NAME, Years Elected to City Council

Wallace Everson served on City Council in 1874 and 1875 (President).

POLITICAL AFFILIATION

 

 

BIO

Wallace Everson was one of the original "freeholders" of Oakland. Everson was the president of Pacific Surety, Co, which apparently sold both "surety bonds" and "plate glass insurance."1 He was a founding member of the Athenian Club3 and a charter member of the Claremont Country Club.4

Photo of Wallace Everson's house at Filbert and Sixteenth Street, courtesy of Bancroft Library.

Residence of Mr. Wallace Everson, S. W. Cor. Filbert and Sixteenth Sts., Oakland, Cal., Artotype No. 61, with "S. F. News Letter," March 10, 1888

OTHER POSITIONS IN CITY GOVERNMENT

1880-1890 (first) Board of Prison Directors, California2

REFERENCES

1. Relief Business Directory. Beecher & Pike: 1906.

2. Bookspan, Shelley. A Germ of Goodness. U. of Nebraska Press: 1991.

3. Alameda County: the Eden of the Pacific. Tribune Pub. Co: 1898.

4. "Wallace Everson Funeral is Held," via Fulton History.

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