Los Angeles County
Biographies
JAKE MORRIS DANZIGER
DANZIGER, JAKE MORRIS, Attorney and Oil Operator, Los Angeles, California, was born in New York City, May 7, 1882. His father was Morris Danziger and his mother Lena (Mendelson) Danziger. At Salt Lake City, Utah, July 25, 1900, he married Daisy C. Canfield, by which marriage there are two children, Daisy Canfield and Beth Chloe Danziger.
Mr. Danziger was taken to Los Angeles, California, when he was one year old and obtained his education in the public schools of that city, later taking a course at the Los Angeles Polytechnic High School. He studied law at the University of Southern California.
After further studies in law he was admitted to the Bar in Los Angeles, October, 1903, when he immediately went into practice for himself, and since that time has become one of the most prominent corporation attorneys on the Pacific Coast.
In 1905, Mr. Danziger became associated as counsel with a coterie of oil and petroleum men and now is one of the most important factors in that line in the Southwest. He is associated with C. A. Canfield, E. L. Doheny, Dr. Norman Bridge and others, whose names are linked with the discovery and development of oil fields, both in Southern California and in old Mexico.
His first work was in the Golden State as legal adviser for C. A. Canfield. When Mr. Canfield and his associate turned their money into Mexico, for the development of the Mexican Petroleum Company, he became interested with them. The operations in Mexico cover a wide range of territory and the properties are regarded as some of the best investments in the republic of the South. Another important enterprise controlled by these men is the Mexican National Gas Company, of Mexico City, the corporation having installed a modern gas plant in the capital city, which now furnishes all the gas used there.
These properties represent investments of millions of dollars. It would seem that these works alone would be enough to keep a man busy, but Mr. Danziger is one of the kind that thrives on hard work and he counts among his activities nearly a score of corporations.
In 1906 he was made counsel for the oil department of the Santa Fe Railroad, retaining his position with them until 1909, when he resigned to devote his entire attention to the furtherance of the companies in which he was invested.
Mr. Danziger became the manager of the Land Department of the American Oilfields Company on its organization and has since been interested largely in that company. He also looks after the legal phases of the company’s business.
His work at the present time is entirely in the interest of oil and petroleum corporations; the American Oilfields Company, the Mexican Petroleum Company, and the National Oil and Gypsum Company being among the prominent ones. He is manager of the Land Department and a director in the first named company, is a director in the Herastein Petroleum Company, manager of the Bankers’ Oil Company, president of both the Ruby and Opal Oil Companies, is the treasurer of the Jade Oil Company, and a director in the Mexican National Gas Company. He is also treasurer of the Sapphire Oil Company.
Interested as he is in so many progressive concerns, it is a natural sequence that Mr. Danziger should be regarded as one of the upbuilders of the Southwest. He has aided materially in any movement that had for its object the betterment of Los Angeles.
Mr. Danziger is a member of the L. A. Athletic Club, the Sierra Madre County Club, is a Scottish Rite Mason, thirty-second degree, and a member of the Elks Lodge No. 99. He is a Shriner and is a Republican in politics.
Transcribed 10-24-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 342, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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