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BENJAMIN F. BLEDSOE
BLEDSOE, BENJAMIN F., Judge of Superior Court, San Bernardino, California, was born February 8, 1874, in San Bernardino.
His father was Robert E. Bledsoe and his mother Althea Bottoms. He is a descendant of Hon. Jesse Bledsoe, United States Senator from Kentucky.
Judge Bledsoe married Katharine Marvin Shepler at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1899. There are two children, Barbara Shepler and Frances Priscilla Bledsoe.
He attended the public schools of San Bernardino until 1891, and then entered Leland Stanford, Jr., University, graduating in 1896.
He was admitted to the Bar and was his father’s law partner until 1901, when he was elected Judge of the Superior Court. He was re-elected without opposition in 1906.
At the state primary election in 1910 Judge Bledsoe was nominated by the Democratic party to run for the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
He is a director in the Farmers’ Exchange National Bank of San Bernardino, the Golden State Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles and other business enterprises.
From 1898-1900 he was United States Referee in Bankruptcy, San Bernardino County. Member Board of Library Trustees since 1899, and has been president of that body since 1907. He is also president of the Alumni Association of Stanford University.
He is grand chancellor Knights of Pythias (1911-12) grand orator Grand Lodge of Masons (1908-09); grand warder Knights Templar (1911-12), and a member of Delta Upsilon and Phi Delta Phi, college fraternities.
He is a member of the University Club of Los Angeles.
Transcribed 4-29-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 254,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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