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GUY T. GRAVES
Guy T. Graves, numbered among the able and representative attorneys of Los Angeles, maintains his offices in the Pacific Mutual building at 523 West Sixth Street. He was born in Pender, Thurston County, Nebraska, February 20, 1900, a son of the late Judge Guy T. Graves and Gertrude (Lockart) Graves. Guy T. Graves, Sr., whose birthplace was a farm in Butler County, Iowa, and whose natal year was 1862, obtained his early education in the country schools and was subsequently graduated from the Western Iowa Normal College. He began teaching school and as a member of the teaching profession went with his parents to Dakota County, Nebraska, which then included what is now the county of Thurston. Acquiring a tract of land in the Omaha Indian reservation, he alternately farmed and taught school, and at the same time he read law. Following his admission to the bar in 1887, he located at Pender and two years later was chosen the first county attorney of the newly formed county of Thurston. Judge Graves was elected to the district court in 1899 and thus served continuously until his death in October, 1924, remaining on the bench for a quarter of a century. His political views were in accord with democratic principles, and because of the confidence and respect which his character as a jurist commanded; he was never opposed by either of the two major parties. In 1891 he married Gertrude Lockart, of Red Oak, Iowa, and they became the parents of a son who was named for his father.
Guy T. Graves, Jr., attended the public schools of his native village and continued his studies at the University of Nebraska, while later he matriculated at the University of Michigan, which in 1923 conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In April, 1924, he was admitted to practice in Los Angeles. He served as deputy commissioner of Corporations of the State of California for three years, on the expiration of which period he resigned to enter upon the private practice of his chosen profession, in which he has won well merited success, being now accorded an extensive and remunerative clientele. His name is on the membership rolls of Jonathan Club and the State Bar of California, and he enjoys an enviable reputation among his professional colleagues and contemporaries.
He married August 9, 1923, in Los Angeles, Jeraldine Jeffryes, of Iowa, and they have two children, Meredith L. and Janet R.
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on December 26, 2012.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 561-562,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Michele
Y. Larsen.
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