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GEORGE WILDER CARTWRIGHT

 

 

     George Wilder Cartwright, widely known Los Angeles attorney, author and lecturer, was born at Charleston, Coles County, Illinois; November 9, 1863, a son of John and Martha (Ashby) Cartwright.  In the acquirement of an education he attended public schools of California from 1870 until 1879, and he holds a teacher’s life diploma.  Mr. Cartwright taught school in California during the eleven-year period between 1883 and 1894 and was subsequently identified with business interests as manager of the Malaga Packing Company for four years.  Having become a prominent factor in public affairs, he was chosen a member of the California state assembly, in which he served from 1897 until 1899, and next filled the position of county clerk of Fresno County from 1899 until 1903.  He was admitted to the California bar in 1903 and became a law partner of D. A. Cashin, now associate justice of the first district court of appeals of California.  Again chosen for legislature service, he was a member of the California state senate from 1907 until 1915 and the author or the Cartwright anti-trust law, passed in 1907. 

     Mr. Cartwright occupied the presidency of the Pacific National Fire Insurance Company from 1912 until 1917.  Since the latter year he has engaged in writing and speaking in defense of the United States Constitution and in opposition to communism, having been heard in all parts of the country through the medium of the lecture platform and the radio.  As vice president of the American Educational Association of Philadelphia he made daily speeches between the years 1919 and 1922, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, to an aggregate of more than two million persons, mainly factory workers in New England and the cities of the middle-west. 

     A man of marked literary talent as well as pronounced professional ability, Mr. Cartwright is the author of “Mutual Interests of Labor and Capital,” “The Voice of America,” “The Derailing Switch” and has also written numerous pamphlets.  For three years he edited “The Commonwealth,” published in Los Angeles.  He is a democrat in politics and a Baptist in religious faith.

     On the 24th of December, 1889, Mr. Cartwright was united in marriage to Miss Rose Sophia Otto, of Fresno, California, and they are the parents of a daughter, now Mrs. Hazel Eleanor Walker, residing in Los Angeles County.

 

 

 

Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.

Source: California of the South Vol. II, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 199-200, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,  Indianapolis.  1933.

© 2012  Bill Simpkins.

 

 

 

 

 

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