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JOHN P. CRUTCHER
John P. Crutcher, an able young attorney of Los Angeles, is associated with the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, one of the most important legal concerns on the Pacific coast. He was born in Los Angeles, May 18, 1901, his parents being Kate Page Crutcher and the late Albert Crutcher, a prominent lawyer of the west. During the half century in which Albert Crutcher was engaged in the practice of his profession in Los Angeles he held a foremost place among the representative members of the bar, which he honored by his long and able service. A native of Frankfort, Kentucky, he was born October 10, 1860, and had passed his seventieth birthday when he died in Los Angeles, California, on the 4th of August, 1931. He graduated from the law department of the University of Louisfille with the degree of Bachelor of laws in 1881 and the same year was admitted to the Kentucky bar. Shortly thereafter he located in Los Angeles, where he continued in the practice of his chosen profession throughout the remainder of his life. He was a member of the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, one of the oldest and strongest in this part of the country, representing as counsel numerous corporate and industrial organizations such as the Los Angeles Railway, the Southern California Edison Company, the Griffith Company, the Santa Catalina island Company, the Wilmington Transportation Company, the Huntington Land & Improvement Company, the Central Manufacturing District, Inc., the Richfield Oil Company and many large bond houses. Mr. Crutcher belonged to the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and various other local organizations and along strictly professional lines held membership in the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the California State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He was widely recognized as an authority in his special field of practice, in which he attained distinctive success, and no resident of Los Angeles has held a higher place in public regard because of his standing in his profession, his sterling personal qualities and his kindly and affable manner. It was in 1895 that he married Miss Kate Page, who survives him together with their two children, John P. And Roberta. Mrs. Crutcher is actively interested in civic affairs and is also well known in social circles of Los Angeles.
John P. Crutcher was graduated from the University of Southern California with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923 and three years later the same institution conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. It was in 1926 that he became associated with his father in the Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, of which he has since remained a member. Though the three original partners are now dead, the firm name has not been changed and John P. Crutcher is proving a worth successor of his honored father at the California bar.
On the 16th of February, 1927, in Los Angeles, Mr. Crutcher married Miss Margaret Fulton and they are now the parents of two sons: James Page, born December 9, 1919; and John Fulton, born July 15, 1934. Mr. Crutcher is a popular member of the California Club and greatly enjoys outdoor sports, being particularly fond of hunting and fishing.
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11-15-12 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 511-512,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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