AS I REMEMBER THEM

 

 

 

BY C. C. GOODWIN

 

Author of The Comstock Club, The Wedge of Gold, etc.

Formerly Editor of the Virginia City, Nev., Enterprise

 

 

 

PUBLISHED BY A SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SALT LAKE COMMERCIAL CLUB

 

 

 

C. N. STREVELL, Chaiman

M. H. WALKER, Treasurer

JOSEPH E. CAINE, Secretary

W. W. ARMSTRONG

H. L. A. CULMER

 

 

 

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

1913

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright, 1913. by C. C. Goodwin.

 

 

 

PREFACE.

 

            Within these pages are some pen sketches of men.

            Some in their lives, to blinded eyes, were just plain people, who did their work here noiselessly and fell asleep.

            Some were men whose learning ranged over every field, whose brows had been sealed by the signet of genius, whose lips and pens were tipped by celestial fire.

            Some were heroes who held their fortunes, their sacred honor, life itself as nothing when a principle was to be vindicated.

            Some were masterful souls, industrial kings, state and empire builders who went out exultingly to the conquest of the wilderness, to storm its mountains for their treasures, to drive

back the frontier, to chase away the frown of the desert, to blaze and smooth the trails, that full enlightenment or unsoiled sandals might come.

            Some were absorbed in drying the tears from the cheeks of sorrow and in proclaiming the goodness of God.

            These come back to me as I recall them to make me forget the roll and roar of the onsweeping world. They have come across the gulf of the years, come with the old exulted step and old sparkle in their eyes and have hailed me with the old joyous voices, from which not one cadence is lost. Those voices are sweeter than harp or flute. I cannot catch and hold the voices or the music, but from time to time I have made rude sketches of the stately souls. To make clear how I have been favored, with all good will these sketches are presented.

CHARLES CARROLL GOODWIN.

 

 

 

CONTENTS.                                      PAGE

 

GENERAL JOHN A. SUTTER ...... 7

GENERAL JOHN BIDWELL ...... 9

SENATOR DAVID C. BRODERICK . 12

JUDGE JOSEPH BALDWIN .... .17

LELAND STANFORD ....... 20

THE OLD TIME MINERS ...... 25

THEODORE D. JUDAH . . . . . . 31

CHARLIE FAIRFAX ....... 37

THE GENTLEMAN FROM PIKE ..... 43

COLONEL E. D. BAKER ...... 47

DARIUS OGDEN MILLS ...... 56

ED. C. MARSHALL ... . 61

COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON ...... 65

JUDGE CHARLES H. BRYAN . . ... 70

THE OLD SAN FRANCISCO . . . .75

THE SACRAMENTO UNION . .... 79

NEWTON BOOTH ..... .83

J. E. "LUCKY" BALDWIN . . 85

"JIM" GlLLIS 90

WILLIAM LENT . .... 95

TOD ROBINSON ...... 100

W. C. RALSTON 103

GEORGE C. GORHAM ..... . 107

THOMAS STARR KING . . . 112

THE OLD BOYS . . . . . . . .117

WILLIAM SHARON . . . 125

COL. DAVID T. BUEL ..... . 132

WILLIAM H. CLAGGET . ... 137

WILLIAM M. STEWART . . . .140

"RED" FRANK WHEELER 146

JAMES W. NYE . . . . . . .151

JOHN W. MACKAY . . .160

CLARENCE KING . . . . . .171

JUDGE B. C. WHITMAN . . . . .175

JAMES G. FAIR ........ 178

ROLLIN M. DAGGETT .185

PROFESSOR FRANK STEWART . . . . .192

GOVERNOR LUTHER R. BRADLEY . . .197

ALVINZA HAYWARD ..... . 202

HARRY I. THORNTON 207

 

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"DAN DE QUILLE" 213

COLONEL ROBERT H. TAYLOR . . . . .218

THE OLD STAGE DRIVERS ...... 223

JUDGE ALEXANDER BALDWIN . . . . .231

PROFESSOR JOSHUA CLAYTON ..... 236

ADOLPH SUTRO ....... 240

HARRY MIGHELS ....... 245

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS -- "MARK TWAIN" . . 250

JUDGE R. S. MESICK ....... 260

GENERAL P. E. CONNOR ...... 265

MARCUS DALY ........ 270

JOHN ATCHISON ....... 276

JUDGE J. B. ROSEBOROUGH ...... 279

JOHN PERCIVAL JONES . . . . . . 283

ALLEN GREEN CAMPBELL ...... 289

A. C. CLEVELAND ....... 293

"JOGGLES" WRIGHT 299

MOSES KIRKPATRICK ...... 304

"ZINC" BARNES 307

GENERAL THADDEUS H. STANTON . . . .311

COLONEL WILLIAM MONTAGUE FERRY . .316

COLONEL WILBUR F. SANDERS . ... 326

JOHN O. PACKARD .... 329

COLONEL A. C. ELLIS ....

RICHARD MACKINTOSH ...... 333

WILLIAM S. GODBE . . . . . . 336

GENERAL ALEXANDER MCDOWELL McCOOK . 338

E. H. HARRIMAN . . . . . . 342

HON. O. J. SALISBURY ...... 346

HON. GEORGE W. CASSIDY ...... 348

COLONEL GEORGE L. SHOUP .... 350

HARVEY W. SCOTT ....... 352

SENATOR ED. WOLCOTT . . ... 354

JOAQUIN MILLER .... . 356

THE OLD COLUMN 357