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STANLEY
D. WHITNEY
Stanley
D. Whitney, attorney, was born in Pullman, Illinois, on December 25, 1897. His
parents moved to California when he was eight years old and he attended grammar
and high school in San Francisco; then Alliance College in Pennsylvania. He
subsequently studied law at San Francisco Law College, where he graduated in
1930 with the degree of LL.B. He became a resident of Alameda, California with
his family in 1922.
Mr. Whitney served as clerk of the Justice’s
Court of Alameda Township from 1930 to 1934 and was associated in practice with
the late Judge Edwin M. Otis for several years. He served as city attorney of
Alameda from December 1944 to October 1951. Now is in private practice in
Alameda, practicing individually.
Mr. Whitney married Miss Helen Lewicki, a native of New York City, and they have two
children, Stanley D., Jr. (deceased) and Helen Camille. Mrs. Whitney is active
in the Women’s Athletic Club and the auxiliary of the Alameda Post of American
Legion, and also the Garden Branch of the Children’s Hospital, all of Alameda,
California, where the family home is located.
During World War I Mr. Whitney spent
about one year overseas and took part in the Meuse-Argonne and Verdun
engagements. He is a member of Post No. 9 of the American Legion of Alameda.
His only son joined the Army Air Force while a senior at University of
California in 1943. Commissioned Lieutenant, he became a bombardier and lost
his life while serving in the 321st Squadron of the 90th
Heavy Bombardment Group of the Fifth Army Air Force. While on a reconnaissance
trip near the island of Truk, his ship ran out of gas
and crashed in New Guinea. He was decorated the Air Medal, Distinguished
Service Medal, and Purple Heart. In addition to serving in World War I, Mr.
Whitney, Sr., was also active in World War II. Originally in the Corps of
Military Police, he later became a troop transport commander and went overseas
several times to the South Pacific Area. He held the rank of captain in the
army.
Member of Alameda
Lodge No. 1019, B.P.O.E.; Oak Grove Lodge No. 215 F. & A. M.; and Alameda
Kiwanis Club. His religious affiliation is with the Episcopal Church.
His legal fraternity is Kappa Epsilon Phi.
Offices: Bank of America building, Alameda,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 245, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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