The Family conducts periodic social events among the redwood and oak trees and open meadows at its rural property on the San Francisco peninsula.

Each member must certify that he will not deduct any part of club payments as business expenses for federal or state income tax purposes.

The Family Club was formed in 1901 after Ambrose Bierce wrote a poem that seemed to predict President William McKinley's death by an assassin's bullet.

A group of 14 reporters, editors, and other Hearst newsmen, in the spirit of true Bohemians and asserting freedom of the press, resigned in protest to the censorship, formed their own club, and called it The Family.

[4] The club rebuilt at the corner of Powell and Bush Streets, and still conducts meetings at this site two blocks from the peak of Nob Hill.