Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast, 1913

Who's Who on the Pacific Coast, 1913

Information sur la source

California State Library
Ancestry.com. Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast, 1913 [base de données en ligne]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Données originales : Harper, Franklin, editor. Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast. Los Angeles, California: Harper Publishing Co., 1913. Images reproduced courtesy of the California State Library.

 Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast, 1913

Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast (1913) est un bottin mondain qui contient de courtes notes biographiques sur plus de 3 700 citoyens importants qui résidaient dans l’Ouest des États-Unis à l’époque. Il contient des informations telles que le nom, la date et le lieu de naissance, les noms des parents, le nom du conjoint et la date et lieu de mariage, le cas échéant. Il peut également fournir des détails sur l’éducation, la profession, l’adhésion aux clubs et autres organisations, l’affiliation religieuse, l’affiliation politique, le service militaire, les publications, la résidence et d’autres renseignements personnels souvent accompagnés de dates.

Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast (1913) contains more than 3,700 short sketches of prominent citizens living in the western United States at the time.

The entries provide vital information (as applicable) such as

  • name
  • birth date and place
  • parents’ names
  • spouse’s name
  • marriage date and place

In addition, entries may also include details about education (with dates and places); occupation and employment history (dates, places, employers); membership in clubs and other social, professional, or fraternal associations; religious affiliation; political affiliation, offices, and candidacies; military service; publications; current residence; and other biographical facts, many with relevant dates.

While the title page calls the book “A Biographical Compilation of Notable Living Contemporaries West of the Rocky Mountains,” the entries stretch a little farther afield, with names of people living in Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and possibly other states as well.

As for the sort of men and women included, the author offers the following explanation:

“It has been the policy of the compilers of WHO’S WHO ON THE PACIFIC COAST … to include in it sketches of none but those men and women who are at the helm of the affairs of this section of the country; the leaders of life and thought, —the great architects, the conquering engineers, the captains of finance and industry, the men of the bar who have enlightened the nation with their erudition and wisdom, and the foremost men of medicine, letters, science and art.”