PG&E Corporate History
  • 1849 - Gold is discovered in California"
  • 1852 - S.F. Gas & Electric is formed"
  • 1862 - The Central/Southern Pacific Railway Co. is formed by the big 4"
  • 1862 - Leland Stanford (Big 4) becomes governor of California"
  • 1862 - Crocker family member initiates Shanghai Slave trade as a way to get cheap labor as Irish won't work for Big 4 at a cheap rate"
  • 1862 - Wells Fargo is taken over by Big 4"
  • 1862 - Big 4 start taking over vast portions of California land"
  • 1893 - Wiliam Crocker starts Crocker-Woolworth bank --interests include 20 mines"
  • 1893 - De Salba goes to big 4 for financing to pay for electricfication of gold mines"
  • 1893 - Rommulus Colgate becomes financial backer"
  • 1893 - John Martin from Stanley Co. (Morgan/Stanley) gets involved with technical support from Stanley Co.
  • 1894 - De Salba/Martin build 'New Rome' with Colgate funding --the first hydro dam in California"
  • 1897 - Prince Poniatowski (Polish Prince who marries into the Crocker family)) starts Standard Electric Co. of W. Virginia. He also buys Blue Lake Water Co, as well as most of the small electric utility companies on the San Mateo Peninsula."
  • 1900 - N.W. Halsey becomes interested in Martin/De Salba Hydro facilities and suggest a merger process be intitated. Halsey is backed by Stillman of National City Co. (the Rockefeller's Private bank)"
  • Bay Counties Power Co. is formed from Halsey's oversite"
  • 1900 - Collis P. Hungtinton (the head of Southern Pacific & one of the big 4) dies. E. H. Harriman (railway barron who controls the Union Pacific & has Rockefeller & European funding) goes after control of the Southern Pacific. "
  • 1901- Harriman buys Southern Pacific Co."
  • 1901 - California Gas & Electric Co. is next merger organized by Halsey & his Rockefeller interests . This merger links up utilities controlled by Crocker (big 4)"
  • 1902 - San Francisco Mayor Phelan initiates plan to build Hetch Hetchy Dam to bring power and water to San Francisco"
  • Great Western Power Co. started in San Francisco by E. Hawley Hawley was C. Huntington's right hand man and gets his primary funding from one of the silver lode kings (Mackay) who initially had control of AT&T until he was beaten out by JP Morgan."
  • 1903 - California Gas & Electric Co. takes over Oakland & Sacramento utilities that were connected to the big 4"
  • 1903 - Frank Drum who is partner of Harry Tevis of Wells Fargo becomes a leading investor in CG&E."
  • 1905 - Abe Ruef (an insider for CG&E and PG&E) uses his insider lobbying tactics to block the cities plan to start Hetch Hetchy"
  • 1906 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is formed. N.W. Halsey oversees the legal and financial terms of the merger with Halsey becoming the first chairman of the board of the newly formed company."
  • 1907 - A. F. Hockenbeam (a Halsey employee) becomes the treasurer of PG&E."
  • 1907 - PG&E's broken gas mains are broken by the earthquake, burning 20,000 city blocks to the ground."
  • 1907 - The Abe Ruef/Mayor Schmidtz bribery scandals begin." " over 240 companies, including PG&E, Pacific Telephone & Southern Pacific are indicted in the scandal. Ruef claimed that PG&E gave him $20,000 in fees to bribe the S.F. board of supervisors over gas rates." " J. Tobin, owner of the S.F. Chronicle quickly resigns from the PG&E board. The Chronicle supports PG&E and other officials throughout the scandal" " Only 2 convictions ensue due to the immense power of Southern Pacific empire, with Ruef and Scmidtz convicted. The state supreme court overturns Schmidtz conviction. Subsequently the brother one of the supreme court justices (Henshaw) is elected to PG&E's board."
  • 1911 - PG&E's first CEO, N.W. Halsey dies"
  • 1911 - J.P. Morgan invests $17 million in PG&E " " Sam Insull, who heads Con Edison in Chicago and a top lieutenant for J.P. Morgan with General Electric is brought in as Vice President of PG&E. " " C.O.G. Miller, who heads Pacific Lighting Co., a holding company that is part of General Electric's Electric Bond & Share Group is elected to PG&E's Board" " Judge Henshaw's brother is elected to the PG&E board"
  • 1913 - The Raker Act is signed into law and construction of Hetch Hetchy begins. An attempt by PG&E allies to build their own alternative to Hetch Hetchy headed by Wells Fargo's Tevis fails."
  • 1914 - De Salba and Insull resign from PG&E's board and go back to focus on Insull's Middle West Utilities Company a massive interlocking network of companies back in Chicago built around Con Edison."
  • 1914 - Norman Livermore takes Insull's place on the PG&E board. Livermore's father started Natomas Co. and had strong ties to the big 4 through a merger of Natomas' predecessor in Sacramento."
  • 1916 - National City Company takes over the synidcated brokerage of PG&E stocks. National is also PG&E's bank of record. National City was originally John D Rockefeller's family bank but was forced to give it to his brother who then started working with J.P. Morgan and the Rothschilds."
  • 1916 - Supreme Court Judge Sloss's son leaves PG&E's board."
  • 1918 - Progressive's across the country organize to municipalize privately controlled utility companys. The campaign takes hold in California. "
  • 1918 - progress on Hetch Hetchy initiates a PG&E plan to take control of power generated at the dam. S.F.'s City Attorney comes out in favor of giving the power to PG&E initiating an uproar."
  • 1922 - PG&E and So Cal. Edison form a front group called The Greater California League, raising an unheard of $500,000 to overturn a statewide inititative that called for the municipalization of California's privately held utilities. If adjusted for inflation, the amount would place it as the most expensive campaign in California History."
  • 1925 - A Delaware holding company called Standard Gas & Electric Co. buys up surrounding companies on PG&E's borders. It also attempts to purchase PG&E's primary electric competitor in Northern California - Great Western Power Co., but another holding company out of New York city pulls a coup gets control of Great Western. That company is called North America Co. and includes former executives from General Electric . Its syndicated brokerage front is Dillon-Reed Co.,
  • SG&ECo sells off its California properties to PG&E. The Byllesby group which had control of SG&Eco loses control to syndicate controlled by Rockefeller interests."
  • 1925 - With Hetch Hetchy on the verge of completion, the national coalition of privately owned utility companys called the National Electric Light Associatian (headed at the time by former PG&E VP Sam Insull) comes to San Francisco and holds a national convention which is hoopla'd up by the S.F. Chronicle. On the last day of the convention, the SF Board of Supervisors vote to give PG&E exclusive wheeling rights to the Hetch Hetchy power from Newark to San Francisco."
  • 1925 - William Hearst and the SF Examiner go on a rampage against the vote and call for the ouster of all supervisors who voted for the deal. In the Nov. elections all supes who voted fot the deal were thrown out of office but no proposal to reverse the contract with PG&E s initiated."
  • 1927 - PG&E and Great Western initiate merger talks."
  • 1927 - A.F. Hokenbeamer becomes PG&E's new president"
  • 1927 - and initiative to purchase bonds to take over PG&E's electric system in S.F. fails to get the necessary 2/3rds vote to pass. The Chronicle spearheads a vicious campaign against the proposal.
  • 1928 - A bay area republican named Hoover, who gave the keynote address for the NELA's 1925 convention in S.F. is elected president of the U.S.
  • 1928 - Standard Oil of California gives PG&E its natural gas system in San Mateo and Santa Clara for PG&E stock"
  • 1930 - PG&E buys control of Great Western Power Co by exchanging PG&E stock with North America Co, which now holds 33% of PG&E's stock. One of NACo.'s board members is Allen Dulles, the rother of John Dulles.
  • Hetch Hetchy Takeover
  • Structure
  • Initial Merger History 1890-1906"

    Initial discussion: According to PG&E's own history, Martin & Desalba initiated the original purchase and development of the company. "

  • Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Oranized Oct 1905 California Gas & Electric Co. formed 1901 Equitable Gas & Light Co. Edison Light & Power Co. Independant Electric & Light Co. Pacific Gas Improvement Co. Independant Gas & Power Co. Oakland Gas Light & Heating Co. formed 1884 Central California Gas & Light Co. formed 1895 Sacramento Electric Gas & Rail Co. formed 1895 Valley Counties Power Co. formed 1902 Butte County Elect. Power & Light Co. merged 1899 Bay Counties Power Company formed 1900 from merger Nevada County Electric Company merger 1897 Standard Electric Co. of Oakland - merged 1897 Yuba County Power Company - merged 1892 Blue Lake Water Co. Created 1890 San Francisco Gas & Electric Co. formed 1852
  • Corporate Links
  • National City Company

    NCC was the syndicated brokerage front for William Rockefeller and JP Morgan from 1910 to 1935, when Congress forced the breakup of the company. NCC was linked directly to National City Bank (now called CitiBank). NCC Held Proxy control of hundreds of the largest Corporations in the U.S. directly or via Electric Bond & Share Group. William Rockefeller allied himself with J.P. Morgan (General Electric & its retirement fund -- Electric Bond & Share Group). JP Morgan had extenisive connections to to the Rothschildes.

    In 1901 Ed Harriman, a Kuhn & Loeb partner bought control of Southern Pacific. One of Harriman's first acts was to transfer Wells Fargo Bank to IWW Hellman a protege of the Rothchildes. N.W. Halsey, the first CEO of PG&E organized the merger process that led to the creation of PG&E in 1906. National City Bank was the bank of record for PG&E. Upon the breakup of NCC in 1935 A Hockenbeamer, the President of PG&E transfered syndicated control of PG&E from NCC to Lazzard Freres (the syndicated brokerage front for the Rothchildes ).

    S Russell ex-VP of NCC states in 1919 that the PG&E is controlled by NCC. During 1939 federal hearings investigating syndicated brokerages and the links to holding companies a witness from Blythe Co stated under oath that NCC had control of PG&E from 1919 to 1939."

  • Electric Bond & Share Group
  • N.W. Halsey & Co
  • Southern Pacific Co
  • Ed Harriman
  • Wells Fargo
  • Crocker Bank
  • General Electric
  • 1924 Battle for PG&E - North America Co Vs. Standard Gas & Electric Co"

    In the mid 20's a tactic was devised by Standard Gas & Electric to gain controlling interest over PG&E. The means to do this was through PG&E's primary electric competitor in Northern California Great Western Power. SG&E started buying up companies boarding PG&E with the plan to get Great Western, with the goal of then merging it with PG&E in an exchange of stock. However, the North America Co. CEO hears of the plan and without asking his board, uses his connections to immediately pu eat Western the day before SG&E in 1925. Upon failure to get Great Western SG&E dumps all of its California purchases. In 1930 Great Western finally merges with PG&E, giving NAC "

  • Board of Directors
  • List o Directors 1909-1950
  • Wallace M Alexander 1923-1927
  • Frank B. Anderson 1906-1935
  • Charles. B Barrett 1924-1927
  • James B. Black 1930-
  • Henry E. Bothin 1906-1923
  • John A Britton 1905-1923
  • Frank E Buck 1945-
  • Allen L. Chickering 1927-
  • John P. Cghlan 1931-
  • Charles W. Conlisk 1905-1906
  • James F. Crafts 1950-
  • W.E. Creed 1920-1927
  • William H Crocker 1906-1937
  • W.W. Crocker 1937-
  • F.W.M. Cutcheon 1905-1907
  • E.J. De Salba, Jr. 1905-1914
  • Charles Dickey 1927-1931
  • A.B.C. Dohrman 1924-1930
  • F.W. Doolittle 1934-1936
  • P.M. Downing 1929-1944
  • Frank G. Drum 1905-1923
  • John S. Drum 1908-1930
  • Guy C. Earl 1930-1935
  • E.P. Eells 1907-1908
  • Fed T. Elsey 1914-1938
  • W.G.B. Euler 1948-
  • Merril O. Evan . 1905-1906
  • James. F Fogarty 1935-1948
  • D.H. Foote 1909-1943
  • Herbert C. Freeman 1936-1942
  • J.E. Gladstone 1914-1915
  • Edwin Gruhl 1930-1933
  • Walter A Haas 1949-
  • N.W. Halsey 1906-1908
  • Wm Henshaw 1912-1916 1918-1924
  • A.F. Hockenbeamer 1908-1935
  • Samuel Insull 1912-1916
  • Alexander N. Kemp 1905-1906
  • Frank A. Leach Jr. 1923-1929
  • George W. Lewis 1905-1906
  • Norman N. Livermore 1916-1918 1920-
  • James K. Lochead 1948-
  • John Martin 1905-1914
  • Elliott McAllister 1951-
  • John A. McCandless 1915-1930
  • Garret W. McEnerney 1905-1908
  • Charles K. McIntosh 1926-1930 1935-1950
  • John D. McKee 1914-1948
  • C.O.G. Miller 1912-1952
  • L.F. Monteagle 1906-1912
  • George G. Moore 1913-1914
  • Henry D. Nichols 1938-
  • John J. O'Brien 1927-1936
  • Charles R. Page 1943-1950
  • Silas H. Palmer 1936-
  • Cyrus Peirce 1905-1912
  • N.D. Rideout 1906-1907
  • Charles T. Rodolph 1916-1918
  • Edwin L. Shea 1943-1945
  • Leon Sloss 1907-1911
  • Louis Sloss 1911-1914
  • Frank D. Stringham 1905-1906 1907-1909
  • Walter H. Sullivan 1945-
  • N.R. Sutherland 1952-
  • Carl Taylor 1905-1907
  • Joseph S. Tobin 1905-1907
  • Nion R. Tucker 1918-1920
  • George K. Weeks 1905-1906 1908-1920
  • A. Emory Wishon 1936-1948
  • L. Foster Young 1905-1906
  • CEO's & Presidents
  • N.W. Halsey Jan. 2 1906-April 28th, 1908 CEO
  • John A. Britton Oct 12, 1905-Jul 3rd, 1907
  • John Martin acting president during Britton absense Apr. 12, 1906-June 27, 1906
  • Frank G. Drum July 3, 1907-July 28th, 1920
  • W.E. Creed July 28th, 1920-Aug 6th, 1927
  • A.F. Hockenbeamer August 16, 1927-November 11, 1935
  • James B. Black November 20th, 1935
  • 1909 Board
  • F. Anderson - Bank of California
  • H. Bothin
  • J Britton - VP - Oakland GE&HCo. & CG&E
  • H.W. Crocker - Crocker-Woolworth-SP
  • E. Desabla Bay Cities - Standard Merger
  • F. Drum Pres
  • J. Drum 2nd VP
  • A Hockenbeamer - Halsey - Rockefeller
  • J Martin - Bay Cities - Standard Merger
  • L. Monteagle - Halsey - Rockefeller
  • C. Pierce - Halsey - Rockefeller
  • L. Sloss - Union Trust
  • C. Stringham - Halsey Rockefeller
  • J. Tobin - S.F. Chronicle - Bank of Cal. - Hibernia
  • G. Weeks - Halsey Rockefeller
  • 1924 Board
  • F Anderson
  • W.M. Alexander
  • C.L. Barrett
  • W.E. Creed -- Pres.
  • W. H. Crocker
  • ABC Dohrmann
  • J Drum
  • F.T. Elsey
  • D.H. Foote
  • A.F. Hockenbeamer -- 2nd VP
  • F.A. Leach Jr. -- 1st VP
  • N Livermore
  • J McCandless
  • J McKee
  • COG Miller
  • More People

  • Rothschildes Family [C]
  • Rockefeller Family
  • David (initial owner of National City Bank(company) [B]
  • William was given control of NCC by David and shift allegiance to Morgan
  • J.P. Morgan he gained substantial financing from Europe via the Rothschildes
  • Kuhn & Loeb big robber barron investment front (european money)
  • Jacob Schiff (our crowd link by poniatowski)
  • Warburgs (our crowd link by poniatowski)
  • Ed Harriman (father of Avirl) Robber Barron who had backing from Kuhn Loeb and Rockefeller took over Union Pacific Railway and then came out to take over the Southern Pacific Railway upon the death of Collis P Huntington at the turn of the century. Upon taking over SP his first act was to give Wells Fargo to I.W. Hellman Who I traced down in the book Our Crowd as part of the Rothchilde network
  • I.W. Hellman (our crowd link by poniatowski) Ed Harriman gave Wells fargo bank to him when he took over southern pacific 1902
  • Seligman family (our crowd link by poniatowski)
  • Charles Crocker SP (big 4) and Pac Bell and PG&E
  • Mark Hopkins SP big 4
  • Leland Stanford SP big 4
  • Collis Huntington SP big 4
  • N.W. Halsey (&Co) first chair of PG&E - lead in forming PG&E [B]
  • C Pierce (16) on first pg&e board
  • Captain Payson (16) on first pg&e board
  • M Catcheon (16) on first pg&e board
  • A Hockenbeamer (16) on first pg&e board secretary, president of pg&e 1929-1936. transfer of lead syndication from NCC to Lizard Frere (1) put in place when he dies (sub-listing 1924)
  • California Gas & Electric VP
  • California Telephone & Light Co VP
  • Mt Shasta Power Co VP
  • Northern Cal Power Co Cons VP
  • PG&E VP
  • S.F. Gas & Electric VP
  • L Monteagle (16) on first pg&e board
  • C. Weeks (16) on first pg&e board
  • C Stringham (16) on first pg&e board
  • W Bource (16) on first pg&e board
  • Eugene De Salba PG&E considers him the cofounder of PG&E
  • J Martin (Stanley Co (morgan stanley??) cofounder with DeSalba he left company and went with 31 in 1914 back to chicago
  • J Britton came onto PG&E from CE&E merger. He was president of Oakland Gas & Electric
  • J Drum Union Savings Bank -> American Trust swallowed up by Wells Fargo in 1957 (originally connected to Tevis/Wells Fargo
  • Frank Drum connected to H Tevis/Ben Haggins and Wells Fargo
  • Frank Anderson [C} Bank of California original proponent of federal reserve system (sub-listing 1924)
  • Bank of California
  • Alaska Packers Assn
  • California Gas & Electric Co.
  • California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corp
  • California Packing Co
  • Fireman's Fund Insurance
  • Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.
  • Insurance Exchange
  • Leland Stanford Jr. University Trustee
  • Miller & Lux Inc VP
  • Mission Bank VP
  • Natomas Co Pres
  • Pacific Gas & Elect.
  • SF Gas & Elect.
  • SF Remedial Loan Assn
  • Spring Valley Water Assn
  • William Crocker son of (9) Charles
  • J Tobin [D] S.F. Chronicle [a-2] married into deyoungs and cameron families he quit pg&e just after ruef scandal hit
  • N Tucker S.F. Chronicle
  • Samuel Insull NELA , ComEd right hand man of Morgan at General Electric
  • L Sloss Union Trust(pres)brother of M Sloss state supreme court (see ruef scandal)
  • W Henshaw Union Savings -> American Trust -> Wells Fargo brother of F Henshaw who sat on state supreme court see ruef scandals
  • Norman Livermore [a] father started Natomas (crocker link)
  • J McKee Standard Gas & Electric
  • J Gladstone
  • F Elsey America Trust (sub-listing 1924)
  • California Pacific Title Insurance Co.
  • Mercantile Trust Company
  • PG&E
  • Pacific Portland Cement Co. Cons
  • Palace Hotel Co
  • Yosemite Valley R.R. Co
  • J Loghlan
  • Allen Chickering Standare Gas & Electric (chickering & Gregory) (sub-listing 1924)
  • Bass-Hueter Paint Co
  • Coast Valleys Gas & Electric Co VP
  • Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
  • Pratt-Low Preserving Co
  • San Diego Gas & Electric Co. VP
  • Santa Barbara Telephone Co
  • Schmidt Lithograph Co
  • Western States Gas & Electric Co VP
  • J O'Brien Standard Gas & Elec (pres) United R
  • C Dickey
  • F Downing
  • G Earl
  • J Black
  • Great Western Power Co VP (1924)
  • E gruhl
  • W.M. Alexander (sub-listing 1924)
  • Alexander & Baldwin LTD Pres
  • California & Hawaiian Sugar Co VP
  • Columbus Steel Corp
  • Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co VP
  • Home, Fire & Marine Insurance Co
  • Honolulu Consolidated Oil Co VP
  • Matson Navigation Co VP
  • PG&E
  • A. Bedford (sub-listing 1924)
  • Electric Bond & Share Group
  • Great Western Power Co of Cal
  • Guaranty Trust of NY
  • NY Produce Exchange
  • Pennsylvania Water & Power Co
  • Pratt & Lambert Inc
  • Self Winding Clock Co
  • Standard Oil of NJ
  • Thrift of Brooklyn
  • Western Power Corp
  • I. Bonbright (sub-listing 1924)
  • Appalachian Power Co
  • Bonbright & Co
  • Central Arizona Light & Power Co
  • Electrical Utilities Corp
  • General Gas & Electric Co
  • Guanajuato Power & Electric Co
  • Lehigh Power Secs. Corp
  • Tennessee Ry. Light & Power Corp
  • United Utilities Corp
  • Utah Securities Corp
  • Western Power Corp
  • Wester Power Corp NY
  • A.W. Burchard (sub-listings 1924)
  • Adirondack Power & Light Corp
  • American & Foreign Power Co
  • American Gas & Electric Co
  • American Power & Light Co
  • Anderson, Meyer & Co.
  • Asheville Power & Light Co
  • Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co
  • California Electric Generating Co
  • Central States Electric Corp
  • Carolina Powwr & Light Co
  • Electric Bond & Share Group
  • Electric Investment Corp
  • Electric Utilities Corp
  • General Electric Co
  • Geat Western Power Co of Ca
  • International Gen Electric Co
  • Lehigh Power & Light Co
  • Mercantile Safe Deposite Co.
  • Montana Power Co
  • North American Co.
  • Palmetto Power & Light Co
  • Pennsylvania-Ohio Electric Co
  • Power Securities Corp
  • Republic Railways & Light Co
  • Utah Securities Corp
  • Western Power Corp NY
  • Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp
  • Yadkin River Power Co
  • W.E. Creed (sub-listing 1924)
  • PG&E Pres
  • Associated Oil Co
  • Big Lagoon Lumber Co. Pres
  • C.A. Hooper & Co. Pres
  • Columbia Steel Corp Pres
  • East Bay Water Co Oakland
  • Excelsior Investment Co Pres
  • Pittsburg Mercantile Trust
  • SF Remedial Loan Assn
  • South Shore Land Co Pes
  • Tempe Land & Improvement Co Pres
  • Wells Fargo Bank
  • William H Crocker (sub-listing 1924)
  • Bay District Land Co VP
  • Burlingame Land & Water Co
  • Burlingame Realty Co
  • Bunker Hill & Sulivan Mining Co
  • California Academy of Sciences Pres.
  • Capay Valley Land Co.
  • Carbon Hill Coal Co.
  • Children's Hospital & Training School
  • Crocker Estate Co. Pres.
  • Crocker-Huffman Land & Water Co Pres.
  • Crocker Investment Co. Pres
  • Crocker National Bank Pres
  • Curlew Ranch Co Pres
  • Episcopal Church Corp
  • Grace Cathedral Corp
  • Humboldt Bank VP
  • Ione Coal & Iron Co
  • Laguna Blanca Water Co
  • Maria Kip Orphange
  • Masonic Tempel Assn Pres
  • Metropoloitan Life Insurance Co
  • Monterrey Co Water Works
  • Mortgage & Loan Corp Pres
  • Old People's Home Pres
  • PG&E
  • Pacific Improvement Co Pres
  • Pacific Mutual Indemnity Co
  • Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co L.A.
  • Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Palace Hotel Co. VP
  • Parkside Realty Co (owned the whole sunset district of SF)
  • Promontory Ranch Co Pres
  • Provident Securities Co Pres
  • Rocky Mountain Coal & Iron Co
  • Scottish Rite Temple Assn Pres
  • Sierra Railway Co. VP
  • Sperry Flour Co.
  • St. Lukes Hospital
  • University of California Regent
  • Young Men's Christian Assn
  • Young Women's Christian Assn
  • William W. Crocker (sub-listing 1924)
  • Columbia Steel Corp
  • Crocker Estate Corp
  • Crocker Investment Co. VP
  • Crocker National Bank VP
  • Matson Navigation Co
  • Provident Securities Co VP
  • Santa Cruz Portland Cement Co VP
  • Sperry Flour Co
  • Universal Consolidated Oil Co
  • ABC Dohrman (sub-listing 1924)
  • ABC Dohrman Co. Pres
  • Alfed Stahel & Sons Inc San Diego
  • Bilicke-Rowan Commercial Building Co L.A.
  • Central Investment Corp L.A.
  • Dohrman Investment Corp Pres
  • Emporium
  • Federal Reserve of SF
  • Hinz & Landz Inc
  • Howell-Dohrman Co Oakland Pres
  • Nathan Dohrman Co. Pres
  • PG&E
  • Palace Hardware Co Chair
  • Parmmelee-Dohrman Co L.A. Pres
  • Parmelee-Dohrman Syndicate LA Pres
  • Trinkler-Dohrman Co San Jose Pres
  • W.W. Dimond & Co LTd Honolulu Pres
  • Yosemite National Park Co. Pres
  • Yost-Dohrman Co Stockton Pres
  • H De Forest (sub-listing 1924)
  • American Railway Express Co
  • Arizona Eastern R.R. Co
  • Bank of Savings in the City of New York
  • Central N.J. Land Improvement Co
  • Delaware & Hudson Co
  • Dubuque & Sioux City R.R. Co.
  • Galveston, Harrisburg & S.A. Railway Co
  • Houston East & West Texas R.R. Co
  • Houston & Shreveport R.R. Co
  • Houston & Texas Central R.R. Co
  • Hudson Trust Co Hoboken N.J.
  • Illinois Central R.R. Co
  • Land & River Co. Pres
  • Louisiana & Western R.R. Co
  • Morgan's Louisiana & Texas R.R. & S.S. Co
  • National Bank of Commerce NY
  • N.J. & N.Y. R.R. Co
  • Niagara Fire Insurance Co
  • Pacific Mail Steamship Co
  • Pacific Oil Co of Delaware Chair
  • Southern Pacific Co VP
  • Texas & New Orleans R.R. Co
  • Tiffany Studios
  • United States Trust Co
  • Wells Fargo & Co
  • Western Union Telegraph Co
  • Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R.R. Co
  • Guy Earl (sub-listing 1924)
  • California Elecric Generating Co. VP
  • City Electric Co. VP
  • Consolidated Electric Co VP
  • Earl Orchard Co
  • Great Western Power Co VP
  • Great Western Power Co of Ca. VP
  • Los Angeles Express Publishing Co VP
  • SF, Napa & Calistoga Railway Co VP
  • University of California Regent
  • Herbert Fleishhacker (sub-listing 1924)
  • Anglo & London Paris, National Bank Pres
  • Anglo-California Trust Co. VP
  • Asia Banking Corp NY
  • Baker, Hamilton & Pacific Co
  • California Delta Farms Inc. L.A.
  • California Electric Generating Co. VP
  • Central California Traction Co. Pres
  • City Electric Co.
  • Columbia Steel Corp
  • Crown Columbia Pulp & Paper Co
  • Crown Willamette Paper Co VP
  • Del Monte Properties Co VP
  • Great Western Power Corp VP
  • Greate Western Poew Co of Cal VP
  • Natomas Co of Cal
  • Northwestern Electric Co. Pres
  • Pacific Coast Jockey Club
  • Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co
  • Pacific States Lumber Co.
  • Pampanga Sugar Mills Inc
  • Reno Traction Co Pres
  • Spring Canyon Coal Co.
  • Vulcan Fire Insurance Co. Oakland
  • Weed Lumber Co.
  • Western American Reality Co
  • D Foote (sub-listing 1924)
  • COG Miller (sub-listing 1924)
  • American Gas Assn VP
  • California Gas & Electric Corp
  • East Bay Water Co
  • F.M. Smith Advisory Committee
  • Kennedy Mining & Milling Co
  • Key System Transit Co. Pres
  • Langley & Micaels Co.
  • Leland Standford Junior University
  • Los Angles Gas & Electric Corp
  • Mercantile Trust Company VP
  • Pacific Coast Borax Co. VP
  • Pacific Coast Joint Stock Land Bank
  • PG&E
  • Pacific Lighting Corp Pres
  • Realty Syndicate Co Oak VP
  • S.F. Gas & Electric Co
  • Tucker Investment Co
  • Van Ness Ave. Land Co
  • S.Z. Mitchell (sub-listing 1924)
  • Alabama Power Co
  • Alabama Traction Light & Power Co LTD
  • American & Foreign Power Co Inc
  • American Gas & Electric Co
  • American Power & Light Co. Chair
  • Appalachian Power Co
  • Asheville Power & Light Co
  • Carolina Power & Light Co
  • Electric Bond & Share Group
  • Electric Utilities Corp Pres
  • Great Falls Power Co.
  • Great Northern Power Co
  • International Gerneral Electric Co
  • Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Co
  • Kansas Gas & Electric Co
  • Lehigh Power Securities Corp Chair
  • Minnesota Power & Light Co
  • Montana Power Co
  • National Power & Light Co
  • National Surety Co
  • New Orleans Public Service Inc
  • Pacific Power & Light Co Chair
  • Pennsylvania Power & Light Co
  • Portland Gas & Coke Co
  • Power Securities Corp
  • Texas Power & Light Co
  • United Gas & Electric Co
  • Utah Power & Light Co. Chair
  • Utah Securities Corp Pres
  • Yadkin River Power Co.
  • W Sproule
  • Central Pacific Land Co Pres
  • Durango Land Co. Pres
  • Federal Reserve Bank of S.F.
  • Hanford & Summit Lake Railway Co
  • Northwestern Pacific R.R. Co
  • Porter Fuel Co Pres
  • Southern Pacific Co. Pres
  • Southern Pacific Land Co. Pres
  • ``E.P Swensen NCC (sub-listing 1924)
  • Arizona Eastern R.R. Co
  • Freeport Sulpher Co Pres
  • Freeport Texas Co Pres
  • Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co.
  • Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co
  • Houston & Shreveport R.R. Co
  • Houston & Texas Central R.R.
  • Louisiana Western R.R.
  • Morgan's Louisiana & Texas R.R. Steamship Co
  • Motor Starter Corp Pres
  • Multiple Electric Products Co
  • National City Bank NY CHair
  • National City Company Chairman
  • N.Y. Shipbuilding Corp
  • Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
  • Pacific Oil Co. of Del
  • Southern Pacific Co
  • Texas & New Orleans R.R. Co
  • A Southern Pacific American Express network
  • National City Company (bank)
  • Wells Fargo
  • Crocker Bank
  • anglo American Bank
  • Bank of California
  • Hibernia Bank
  • Great Western -> North America Co.
  • Bibliography
  • Pacific Service Magazine 1909-1933
  • S.F. Examiner May & June 1907, 1925-1940
  • The Crisis of the Old Order by A.M Schlesinger 1957 Houghton Mifflin Co
  • California: An Interpretive History by W. Bean 1968, McGraw Hill, NY
  • PG&E of California: The Centennial Story of PG&E 1852-1952 by C. Coleman, 1952, McGraw Hill
  • A Debonair Scoundrel by I. Thomas, 1962, Holt-Rinehart, NY
  • Olson's New Deal for California by R. Burke 1953, UC Press
  • Robber Barrons by M. Josephson 1962, Harcourt, Brace & Janovich
  • Men of California: 1900-1902 by Pacific Art Co.
  • Eminent Californians 2nd Ed. 1956 C.W. Taylor
  • The Big Four by O. Lewis 1951, AA Knopf, NY
  • The System: As Uncovered by the S.F. Graft Prosecution by F. Hichborn, 1915 J. Barry Co. S.F.
  • Wells Fargo: An Illustrated History by N. Loomis 1968, C.W. Potter Inc.
  • Financing an Empire: History of Banking in California by I. Cross, 1927, S. Clarke Co. Vol 1-4
  • History of California Washington & Lewis 1931 S.J.Clarke Vol 1-3
  • Investigation of the Concentration of Economic Power by Investment Bankers by the Senate's Temporary National Economic Committee, Dec 12-14 1939
  • Supreme Court Judges of California by E. Johnson 1966 Bancroft Whitney, SF
  • S.F. News 1930-1953
  • S.F. Chronicle 1927-1940
  • S.F. Call May & June 1907
  • S.F. Bay Guardian 1968-1985
  • Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier by E. Hungeford, 1949 Random House, NY
  • Hetch Hetchy and Its Dam Railroad by T. Wurm 1973, Howell North Books
  • Project Development
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