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JAMES STARK BENNETT
BENNETT, JAMES STAR, Attorney-at-law, Los Angeles, California, was born in Sherburne, N. Y., May 7, 1879, the son of George Calder Bennett and Ella J. (Stark) Bennett. He married Ethelwyn Foote at Pasadena, California, Oct. 8, 1907, and they have three children, Louise, Caroline and Constance.
Having moved to California in childhood, the greater part of Mr. Bennett’s life has ben passed there. He attended the schools of Pomona, Cal., graduating from Pomona College in 1903, with the degree of L. B. He then went to Columbia University, New York, and in 1905 received the degree of Master of Arts from the Faculty of Political Science. In 1906 he was graduated from Columbia Law School with the degree of LL. B., and had completed residence work for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, but has never returned to the University to take the degree.
While in public school Mr. Bennett engaged in the retail shoe business at Pomona, with A. S. Avery, and continued in that business during the years 1899-1900. During 1904-05, while he was a student at Columbia, he taught English to adult foreigners in the night schools of New York City.
Mr. Bennett was admitted to the Bar of New York in 1905, but he did not practice until he returned to his home in 1906. Admitted in California, in July, 1906, Mr. Bennett became associated with Hunsaker & Britt, Los Angeles, and remained with them until September, 1909. He then associated with E. J. Fleming for two years, and since Feb., 1912, in partnership with Garfield R. Jones.
He is active in Republican politics and a member of the State Central Committee of California.
He is member, University Club, Los Angeles; Political Science Club of Columbia University, and L. A. Bar Assn. Resides Pasadena.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 509,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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