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 King,

AND OTHER POPULAR ORATORS.

EDITED BY

OSCAR T. SHUCK,
Compiler of the "CALIFORNIA SCRAP BOOK."

EMBELLISHED WITH HANDSOME STEEL PORTRAITS.

They came-the Founders of a State,

The men with spirit brave and free,

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.

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