San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California)
January 15, 1980 (Tuesday)
"James Rolph III
Private services will be held in San Francisco later this week for James Rolph III, socialite, rancher and son of the late Gov. James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr., whose own agreeable flamboyance during 20 years as mayor of San Francisco is still warmly remembered.
Mr. Rolph was 75 when he died Sunday [January 13] in a Reno hospital.
For the last 10 years he had divided his time between his showplace Lake Tahoe home and a ranch near Gardnerville, Nev. For 17 years prior to that he operated a ranch near Chlco.
The City has seen little of Mr. Rolph, a native of San Francisco, since 1947, when his voice was last raised in political circles as a backer of the unsuccessful mayoral candidacy of Chester R. MacPhee.
But as the handsome, ebullient only son of Mayor James Rolph Jr. whose administration completed City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire, established the Municipal Railway and brought Hetch Hetchy water to San Francisco's aspiring commercial center - James Rolph III was often in the news.
The city grieved when he was stricken by typhoid fever in 1924. It applauded when he soloed in an airplane at Mills Field, now San Francisco Airport, in 1930. Nor were residents surprised to learn, at one point, that he might sign a Hollywood contract.
He grew up in the Rolphs' Mission District mansion and was educated in the public schools, graduating from Polytechnic High School where, as a mechanical drawing student, he helped draft plans for Kezar Stadium.
He went on to take a bachelor of arts degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1925, and spent a summer as a quartermaster for the Matson and Dollar steamship lines.
At the age of 14 he drove his father through every one of California's 58 counties in a campaign for governor. After the senior Rolph went to the governor's mansion in 1931 he appointed his son, by then vice president of Inter-Island Steamship Co., and president of Enterprise Stevedoring Co., to the state Board of Pilot Commissioners.
For many years the younger Rolph lived on the 3,500-acre Rolph Alpine Ranch behind Menlo Park. His father died In 1933 but Mr. Rolph remained active in Republican politics, though he always campaigned on a bipartisan basis, seeking both Democratic and Republican nominations under the state's now-ended cross-filing system.
He ran unsuccessfully for the nomination for lieutenant governor in 1938 and 1942.
His uncle was the late U. S. Rep. Thomas Rolph.
He was a member of the Pacific Union Club, the Reno Prospectors Club and the American Angus Association.
Mr, Rolph is survived by his wife Jane; a daughter, Nancy Rolph Welch of Atherton; a stepdaughter, Linda Hardy of Gardnerville; sisters Georgina Curtis of Lafayette and Annette Syms of Oakland, and four grandchildren." END
From “The History of San Francisco: Volume II” (1931):
One of the successful younger business men of San Francisco is James Rolph (III), member of the firm of Rolph, Landis, & Ellis, general insurance agents, located in their own building at 345 Sansome street. He is the son of Governor James Rolph, Jr., and Annie Marshall (Reid) Rolph.
A native of the city of San Francisco, James graduated from the University of California, leaving behind him a record of activity in college that gave indication of his later accomplishments in the world of trade and business. He is the only student who attended the University of California that had the distinction of being editor of the university’s annual publications, “The Blue and Gold,” for two years. He received his earlier education at the Agassiz primary school, the Horace Mann grammar school and the Polytechnic high school in San Francisco.
In addition to his insurance business, Mr. Rolph has wide and varied interests. He is a director of Air Ferries, Limited, the only air passenger service operated on schedule across San Francisco bay, and a director of Hind, Rolph, & Company. He also served on the marine and aeronautical committee of the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce. Since boyhood he has been identified with a shipping and seafaring atmosphere. The channel and approaches of the Golden Gate, as well as deep water and off-shore on the Pacific and Atlantic are not strangers to him. He is also a licensed aviation pilot.
On May 26, 1926, Mr. Rolph was married to Miss Nancy Jane Richey, of Merced, California. The wedding ceremony was performed in San Francisco.
In political affairs, Mr. Rolph has given his support to the republican party, and his religious affiliation is with the Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Kappa Psi fraternities, the Olympic, Jonathan and Bohemian Clubs and is a member of the Hesperian Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West. He holds a high degree of popularity in the many circles in which he is active and has in every way fulfilled his duties of citizenship in a manner worthy of the name which he bears.
Contributor: Carolyn A. (47198156)
January 15, 1980 (Tuesday)
"James Rolph III
Private services will be held in San Francisco later this week for James Rolph III, socialite, rancher and son of the late Gov. James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr., whose own agreeable flamboyance during 20 years as mayor of San Francisco is still warmly remembered.
Mr. Rolph was 75 when he died Sunday [January 13] in a Reno hospital.
For the last 10 years he had divided his time between his showplace Lake Tahoe home and a ranch near Gardnerville, Nev. For 17 years prior to that he operated a ranch near Chlco.
The City has seen little of Mr. Rolph, a native of San Francisco, since 1947, when his voice was last raised in political circles as a backer of the unsuccessful mayoral candidacy of Chester R. MacPhee.
But as the handsome, ebullient only son of Mayor James Rolph Jr. whose administration completed City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire, established the Municipal Railway and brought Hetch Hetchy water to San Francisco's aspiring commercial center - James Rolph III was often in the news.
The city grieved when he was stricken by typhoid fever in 1924. It applauded when he soloed in an airplane at Mills Field, now San Francisco Airport, in 1930. Nor were residents surprised to learn, at one point, that he might sign a Hollywood contract.
He grew up in the Rolphs' Mission District mansion and was educated in the public schools, graduating from Polytechnic High School where, as a mechanical drawing student, he helped draft plans for Kezar Stadium.
He went on to take a bachelor of arts degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1925, and spent a summer as a quartermaster for the Matson and Dollar steamship lines.
At the age of 14 he drove his father through every one of California's 58 counties in a campaign for governor. After the senior Rolph went to the governor's mansion in 1931 he appointed his son, by then vice president of Inter-Island Steamship Co., and president of Enterprise Stevedoring Co., to the state Board of Pilot Commissioners.
For many years the younger Rolph lived on the 3,500-acre Rolph Alpine Ranch behind Menlo Park. His father died In 1933 but Mr. Rolph remained active in Republican politics, though he always campaigned on a bipartisan basis, seeking both Democratic and Republican nominations under the state's now-ended cross-filing system.
He ran unsuccessfully for the nomination for lieutenant governor in 1938 and 1942.
His uncle was the late U. S. Rep. Thomas Rolph.
He was a member of the Pacific Union Club, the Reno Prospectors Club and the American Angus Association.
Mr, Rolph is survived by his wife Jane; a daughter, Nancy Rolph Welch of Atherton; a stepdaughter, Linda Hardy of Gardnerville; sisters Georgina Curtis of Lafayette and Annette Syms of Oakland, and four grandchildren." END
From “The History of San Francisco: Volume II” (1931):
One of the successful younger business men of San Francisco is James Rolph (III), member of the firm of Rolph, Landis, & Ellis, general insurance agents, located in their own building at 345 Sansome street. He is the son of Governor James Rolph, Jr., and Annie Marshall (Reid) Rolph.
A native of the city of San Francisco, James graduated from the University of California, leaving behind him a record of activity in college that gave indication of his later accomplishments in the world of trade and business. He is the only student who attended the University of California that had the distinction of being editor of the university’s annual publications, “The Blue and Gold,” for two years. He received his earlier education at the Agassiz primary school, the Horace Mann grammar school and the Polytechnic high school in San Francisco.
In addition to his insurance business, Mr. Rolph has wide and varied interests. He is a director of Air Ferries, Limited, the only air passenger service operated on schedule across San Francisco bay, and a director of Hind, Rolph, & Company. He also served on the marine and aeronautical committee of the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce. Since boyhood he has been identified with a shipping and seafaring atmosphere. The channel and approaches of the Golden Gate, as well as deep water and off-shore on the Pacific and Atlantic are not strangers to him. He is also a licensed aviation pilot.
On May 26, 1926, Mr. Rolph was married to Miss Nancy Jane Richey, of Merced, California. The wedding ceremony was performed in San Francisco.
In political affairs, Mr. Rolph has given his support to the republican party, and his religious affiliation is with the Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Kappa Psi fraternities, the Olympic, Jonathan and Bohemian Clubs and is a member of the Hesperian Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West. He holds a high degree of popularity in the many circles in which he is active and has in every way fulfilled his duties of citizenship in a manner worthy of the name which he bears.
Contributor: Carolyn A. (47198156)
San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California)
January 15, 1980 (Tuesday)
"James Rolph III
Private services will be held in San Francisco later this week for James Rolph III, socialite, rancher and son of the late Gov. James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr., whose own agreeable flamboyance during 20 years as mayor of San Francisco is still warmly remembered.
Mr. Rolph was 75 when he died Sunday [January 13] in a Reno hospital.
For the last 10 years he had divided his time between his showplace Lake Tahoe home and a ranch near Gardnerville, Nev. For 17 years prior to that he operated a ranch near Chlco.
The City has seen little of Mr. Rolph, a native of San Francisco, since 1947, when his voice was last raised in political circles as a backer of the unsuccessful mayoral candidacy of Chester R. MacPhee.
But as the handsome, ebullient only son of Mayor James Rolph Jr. whose administration completed City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire, established the Municipal Railway and brought Hetch Hetchy water to San Francisco's aspiring commercial center - James Rolph III was often in the news.
The city grieved when he was stricken by typhoid fever in 1924. It applauded when he soloed in an airplane at Mills Field, now San Francisco Airport, in 1930. Nor were residents surprised to learn, at one point, that he might sign a Hollywood contract.
He grew up in the Rolphs' Mission District mansion and was educated in the public schools, graduating from Polytechnic High School where, as a mechanical drawing student, he helped draft plans for Kezar Stadium.
He went on to take a bachelor of arts degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1925, and spent a summer as a quartermaster for the Matson and Dollar steamship lines.
At the age of 14 he drove his father through every one of California's 58 counties in a campaign for governor. After the senior Rolph went to the governor's mansion in 1931 he appointed his son, by then vice president of Inter-Island Steamship Co., and president of Enterprise Stevedoring Co., to the state Board of Pilot Commissioners.
For many years the younger Rolph lived on the 3,500-acre Rolph Alpine Ranch behind Menlo Park. His father died In 1933 but Mr. Rolph remained active in Republican politics, though he always campaigned on a bipartisan basis, seeking both Democratic and Republican nominations under the state's now-ended cross-filing system.
He ran unsuccessfully for the nomination for lieutenant governor in 1938 and 1942.
His uncle was the late U. S. Rep. Thomas Rolph.
He was a member of the Pacific Union Club, the Reno Prospectors Club and the American Angus Association.
Mr, Rolph is survived by his wife Jane; a daughter, Nancy Rolph Welch of Atherton; a stepdaughter, Linda Hardy of Gardnerville; sisters Georgina Curtis of Lafayette and Annette Syms of Oakland, and four grandchildren." END
From “The History of San Francisco: Volume II” (1931):
One of the successful younger business men of San Francisco is James Rolph (III), member of the firm of Rolph, Landis, & Ellis, general insurance agents, located in their own building at 345 Sansome street. He is the son of Governor James Rolph, Jr., and Annie Marshall (Reid) Rolph.
A native of the city of San Francisco, James graduated from the University of California, leaving behind him a record of activity in college that gave indication of his later accomplishments in the world of trade and business. He is the only student who attended the University of California that had the distinction of being editor of the university’s annual publications, “The Blue and Gold,” for two years. He received his earlier education at the Agassiz primary school, the Horace Mann grammar school and the Polytechnic high school in San Francisco.
In addition to his insurance business, Mr. Rolph has wide and varied interests. He is a director of Air Ferries, Limited, the only air passenger service operated on schedule across San Francisco bay, and a director of Hind, Rolph, & Company. He also served on the marine and aeronautical committee of the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce. Since boyhood he has been identified with a shipping and seafaring atmosphere. The channel and approaches of the Golden Gate, as well as deep water and off-shore on the Pacific and Atlantic are not strangers to him. He is also a licensed aviation pilot.
On May 26, 1926, Mr. Rolph was married to Miss Nancy Jane Richey, of Merced, California. The wedding ceremony was performed in San Francisco.
In political affairs, Mr. Rolph has given his support to the republican party, and his religious affiliation is with the Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Kappa Psi fraternities, the Olympic, Jonathan and Bohemian Clubs and is a member of the Hesperian Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West. He holds a high degree of popularity in the many circles in which he is active and has in every way fulfilled his duties of citizenship in a manner worthy of the name which he bears.
Contributor: Carolyn A. (47198156)
January 15, 1980 (Tuesday)
"James Rolph III
Private services will be held in San Francisco later this week for James Rolph III, socialite, rancher and son of the late Gov. James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr., whose own agreeable flamboyance during 20 years as mayor of San Francisco is still warmly remembered.
Mr. Rolph was 75 when he died Sunday [January 13] in a Reno hospital.
For the last 10 years he had divided his time between his showplace Lake Tahoe home and a ranch near Gardnerville, Nev. For 17 years prior to that he operated a ranch near Chlco.
The City has seen little of Mr. Rolph, a native of San Francisco, since 1947, when his voice was last raised in political circles as a backer of the unsuccessful mayoral candidacy of Chester R. MacPhee.
But as the handsome, ebullient only son of Mayor James Rolph Jr. whose administration completed City Hall after the 1906 earthquake and fire, established the Municipal Railway and brought Hetch Hetchy water to San Francisco's aspiring commercial center - James Rolph III was often in the news.
The city grieved when he was stricken by typhoid fever in 1924. It applauded when he soloed in an airplane at Mills Field, now San Francisco Airport, in 1930. Nor were residents surprised to learn, at one point, that he might sign a Hollywood contract.
He grew up in the Rolphs' Mission District mansion and was educated in the public schools, graduating from Polytechnic High School where, as a mechanical drawing student, he helped draft plans for Kezar Stadium.
He went on to take a bachelor of arts degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1925, and spent a summer as a quartermaster for the Matson and Dollar steamship lines.
At the age of 14 he drove his father through every one of California's 58 counties in a campaign for governor. After the senior Rolph went to the governor's mansion in 1931 he appointed his son, by then vice president of Inter-Island Steamship Co., and president of Enterprise Stevedoring Co., to the state Board of Pilot Commissioners.
For many years the younger Rolph lived on the 3,500-acre Rolph Alpine Ranch behind Menlo Park. His father died In 1933 but Mr. Rolph remained active in Republican politics, though he always campaigned on a bipartisan basis, seeking both Democratic and Republican nominations under the state's now-ended cross-filing system.
He ran unsuccessfully for the nomination for lieutenant governor in 1938 and 1942.
His uncle was the late U. S. Rep. Thomas Rolph.
He was a member of the Pacific Union Club, the Reno Prospectors Club and the American Angus Association.
Mr, Rolph is survived by his wife Jane; a daughter, Nancy Rolph Welch of Atherton; a stepdaughter, Linda Hardy of Gardnerville; sisters Georgina Curtis of Lafayette and Annette Syms of Oakland, and four grandchildren." END
From “The History of San Francisco: Volume II” (1931):
One of the successful younger business men of San Francisco is James Rolph (III), member of the firm of Rolph, Landis, & Ellis, general insurance agents, located in their own building at 345 Sansome street. He is the son of Governor James Rolph, Jr., and Annie Marshall (Reid) Rolph.
A native of the city of San Francisco, James graduated from the University of California, leaving behind him a record of activity in college that gave indication of his later accomplishments in the world of trade and business. He is the only student who attended the University of California that had the distinction of being editor of the university’s annual publications, “The Blue and Gold,” for two years. He received his earlier education at the Agassiz primary school, the Horace Mann grammar school and the Polytechnic high school in San Francisco.
In addition to his insurance business, Mr. Rolph has wide and varied interests. He is a director of Air Ferries, Limited, the only air passenger service operated on schedule across San Francisco bay, and a director of Hind, Rolph, & Company. He also served on the marine and aeronautical committee of the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce. Since boyhood he has been identified with a shipping and seafaring atmosphere. The channel and approaches of the Golden Gate, as well as deep water and off-shore on the Pacific and Atlantic are not strangers to him. He is also a licensed aviation pilot.
On May 26, 1926, Mr. Rolph was married to Miss Nancy Jane Richey, of Merced, California. The wedding ceremony was performed in San Francisco.
In political affairs, Mr. Rolph has given his support to the republican party, and his religious affiliation is with the Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Kappa Psi fraternities, the Olympic, Jonathan and Bohemian Clubs and is a member of the Hesperian Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West. He holds a high degree of popularity in the many circles in which he is active and has in every way fulfilled his duties of citizenship in a manner worthy of the name which he bears.
Contributor: Carolyn A. (47198156)
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