Author : Lewis Publishing Company
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2016-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781333221812
Book Description
Excerpt from The Bay of San Francisco, Vol. 2: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its Suburban Cities; A History Mr. Kahn is a native of France, born in 1855. He came to the United States in 1872 after the franco-german war. During the siege of Paris, when not yet sixteen years of age, he served in one of the hospitals. His father was financially ruined by the war. His brother Emil came from France to enlist in the Union army, and served until he lost his life in the great struggle to maintain the Union. Mr. Kahn is a graduate of the Lycee Charlemagne of Paris. He came direct to San Francisco in 1872; was at first employed by his brothers in the wheat-buying business, and later became a partner with them. The firm becoming aware that there was room in San Francisco and its adajcent territory fora business like that they now conduct, one of the brothers returned to Paris and opened the house there, while Mr. Kahn and his partners established their business in this city. S. B. Sawyer has been connected with the United States Circuit Court in San Francisco since 1870. He was born in 1842, in Ohio. His father, Rev. Lester A. Sawyer, a prominent Congrega tional minister, is still living, and has passed his four-score years. After taking a prep aratory course, our subject entered Hamilton College, Oneida county, New York, graduating in the class of 1862. He pursued his legal stud ies in the Columbia College Law School in New York city, and was admitted to prac tice in all the courts of the State. He came to the Pacific coast in 1867 and engaged in the practice of law for two years, when he was appointed to his present position, which he has held for the past twenty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.