Being the Portraits and Biographies of the Progressive Men of the West ...Internat. News Service, 1915 |
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Page 115 - It is evident that if the opportunity for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 had still existed, there would have been another sudden change in the actual monetary standard.
Page 281 - He then entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was graduated from there in 1881.
Page 353 - Shriner, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Gamut Club.
Page 330 - California, from which he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. While in college Mr. Miller was made a member of the "Order of the Golden Bear," a senior honor society and the Greek letter fraternity of Alpha Delta Phi.
Page 367 - The news of his death was a great shock to his many friends in Pasadena and throughout Southern California.
Page 447 - From meager and most modest beginnings this concern has grown to be one of the most important of its kind in the country, selling its mechanism to piano manufacturers all over the country.
Page 470 - Maryland and Virginia ; including his services as chaplain in the French and Indian war, and in the war of the Revolution, 1716 to 1790.
Page 150 - Chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles, the Bohemia Club and Sierra Club of San Francisco, the Denver Club of Denver, the Automobile Club of So.
Page 355 - Arts after four years, and two years later his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the practice of law, made "Solicitor and Barrister" by the Law Society of Upper Canada, June, 1890.
Page 251 - Medicine of the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the...