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ROBERT WINFIELD DANIELS
Robert Winfield
Daniels is numbered among the leading and learned lawyers of Los Angeles, where he maintains offices in
the Black building at 357 South
Hill Street.
He was born in Mansfield,
Ohio, February 5, 1880, a son of
Ebenezer Ross and Lucy (Marriott) Daniels.
Following the completion of a public school course he entered the old
Oskaloosa College of Iowa, from which he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in 1908. His
professional training was received as a student at the Chicago-Kent College of
Law, which in 1911 conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1926 he received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from the Chicago Seminar of Science.
It was in 1911
that Mr. Daniels began the work of his chosen profession in Chicago in association with Benedict J. Short
and Felix J. Stryckmans, being engaged in the practice of civil, criminal and
interstate commerce law until 1918.
During the succeeding four years he served as assistant state’s
attorney, while from 1922 to 1923 he was associated with Charles Erbstein in
criminal and civil practice in Chicago. Next he practiced as a member of the law firm
of Daniels, Boddie, Tone and Challenger from 1923 to 1927, and in 1925-26 was a
lecturer on practice and procedure in Valparaiso University of Indiana. Mr. Daniels served as assistant district
attorney of San Bernardino County,
California, in 1927, having just
previously come to the Pacific coast. He
is a member of the Chicago and California State Bar Associations.
On the 12th of
September, 1905, Mr. Daniels was united in marriage to Florence Gutches, of
Osage, Iowa,
and they are the parents of a daughter, Genevieve Frances, who is the wife of
Sidney J. Westfall of Los Angeles. The religious
faith of Mr. Daniels is that of the Methodist
Church, while fraternally
he is identified with the following Masonic bodies: Morgan Park Lodge, No. 999,
A. F. & A. M.; America Chapter, R. A. M.; Englewood Commandery, K. T., all
of Chicago; Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Los Angeles; and the Order
of the Eastern Star.
Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.
Source: California of the South
Vol. II, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 395-396, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Bill Simpkins.
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