California State Officials Biographies 1911

HARVEY D. LOVELAND

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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RAILROAD COMMISSIONER 
HARVEY D. LOVELAND (Republican) was born in new York in 1853 and received his 
education in the schools of that State. For nine years he taught school in New 
York and Kansas, to which latter State he moved in 1876, where he read law and 
was admitted to the bar in 1881, but after practicing for a few years engaged in 
mercantile affairs, to which he has since given his attention. He became a 
resident of San Francisco in 1887. For several years he was connected with two 
of the largest mercantile institutions on the coast. He has always taken a 
lively interest in public affairs; was for six years President of the Pacific 
Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association; has also recently retired from the 
presidency of the Transmississippi Commercial Congress. As traffic director and 
later as president of the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association, 
he assisted in accumulating the evidence and prosecuting the suits before the 
Interstate Commerce Commission in defense of the jobbing interests of the coast 
in what are known as the St. Louis Case, the State Toll Case, the Spokane Case, 
and others. He is vice-president of the International Mercantile and Bond 
Company, and president of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Securities Company. 
Mr. Loveland is also prominent in Masonic circles and is Past Grand Commander of 
the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of California. He was a member of 
Governor Pardee's staff and Paymaster General of Governor Gillett's staff, with 
the rank of Colonel. He was appointed Railroad Commissioner for the Second 
District by Governor J. N. Gillett November 23, 1907, to succeed Andrew M. 
Wilson, resigned.
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913