280 MONTEREY AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES carries a general stock of hardware. His enviable status in the industrial and finan- cial world is evidenced by his being a director of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Com- merce. He joined the Elks at Bakersfield in 1903, and is a charter member of Mon- terey Lodge, No. 1285, being one of the original twenty-six men to form the lodge. Mr. Charles M. Ryan married Miss Monetti, a native of Mountain View, Santa Clara county, California. They have a daughter, Gladys, who is a student at the College of the Pacific, and an accomplished pianist, having studied since her sixth year. She has broadeasted over the radio, and undoubtedly has a brilliant future. IRA M. BARDMESS. An enterprising dealer in hay whose experience has enabled him successfully to handle both a retail and a wholesale trade, is Ira M. Bardmess. A native of Missouri, he was born on a farm, May 8, 1871, and is a son of Abraham and Nancy Rose (Gardner) Bardmess, who removed to Nevada when our subject was nine years old. There he remained until he had grown to manhood and then, in 1899, he came to California and settled in Watsonville. As a boy he pursued his studies in the Nevada schools and learning to handle stock, with the result that his first occupation in California was stock raising. Subsequently he conducted a feed stable for a number of years and gradually he worked into the wholesale hay trade. In roofing his hay, he has found it possible to house for others a number of automobiles. He owns a number of residences that he rents, fronting for one hundred and eighty-five feet on the Main street, Watsonville. He has been in his present location for twenty years, having bought this property when the rate per foot was very low. In 1911 Mr. Bardmess married Miss Nellie Gardner, the ceremony taking place at San Jose, and to them have been born four children: Milton and Mildred, twins; Carl and Helen. By a former marriage Mr. Bardmess has two children, Hazel and Marion. SILAS W. MACK. The superior caliber of California lawyers is well exemplified in the life and career of the Hon. Silas W. Mack, a widely known and popular attorney and the efficient United States commissioner at Monterey. A native of the province of Quebec, Canada, he was born in Hatley township, Stanstead county, August 12, 1866, the eldest son of Carlos Franklin and Clara W. (Chamberlain) Mack, and spent his boyhood days on a farm. The first to bear the name in America, John Mack, came over in Governor Winthrop's colony in 1669, and a few years later settled -in Lyme, Con- necticut, whence his descendants removed years later to Marlow, New Hampshire. Among them was Squire Silas Mack who fought under General Stark in the war of the Revolution. Having pushed yet further north, the boundary line between the United States and Canada as established by treaty in 1842, found the deseendants of this Squire Mack owning farms four miles north of the international boundary. Silas W. Mack enjoyed the advantages offered by excellent Canadian schools and as a member of the class of '90 was graduated from MeGill University, at Montreal, where he received the coveted Bachelor of Arts degree. He then took up teaching and for two years was principal of Dunham Academy in Quebec. In December, 1892, he decided to regain the citizenship which his forebears had unintentionally lost and came to California, making his way to the Salinas valley where his uncle, Charles G. Chamberlain, was then residing. Here he studied law in the offices of the late Hon. J. K. Alexander, at Salinas, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He then opened up an office in Gonzales and for ' eight years practiced there. In May, 1903, Mr. Mack came to the Monterey peninsula and he has since here steadily built up a lucrative practice. In 1912 he was appointed United States com- missioner for the northern district of California by the late Judge J. De Hayden. The First National Bank of Monterey was organized in his office over twenty years ago and he is still a director and the vice president of that bank. He was also one of T'·ill It 12U --41...-.,-.461,*MII,Mtmmr-li'Tm,!M"I"I-·tl·'"'r-rlall]:9:CalaTE.:--1.Z'271.1.10.*""*411 ,y , OCR Text: 280 MONTEREY AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES carries a general stock of hardware. His enviable status in the industrial and finan- cial world is evidenced by his being a director of the Pacific Grove Chamber of Com- merce. He joined the Elks at Bakersfield in 1903, and is a charter member of Mon- terey Lodge, No. 1285, being one of the original twenty-six men to form the lodge. Mr. Charles M. Ryan married Miss Monetti, a native of Mountain View, Santa Clara county, California. They have a daughter, Gladys, who is a student at the College of the Pacific, and an accomplished pianist, having studied since her sixth year. She has broadeasted over the radio, and undoubtedly has a brilliant future. IRA M. BARDMESS. An enterprising dealer in hay whose experience has enabled him successfully to handle both a retail and a wholesale trade, is Ira M. Bardmess. A native of Missouri, he was born on a farm, May 8, 1871, and is a son of Abraham and Nancy Rose (Gardner) Bardmess, who removed to Nevada when our subject was nine years old. There he remained until he had grown to manhood and then, in 1899, he came to California and settled in Watsonville. As a boy he pursued his studies in the Nevada schools and learning to handle stock, with the result that his first occupation in California was stock raising. Subsequently he conducted a feed stable for a number of years and gradually he worked into the wholesale hay trade. In roofing his hay, he has found it possible to house for others a number of automobiles. He owns a number of residences that he rents, fronting for one hundred and eighty-five feet on the Main street, Watsonville. He has been in his present location for twenty years, having bought this property when the rate per foot was very low. In 1911 Mr. Bardmess married Miss Nellie Gardner, the ceremony taking place at San Jose, and to them have been born four children: Milton and Mildred, twins; Carl and Helen. By a former marriage Mr. Bardmess has two children, Hazel and Marion. SILAS W. MACK. The superior caliber of California lawyers is well exemplified in the life and career of the Hon. Silas W. Mack, a widely known and popular attorney and the efficient United States commissioner at Monterey. A native of the province of Quebec, Canada, he was born in Hatley township, Stanstead county, August 12, 1866, the eldest son of Carlos Franklin and Clara W. (Chamberlain) Mack, and spent his boyhood days on a farm. The first to bear the name in America, John Mack, came over in Governor Winthrop's colony in 1669, and a few years later settled -in Lyme, Con- necticut, whence his descendants removed years later to Marlow, New Hampshire. Among them was Squire Silas Mack who fought under General Stark in the war of the Revolution. Having pushed yet further north, the boundary line between the United States and Canada as established by treaty in 1842, found the deseendants of this Squire Mack owning farms four miles north of the international boundary. Silas W. Mack enjoyed the advantages offered by excellent Canadian schools and as a member of the class of '90 was graduated from MeGill University, at Montreal, where he received the coveted Bachelor of Arts degree. He then took up teaching and for two years was principal of Dunham Academy in Quebec. In December, 1892, he decided to regain the citizenship which his forebears had unintentionally lost and came to California, making his way to the Salinas valley where his uncle, Charles G. Chamberlain, was then residing. Here he studied law in the offices of the late Hon. J. K. Alexander, at Salinas, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He then opened up an office in Gonzales and for ' eight years practiced there. In May, 1903, Mr. Mack came to the Monterey peninsula and he has since here steadily built up a lucrative practice. In 1912 he was appointed United States com- missioner for the northern district of California by the late Judge J. De Hayden. The First National Bank of Monterey was organized in his office over twenty years ago and he is still a director and the vice president of that bank. He was also one of T'·ill It 12U --41...-.,-.461,*MII,Mtmmr-li'Tm,!M"I"I-·tl·'"'r-rlall]:9:CalaTE.:--1.Z'271.1.10.*""*411 ,y , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,L through M File Names,Mack,MACK_004.pdf,MACK_004.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: MACK_004.PDF, MACK_004.pdf 1 Page 1