public opinion and shaping public action. Not alone to his journalistic ventures, however, has Mr. Hayes confined his attention, for he is now secretary and treasurer of the Hayes Mining Company, which owns the famous Ashland iron mine of Ironwood, Michigan. He is also the president of the Herald Publishing Company and the vice president of the Mercury Publishing Company. A corporation known as the Hayes-Chynoweth Company controls and owns the ranch near San José, and the Hayes Brothers are proprietors of several commercial enterprises. Of these corporations J. O. Hayes is secretary and treasurer. He is a man of splendid business ability, keen discernment and executive force, and his activities have been extended to many lines of enterprise which have had important bearing upon the commercial and industrial development of his adopted state.

In his political views Mr. Hayes is a stalwart Republican, and was a candidate for governor before the state convention of California in 1902. He had a strong following and is recognized as one of the leading representatives of his party in this state. A prominent member of the Union League Club of San Francisco and of the Linda Vista Golf Club, his genial nature renders him popular and has gained him prominence in social circles. His fraternal relations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

On the 16th of June, 1885, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hayes and Miss Clara I. Lyon, a daughter of Hon. W. P. Lyon, formerly chief justice of the supreme court of Wisconsin, but now living with Mr. and Mrs. Hayes. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have five children: Mildred Mary, Lyetta A., Elyster Lyon, Miriam F. and Jay Orlo. The Hayes country home at Eden Vale is one of the most beautiful in all California, a state noted for its magnificent residences with their attractive surroundings. The former residence having been destroyed by fire, the magnificent mansion is now being erected in the midst of a splendid park, through which have been constructed paved walks and drives. All of the arts of the landscape gardener have been lavished upon this place, and it is to-day numbered among the country seats of surpassing loveliness in the Golden state.

ALFRED J. JOHNSTON.

Alfred J. Johnston, of Sacramento, is the head of the firm of A. J. Johnston Company, largest stationery and printing house of that city; and is also actively engaged in the fruit-raising industry of California, in connection with which he carries on a successful cannery on his foothill ranch in Eldorado county.

He was born in Nevada county in 1857 and his ancestral history is one of close connection with American interests from colonial times. He is descended from Revolutionary stock, and his parents, David and Nancy S. (Glass) Johnston, were both natives of Pennsylvania. They came to California upon their wedding trip in 1852, locating first in Sacramento and after a year removing to Nevada county. The father was a lawyer by profession and made a specialty of realty and mining law, being connected with much important litigation in those branches of jurisprudence. He retired from his profession in 1893 and turned his attention to stock and fruit raising in Eldorado county, making his home at Cool, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in May, 1903. His widow now makes her home with her son Alfred, who is the second of the family of three sons and a daughter, namely: Robert G., now deceased; Belle, the wife of W. H. Prouty; and Walter, who has also passed away.

As a student in the public schools Alfred J. Johnston pursued his studies until he had mastered a part of the high school course. At the age of sixteen he put aside his text books and learned the printer's trade with H. A. Weaver. In 1882, with the late R. W. Lewis, he engaged in the printing business, and since the death of Mr. Lewis in 1885, he has conducted the business alone, securing a good patronage which makes the enterprise a profitable one. It has been his close application and indefatigable industry which have made him one of the substantial citizens of the community. He was appointed in 1891, by Governor Markham, to the position of superintendent of the state printing office, entering upon his duties in January, 1891. The legislature, during the session of that year, made the office an elective one, and at the regular election of 1894 he was chosen by popular vote to the position, and in 1898 was re-elected, acting in that capacity for twelve consecutive years, his control of the office and the character of the work done therein giving uniform satisfaction throughout the state.

He was selected by the board of supervisors of the county of Sacramento as one of the county commissioners of the St. Louis World's Fair Exposition, and was subsequently elected president of that commission, and has taken an active part in organizing the fourteen counties which represent the great Sacramento valley into one association to be known as the Sacramento Valley Development Association.

In November, 1884, Mr. Johnston was united in marriage to Miss Luella Buckminster, of San Francisco, a daughter of Alva and Zeruah (Huntoon) Buckminster. Her father espoused the cause of the Union in the Civil war and was killed at the battle of Spottsylvania, while fighting under General Grant, thus giving his life as a ransom for his country's release from the

thralls of slavery. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have been born five children: David, Alva, Markham, Luella and Robert.

Mr. Johnston has very pleasant social relations with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the Knight Templar degree, also belonging to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a valued representative of the Native Sons of the Golden West and the Elks lodge of Sacramento. His political support is given the Republican party, and he is recognized as one of the workers in its ranks in behalf of local and state politics. His life has been characterized by fidelity to duty, by persistency of purpose and by reliability and continuity in business affairs, and therefore he enjoys the respect and good will of his fellow men.

FREDERICK WILLIAM KIESEL.

Frederick William Kiesel, general manager of the California Winery and cashier of the California State Bank of Sacramento, is a representative of a type of young men well known in the west-young men of marked energy who in the improvement of business opportunity have gradually advanced to positions of prominence that many an older man might well envy. The enterprising spirit of the west is manifest in their careers, and while winning prosperity this class of citizens has likewise contributed to the general development and improvement of the state.

Mr. Kiesel was born on the 11th of February, 1874, in Corinne, Utah, his parents being Frederick J. and Julia (Schansenbach) Kiesel, both of whom were natives of Ludwigsburg, Germany. In childhood the parents came to America. The father went to Utah in the '50s and was there engaged in merchandising, living at Corinne for some time. For the past twenty-five years he has been engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Ogden, Utah, and occupies a very enviable position in mercantile circles in that state.

Frederick William Kiesel remained under the parental roof until nine years of age and then went to Germany, where he acquired his early education at the public schools. He afterward became a student in the Greylock Institute at South Williamstown, Massachusetts, and in 1892 matriculated in Harvard College, completing a full four years' course within those classic walls. He was graduated in 1896, and, thus well equipped for important and responsible business cares, he came to California, locating first in Sacramento, where he organized the California Winery. He became general manager of this business and has since occupied the position. The company operates the largest independent plant in the state, having a capacity of two million gallons of wine annually and owning fifteen hundred and thirty-seven acres of land, all planted to grapes. On the 1st of April, 1898, Mr. Kiesel was appointed receiving teller in the California State Bank, and in the following year was made assistant cashier, while on the retirement of Mr. Gerber he took his place as cashier and is now thus identified with banking interests of the city.

On the 18th of December, 1901, occurred the marriage of Mr. Kiesel