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[TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE]

[Probably September 10, 1886, based on information in the 1887 meeting. Admission was on September 9, 1850. ]

PACIFIC COAST PIONEERS.

Annual Meeting Last Evening―
Election of Officers.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the acquisition of California as a portion of the Great American Republic, and the day the national flag―the stars and stripes―was first raised on the soil of that Territory. In honor thereof the fine new flag recently presented to the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers by Hon. Thomas B. Rickey, floated to the breeze from the tall flagstaff of the hall on B street, and under the constitution the annual meeting of the Society for the election of officers took place. The attendance was larger than it has been for the last two or three years, and quite a lively interest was manifested. Following is the result of the election:

President, Alf Doten; Vice Presidents, S. D. Baker, Franklin Ward and A. B. Coryell, of Virginia; Cincinnatus True and M. G. Gillett, of Gold Hill; Lyon county, C. C. Thomas; Ormsby, R. R. Parkinson; Esmeralda, H. C. Blanchard; Secretary, Lee McGown; Treasurer, Charles Rawson; Marshal, Will Thomas, Librarian, James Delavan; Directors, Robert Patterson, J. P. Smith, Otto Eckelman and Miles Goodman.
A letter from the late President, T. B. Storer, now rusticating at Benicia, Cal., was read, and after some little discussion as to the general good of the Society, the assemblage adjourned till the next regular meeting, which takes place on the 24th instant.