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KYLE Z. GRAINGER
An able and successful representative of the Los Angeles bar is Kyle Z. Grainger, member of the law firm of Grainger & Hunt, which maintains offices in the Board of Trade building. A native Californian, he was born in Santa Paula, Ventura county, September 29, 1889, his parents being John T. and Mary Jane (Boyne) Grainger. The father, a native of the state of Missouri, became one of the pioneers of Ventura county, California, where he was successfully engaged in ranching for many years. He passed away September 2, 1934, having long survived his wife.
Kyle Z. Grainger supplemented his early educational training by collegiate work at Occidental College o Los Angeles, and College of Liberal Arts and College of Law at the University of Southern California. While attending these institutions he was their representative in numerous debating and oratorical contests. His fraternities were: General, Chi Phi; Legal, Delta Theta Phi; and Honorary, Delta Sigma Rho. As an alumnus, he assisted in forming the Trojan Club and was chosen its first president. He was admitted to the California bar in 1913 and has continued in practice in Los Angeles throughout the intervening period of more than two decades. From 1918 until 1923 he was associated with Richard A. Turner and early in the year 1934 entered upon his present partnership relations as a member of the law firm of Grainger & Hunt, which is accorded a growing and gratifying clientele. Mr. Grainger has ever been careful to conform his practice to the highest professional ethics and standards and he enjoys in an unusual degree the respect and confidence of his professional colleagues and contemporaries. His name is on the membership rolls of the Los Angeles Bar Association, the State Bar of California, and the American Bar Association.
On the 7th of October, 1913, Mr. Grainger married Ruth Ludwig, daughter of John and Elizabeth Ludwig, and a native of Los Angeles. To them have been born three children, Patricia and Margaret, attending the University of Southern California, and Kyle Z., Jr., attending Beverly Hills high school. Mr. Grainger belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and to the Los Angeles Athletic Club, while in fraternal circles he is known as an active member of Lodge No. 99 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Parlor No. 45 of the Native Sons of the Golden West, being a past president of this Parlor.
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2-21-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
629-630, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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