Alameda County
Biographies
WASHBURNE R. ANDRUS
Was born in Farmingham, Hartford County, Connecticut, September 23, 1841, where he received his education and learned the carpenter’s trade, at which he has always worked, save during seven years, when he served as a policeman at Hartford, of which city he was finally elected Captain of Police. In this position he made an excellent record. Coming to California in the year 1873, he at first worked in the San Francisco Manufacturing Company’s Works, but subsequently took up his residence in Oakland, where he followed his trade. The rise of the Workingmen’s Party found him at his bench, prior to which he had been identified with the Republicans, but joining the labor movement he became one of the organizers of the famous Peralta Street Club. Elated by recent successes in electing State Senator Bones to the Legislature, they determined to take part in the election for city officials of Oakland, and on February 19, 1878, at the nominating convention held in Germania Hall, Mr. Andrus received the nomination for Mayor, being elected to that high office by a majority of two hundred and ten votes, his opponent being William B. Hardy of Oakland. In 1879 Mr. Andrus was re-elected to the office by, strange to say, the same plurality, the citizens’ nominee on the occasion being Major D. W. Standeford, one of the proprietors of the Oakland Planing Mill. While Mayor Andres was in office he used his opportunity judiciously, while his two messages are official documents that bear evidence of deep thought and a practical mind; indeed, so much was he thought of that he was appointed Secretary of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners upon the organization of that department, and, notwithstanding a change in the Government, has been retained to perform the onerous and arduous functions of that position with the second Board.
History of Alameda County, California…, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883
p. 838-839
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
F. A. ANTHONY
Was born in Cayuga County, New York, May 14, 1846, and there resided until November, 1854. In this month Mr. Anthony, his parents, Wm. and C. C. Anthony, two sisters and a brother sailed for California via the Nicaragua route, and arrived in San Francisco in December of the same year. After a short time passed in the Bay City our subject and his parents moved to Santa Cruz and there he was in part educated. After serving his apprenticeship at the tinsmith’s trade with his father, his schooling was continued in the Brayton School, Oakland. On his return to the home of his father, he engaged as hardware clerk to the successor of his father in business, which he followed until coming to Alameda County in December, 1869. He now settled in Livermore and commenced business in the old town of Laddsville, and in 1872 erected his present store buildings and opened the hardware emporium he now conducts. Mr. Anthony was the first Treasurer of the town of Livermore, and was the Town Clerk during the terms 1880-81 and 1881-82. He married in Santa Cruz, February 28, 1872, Miss Mary S. Newell, a native of the city of New York, and has no issue.
History of Alameda County, California…, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883
p. 839
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
LOREN B. ANWAY
Was born in Seneca County, Ohio, January 14, 1829, where he resided until his coming to California, being previously engaged in farming. On May 1, 1852, he left the Mississippi River in company with W. H. Parker, of Marysville, with a party of seventy-four persons in a passenger train and arrived in Yreka, Siskiyou County, August 7th of the same year. Having engaged in mining for six years he returned to Ohio in 1858, but, in 1861, came back to California and settled in Siskiyou County. Having maintained a residence there until March, 1864, he once more paid a visit to the Eastern States. The same year saw him back on the Pacific Coast, however, bringing with him a band of cattle. In 1865 he located in Alameda County on his present farm, comprising one hundred and sixty acres, where he is now engaged principally in fruit-culture and stock-raising. He has twenty six acres of as fine an orchard, stocked with various kinds of fruits, as is to be seen anywhere. Mr. Anway has held the office of Roadmaster, while he has for nine years been an active and prominent member of the Eden Grange, of which he has served two terms as Master. Married in Ohio, June 23, 1859, Miss Fannie J. Horton, and has, Clayton L., Dora, Jay B., Mary, Katie.
History of Alameda County, California…, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883
p. 839
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler