NAME, Years Elected to City Council

William Harwood was on the Oakland City Council in 1855 and 1857.

 

POLITICAL AFFILIATION

 

 

BIO

Former sea captain; farmer.3

 

OTHER POSITIONS IN CITY GOVERNMENT

1869 Member, Board of Education2

1876 City Wharfinger (appointed)

President of Oddfellows Library1

 

 

 

REFERENCES

  1. Bishop's Oakland Directory for 1876-1877. DM Bishop & Co: 1876.
  2. Wood, MW. History of Alameda County, California. MW Wood: 1883.
  3. "Come, look down on a soaring hawk," Dennis Evanosky, Hills Newspapers, December 1, 2006
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