San Diego County
Biographies
EUGENE DANEY
was born in Bordeaux, France, October 11, 1862, of French parentage. He came to California in 1865, when three years old, with his mother and sister, his father, Michael Daney, having come to the coast in 1851, and being the discoverer of the celebrated " Daney Mine," at Silver City, Nevada. Mr. Daney was educated in the public schools of San Francisco, entered the Hastings College of the Law University of California in 1882, and graduated therefrom on the 25th day of May, 1885, receiving the degree of LL. B. After having been for three years a student of law under the late John Norton Pomeroy, LL. D., author of Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, Pomeroy's Remedies and Remedial Rights, etc., he was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of California, June 1, 1885, and immediately entered into the practice of law at San Francisco. After two and a half years practice there he was attracted by the boom to Southern California, and removed to San Diego, November 7, 1887 and resumed the practice of law there. On the 6th of February, 1888, he was appointed Assistant District Attorney of San Diego County, and has served continuously since in that position. During that time he has successfully prosecuted a large number of criminal cases, and has earned for himself an enviable reputation as an able and successful criminal lawyer. He also holds the office of Notary Public, having been appointed by Governor Waterman to that office for the term of four years, from July, 1889. He also has been prominently identified with politics in San Diego County, being President of the Young Men's Republican League during the Harrison and Morton campaign,---the largest club in San Diego County,—its membership numbering over 400 of the most prominent young Republicans of the county; and also holding the position of treasurer of the Republican County Committee of San Diego County. Mr. Daney was married November 3, 1887, to Miss Elizabeth Florence Rines, of San Francisco, daughter of the late T. O. Rines, of Red Bluff, California. They have one son, born in San Diego, July 7, 1889.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 249
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
C. F. KAMMAN
was born at Soest, Province of Westphalia, Germany, March 11, 1845, and was educated at the Gymnasium at Soest. He entered the Prussian army in 1862 as a one year's volunteer, and was recalled in the army in December, 1863, to take part in the war against Denmark. In May, 1866, he landed in Baltimore, Maryland, and in December following he enlisted in the Second United States Cavalry Regiment, from which he was discharged for disability contracted in the service, in 1869, on the plains. Soon after he was employed in the quartermaster's department, United States army, with which he was connected in civil employ until 1884, of which time he was stationed for seven years as purchasing and property clerk at the general depot in San Francisco. He removed to The Dalles, Oregon, in February, 1884, and engaged in the mercantile business; then came to San Diego, February 1, 1887, where he established the Süd-California Deutsche Zeitung, and a book and job printing office, of which he is still proprietor. He was elected a member of the city council from the Ninth ward (Coronado) in April, 1889. He is also a director of the chamber of commerce, of which he is an active member and local agent of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company and the Red Star Steamship Company.
He was married in 1882 to Miss Bertha I. Werlin, of San Francisco, and has two daughters. He resides on Coronado Beach.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 249-250
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
EDWARD W. FOX,
one of the youngest business men in San Diego, was born at Kasson, Hungary, November 10, 1869. When only eight years old he came to New York. In 1883 he came to San Diego, and for several years was employed as a clerk by the mercantile firm of Fox Brothers. In January, 1889, when less than twenty years old, he commenced business for himself as proprietor of the "Art Emporium," a well known art store at 721 and 723 Sixth street, San Diego. Mr. Fox is honest and industrious, and deserves to succeed, as he undoubtedly will.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California… Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 250
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler