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VERNON BETTIN
Vernon Bettin is successfully
engaged in law practice in Los Angeles as a member of the firm of Root, Bettin
& Painter. He is a member of an old
Los Angeles family, and the home in which he lived as a youth occupied the site
of the present Metropolitan Building at 112 West Ninth Street, where his office
is located. He was born in Kingsville,
Missouri, August 13, 1895, his parents being August and Emma (Busser) Bettin, natives of
Germany and Switzerland, respectively.
The father is deceased, but the mother survives and resides in Los
Angeles.
Vernon Bettin was eighteen months
old when the family home was established in Los Angeles, where he subsequently
attended the grammar and high schools.
He afterward spent a year as a student in Occidental College of Los
Angeles and received his professional training at the University of Southern
California, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1921. The same year he pursued
post-graduate work in Harvard Law College and in 1922 began the general
practice of his chosen profession in Los Angeles, where he has thus continued
active to the present time, capably handling the litigated interests entrusted
to his care. Mr. Bettin is a member of
both the California State and American Bar Associations. When about nine years old he was a member of
the choir of St. Paul’s Church and his soprano voice attracted much attention. When twelve or thirteen, he
appeared as a soloist at the old Stimson Auditorium under the auspices of L. E.
Behymer.
On September 6, 1930, Mr. Bettin was
united in marriage to Ruth Briner, a native of Kansas
City, Missouri.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Page
31, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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