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RADER, WILLIAM, _b._ Cedarville, Chester Co., Pa., Dec. 17, 1862. Pastor 2nd Cong. Church, San Francisco, ten years. Now pastor Calvary Pres. Church. Editorial writer San Francisco Bulletin. _Author:_ The Elegy of Faith, 1902. Truths for Today, 1902. Uncle Sam, or the Reign of the Common People, (in Notable Speeches of Greater West.) Liberty and Labor. _Address:_ 2702 Laguna St., San Francisco, Calif.

RICHARDSON, DANIEL S., _b._ Mar. 19, 1851, West Acton, Mass. Came to Calif. in 1855. _Ed._ public schools of S.F. and Univ. of Calif. Twice decorated by Emperor of Japan. Writer of short stories and poems for magazines. _Author:_ Trail Dust (poems) 1909. _Address:_ 221 Sansome St., San Francisco, Calif.

REED, ANNA MORRISON, MRS., _b._ Dubuque, Ia. Came to Calif. when an infant. _Ed._ Mrs. Perry's Seminary, Sacramento. Writer and lecturer. Editor and founder Northern Crown Magazine; Petaluma, Sonoma Co., Independent. _Author:_ Poems, 1880. Later Poems. _Address:_ Petaluma, Calif.

SAIN, CHARLES McKNIGHT, _b._ Mt. Pleasant, O., Mar. 11, 1863. Traveler and writer for magazines, etc. _Author:_ An Expectant Heir to Millions, 1896. The Serpent, 1902, both out of print. The Call of the Muse (poems.) Where Rolls the Oregon (poems.) _Address:_ Care Mrs. Lou A. Curran, Hollywood, Calif.

SAMUELS, MAURICE V., _b._ San Francisco, Oct. 3, 1874. _Grad._ 1894 Univ. Calif. Lawyer in S.F. for 7 years. Playwright. _Author:_ The Florentines, blank-verse art-comedy, Brentano, 1904. $1.00. _Address:_ Hotel St. Margaret, 129 W. 47th St., New York City.

SAUNDERS, CHARLES FRANCIS, _b._ July 12, 1859, Bucks County, Penn. _Ed._ in Philadelphia. _Grad._ Friends' Central School. Came first to California 1902. Resided in Pasadena since 1905. Contributor to magazines of both coasts on subjects covering travel, plant life, the Indians of the Southwest, etc., besides occasional verse. Editor 1894-7 of "The United Friend," religious monthly, Philadelphia. _Author:_ In a Poppy Garden. R.G. Badger, Boston, 1903, and wrote descriptive text for Mrs. Saunders's published collection of color prints entitled, California Wild Flowers. W.M. Bains, Philadelphia, 1905. _Address:_ 580 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif.

SAUNDERS, MARSHALL, _b._ in Nova Scotia. Lived for awhile in San Francisco and in California began study of birds and animals. _Author:_ Beautiful Joe. $1.25. My Pets. $1.25. Several other books. _Address:_ 28 Carleton St., Halifax, N.S., Canada.

SCHEFFAUER, HERMAN, _b._ San Francisco, Feb. 3, 1876. _Ed._ public and private schools. Studied architecture and art at Mark Hopkins Institute. Writer for newspapers, magazines and reviews in France, England, Germany and America. _Author:_ Both Worlds poems, 1903. Looms of Life, 1908. $1.25. The Sons of Baldur, 1908. Niagara. An American Romance of four generations, 1909. Sire of Bohemian Club Jinks, 1908. _Address:_ 184 Eldridge St., New York.

SCOTT, JOSEPH, _b._ Penrith, Cumberlandshire, Eng., July 16, 1867. _Ed._ St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, Durham. Prof. Rhetoric and Eng. Lit. St. Bonaventure's College, Allegheny, N.Y. Came to Calif. 1893 Pres. Board of Ed. of Los Angeles. Writer on Educational and Civic Subjects for newspapers and magazines. _Address:_ Los Angeles, Calif.

SETON, GRACE GALLATIN, _b._ Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 28, 1872. _Ed._ Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn. Writer for newspapers and magazines of America, England and France. _Author:_ A Woman Tenderfoot. Nimrod's Wife. Doubleday, Page & Co. _Address:_ 80 W. 40th St., New York, and Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, Conn.

SEVERANCE, CAROLINE MARIA SEYMOUR, _b._ Canandaigua, N.Y., Jan. 12, 1820. One of founders and first president, 1868, of New England Woman's Club. Known as "The Mother of Women's Clubs." _Author:_ The Mother of Women's Clubs (with Mrs. Ella Giles Ruddy.) $1.00. _Address:_ 896 W. Adams St., Los Angeles, Calif.

SEXTON, MRS. ELLA M., _b._ Ill. _Ed._ in St. Louis, Mo. Came to Calif. in 1874. Contributor to Eastern and Pacific Coast magazines. _Author:_ Stories of California. Macmillan & Co. California at Christmas-Tide (poems). Also a collection of Mission poems and one of Children's Verse. She has also seven one-act comedies used by clubs and for amateur production. _Address:_ 171 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

SHINN, CHARLES HOWARD, _b._ Austin, Texas, April 29, 1852. _Ed._ Univ. of Calif, and Johns Hopkins Univ. Taught school. Contributor to newspapers and magazines. For ten years Inspector Univ. of Calif. Experimental Stations. Appointed 1902 head forest ranger Sierra Reserve, Calif. _Author:_ Pacific Rural Handbook, 1879. Land Laws of Mining Districts, 1884. Mining Camps, 1885. Co-operation on the Pacific Coast, 1888. Story of a Mine, 1897. Various Forestry Monographs, etc. _Address:_ Northfork, Madera Co., Calif.

SHINN, MILLICENT WASHBURN, _b._ Niles, Calif., April 15, 1858. _Grad._ Univ. of Calif. A.B. 1880. Ph.D. 1898. Editor Californian, 1882. Editor Overland Monthly, 1883-94. _Author:_ Notes on the Development of a Child (also in German.) The Biography of a Baby, 1901. The Development of the Senses, and the First Two Years of Childhood. Also poems, stories, essays, critiques, etc. _Address:_ Niles, Calif.

SHUEY, LILLIAN H., MRS. Has lived in Calif, practically all her life. _Ed._ public schools and Napa branch of Univ. of Pacific. Taught 16 years in public schools. _Author:_ David of Juniper Gulch. Laird & Lee. 50c. Don Luis' Wife. Lamson & Wolffe. 50c. California Sunshine, The Humboldt Lily. Among the Redwoods (verses.) The Necromancers (a novel, in preparation.) _Address:_ 657 60th St., Oakland, Calif.

SIMONDS, WILLIAM DAY, _b._ Rockford, Ill., Mar. 31, 1855. _Grad._ State Normal School, Vt. Spaulding Classical Academy, Barrie, Vt., 1880. Studied Amherst College and Chicago Theological Inst. Pastor First Unitarian Church, Oakland, Calif. _Author:_ Patriotic Addresses. Sermons From Shakespeare. Freedom and Fraternity. _Address:_ 1233 First Ave., Oakland, Calif.

SMYTHE, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, _b._ Worcester, Mass., Dec. 24, 1861. Initiated Nat. Irrigation Congress, 1891. Sec. until 1893, chairman until 1895. Est. _Irrigation Age_, 1891. Edited it until 1896. Lecturer and writer on Irrigation and Economic Problems. _Author:_ The Conquest of Arid America. Constructive Democracy. History of San Diego, 2 vols. _Address:_ 1448 C St., San Diego, Calif.

SOSSO, LORENZO, _b._ Mar. 2, 1867, Turin, Italy. Came to Calif. in July, 1875. _Author:_ Poems, 1888. Poems of Humanity, 1891. In Realms of Gold, 1902. Proverbs of the People, 1903. Wisdom of the Wise, 1905. _Address:_ 179 De Long Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

STELLMAN, LOUIS J., _b._ Baltimore, Md., Jan. 6, 1877. Came to Calif. July, 1896. Connected S.F. Examiner since 1897. Wrote "Observer" Sketches for L.A. Herald, published in book form 1903. Whitaker & Ray. 75c. _Address:_ Press Club, San Francisco, Calif.

STIMSON, JOHN WARD, _b._ Paterson, N.J., Dec. 16, 1850. _Grad._ Yale, 1872. Also Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Lecturer and art teacher Princeton Univ. Assoc. editor The Arena. Contributor to various art exhibitions and magazines. _Author:_ The Law of Three Primaries. Principals of Vital Art Education. The Gate Beautiful. Wandering Chords, etc. _Address:_ 14 W. 48th St., New York.

STROBRIDGE, IDAH MEACHAM, _b._ Contra Costa Co., June 9, 1855. _Ed._ Mills Seminary. Contributor to newspapers and magazines. _Author:_ In Miner's Mirage Land, 1904. DeLuxe, $6.00. The Loom of the Desert, 1907. $1.75. DeLuxe $6.00. The Land of the Purple Shadows, 1909. $1.75. DeLuxe $6.00. All pub. by Artemisia Bindery. _Address:_ Artemisia Bindery. 231 E. Ave. 41, Los Angeles, Calif.

SUTHERLAND, HOWARD V., _b._ Cape Town, South Africa, _Ed._ England and Germany. _Author:_ The Legend of Love. The Old, Old Story. Jacinta, a Californian Idyll. Bigg's Bar, and Other Klondike Ballads. Songs of a City. Idylls of Greece. $1.00. Ditto second series. $1.00. _Address:_ 314 Seventeenth St., Denver, Colo.

SYMMES, HAROLD S., _b._ San Francisco, 1877. _Ed._ public schools. B.A. Univ. of California, 1899. Doctor's degree _summa cum laude_ Univ. of Paris, 1903. Was appointed to Columbia Univ., department of English, the same year. _Author:_ Les Debuts de la Critique Dramatique en Angleterre, 1903. Out of print. Contributor of verse and prose to American and English periodicals. _Address:_ Garden St., Redlands, Calif.

TULLY, RICHARD WALTON. _Ed._ Univ. of Calif. Writer of short stories and plays. Rose of the Rancho, in collaboration with David Belasco, has had a most successful run. _Address:_ Alma, Calif.

URMY, CLARENCE, _b._ San Francisco, July 10, 1858. _Ed._ public schools and Napa College. Contributor poetry to all the leading magazines, East and West. _Author:_ A Rosary of Rhyme, 1884. A Vintage of Verse, 1897. _Address:_ San Jose, Calif.

WATERHOUSE, A.J., _b._ May 27, 1855, in Wisconsin. _Ed._ public schools in Wisconsin, High School, Rochester, Minn., and Ripon College, Wis. Writer for newspapers and magazines. Asst. editor The California Weekly, S.F. _Author:_ Some Homely Songs, 1899. Lays for Little Chaps, 1902. _Address:_ 2422 McGee Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

WHITAKER, HERMAN, _b._ Huddersfield, Eng., Jan. 14, 1867. _Ed._ public school. Served in British army, 2nd Battalion W. Riding Reg. 1884-5. _Author:_ The Probationer. The Settler. The Planter. All pub. by Harper Bros. $1.50 each. _Address:_ 220 James Ave., Oakland, Calif.

WILEY, HARLEY RUPERT, _b._ Wisconsin, April 5, 1855. Trekked to Calif. 1865-6. _Ed._ Santa Rosa, Calif. Univ. of Calif. (L.L.B.) Past twelve years lecturer on Jurisprudence in Univ. of Calif. Writer on Law, and verse for magazines. _Address:_ Faculty Club, Berkeley, Calif.

WILLARD, CHARLES DWIGHT, _b._ Bloomington, Ill., Jan. 20, 1860. _Ed._ public school, Chicago. A.B. 1883 Univ. of Mich. Came to Calif. in 1888. Writer of short stories and on civic matters. _Author:_ History of Los Angeles. The Free Harbor Contest. History of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. City Government. _Address:_ Los Angeles, Calif.

WILSON, MRS. IDA MANSFIELD, play-wright, dramatic critic, actress, lecturer. Writes plays and magazine articles. _Address:_ 2020 Clinton Ave., Alameda, Calif.

YORKE, PETER CHRISTOPHER, _b._ Aug. 15, 1864, Galway, Ire. _Ed._ St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, Maynooth, and the Cathedral University of America. Made S.T.D. by Pius X., 1906. Regent State University. Writer and lecturer on religious topics. _Address:_ Oakland, Calif.

ZEPHYRIN, FR. (Charles Anthony Englehardt), _b._ Hanover, Bilshausen, Germany, Nov. 13, 1851. Came to N.Y. Dec. 8, 1852. _Ed._ public schools. Classics in Franciscan College. Entered Franciscan order, in Tentopolis, Ill., Sept. 22, 1872, making profession Sept. 28, 1873. Ordained June 18, 1878. In 1880 began work among Menominee Indians in Wis. 1894 to Adrian, Harbor Springs, Mich., Indian School. Studied Indian languages, etc., 21 years. Historian of Franciscan Order in Calif. _Author:_ Franciscans in California. Franciscans in Arizona. Missions and Missionaries of California, 3 vols., (first vol. out.) _Address:_ The Orphanage, Watsonville, Calif.

Here endeth the quotations from living California Authors selected by George Wharton James and done by him into this book at the Arroyo Guild Press, 201 Avenue 66, (Garvanza), Los Angeles, Calif., in the year of Our Salvation One Thousand Nineteen Hundred and Nine.