Los
Angeles County
Biographies
ARTHUR J.
EDWARDS
Among the able and learned
representatives of the legal profession in Southern California is Arthur J.
Edwards, well known attorney of Los Angeles.
He is a native of Edgecombe county, North Carolina, born June 1, 1871,
and in the acquirement of an education attended the Tarboro Male Academy of
Tarboro, that state, the Davis Military School, Wake Forest College of Wake
Forest, North Carolina, and also the University of Kentucky. His professional training was received as a
student at the Valparaiso University Law School, Valparaiso, Indiana, from
which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1894.
Mr. Edwards was admitted to practice
in Indiana circuit court in 1893, the Indiana supreme court in 1894, the United
States district and circuit courts in 1895, the Arizona district and supreme
courts in 1896, the United States supreme court in 1898, the California
district court of appeals, second appellate district, in 1907, and the
California United States district and circuit courts in 1910. He served for one term as district attorney
of Phoenix, Arizona, and for some years engaged in law practice as a partner of
the late Governor J. H. Kibbey of Arizona.
Since 1907 he has followed his profession in Los Angeles, maintaining
offices in the Subway Terminal building, and he is accorded an extensive and
gratifying clientele.
Fraternally Mr. Edwards is
affiliated with the following Masonic bodies:
Arizona Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M.; Phoenix Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M.,
of Phoenix, Arizona; the Commandery, Knights Templar; and Al Malaikah Temple of
the Mystic Shrine in Los Angeles, California.
He is also identified with the Independent Order of Foresters and with
the Woodmen of the World, while along strictly professional lines he has a membership
in the Los Angeles Bar Association and the California State Bar.
Transcribed by
Mary Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Page 813, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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