Background
Walcott, Earle Ashley was born on November 19, 1859 in Magnolia, Illinois, United States. Son of John and Rebecca Josephine (Butterfield) Walcott.
President City Civil Service Commission
Walcott, Earle Ashley was born on November 19, 1859 in Magnolia, Illinois, United States. Son of John and Rebecca Josephine (Butterfield) Walcott.
Preparatory education Santa Barbara (California) College, 1874-1876. Bachelor of Letters of California, 1883.
Editor The Occident (college weekly), 1882. Editor Lodi Valley Review, 1884-1885, San Franciscan, 1885-1886. On staff San Francisco Chronicle, 1886.
Editorial writer San Francisco Post, 1886-1889. Editor Weekly Examiner, and editorial writer Daily Examiner, 1889-1909. Executive secretary Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, August, since 1909.
Temporary chairman and secretary San Francisco Charter Revision Convention, 1910. Member of commission for location and construction of California State Reformatory, term 1911-1915. President San Francisco Civil Service Commission, 1912-1914, 1919-1921, since 1924.
Three times reapptd. commissioner, term ends 1931. Member mayor’s advisory conference on charter amendments, 1912. Secretary Exposition Preservation League, since 1919.
President St. Francis Homes Association, 1922-1926. First vice president National Assembly Civil Service Commission, 1925-1926, president, 1926-1927. Member State Constitutional Commission, 1930.
Author: Blindfolded, 1906. The Apple of Discord, 1907. The Open Door, 1910; Influence of Immigration on Population, 1922.
Editor of transactions Commonwealth Club of California, vols. III to XXIV. Home: San Francisco, California.
Member: California Academy, Sciences. Club: Commonwealth. California (Executive-Secretary).
Married Frances Van Reynegom, April 1915. Children: Ashley V. R., Francis John.