English: Identifier: buildersofgreatc00sanf

Title: The builders of a great city : San Francisco's representative men, the city, its history and commerce : pregnant facts regarding the growth of the leading branches of trade, industries and products of the state and coast Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.) -- History San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography California -- History Publisher: San Francisco : The Journal Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: -ises from which to get the supplyfor his boiler. The water containedmuch sediment, and caused scales toform in the boiler, so he feared heshould have to apply to the corpora- BUILDERS OF A GREAT CITY. 311 froii again. He set to work, however,and invented a style of boiler tubesby means of which the water is soheated and purified, that it entersthe boiler perfectly clean ; there isno adhesion to the tubes and no scale.This invention, which he has hadpatented, saves him, he estimates,from $50 to $65 a month. Mr. Spaulding has been twice mar-ried. By his first wife he had twochildren, a son and a daughter. The former is in business with him, andthe latter is married and living inthis city. Mr. Spaulding is a mem-ber of Yerba Buena Lodge, I. O. O.F., and also of California Lodge,No. 1, Knights of Pythias. AlthoughMr. Spauldings life has been amost active one, he is very well pre-served, and now, somewhat pastmiddle age, his vigorous health givespromise of many years of usefulnessto come.

Text Appearing After Image: N. W. Spaulding. Nathan Weston Spaulding. CfjfrHE nan>c of N. W. Spaulding*%p\) is well known to the people of^^ the Pacific Coast as an inven-tor and as a representative businessman. His ancestry is traced back toas early as 1630, and through twocenturies and a half has the namecome down connected with Americaand American affairs. He was born at North Anson,Maine, on the 24th day of Septem-ber, 1829. Early in life he exhibiteda mechanical turn of mind, and hisfather being a practical mechanic,and his uncle a millwright, theirvaluable assistance enabled him torapidly acquire a thorough knowl-edge iu these branches, and at theage of 20 he was competent to lead,and found employment as such inBoston and in Portland, Maine. Iu 1851, he joined a party fromhis native State, determined to seektheir fortunes in the new land ofgold. They c ime to California byway of Panama. The mines beingtheir objective point, they soonfound themselves in old Calaveras.The friends here separated, Mr.Spauld

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