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THEODORE
PETER WITTSCHEN
Theodore
Peter Wittschen, attorney (retired), was born March
15, 1885, in New York City, New York; the son of John and Antoinette (Martin) Wittschen.
Graduated from Hastings College of
Law, University of California, in May of 1910 with his LL.B. degree. Admitted
to the California State Bar on June 1, 1910, and commenced practice in Oakland.
From 1914 to 1922 Mr. Wittschen served in the district attorney’s office, Alameda
County, California, first as deputy, then chief deputy, and later as assistant
district attorney. In 1922 he resigned to become chief counsel for Mill & Lux, Inc., San Francisco. Then in 1925 he became chief
counsel for East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland.
Mr. Wittschen
was elected to Board of Governors of State Bar of California in 1932 and
re-elected in 1934; served as chairman of Budget and Efficiency Committee
during the 1937 Legislative Session and was chairman of the Legislative
Committee; served as president from September 1935 to September 1936.
Member of Phi Delta Phi (legal)
Fraternity; The Oakland Forum (past president); Alameda County Tuberculosis
Association (past president); Athenian-Nile Club of Oakland and Oakland Lions’
Club (past president).
Mr. Wittschen
married Alice Mary Sandford July 29, 1914 (died in
1947); children: Katherine Alice (Mrs. Robert T. Eshleman),
born in 1915; Antoinette Margaret (Mrs. John Henry Adams), born in 1917;
Theodore Peter, Jr. (Ensign with United States Naval Reserve, who died in the Battle
of Tassafaronga in the Solomons
on December 1, 1942, at the age of twenty-two); Mary Eleanor (Mrs. Anton Bus),
born in 1928.
Residence: 1209 Bay Street, Alameda, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 303, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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