Alameda County
Biographies
ARTHUR HASTINGS BREED.
Among the men whose initiative, enterprise and ability have been active factors in promoting the remarkable growth and prosperity of the city of Oakland is numbered Arthur Hastings Breed, of the firm of Breed & Bancroft, well known real-estate operators of the city. Mr. Breed has other important business affiliations, and his interests have extended also to politics, in which field his prominence is attested by his position in the state senate, representing the fifteenth senatorial district. He was born in San Francisco, California, November 27, 1865, and is a son of Daniel C. Breed, who came to California by way of the isthmus of Panama in the '50s and was afterward for many years a well known wholesale grocery dealer in San Francisco.
Arthur Hastings Breed acquired his education in the public schools of his native city and after his graduation was for five years connected with the wholesale book and stationery firm of Samuel Carson & Company. He afterward turned his attention to the real-estate business and with this has been connected continuously since that time. He is president of the real-estate firm of Breed & Bancroft, a corporation, one of the leading companies of its kind in the state, and through his work as its head has proven himself a man of administrative ability and executive power of a high order. In addition to this Mr. Breed is president of the Magnesite Dock & Land Company, president of the Pardee Park Company, president of the Roseville Heights Land Company, a director in several other land corporations and also in the Oakland Bank of Savings and the Bankers Trust Company—connections which prove the extent, variety and character of his business interests.
Politically Mr. Breed is a stanch republican and is without doubt one of the leading representatives of this party in Alameda county. From 1899 until 1907 he served as auditor and assessor of the city of Oakland and in 1912 was elected to the state senate for a term expiring in 1916. Mr. Breed represents the fifteenth senatorial district of California, embracing East Berkeley, the town of Piedmont and a considerable portion of Oakland. He has already made a creditable record as a member of the state legislature and it is a certainty that a great deal of important legislation will bear the stamp of his interest and activity.
On the 9th of May, 1893, in Oakland, Mr. Breed was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Hall, and they have become the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter. Two are students in the high school and the other two are in the grammar schools of Oakland.
Mr. Breed is connected fraternally with the Masons, the Elks and the Native Sons of the Golden West, holds membership in the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and the Nile and Athenian Clubs of Oakland and is a devout adherent of the First Congregational church. Broad-minded and liberal in his views, he has wrought along the lines of the greatest good to the greatest number and his city and state have profited by his efforts in various fields of endeavor. His unbending integrity of character, his fearlessness in the discharge of duty and his appreciation of the responsibilities which rest upon him make him a citizen whose worth is widely acknowledged.
Past & Present of Alameda County, California – Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914
p. 77
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
IRMA I. MOON, D. O.
Among the women who have entered the medical profession and proven that their ability is equal to that of brother practitioners is Dr. Irma I. Moon of Oakland, who has her offices in the Union Savings Bank building and who, by the consensus of public opinion, is accounted one of the most skilled and learned representatives of the medical fraternity. Dr. Moon is a native of Colusa county, California, and in her girlhood days went to San José, where she attended high school. Having decided to take up the practice of medicine as her life work, she entered the Pacific College of Osteopathy in Los Angeles. The faculty of this college includes many regular medical practitioners, as well as osteopathic practitioners. Its students, therefore, have an unusual opportunity to gain an unprejudiced knowledge of the different systems of treating diseases. The school ranks today among the foremost in America, and it was from this institution that Dr. Moon was graduated. Immediately afterward she established an office in Oakland, and since 1905 she has continuously enjoyed a growing practice in the city—a practice that is now very extensive.
Dr. Moon belongs to the American, Bay and State Medical Associations, which were organized to further the interests of osteopathy through uniting the members of that branch of practice more closely. They have also thus been enabled to keep their practice upon a high ethical standard. Since taking up professional duties, Dr. Moon has been an active member of those organizations. She is also well known in social circles of Oakland and is a member of the Home Club and of the Eastern Star.
Past & Present of Alameda County, California – Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914
p. 78
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
WILLIAM H. L. HYNES.
William H. L. Hynes, as district attorney of Alameda county, has discharged his duties with a sense of conscientious obligation, combined with ability that has made his record a notable one. He is an able and learned lawyer, whose progress has been continuous and gratifying, since his admission to the bar. He was born in San Francisco, June 12, 1874, and is a son of Patrick and Alicia M. Hynes, who in 1877 removed to Oakland, so that the son became a pupil in the public schools. He passed through consecutive grades until he graduated from the high school, with the class of 1893, after which he attended the University of California and was graduated in 1897. He next became a student in the Hastings College of the Law, in which he completed his course with the class of 1898, and in January, 1899, he entered the office of the district attorney in Oakland, in the capacity of deputy. He was gradually advanced in that connection; until 1907, when he became first assistant, and on the and of December, 1912, he was elected district attorney, which position he is now capably filling. He has prosecuted all the important civic cases during the past six years and has made a splendid record, standing stanch and firm in support of the legal interests of the district. His cases are prepared with thoroughness and care and the strength which he manifests in their prosecution is evidenced in the favorable verdicts which he has won. Aside from his active duties as prosecuting attorney, he is now professor of medical jurisprudence in the Oakland College of Medicine.
Mr. Hynes was married in Alameda, California, to Miss Pauline Merle on the 5th of February, 1902, and they have one child, Adrien M., who is eight years of age. In religious faith, Mr. Hynes is a Catholic, and his political belief is that of the republican party. He is prominently identified with various fraternal and social organizations, being a member of Piedmont Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West and member of the grand parlor; a past exalted ruler of the Elks lodge; a member of the Moose; of the University of California Club; the Unitarian Club of Alameda; and the Alumni Council of the Newman Club of the University of California.
His social qualities and personal worth, have won him wide popularity, while his professional ability ranks him with the representative citizens of Oakland.
Past & Present of Alameda County, California – Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914
p. 79
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler