much work of development in this line will be the result of his generous efforts.

Mr. Brooke was born in Diamond Spring, Eldorado county, California, March 16, 1872. Both sides of the family were represented in the Revolutionary war, as well as that of 1812. His paternal grandfather was a colonel in the Revolution. C. D. Brooke, the father of Morris. Brooke, was one of the most progressive and intrepid of California pioneer agriculturists. He came to this state from Virginia in 1851, and for the first ten years followed mining. He then devoted himself to agriculture and horticulture for the remainder of his active life. He planted the first successful fruit farm in the foot-hills of Eldorado county, and, ignoring the ridicule of his neighbors and the disadvantages incident to his enterprise at the start, demonstrated that this was a wonderful fruit section and made a success of his own ventures. He retired several years before his death, which occurred in 1901. He was supervisor for a number of years, and took a prominent part in politics. He was a Breckinridge Democrat, and he once ran for state senator, but was defeated with the rest of his party.

Mary E. (Smith) Brooke, the mother of Morris Brooke, was born in Ohio, and her family was originally from the state of Connecticut. She is a direct descendant of the Smith who came over in the Mayflower, and members of the family took a prominent part in the colonial wars. She is still living, and makes her home in Oak Park, Sacramento county. Five of her children are living: Morris; Dr. W. A., a physician of Alameda ; Roy L., at home; Lucy, the wife of William McGinn, of Sacramento, and Miss Clara.

Mr. Brooke was educated in the public schools of Diamond Spring and of Sacramento, graduating from the grammar schools of the latter place at the age of sixteen. He then began farming in Sacramento county with his father, and shortly afterward bought land of his own and raised berries. He continued in these pursuits five years. At the age of twentysix, in 1898, he was elected to the legislature from the twenty-second assembly district on the Democratic ticket, being chosen from a Republican stronghold. While in the legislature he was responsible for the introduction of a number of measures, several of which became good laws. He brought forward a constitutional amendment providing for free text books in the public schools, and, although he failed to secure its adoption, the agitation thus started has developed and become widespread throughout the state, so that there is every confidence in its promoters of the ultimate success of the movement. Mr. Brooke was in the county clerk's office as court deputy until the fall of 1901, and was then elected from the Republican stronghold of the fourth district as supervisor for a term of four years. In this office he has been the first one in this part of the state to advocate oil roads, and he has established quite a reputation as a promoter of this enterprise. He has written a number of articles for the public press on the subject of good roads, and also went before the state convention of supervisors as an advocate of improved highways. The results of the adoption

of some of his proposals concerning oil roads in this section of the state have fully justified his expectations, as Sacramento has some of the best roadways in the state. For the last two years he has represented Sacramento county in the Sacramento Valley Development Association, and was the originator of the project to get up a Sacramento exhibit for the St. Louis Exposition. Mr. Brooke had personal charge of the preparation of the exhibit.

Mr. Brooke represented Sacramento valley as one of the delegates to the national irrigation congress at Ogden. In the latter part of 1903 he went into the real estate and insurance business as manager of the country department of Curtis, Carmichael and Brand, and he is also interested in several other business enterprises of Sacramento. At the present time he has his own land leased.

Mr. Brooke affiliates with the Native Sons of the Golden West, and is past president of the Sacramento Parlor, and has several times represented the local parlor at the grand parlor. He also belongs to the Masons, the Foresters of America, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Grange, and has been vice sachem of the state league of the Iroquois Clubs for the last five years. He is Democratic committeeman at large for the second congressional district.

WILLIAM A. BOWDEN.

William A. Bowden, well known as a representative of the San Jose bar and one whose efforts have led him from the ranks of the many to a position among the successful few, was born in New York in 1865. He is a son of Pierce and Mary (Grace) Bowden, both of whom were natives of the south of Ireland and came to America in 1862. The father was a farmer by occupation, and after a number of years' residence in the Empire state he started for the Pacific coast in 1875, locating in Santa Clara county. Here he resumed farming and continued in that occupation throughout his business He died in 1900 at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. His wife passed away in southern Indiana. In the family were three sons and a daughter, the latter being Mary A., now the widow of William F. Carroll, while the brothers of our subject are Nicholas, a practicing attorney of San Jose, and Charles D., an orchardist of the Santa Clara valley.

career.

William A. Bowden was a lad of four years when his parents removed from the Empire state to southern Indiana, and there he pursued his early education, which he afterward continued in California as a student in Santa Clara College. He left school at the age of seventeen years, and then added to his literary education a preparation for the practice of law. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar and has since continued an active member of the legal profession, being accorded a good clientage and connected generally with the important litigated interests in his district. Precision and thoroughness characterize the preparation of his cases, and clearness and logic are manifest in his presentation of a case before court or jury.

In 1893 Mr. Bowden was united in marriage to Miss Alice Hobbs, a

daughter of Celden X. Hobbs, a pioneer resident of Santa Clara county and a man prominently identified with the improvement of this portion of the state. He was the builder of the Delagoa Bay Railroad, extending from Delagoa Bay into the interior of Africa, and was killed there during the construction of the road. Mr. and Mrs. Bowden are well known in social circles in San Jose, and the number of their friends is almost co-extensive with the number of their acquaintances. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Young Men's Institute. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, but he has never sought to figure before the public in political life, preferring to give his time and energies to his professional duties as the foundation for a successful and lucrative practice.

THOMAS M. BROWN.

Thomas M. Brown, who since 1877 has continuously filled the position of sheriff of Humboldt county, is an officer whose record is above reproach and no more incontrovertible proof of his fidelity to duty could be given than the fact that he has been so long retained in the position by popular suffrage. He is, moreover, one of the pioneer settlers of California and in the year 1849 crossed the plains, and his mind therefore bears the impress of the historic annals of the state as it has emerged from primitive conditions and become imbued with all the enterprise, improvements and evidences of civilization heretofore characteristic of the east.

Mr. Brown is a native of Tennessee, his birth having occurred in Overton county, that state, on the 26th of January, 1829. His parents were John W. and Rachel (Allen) Brown. The father was born in Kentucky in 1807, and with his parents removed to Tennessee during his early boyhood. In 1829 he became a resident of Illinois, settling in McLean county, where he continued to reside until 1841. In that year he removed to northwestern Missouri, and in the various places in which he made his home at different times he carried on the occupation of farming. While living in Missouri he was called to public office, and for twenty years served as county clerk of Harrison county. His demise was in 1873. It will thus be seen that fidelity in official service is one of the salient characteristics of the family. His wife was a representative of an old southern family.

Thomas M. Brown received but limited educational facilities, attending the country schools for a few months during the winter seasons in both Illinois and Missouri. He was an infant at the time of his parents' removal to the former state, and was but twelve years of age when they became residents of Missouri. There he attained his majority, and in April, 1847, was married and began farming. He followed that pursuit for two years in Harrison county, and in April, 1849, started for California. The vear before gold had been discovered and marvelous tales were told of the opportunities for the rapid acquirement of wealth on the Pacific coast. Mr. Brown, therefore, determined to seek a fortune in California and with an ox team crossed the plains, traveling for day after day until at length his eyes were gladdened

by the sight of the Eldorado of the west. He arrived at the American river in the month of October, and after a few days spent at Sacramento proceeded to Stockton, California, and thence to Tuolumne county, where he engaged in mining about a mile and a half south of Jimtown. A few months later he started for Trinity county with an ox team. He paid fifteen hundred dollars in gold dust for four yoke of oxen and a wagon, and after reaching his destination he engaged in mining, continuing in that industrial pursuit until the spring of 1857. He was located variously in Trinity, Shasta and Klamath, and at the last-named place he was appointed deputy sheriff of Klamath county. After serving for a year and eight months he returned to Missouri, and in 1860 brought his wife to California. Again the trip was made across the plains with an ox team, five months being consumed in completing the journey.

Mr. Brown established his home at Orleans Bar on the Klamath river, then the county seat of Klamath county. In 1861 he was elected sheriff of the county and held the office continuously until 1874, when the county was re-organized and the section in which he lived became a part of Humboldt county. During the following three years he engaged in mining on the Klamath river, and in 1877 he was elected sheriff of Humboldt county and has been re-elected at each succeeding election to the present time.

In 1847 Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Surilda J. Poynter, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of John Poynter, a representative of an old Kentucky family. They now have one daughter, Martha J., who is the wife of H. B. Hitchings, now chief of police of Eureka, California. Mr. Brown and his family are widely known in this section of the state and receive the favorable regard and friendship of many with whom they have come in contact. He is a worthy representative of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while his political support is given to the Democracy. In citizenship he is loyal, progressive and public-spirited, and as an official is strictly fair and impartial in the discharge of his duties, performing all public service without fear or favor. He receives the strongest endorsement and commendation of men of all parties, and is, indeed, classed among the best citizens of Humboldt county.

JUDGE JOHN TYLER CAMPBELL.

Judge John Tyler Campbell, who took up his residence in Santa Rosa thirty years ago, has from the first stood among the most prominent and public-spirited citizens. His career both previous and subsequent to that time has been marked with highest ability and executive energy, so that not only his immediate community and city but the state and country have felt the power of his influence. His public career has been especially honorable and useful, and California is happy and fortunate to number him among her most noted citizens.

The biographer cannot do better in this connection than to quote a personal opinion of Judge Campbell, written by the late Attorney General

George A. Johnson, and expressive of the characteristics which have elevated the Judge to his position in public estimation.

"Judge Campbell is an able lawyer, an exemplary citizen, and in private life has won the esteem and respect of his fellow citizens. He is a good, pure, excellent man, of singular, genial nature and correct deportment. At the bar he has the respect and kindly regard of all his professional brethren and the confidence and esteem of the bench. He is an effective and pleasing orator, and is honored throughout the county, and in Santa Rosa, where he resides, is trusted and liked by all classes of people. He is a fine lawyer, ranking with the ablest at the bar here, is clear, methodical and learned. Where he is known he exerts a commanding influence. With a fine presence, a singular sweetness of temper and a most captivating address, he attaches all classes of people to him, and his companionship is sought and prized by all. As a legislator he held the highest rank. As the presiding officer of the house he evinced great knowledge in parliamentary law, and was clear, ready and decisive in his rulings.

"He is charming in social intercourse and the delight of the social circle. He is warm-hearted, and never deserts a friend. He is well versed in literature, is versatile to a high degree, has been a constant student and an inveterate reader all his life. He has written numerous short stories and been a contributor to magazines and periodicals. He is a most interesting conversationalist, and always has at hand apt and ready quotations; is humorous and entertaining, and draws around him hosts of warm and devoted friends. In a word, few better men have lived in California than the Honorable John Tyler Campbell."

Judge Campbell is a native of that old and famous county of Pike, in the state of Missouri, and was born in the town of Bowling Green, September 9, 1842. He was the seventh in order of a family of eleven children. His father was the Rev. James Washington Campbell, a native of Williamsburg, Virginia. His mother, Sophia A. (Henry) Campbell, was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and was the daughter and the youngest child of Colonel Malcolm Henry, who was a gallant soldier during the war of the Revolution. The great-grandfather on the Campbell side was likewise a colonel in the patriot army during the struggle which set the colonies free from trans-Atlantic domination. He was one of the hardy Scotsmen who rallied to the cause during the darkest hours of the Revolution, and participated in the battle of King's Mountain in addition to other of the noted engagements in the Carolinas.

Judge Campbell received his early education in the public schools of Pike county, and he has a vivid recollection of that section of old Missouri as it was in ante-bellum days. His advanced training was received in McGee College at Macon, Missouri. When the Civil war broke out he was not yet twenty years old. He espoused the Union side, and soon after his enlistment attained to the rank of captain in the Thirty-second Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed major of the Fifty-second Missouri Infantry, but the war ended before the regiment was mustered into service.