American politician Francis Mellus

Francis Mellus' (February 3, 1824 - September 14, 1864), brother of Henry Mellus, was a Los Angeles County Supervisor and a successful California business man.

Francis Mellus, born in Salem, M*achusetts, was a younger brother of Henry Mellus.

California

In 1839 he came to San Francisco in Mexican Alta California, and was employed as clerk by his brother Henry. As noted in his journal, he worked for a Mr. Thompson for at least 3 years. Reference Journal of Francis Mellus from June 11, 1838 to March 26, 1847.

Francis Mellus bought hides for this company along the coast of California, taking the goods by sailing ship to San Diego, where they were dried, and when a sufficient quan*y was collected to fill a trading ship, usually took a couple of years' time, Mellus sent the goods to the East Coast.

Los Angeles

After 11 years of that work he came to Los Angeles, where he entered the general merchandise business with David W. Alexander, under the firm name of Alexander & Mellus. Francis married Adelaida Johnson (the daughter of James (Santiago) Johnson and a sister of Henry Mellus’s wife Anita). James J. Mellus was the son of Francis Mellus.

Francis Mellus was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city, on 1 May 1854. He was chosen to be council president. Mellus resigned from the council on 8 December 1854.

Mellus was a member of the California State *embly, representing 1st *embly District, from 1855-56. In 1858 he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

After the ending his partnership with Alexander in 1863, Francis Mellus was representative for the Wells Fargo Express Company until his death in 1864.

Francis Mellus' widow, Adelaida Mellus, married his partner Alexander in 1864.

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Members
(1850–1870)

• Cristobal Aguilar
• David W. Alexander
• David Anderson
• James Baldwin
• Peter Baltz
• Phineas Banning
• John Barre
• Joseph Bayer
• Alexander Bell
• Dionisio Botiller
• Leonicio Botiller
• Narciso Botello
• Andrew A. Boyle
• George Henry Carson
• Samuel Bradford Caswell
• Caro W. Childs
• Ozro W. Childs
• T. B. Collins
• Antonio Franco Coronel
• Ygnacio Coronel
• George Dalton
• Ygnacio del Valle
• Jose Maria Doporto
• Arthur McKenzie Dodson
• John Gately Downey
• Ezra Drown
• James Edwards
• Stephen Clark Foster
• John Frohling
• Ira Gilchrist
• Morris L. Goodman
• John Goller
• Lewis Granger
• John Strother Griffin
• Joseph Lancaster Grant
• Jose Vicente Guerrero
• Vincent A. Hoover
• Alexander W. Hope
• Joseph Huber Sr.
• Arnold Jacobi
• Charles H. Johnson
• John F. Jones
• Wilson W. Jones
• Matthew Keller
• John King
• Solomon Lazard
• Obed Macy
• Damien Marchesseault
• Luis B. Martinez
• Hiram McLaughlin
• Lewis Meinzer
• Francis Mellus
• Jacob Metzger
• William Moore
• Moritz Morris
• Murray Morrison
• Elijah Moulton
• Henry R. Myles
• Myron Norton
• Agustin Olvera
• William H. Perry
• William H. Peterson
• Nehemiah A. Potter
• David M. Porter
• Augustine Poulain
• William R. Rand
• Manuel Requena
• William Whipple Robinson
• Louis Roeder
• Tomas A. Sanchez
• William T. B. Sanford
• John Schumacher
• Juan María Sepúlveda
• Philip Sichel
• Felix Signoret
• Abel Stearns
• Eli Taylor
• Jonathan Temple
• John B. Thompson
• James R. Toberman
• John Turner
• August Ulyard
• Juan C. Vejar
• Collins Wadhams
• Henry Wartenberg
• Jacob Weizel
• John Ozias Wheeler
• George N. Whitman
• Benjamin Davis Wilson
• James Brown Winston
• Wallace Woodworth
• Geronimo Ybarra

Wards
(1870–1889)1st Ward

• Julian A. Chavez
• Bernard Dubourdin
• John Jones
• Thornton P. Campbell
• Oscar Macy
• Julian Valdes
• Joseph Mullaly
• George R. Long
• Jacob F. Gherkins
• Ramon R. Sotelo
• Joseph G. Carmona
• F. Tamiet
• B. Valle
• Cayetano Apablasa
• Ezra M. Hamilton
• Louis Meinzer
• John Schaeffer
• R. L. Beauchet
• William Norton Monroe
• J. G. Bower
• Clinton S. Scheiffelin
• Charles W. Schroeder
• William Thomas Lambie
• James Velsir
• Thomas Goss
• George L. Stearns
• Edward A. Gibbs
• James Hanley
• Newell Mathews
• C. N. Earl
• George O. Ford

2nd Ward

• William Ferguson
• George Fall
• Matthew Teed
• Prudent Beaudry
• William H. Workman
• Jose Mascarel
• Louis Lichtenberger
• Jacob Kuhrts
• Bernard Cohn
• James W. Potts
• John Edward Hollenbeck
• C. C. Lips
• Richard Molony
• Jesse Houston Butler
• John Bobenreith
• H. Schumacher
• Pascal Ballade
• Henry Hammel
• Frank R. Day
• John Frederick Holbrook
• Martin V. Biscailuz
• Michael Thomas Collins
• Thomas J. Cuddy
• John Moriarty
• H. T. D. Wilson

3rd Ward

• Frank Sabichi
• Henry Dockweiler
• William S. Hammel Sr.
• John Osborn
• Elijah H. Workman
• H.K.S. O'Melveny
• William H. Dennison
• Eulogio F. de Celis
• William Osborn
• Charles E. Huber
• Louis Wolfskill
• Thomas Leahy
• D.V. Waldron
• Elisha K. Green
• John S. Thompson
• John H. Jones
• Albert Fenner Kercheval
• Charles Brode
• Simon A. Francis
• S. H. Buchanan
• Edward Falles Spence
• George Gephard
• Andrew S. Ryan
• Robert Steere
• J. B. O'Neil
• Charles G*en
• Charles R. Johnson
• Loring A. French
• Albert Brown
• Levi Newton Breed
• Edward Wadsworth Jones
• Edward C. Bosbyshell
• John F. Humphreys
• J. H. Book
• John Henry Bryant

4th Ward

• William H. Workman
• Samuel J. Beck
• Samuel Marshall Perry
• O. H. Bliss
• Bernard Cohn
• Burdette Chandler
• George Kerckhoff
• Joseph W. Wolfskill
• Alfred Louis Bush
• D. E. Miles
• Frank Sabichi
• Milton Santee
• James D. Bullis
• John Lovell
• Joseph Hyans
• Anthony McNally
• Edward R. Threlkeld

5th Ward

• William B. Lawlor
• Nathan Russell Vail
• James Greer McDonald
• John P. Moran
• Walter Scott Moore
• Otto G. Weyse
• Daniel Michael McGarry
• John B. Niles
• Hiram Sinsabaugh
• Cyrus Willard
• Jacob Frankenfeld
• Horace Hiller
• A. W. Barrett
• Austin C. Shafer

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