went to the mines at Sonora and then became assistant engineer of the Columbia Water Company and still later engineer of that corporation.

In 1855 he returned to England, where he married Mary Webster, and brought his bride to California and continued his duties as engineer of the water company. During the latter part of his life he was county surveyor at Stockton, where he died in 1896. He became a member of the Society of California Pioneers at Stockton, was a stanch republican in politics and a member of the Episcopal Church. He and his wife. had six children: J. H. Wallace, now in China; W. G. Wallace; Mary Wallace; Alfred A. Wallace; Percival Russell Wallace, and Arthur H. Wallace. A granddaughter of John Wallace is Mrs. C. M. Fickert, wife of Charles Fickert, who was formally district attorney of San Francisco. Charles Marron Fickert was born in Kern County, California, February 23, 1874. Father, Fred Fickert, deceased, a native of Prussia, came to California in 1847 or 1848, prior to the gold rush. His life was passed in Kern County, where he had a big cattle ranch. Mother, Mary Fickert, of Ireland, lives in Kern County and is still looking after the ranch interests.

Charles was educated in the public schools of Kern County and Stanford University, class '99, degree Bachelor of Arts. He was admitted. to the bar in 1901 and began practice in San Francisco, where he has since practiced and has handled many large cases. Republican and active in politics. In February, 1904, he was appointed first assistant United States attorney under Marshall Woodworth. This appointment was by President Roosevelt upon the personal appeal of David Starr Jordan, then president of Stanford University. He served one year and then returned to private practice. In 1909 he defeated Francis J. Heaney by a big majority for the position of district attorney of San Francisco and held that position for ten years, retiring in 1919 to private practice. During that period he became nationally known in the Mooney case, convicting two against tremendous odds, and many other notable cases. He was a big man mentally, morally and physically, with an extraordinary wide circle of friends who looked up to him as one of the most capable attorneys in the city. He stood 6 feet 4 inches. Until the time he went to college he was a cowboy on his father's ranch and was a noted rider. He made the football team and played for five years as left guard on the Stanford team, serving as captain in 1898. He was a member of Stanford Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, also was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Olympic Club, Bohemian Club, National Guards (California). He was married March 1, 1905, in San Francisco to Miss Ethel Wallace, daughter of J. H. Wallace, who was a Southern Pacific engineer on the Maintenance of Way Department and who is now engaged in putting in radio stations in China for the Federal Telegraph Company.

Mrs. Fickert's mother was Minnie (Clark) Wallace, a native of Placer County, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Fickert are the parents of three children: Marshall Marron, Ruth and Ethel Louise, all attending school.

CAPT. HORACE ZERAH HOWARD, president of the Board of Pilot Commissioners at San Francisco, is a veteran mariner, and has been sailing a ship on the Pacific Ocean and prominently identified with maritime affairs on the Pacific Coast for more than half a century.

Captain Howard was born April 1, 1835, at New London, Connecticut. His great grandfather, Daniel Howard, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, of English descent. His mother, Adeline (Tinker) Howard, was of English descent. He acquired a public school education there, and as a youth took to the sea and served as an ensign in the United States Navy from 1864 to 1867, being under the command of Admiral Farragut. In 1867 he came to San Francisco as a junior officer of the Great Republic, one of the three steamships of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company engaged in the trade between San Francisco and China, and for three years he commanded this vessel on its voyages to China, Japan and Alaska, and altogether remained in the service of the Pacific Mail for twelve years. In 1881 he transferred his services to the Oceanic Company and in 1882, for this company, brought out from Philadelphia the Maraposa, which was put on the run between San Francisco and the Hawaiian Islands. In 1884 Captain Howard began commanding a vessel on the bay for the California Sugar Refinery. In 1890 he was made superintendent of the Oceanic Company and in 1898, during the Spanish-American war, was superintendent of all the army transports from San Francisco. On resigning from the Oceanic Company, Captain Howard was appointed pilot commissioner by Governor Pardee, and since 1900 has been president of the Board of Pilot Commissioners. Captain Howard is known to and has known all the prominent men in the shipping industry of the Pacific Coast since the time of the Civil war. Captain Howard is a Royal Arch and Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand Army of the Republic and in politics is a republican.

On March 17, 1864, he married Miss Emma Leonora Pember, a native of New London, Connecticut. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary over four years before her death on October 25, 1918. Captain Howard became the father of four children: Horace Pember, with the Western Sugar Refining Company, who married Katherine M. Taylor; Emma Grimes, who is a graduate of the San Jose State Normal School, is now principal of the Madison School in San Francisco and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Zerah Yates, buyer for Hawaiian plantations, a resident of San Francisco, who married Florence Carthew, and Miss Mabel Consuelo, a music teacher of San Francisco.

ROBERT O. BALDWIN was a California pioneer, lived in the state for over a half century and his life work constituted a permanent contribution to the agricultural development of Contra Costa County.

He was born in the State of Ohio, March 30, 1828, was reared on a farm, acquired a common school education, and as a youth of twentytwo broke the ties of home and kindred, setting out March 18, 1850 across the plains for the newly discovered gold fields of California. His

journey was made by way of Salt Lake City and eventually brought him to the historic old settlement of Hangtown, California. For three years his efforts were directed in the gold mining fields, but the work that constituted his real success was agriculture and live stock. He first bought three hundred and twenty acres of land and eventually became the owner of an estate of more than a thousand acres in Contra Costa County near Danville. His energy and good management set an example of what could be accomplished by properly conducted agricultural and live stock enterprise in the beautiful San Ramon Valley. He was also active in community affairs, serving many years as a school trustee in his home locality.

Robert O. Baldwin married Miss Mary Cox, who was born in Indiana, January 7, 1838. They were married at Danville, California, March 25, 1858, and they lived more than a half a century in Contra Costa County, where both of them passed on. The death of Robert O. Baldwin occurred April 26, 1908, and that of his wife on October 9, 1914. Just a month before the death of R. O. Baldwin there was celebrated at Danville as a public event the golden wedding anniversary of this venerable old couple. It was an occasion for people all over the county to meet and offer congratulations to the husband and wife who had shared life's duties and joys together through such a long period.

The children of these honored pioneers were: May Margaret, born May 1, 1859; Elmer H., born September 6, 1861; Robert O., born April 20, 1865; Jennie C., born December 30, 1866; Perry A., now deceased, born August 14, 1869, and John F., born December 20, 1873. The daughter, May Margaret, now residing at 782 Delores Street in San Francisco, was graduated from the Napa Ladies' Seminary, June 1, 1877. Her first husband was the late Dr. Walter E. Hook. On the 14th of October, 1896, she married Mr. E. C. Gilbert.

Robert Oliver Baldwin, Jr., son of the pioneer, gained an enviable reputation as a successful physician and surgeon in California and is practicing at the City of Oakland.

He was born in Danville, in Contra Costa County, April 20, 1865, and was liberally educated in preparation for his chosen vocation.

WILLIAM HOOK was a sterling pioneer of California, where he lived and wrought most worthily for many years, and a tribute to his memory properly finds place in this publication.

Mr. Hook and his twin brother, Elisha, were born at Salem, Virginia, in 1805, and were members of a family that was there founded in the Colonial days. At the age of nineteen years the twin brothers went to Missouri and became pioneer contractors and builders in that state. In 1827 they purchased a stock of merchandise and with the same joined an expedition setting forth for Santa Fe, New Mexico. En route this company of venturesome spirits encountered some Mexicans, and the latter informed them that hostile Indians were abroad and that a massacre was almost certain to occur. This prediction was fulfilled, and the Indians