After a few years , Coggins left and moved to San Francisco , California , shortly after the 1906 earthquake . There he got a job with Whitaker and Ray , a small-scale distributor of educational books and school supplies . As the editor in charge of their publishing department , he oversaw projects like issuing a set of lectures that Theodore Roosevelt had recently given in the Bay Area . Realizing that the firm was economically precarious , he left around 1912
1906 earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Herbert L. Coggins