MEN OF THE PACIFIC:

BEING

ORIGINAL SKETCHES

OF THE

LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF THE PRINCIPAL MEN, LIVING AND DECEASED, OF THE PACIFIC STATES AND TERRITORIES-PIONEERS, POLITICIANS, LAWYERS, DOCTORS, MERCHANTS, ORATORS, AND DIVINES—TO WHICH ARE ADDED THEIR SPEECHES, ADDRESSES,

ORATIONS, EULOGIES, LECTURES, AND POEMS, UPON A VARIETY

OF SUBJECTS, INCLUDING THE HAPPIEST FORENSIC EFFORTS

OF

Baker, Randolph, McDougall, T. Starr Ling,

AND OTHER POPULAR ORATORS.

OSCAR

EDITED BY

T. SHUCK,

Compiler of the "CALIFORNIA SCRAP BOOK."

EMBELLISHED WITH HANDSOME STEEL PORTRAITS.

They came-the Four lers of a State,

The men with spirit brave and tree,

Who snatched the magic wand of Fate

And shaped their own high destiny.-J. T. GOODMAN.

No species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than Biography.-LANGHORNE,

SAN FRANCISCO:

BACON AND COMPANY, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, No. 536 Clay Street, between Montgomery and Sansome.

~1870.