After the war he took up the study of law, was admitted to the bar, and located in Kansas City, where he was elected prosecuting attorney of Jackson county and also city attorney. He also served as police judge. Thus, before his removal to the Pacific coast he had attained prominence in public life, and had manifested his ability as an influential leader of men.

He came to California in 1874 and took up his residence in Santa Rosa, where he has ever since had his permanent home. In the following year he was elected city attorney, and also in 1876. He was assistant district attorney of Sonoma county in 1877. He was elected to the legislature and served in the session of 1883-84, for a part of the time being speaker of the house. In 1886 he was appointed American consul to New Zealand, and in 1888 was appointed consul to China. While at the latter post a vacancy occurred in the imperial German consulate, and, with the permission of the president of the United States, he was appointed by the German emperor as acting German consul in China, which position he held for three years, and at its conclusion he received a letter of commendation from the emperor.

At an election held in 1900 he was elected one of the board of freeholders called to frame a new charter for the city of Santa Rosa, and was chosen president of the board. He is now and has been for the past five years, a director of the Sonoma County Law Library, is a director in the Athenaeum Company and a director of the Masonic Hall Association. He has been a library trustee of the Santa Rosa public library, and for three years was president of the Sonoma county board of education. Fraternally he is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, a past worshipful master of the Masons. blue lodge, a past high priest of the chapter and a past eminent commander of Santa Rosa Commandery of the Knights Templar.

Judge Campbell married, in 1869, Miss Mary Reed, and they have two children: Ross Campbell is an attorney-at-law in Santa Rosa; and Lucy E. is the wife of J. Iver M. Drummond, now residing in London, England.

JAMES WILLIAM JESSE, M. D.

James William Jesse, M. D., has for a number of years been one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Santa Rosa. He entered the profession with a broad and thorough equipment, obtained by some years of preparation in one of the best schools in the United States. His devotion to his work and his skill in its practice, combined with his genial nature and sympathy. early gained him a representative clientage, and he has progressed into high favor as a practitioner. He has also been interested in affairs of more general nature, and is always interested and willing to bear his part in enterprises pertaining to the general welfare of his town and county.

Dr. Jesse was born in Mexico, Missouri, in 1857. His father, Royal A. Jesse, is a Baptist minister, and his mother was Mary E. Boswell, a native of Virginia. James W. Jesse was educated in Columbia College at Mexico, Missouri, and after a full course in the literary departments there he entered the medical department of the College of the City of New York, from which he received his degree of M. D.

Dr. Jesse has been a resident and a practitioner of Santa Rosa since 1890. He served as mayor of the city for one term, and at the present time is city health officer and county physician. He is surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad and the California and Northwestern Railroad, and also surgeon for the Red Cross Sanitarium. He is president of the Santa Rosa Medical Society. He has a handsome residence on the corner of Fifth and King streets, and also owns the building in which his offices are located. He affiliates with the Masons and the Elks, and has always taken a prominent part in political affairs of the city, county and state.

Dr. Jesse married Miss Mary E. Higgins, of the state of Missouri. Marie Fitzpatrick Jesse, their daughter, is now twenty years of age, and is a student at Mills College, California. The family are held in the highest esteem in social circles, and are prominently identified with much of the life of the city.

WILLIAM M. WILSON.

William M. Wilson, superintendent of the Eagle Bird and El Ora Mines Company and financially interested in mining operations at Maybert, California, was born in Butte county, this state, on the 15th of November, 1865. His father, William M. Wilson, Sr., was a native of Scotland, belonging to a distinguished family of that land that numbered among its members some of the speakers of parliament. In the year 1852 William M. Wilson, Sr., came to California. Mining was the principal industry of the state, and to that labor he directed his energies and continued to follow that pursuit throughout his remaining days, being largely engaged in the development of the mineral resources of California. He owned a number of mining properties in the neighborhood of Oroville in early days, also at Cherokee, and was an owner in the Spring Valley Quartz mine above Oroville that has recently been sold. His death occurred February 5, 1904, and he is still survived by his wife, who bore the maiden name of Jessie McDonald. She was born in Edinburg, Scotland, and is now living at Cherokee, Butte county, California.

In the family were three sons and four daughters, namely: William M., of this review; D. D., who is superintendent of the Omega Mine in Nevada county, California; A. M., who is superintendent of the Spring Valley Quartz mine in Butte county, for the United Gold & Copper Company; Mrs. Marrian Nisbet, of Oroville, California: Mrs. Belle Williams, also of Oroville: and Jeannette and Nellie, who are residing with their mother at Cherokee.

William M. Wilson, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the schools of his native county. He wished to acquire a practical and comprehensive knowledge of the mining business in all its departments, and has devoted all his time to practical mining. He has been superintendent of different mines throughout California, during which time he has done work for various companies in examining mines, and has been quite largely interested in mining deals and projects. He is now a stockholder in several mining corporations and has negotiated the sales in Nevada county of both quartz and gravel properties.

The mining properties in this portion of the state have a very promising outlook, and the work will be carried on extensively during the season of 1904. Mr. Wilson is a Republican in his political views, but does not seek or desire public office, preferring to give his attention to his business affairs, and but few men are better informed concerning mines and mining than he. He has made a close study not only from the scientific but also from the practical standpoint and has gained a comprehensive knowledge, which has been put to the test in the development of the properties, which under his direction Have become paying investments.

EDWARD P. HILBORN.

Edward P. Hilborn, deputy state surveyor general of California, is one of the young and progressive and able civil engineers of the state, and has made a most creditable record in the profession since his graduation from college some ten or more years ago. He executed some important work for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company before he was appointed to his present office, and he has gained recognition as a thoroughly capable engineer, with a large field of useful endeavor before him.

Mr. Hilborn was born in Suisun, Solano county, California, February 10, 1871, being a son of Edward P. and Mary F. (Wing) Hilborn. His father was born in Maine and died in California in 1897. He was of an old American family, and his grandfather was captain of a company in the Revolutionary war. He came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1852, and after mining for a year or so located in Solano county, in 1854, and during the remaining forty or more years of his life he engaged in stock farming and in commercial enterprises in Suisun. He was one of the prominent men of the county, and his brother, S. G. Hilborn, was United States congressman from the third California district for three terms. Mrs. Mary F. Hilborn, a native of Massachusetts and of an old family of that state, is still living at Suisun. Her father was one of the first captains to bring a ship around the Horn during the Eldorado mining days of California, and he afterward settled in Solano county. Edward P. and Mary F. Hilborn were the parents of three sons: Arthur, engaged in stock-raising and mercantile business at Suisun; Louis, an attorney at San Francisco; and Edward P.

Mr. Edward P. Hilborn was educated in the public schools of Suisun, and in 1891 graduated in the college of civil engineering at the University of California with the degree of B. S. He soon afterward secured employment with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and took a party on the coast division from Santa Margarita to Santa Barbara. He was in the employ of the company for five years, and then returned to Suisun for the purpose of settling up his father's estate. In January, 1903, he was appointed chief deputy state surveyor general, under Victor H. Woods, and has creditably discharged the duties of that office since.

Mr. Hilborn is a Republican, has attended county and state conventions, and was a member of the state central committee from 1898 to 1902, and