MILLARD, GERTRUDE B., _b._ July 8th, 1872, Sheboygan, Wis. Came to California Feb., 1893, from Jamestown, N. Dak. _Ed._ Boston, Ma.s.s., and Jamestown, N.D. _Author_ of short stories for magazines.
_Address:_ San Jose, Calif.
MILLER, JOAQUIN--the Poet of the Sierras, _b._ in Wabash Dist., Ind., Nov. 10, 1841. Editor (1863) Eugene, Ore., Democratic Register.
_Author:_ The Building of the City Beautiful, a poetic romance.
Complete Poems, 6 vols., 1909. _Address:_ The Hights, Dimond, Calif.
MILLER, OLIVE THORNE, _b._ Auburn, N.Y., June 25, 1831; _Author:_ True Bird Stories. $1.00 net. The First Book of Birds. $1.00. School edition, 60c net. The Second Book of Birds. $1.00 net. Upon the Tree-Tops. $1.25. Little Brothers of the Air. $1.25. A Bird-Lover in the West. $1.25. Bird-Ways. 16mo, $1.25. In Nesting Time. $1.25. With the Birds in Maine. $1.10. Our Home Pets. $1.25. _Address:_ 5928 Hays Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.
MILLS, BENJAMIN FAY, _b._ Rahway, N.J., June 4, 1857. Evangelical Minister, 1878-1897. Liberal Minister, lecturer, writer and social reformer, 1897. Founded The Fellowship, representing "Religion Without Superst.i.tion," 1904. Lived in California 1875-6, 1899--. _Author:_ G.o.d"s World. The Divine Adventure. Twentieth Century Religion. The New Revelation. Editor Fellowship Magazine. _Address:_ Los Angeles. Calif.
MILLS, MARY RUSSELL (Hill), _b._ Minneapolis. June 24, 1859. _M._ to Benjamin Fay Mills, 1879. Co-founder of The Fellowship, 1904. Teacher of Emerson and the Spiritual Life. Minister of the Los Angeles Fellowship, 1904-8. a.s.sociate editor of the Fellowship Magazine.
_Author:_ The Art of Living. The Fellowship Religion, and numerous essays and poems. _Address:_ Los Angeles.
MILNE, MRS. FRANCES MARGARET, _b._ Ireland, County of Tyrone. Came to Calif. in 1869. _Ed._ at home. _Author:_ For To-Day. (Poems.) James H.
Barry Co., S.F. A Cottage Gray, and Other Poems. C.W. Moulton, Buffalo. Heliotrope, a San Francisco Idyll. The J.H. Barry Co.
_Address:_ The Public Library, San Luis Obispo, Calif.
MITCh.e.l.l, EDMUND, _b._ Glasgow, Scotland, Mar. 19, 1861. _Ed._ Elgin Acad. Aberdeen Univ. _Grad._ 1881. (Gold Medalist Eng. Lit.) Ed.
writer Glasgow Herald. In 1886 a.s.st. Ed. Times of India, Bombay. In 1889 editorial staff of Melbourne Age. In 1904, editorial staff Los Angeles Times. _Author:_ The Temple of Death. 75c net. Towards the Eternal Snows. 75c net. Plotters of Paris. 75c net. The Lone Star Rush. $1.50 net. Only a n.i.g.g.e.r. $1.50 net. The Belforts of Culben.
$1.50 net. The Despoilers. $1.50 net. Chickabiddy Stories, $1.00 net.
In Desert Keeping. $1.50 net. All except the last, originally pub. in England. Now imported. To be had from author. _Address:_ 1710 Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif.
MUIR, JOHN, _b._ Dunbar, Scot., Apl. 21, 1838 _Ed._ in Scotland and Univ. of Wis. Discoverer of the Muir Glacier, Alaska. Author of many articles in magazines, newspapers, etc., on physiography and natural history of the Pacific Coast, etc. _Author:_ The Mountains of California, 1894. Our National Parks, 1901. Editor Picturesque California. _Address:_ Martinez, Calif.
MUNK, JOSEPH A., _b._ Colnmbiana Co., Ohio, Nov. 9, 1847. _Ed._ public schools Salem, O. Fought in Civil War. In 1865 Mt. Union College, Alliance, O. _Grad._ Eclectic Med. Inst. of Cinn., in 1867. Came to Los Angeles in 1892. Has great collection Arizoniana. _Author:_ Arizona Sketches, 1906. Arizona Bibliography, 1908. _Address:_ Los Angeles, Calif.
NORTH, ARTHUR WALBRIDGE, _b._ Marysville, Cal. Oct. 26, 1874. _Grad._ Oakland High School, and Univ. of Cal. A.B. 1896. Contributor to magazines and reviews. _Author:_ Mother of California, an historical and geographical review of Lower California (Mex.) Paul Elder & Co., 1908. $2.00. Camp and Camino in Lower California (in press.) Baker & Taylor Co. _Address:_ 126 North St., Walton, N.Y.
OLDER, MRS. FREMONT (Cora Baggerly), _b._ New York. _Ed._ private teachers and Syracuse Univ. _Author:_ The Socialist and the Prince, 1902. Funk & Wagnalls. The Giants, 1905. _Address:_ The Fairmount, San Francisco, Calif.
PAYNE, EDWARD B., _b._ Vermont. _Ed._ Iowa College and Oberlin.
_Grad._ in 1874. Congr. preacher, Berkeley, Calif. Became Unitarian.
Preached Springfield, Ma.s.s., 4 years; Manchester, N.H., 2-1/2 years; Leominster, 5 years; Berkeley, Calif., 5 years. Founded Altruria, near Santa Rosa, a co-operative settlement of 60 members and pub. a magazine, "Altruria." _Address:_ Glen Ellen, Calif.
PERCIVAL, OLIVE, _b._ July 1, 1868, Sheffield, Ill. _Ed._ public schools Sheffield, Ill., and Cleveland, Ohio. _Author:_ Mexico City: An Idler"s Note Book. _Address:_ 906 Union Trust Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.
RADER, WILLIAM, _b._ Cedarville, Chester Co., Pa., Dec. 17, 1862.
Pastor 2nd Cong. Church, San Francisco, ten years. Now pastor Calvary Pres. Church. Editorial writer San Francis...o...b..lletin. _Author:_ The Elegy of Faith, 1902. Truths for Today, 1902. Uncle Sam, or the Reign of the Common People, (in Notable Speeches of Greater West.) Liberty and Labor. _Address:_ 2702 Laguna St., San Francisco, Calif.
RICHARDSON, DANIEL S., _b._ Mar. 19, 1851, West Acton, Ma.s.s. Came to Calif. in 1855. _Ed._ public schools of S.F. and Univ. of Calif. Twice decorated by Emperor of j.a.pan. Writer of short stories and poems for magazines. _Author:_ Trail Dust (poems) 1909. _Address:_ 221 Sansome St., San Francisco, Calif.
REED, ANNA MORRISON, MRS., _b._ Dubuque, Ia. Came to Calif. when an infant. _Ed._ Mrs. Perry"s Seminary, Sacramento. Writer and lecturer.
Editor and founder Northern Crown Magazine; Petaluma, Sonoma Co., Independent. _Author:_ Poems, 1880. Later Poems. _Address:_ Petaluma, Calif.
SAIN, CHARLES McKNIGHT, _b._ Mt. Pleasant, O., Mar. 11, 1863. Traveler and writer for magazines, etc. _Author:_ An Expectant Heir to Millions, 1896. The Serpent, 1902, both out of print. The Call of the Muse (poems.) Where Rolls the Oregon (poems.) _Address:_ Care Mrs. Lou A. Curran, Hollywood, Calif.
SAMUELS, MAURICE V., _b._ San Francisco, Oct. 3, 1874. _Grad._ 1894 Univ. Calif. Lawyer in S.F. for 7 years. Playwright. _Author:_ The Florentines, blank-verse art-comedy, Brentano, 1904. $1.00. _Address:_ Hotel St. Margaret, 129 W. 47th St., New York City.
SAUNDERS, CHARLES FRANCIS, _b._ July 12, 1859, Bucks County, Penn.
_Ed._ in Philadelphia. _Grad._ Friends" Central School. Came first to California 1902. Resided in Pasadena since 1905. Contributor to magazines of both coasts on subjects covering travel, plant life, the Indians of the Southwest, etc., besides occasional verse. Editor 1894-7 of "The United Friend," religious monthly, Philadelphia.
_Author:_ In a Poppy Garden. R.G. Badger, Boston, 1903, and wrote descriptive text for Mrs. Saunders"s published collection of color prints ent.i.tled, California Wild Flowers. W.M. Bains, Philadelphia, 1905. _Address:_ 580 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif.
SAUNDERS, MARSHALL, _b._ in Nova Scotia. Lived for awhile in San Francisco and in California began study of birds and animals.
_Author:_ Beautiful Joe. $1.25. My Pets. $1.25. Several other books.
_Address:_ 28 Carleton St., Halifax, N.S., Canada.
SCHEFFAUER, HERMAN, _b._ San Francisco, Feb. 3, 1876. _Ed._ public and private schools. Studied architecture and art at Mark Hopkins Inst.i.tute. Writer for newspapers, magazines and reviews in France, England, Germany and America. _Author:_ Both Worlds poems, 1903. Looms of Life, 1908. $1.25. The Sons of Baldur, 1908. Niagara. An American Romance of four generations, 1909. Sire of Bohemian Club Jinks, 1908.
_Address:_ 184 Eldridge St., New York.
SCOTT, JOSEPH, _b._ Penrith, c.u.mberlandshire, Eng., July 16, 1867.
_Ed._ St. Cuthbert"s College, Ushaw, Durham. Prof. Rhetoric and Eng.
Lit. St. Bonaventure"s College, Allegheny, N.Y. Came to Calif. 1893 Pres. Board of Ed. of Los Angeles. Writer on Educational and Civic Subjects for newspapers and magazines. _Address:_ Los Angeles, Calif.
SETON, GRACE GALLATIN, _b._ Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 28, 1872. _Ed._ Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn. Writer for newspapers and magazines of America, England and France. _Author:_ A Woman Tenderfoot. Nimrod"s Wife. Doubleday, Page & Co. _Address:_ 80 W. 40th St., New York, and Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, Conn.
SEVERANCE, CAROLINE MARIA SEYMOUR, _b._ Canandaigua, N.Y., Jan. 12, 1820. One of founders and first president, 1868, of New England Woman"s Club. Known as "The Mother of Women"s Clubs." _Author:_ The Mother of Women"s Clubs (with Mrs. Ella Giles Ruddy.) $1.00.
_Address:_ 896 W. Adams St., Los Angeles, Calif.
s.e.xTON, MRS. ELLA M., _b._ Ill. _Ed._ in St. Louis, Mo. Came to Calif.
in 1874. Contributor to Eastern and Pacific Coast magazines. _Author:_ Stories of California. Macmillan & Co. California at Christmas-Tide (poems). Also a collection of Mission poems and one of Children"s Verse. She has also seven one-act comedies used by clubs and for amateur production. _Address:_ 171 Parna.s.sus Ave., San Francisco, Calif.
SHINN, CHARLES HOWARD, _b._ Austin, Texas, April 29, 1852. _Ed._ Univ.
of Calif, and Johns Hopkins Univ. Taught school. Contributor to newspapers and magazines. For ten years Inspector Univ. of Calif.
Experimental Stations. Appointed 1902 head forest ranger Sierra Reserve, Calif. _Author:_ Pacific Rural Handbook, 1879. Land Laws of Mining Districts, 1884. Mining Camps, 1885. Co-operation on the Pacific Coast, 1888. Story of a Mine, 1897. Various Forestry Monographs, etc. _Address:_ Northfork, Madera Co., Calif.
SHINN, MILLICENT WASHBURN, _b._ Niles, Calif., April 15, 1858. _Grad._ Univ. of Calif. A.B. 1880. Ph.D. 1898. Editor Californian, 1882.
Editor Overland Monthly, 1883-94. _Author:_ Notes on the Development of a Child (also in German.) The Biography of a Baby, 1901. The Development of the Senses, and the First Two Years of Childhood. Also poems, stories, essays, critiques, etc. _Address:_ Niles, Calif.
SHUEY, LILLIAN H., MRS. Has lived in Calif, practically all her life.
_Ed._ public schools and Napa branch of Univ. of Pacific. Taught 16 years in public schools. _Author:_ David of Juniper Gulch. Laird & Lee. 50c. Don Luis" Wife. Lamson & Wolffe. 50c. California Sunshine, The Humboldt Lily. Among the Redwoods (verses.) The Necromancers (a novel, in preparation.) _Address:_ 657 60th St., Oakland, Calif.
SIMONDS, WILLIAM DAY, _b._ Rockford, Ill., Mar. 31, 1855. _Grad._ State Normal School, Vt. Spaulding Cla.s.sical Academy, Barrie, Vt., 1880. Studied Amherst College and Chicago Theological Inst. Pastor First Unitarian Church, Oakland, Calif. _Author:_ Patriotic Addresses.
Sermons From Shakespeare. Freedom and Fraternity. _Address:_ 1233 First Ave., Oakland, Calif.
SMYTHE, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, _b._ Worcester, Ma.s.s., Dec. 24, 1861.
Initiated Nat. Irrigation Congress, 1891. Sec. until 1893, chairman until 1895. Est. _Irrigation Age_, 1891. Edited it until 1896.
Lecturer and writer on Irrigation and Economic Problems. _Author:_ The Conquest of Arid America. Constructive Democracy. History of San Diego, 2 vols. _Address:_ 1448 C St., San Diego, Calif.
SOSSO, LORENZO, _b._ Mar. 2, 1867, Turin, Italy. Came to Calif. in July, 1875. _Author:_ Poems, 1888. Poems of Humanity, 1891. In Realms of Gold, 1902. Proverbs of the People, 1903. Wisdom of the Wise, 1905.
_Address:_ 179 De Long Ave., San Francisco, Calif.
STELLMAN, LOUIS J., _b._ Baltimore, Md., Jan. 6, 1877. Came to Calif.
July, 1896. Connected S.F. Examiner since 1897. Wrote "Observer"
Sketches for L.A. Herald, published in book form 1903. Whitaker & Ray.
75c. _Address:_ Press Club, San Francisco, Calif.
STIMSON, JOHN WARD, _b._ Paterson, N.J., Dec. 16, 1850. _Grad._ Yale, 1872. Also Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Lecturer and art teacher Princeton Univ. a.s.soc. editor The Arena. Contributor to various art exhibitions and magazines. _Author:_ The Law of Three Primaries.
Princ.i.p.als of Vital Art Education. The Gate Beautiful. Wandering Chords, etc. _Address:_ 14 W. 48th St., New York.