Talk:Tuna Club of Avalon

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Please remove the emoji, first edit, I did not know — Preceding unsigned comment added by Overseer'sEye (talk • contribs) 22:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Winston Churchill

This was left on my talk page anonymously:

 re: Avalon Tuna Club. Churchill fished there but was never a member.

Leaving it here for whatever it's worth. --Junkyardsparkle (talk) 00:58, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thx.

Done -> [1] --86.212.53.109 (talk) 20:26, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Tuna Club Members

The club had three kinds of members:

active members who have landed a tuna of one hundred pounds or over, according to club rules. These are voting members and have full charge of the club.
associate members, selected from anglers at large.
honorary members who have aided in the principles the club stands for.

In 1898, when Charles Frederick Holder founded the Tuna Club, following his catch of a very large tuna, he asked the cooperation of several friends (...). The original members were

Mr. E. L. Doran, of Los Angeles,
Dr. H. K. Macomber, of Pasadena,
Mr. Fitch Dewy, of Detroit,
Mr. Clifford Scudder; of St. Louis,
Mr. Landers, of San Francisco
and myself [C. F. Holder];

Among the honorary members who lend their aid and influence and example were [mentioned by Holder, transcribed by year of election]:

n.d. David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Junior University;
1898: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, elected in 1898, when Governor of New York;
1898: Dr. Henry Van Dyke, author of "Fisherman's Luck," [1899] etc, elected in 1898;
1899: H. H. Markham, ex-Governor of California, elected in 1899;
1899: Grover Cleveland, of Princeton, ex-President of the United States, elected in 1899;
1899: Captain William Banning [2], of Los Angeles, elected in 1899;
1899: Caspar Whitney, of New York, elected in 1899;
1899: Joseph Jefferson, elected in 1899;
1899: Hancock Banning [3], elected in 1899;
1903: Theodore van Dyke [4], of California, author of "The Still Hunter," etc., elected in 1903;
1906: Gifford Pinchot, elected in 1906;
1907: Charles Hallock, of Washington, founder of the "Forest and Stream," elected in 1907;
1907: F. G. Aflalo [5], F.Z.S., of England, member of the British Sea Angler's Society of London, elected in 1907;
1907: J. Parker Whitney, of New York, author of "Salmon Fishing," elected in 1907;
n.d. the president of the British Sea Angler's Society;
n.d. United States Senator Frank P. Flint.

Source: Charles Frederick Holder: The Channel islands of California, 1910 [6]
--86.212.53.109 (talk) 19:57, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]