Frederick Nicholas “Fred” Morcom

1874 - 1955  (81 years)

• Name	Frederick Nicholas Morcom
  Nickname	Fred
  Birth	2 Mar 1874	Grass Valley, Nevada, CA
  Gender	Male
  Census	23 Apr 1910	San Francisco, San Francisco, CA ; age 36, born CA, marr 2 yrs, art dealer, parents born ENG/ENG
  Military Service	12 Sep 1918	Oakland, Alameda, CA ; WW1 Draft Reg Card, born 3 Mar 1874, merchant, NOK Marion Cummings Morcom
  Census	8 Jan 1920	Oakland, Alameda, CA ; age 45, born CA, salesman in art goods, parents born ENG/ENG
  Census	12 Apr 1930	Oakland, Alameda, CA ; age 50, born CA, marr at 30, merchant at art store, parents born ENG/ENG
  Elected	1 Jul 1931	Oakland, Alameda, CA ; selected 37th mayor of Oakland
  Census	17 Apr 1940	Oakland, Alameda, CA ; age 64, born CA, H4 ed, residing here in 1935, proprietor of art goods store
  Death	4 Oct 1955	Oakland, Alameda, CA
  Person ID	I7487	Family Tree | Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2015

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Morcom
  Mother	Rachel Scantlebury
  Family ID	F2510	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marion Baxter Cummings,   b. 11 Oct 1885, Truro, Colchester, NS d. 2 Apr 1974, Alameda, Alameda, CA (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	10 Apr 1908	San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  Children	+ 1. Marion Cummings Morcom,   b. 30 Sep 1918, Oakland, Alameda, CA d. 30 Aug 1999, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F2509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  from List of Mayors of Oakland, California (wikipedia.com) Morcom was born March 3, 1874 in Grass Valley, California, but little is known of his upbringing. He had established himself as proprietor of Morcom's picture frame and art store at 1724 Broadway by 1920. In 1931, he was the first Oakland mayor ever to be selected by his fellow council members and not by popular vote, under a charter reform meant to reform the excesses of the Davie era. However, Morcom quit as mayor after only one term, stating that a businessman could not afford to serve as mayor, with a monthly stipend of $100 a month plus $15 per council meeting, and that he did believe in the new council-manager form of municipal government (council-manager government), but that the mayor should be popularly elected and properly paid. Morcom returned to the city council, as councilman-at-large, from 1941 to 1953. In 1933 he planted the first rose in the municipal rose garden, which was renamed the Morcom Amphitheater of Roses in 1953. He lived at 4231 Lakeshore Avenue as mayor and up to his death on October 4, 1955.