bring back pleasant memories of hours that we spent together here; and when I am gone they will be handed down to my children, to remind them, in after years, that their father had merited your kind consideration and approbation. Gentlemen, we are now about to part, many of us, perhaps, to meet no more; I beg, therefore, that you will hold me in kind remembrance, and I assure you that I shall hold you all in pleasant memory. I wish you a happy return to your homes and a prosperous future. [Continued applause.]

CHAPTER XXXVI.

A Look Northward-Thomas L. Carothers of Mendocino, and Clay W. Taylor of ShastaMen who Tower above their Fellows-District Attorneys of their Counties-Boyhood on the Farmand in the Mines-Busy Lives at the Bar-Personal and Political DataM. M. Estees's Tribute to Mr. Carothers-Dr. Shorb's Address in nominating Mr. Taylor for Governor.

In referring to Mr. Carothers, in a recent conversation, Hon. M. M. Estee said to me: "I have known him ever since he had whiskers. He is an earnest, active, honest man; a good lawyer, has confined himself almost exclusively to his profession; has the confidence of all those who know him, and he deserves that confidence. He studied law in my office and was as industrious and worthy a law student as he has since become conspicuous as an attorney. I cannot speak too kindly of him."

Mr. Carothers is one of that noble band of young men who went forth to fame and fortune from the old Sacramento High School, and whose successes have frequently challenged attention in this volume. I knew his manly character when it was forming. I saw him sowing, and although widely separated from him before he began to reap, I know he has a good title to his harvested stores. Ambitious, generous, enthusiastic, he was yet a perservering student, and controlled always by strong common sense. It was by assiduous effort that he qualified himself for the enlarged sphere which he began to adorn now a good many years ago. It only excites gratification in the breasts of his old-time fellows to see him now first in the hearts of the people of his county and leading the local bar.

Thomas Langley Carothers is the son of James H. and Margaret Barnes Carothers, and was born at Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois, September 26, 1842. He "crossed the plains" with his father's family in the spring of 1853. His father settled at Stony Point, Sonoma County, in the fall of that year, remaining there until 1857. Thomas in the meantime attended the neighborhood school and worked on his father's farm. In 1857 the family moved into Petaluma, where they resided until the spring of 1859, Thomas attending the public schools of that place. In the spring of 1859 the family moved to Sacramento City, where Thomas continued his studies in the public schools until the fall of 1861. At the close of the regular term of the High School of Sacramento, in September of that year, the young man entered the law office of Harrison & Estee, of that city. He studied law until January, 1862, when the family returned to Petaluma on account of the great flood then at Sacramento. On arriving at Petaluma our law student entered the office of Hon. Geo. Pearce, where he continued his studies until October 5th,

1863. He was then admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the State, having become of age only ten days before.

Mr. Carothers began the practice of law in Petaluma. He filled the position of Deputy District Attorney of Sonoma County, for two years, under Hon. William Ross. In May, 1866, he removed to Ukiah City, Mendocino County, where he has practiced his profession ever since. In December; 1866, he was married to Miss Lucy Pierson, daughter of the late Dr. E. M. and Harriet Pierson. Since his admission to the Supreme Court, he has been admitted as an attorney of the U. S. Circuit Court and District Courts at San Francisco. In 1867 he was appointed a notary public by Governor Low, which position he has held ever since. He has been District Attorney of Mendocino County for two years, and has been for several years a U. S. Commissioner.

In 1884 Mr. Carothers was the nominee of the Republican party for Congress in the 1st Congressional District of this State. The district had been giving about two thousand Democratic majority and yet he came within one hundred and forty-five votes of election, his Democratic competitor being Hon. Barclay Henley. In 1888 he was one of the Republican nominees for Presidential Elector for the State of California, and Gen. Harrison carrying the State, Mr. Carothers was elected and discharged the duties of the position. He had been a trustee of Ukiah City for ten years, since its incorporation, and during all that time President of the Board of Tustees. For several years he was the law partner of the Hon. R. McGarvey, now Superior Judge. He has acquired a large and lucrative law practice; and, particularly as a criminal lawyer, he has won great reputation. In 1880 he was employed by the county to assist in the prosecution of the famous "Mendocino Outlaws," and he convicted every one of them.

The Honorable Superior Judge of Monterey County (who is noticed in Chapter XVII) in a pleasant conversation in March, 1889, informed me that when he held court for the Superior Judge of Mendocino several years before, he found Mr. Carothers even then employed on one side or the other of every case of any importance; that he was the legal adviser of the bank, the railroad company, and all the influential business men of his county and all the corporations.

"In his prosperous practice," says an editorial writer, "he has made a large connection, that extends beyond the county's limits; his excellent reputation as a lawyer and an honorable citizen has gone farther. His splendid offices contain as complete and as handsome a library as can be found in any town. His pretty residence on Main street is a gem of cottage architecture. In his happy home, surrounded by a loving family, Mr. Carothers finds the contentment and peace which are the reward of the honest and upright endeavors of his life."

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Not only Taylor

CLAY WEBSTER TAYLOR is a name that would seem politics of the distinguished man who so honorably bears it. but he is Clay Taylor, and more, Clay Webster Taylor. His father, one of the early settlers of Michigan, was a warm admirer of the three great Whig leaders whose names meet in his Democratic son. The latter has, too, a commanding form, and it looms up at the foot of Mt. Shasta, towering above all other men of that region as Shasta overtops other natural heights.

(I do not forget that Mount Whitney, near the southern extremity of the Sierra, rises above the sea-level five hundred feet higher than Shasta; but John Muir has shown that the individual stature of Shasta is far loftier than that of Whitney, as Shasta lifts up from a base only 4,000 feet high, while Whitney's base is 11,000 feet above the sea. The circumference of Shasta, too, around the base, says Muir, is nearly seventy miles, while that of Whitney is less than five. Whitney is almost snowless during the summer months, while Shasta presents the picture of "perpetual snow.")

Mr. Taylor was born in the town of Howell, the county seat of Livingston county, Michigan, September 10, 1844, making him a few months younger than D. M. Delmas, and one of the youngest of our strong men of the bar. The father was a physician, and came to California to heal himself rather than others, his health failing. He first lived at Sacramento, in 1858, and the son, then fourteen, obtained employment as a clerk. The latter soon went to work on a farm, from which, after a year, he turned to mining at Nevada City, where his parents joined him again. A portion of his stay at that place was passed at a clerk's desk. In 1861, the young man went over the mountains "with the tide," into the then territory of Nevada, and worked as a miner on the Comstock lode at Virginia City and Gold Hill. He also labored in the timber regions of Washoe.

In 1864, when twenty years old, he determined to acquire further education, and so went to Oakland, California, and for a year diligently pursued his studies in school. The next year his father died, and the student, just arrived at age, was busied for some time in settling the estate. That accomplished, and having in the meantime married, he removed to Shasta, where he qualified himself for the bar, was admitted, and quickly attained the leading practice which he has ever since held. He has served the people of Shasta county as district attorney for eleven years, and as State Senator for the term 1882 to 1886. He was admitted to the bar of the State Supreme Court in 1879, and to that of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1885. In the sphere of the fraternal orders Mr. Taylor has made a very wide acquaintance and won universal good will. He has served two terms as Most Worshipful Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons. the thirty-third degree, Scottish Rite, and a Knight Templar.

In the Ancient Order of United Workmen he has been Grand Master and also a representative to the Supreme Lodge. Being a member of the Grand Lodge of the last named Order when he presided and when he was chosen Supreme Representative, I am able to testify to the dignity and ability which he brought to the executive office.

At the Democratic State Convention, at San Jose, in 1882, Mr. Taylor was among the party leaders named in connection with the office of GoverGen. Stoneman carried off the prize, owing to his record as a member of the State Railroad Commission, but Mr. Taylor had a large and enthusiastic following. He was placed in nomination by Dr. J. Campbell Shorb, of San Francisco. Dr. Shorb is a graceful and happy speaker, and I think it well to give his remarks on this occasion as well as the speech of Mr. Taylor. Dr. Shorb said:

I rise with heartfelt pleasure, as pure as I have ever experienced in my political life, with unshaken loyalty to the interests and the welfare of the Democratic party, a deep solicitude for its vital necessities, to place in nomination for Governor of the State of California, Clay Webster Taylor of Shasta. Mr. Chairman, I love California with all my heart and all my soul. I reached her shore many years ago, when still a boy, and from that hour to the present moment she has been a mother to me. I feel for her a love, a kindly interest, a bond of sympathy. She has buried in oblivion all my sins and transgressions. The little merit she has found in me she has exalted a thousand fold, and she has filled the first portion of my life wherein appreciation of natural pleasures were in blossom, with peace and happiness and prosperity. Were I to tell a man east of the Rocky Mountains my love for California he would say it was affectation or hypocrisy. Sometimes I feel assured that when the Lord Almighty created the universe and looked around and said it was very good, he resolved on a new piece of creation and made California. I wish her, from my heart, all peace and honor, glory, and prosperity. I want the intellect and honor and integrity of her men to ring through the boundaries of civilization. I want the purity and beauty and wit of her women to be the theme and dream and inspiration of the future poet and historian. I want her government quoted as a model of excellence throughout the boundaries of this Republic. I want her governors, her legislators, her judges, her senators, and her representatives not only to be the peers of all American officers, but quoted as models of valor, intellect, and wisdom, Thus loving California I want to see her Governor a man whose courage, whose intellect and integrity give the promise of his bright and fortunate future as the destiny of California itself. A natural born leader of men. A natural tribune of the people, and one who will become its idol when, in the course of time, they find that ambition cannot reach, aggregated wealth frighten, or gold soil the hand at the helm of State. Before the Lord I feel I present such a character in the person of Clay Webster Taylor. Why, Mr. Chairman, as I pronounce those names-Clay, Webster, Taylor-what a panorama of history presents itself! When the story of valor, chivalry, patriɔtism and genius is told in the university of the future, it shall echo and ring with the name and genius of Clay; and when the historian writes of the dangers surrounding the infancy of this Republic, that threatened the disruption of this empire, this glorious empire of free and coequal States, how brilliant in the somber twilight of the past will glow the giant form of Webster, whose matchless words, still ringing fresh in our ears, "Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseparable," are as fresh to us to-day as when they fell like