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Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 01:48:05 EDT

These are Biographies from the below named book, all relating to San
Francisco before 1915. Although it states Journalism in California, many
different professions are included. Their lives are interesting to note as
to how they helped shape San Francisco through the early years.



JOURNALISM IN CALIFORNIA

BY JOHN P. YOUNG

Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies

CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY
San Francisco, California
1915

Page 227
Great Men and Great Men's Achievements
Form the Background for
California's Progress
Page 241

Philip C. Boardman

There is such a thing as failing in a business or profession career
because one does not realize that, to attain anything worth while, one must
"stick close to the job." Pleasures allure and the enticement is to strong:
or, perhaps, the mind and heart are not in the work and what seems pleasure
in itself to one man appears as dull, grinding labor to another. Once a man
lets his interest wander he is almost foredoomed to failure. He might as
well quite it all right then.
All of which is but a prelude to the statement that one of the main
reasons Philip C. Boardman has succeeded in the practice of law is that he
realized all this at the outset. Then he entered upon the study of his
profession he knew that it would require work and plenty of it. He was
cognizant of the fact that years of close application were before him, and
that if he were to make a name for himself among his co-practitioners he must
"stick close to the job."
He has done so, and the results have been most gratifying.
Mr. Boardman is a native of Nevada. He was born at Reno, January 14,
1883. His father was Judge W. M. Boardman, at one time district attorney for
Washoe and Story Counties, Nevada, and afterward district judge for the same
judicial division. He was eminently successful in the law, both as a
practitioner and on the bench, and his sons came naturally by their
inclination for a similar career. Mr. Boardman' mother was Mariah (Harris)
Boardman.
When it came time for Mr. Boardman to seek an education he was sent to
the public schools of his home city. When he was but 7 years old his parents
moved to California, living for a time at Monterey and Pacific Grove.
In 1900 Philip was graduated from the Monterey County High School. He
had long planned to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, as well as
in those of his elder brother, Louis P. Boardman, who was at that time
associated in practice with Samuel M. Shortridge. He began his law studies
in this office, where he remained for a little more than two years. In the
early part of 1909, having taken the necessary examinations and passed them,
he was admitted to practice in the State Courts of California by motion
before the District Court of Appellate District. In 1911 he was admitted
also to the United States District Court.
Immediately following his admittance Mr. Boardman began practicing alone,
and he has continued so until now.. His business is of a general nature,
although the bulk of his work is in civil law. He has practiced in every
court in San Francisco and has appeared in a professional capacity also in
nearly every county of California.
One of Mr. Boardman's coups was his rejuvenation of the Combined Oil
Company, for which he is general counsel. The concern's property in the
North Midway field was, three years or so ago, in debt to the extent of
$100,000. Mr. Boardman was retained to take charge of the situation, and he
not only put the corporation entirely out of debt but he accumulated for it
assets which today are in excess of a quarter of a million dollars. This was
another result of close application, coupled with the ability to see through
and unravel a complex problem, keeping in touch with all the details as the
matter worked itself out.
Although his political leanings are toward the Republican part, Mr.
Boardman is a politician in no sense other than that he is naturally
interested in anything that affects the city or the nation in which he lives
and works. He has never sought office,, nor has he been active politically e
xcept on behalf of a friend whom he felt worthy of the preferment sought.
His flourishing practice has also kept Mr. Boardman to busy to take part
in matters of a social or fraternal nature and he has done little along
wither line. He is unmarried.

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