Talk:Tuna Club of Avalon

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)

Winston Churchill
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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)
 * Thx. ✅ -> --86.212.53.109 (talk) 20:26, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Tuna Club Members
The club had three kinds of members: 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 Among the honorary members who lend their aid and influence and example were [mentioned by Holder, transcribed by year of election]: Source: Charles Frederick Holder: The Channel islands of California, 1910 --86.212.53.109 (talk) 19:57, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) associate members, selected from anglers at large.
 * 3) honorary members who have aided in the principles the club stands for.
 * 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];
 * 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, of Los Angeles, elected in 1899;
 * 1899: Caspar Whitney, of New York, elected in 1899;
 * 1899: Joseph Jefferson, elected in 1899;
 * 1899: Hancock Banning, elected in 1899;
 * 1903: Theodore van Dyke, 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, 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.