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  • Collection: Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest - Fresno Area Biographical Sketches

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A biographical sketch and photo of J. W. Walker.
Mr. Walker was the superintendent of the Valley Division of the Santa Fe Railway Company.
He married Emma Hoffmeyer in 1884. They have four sons and one daughter.

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A biographical sketch of Jacob J. Eymann. Mr. Eymann was the president of First National Bank of Reedley, formaly known as Reedley State Bank.

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A biographical sketch and photo of James A. Burns. James Burns was an attorney, whose office was located at 1933 Mariposa Street, Fresno, Ca. He married Miss Anna Lewis on August 12, 1879.

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A biographical sketch and photo of James Gordon Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was the treasurer and director of the Fresno Flume & Lumber Company, in Clovis, California. He married Ada Florence Bond in 1886.

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A biographical sketch of James Henry Egan. Mr. Egan was the owenr of the Fresno Steam Laundry. It was located on 950 H. Street, Fresno, California.

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A biographical sketch of James L. Freeman. Mr. Freeman was garage owner and senior member of the the firm of Freeman & Wooten, Automobile Dealers and Garage. He was a mechanic and businessman. The business was located in Madera, California. On…

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A biographical sketch and photograph of James P. Ryan, who was a prosperous business man who owned the James Ryan Establishment as well as other business properties in Fresno. Mr. Ryan married Miss Bell Rowan in Los Angeles in 1906. (p. 507)

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A biographical sketch of Jessie C. Fraser. Miss Fraser was the proprietor, with Miss Clara Woodside, of the Cross Sanitarium. She was a graduate nurse, as well. The sanitarium was a private home at 1060 J Street, Fresno, California.

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A biographical sketch and photo of John Arthur Benham. John Benham was the President of the Benham Ice Cream Company, located at 1420 H. Street, Fresno, California. Mr. Benham worked with Mr. L. W. Wilson, the secretary and treasurer, for the…

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A biographical sketch and photo of John Amar Shishmanian. Mr Shishmanian is an Attorney-at-Law with an office in the Garibaldi Building.
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