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FREDERICK
M. HALL
Frederick M. Hall, public defender for the
city of Los Angeles, was born in Rockport, Massachusetts,
October 23, 1877, a son of Charles Brackett and Mary (Kempton) Hall. The father, a native of Vermont,
became the first homeopathic physician in Rockport,
Massachusetts, where he engaged
in practice to the time of his death.
His family numbered four children, two of whom survive.
Frederick M. Hall attended the St. Johnsbury Academy and also Lyndon Institute of Vermont and
subsequently pursued a course of study at the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston, Massachusetts,
from which he was graduated in 1898. His
professional training was received at the Boston University School of Law,
which in 1903 conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1902 and seven years later, in 1909,
came west to Los Angeles, California, being admitted to the bar of
this state in 1912. In the year 1917 he
was admitted to practice in Arizona and in 1918
served as United States
commissioner for Arizona. Mr. Hall became deputy city prosecutor of Los Angeles in January,
1930, and was appointed to the position of public defender on the 1st of
September, 1930, having continued in the latter capacity to the present
time. He has made a most creditable and
commendable record in this important office and his reputation in professional
circles is an enviable one. His office
is Room 291 in the Los Angeles
City Hall.
In 1904, at Somerville,
Massachusetts, Mr. Hall was united in marriage
to Ethelwyn Drew, who was one of his classmates at
the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. They are the parents of four children,
namely; Lincoln Drew, a graduate of Pomona College of Claremont, California,
and well known member of the university football team, married Margaret McCann
and has a son, John Lincoln; Virginia; Ruth, who married Edward E. Johnson; and
Kempton. The family home is at 432 South Van Ness Avenue
in Los Angeles.
Fraternally Mr. Hall is affiliated with
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belonging to the Yuma Lodge No.
476. He is past great sachem of Massachusetts in the
Improved Order of Red Men and is likewise a member of
the Greek letter fraternity, Gamma Eta Gamma, belonging to Beta Chapter. His name is also on the membership roll of
the Army and Navy club of Los Angeles,
while along strictly professional lines he has membership in the State Bar of
California and the Los Angeles Bar Association.
He holds the rank of major in the first regiment of the California
Cavalry.
Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.
Source: California of the South
Vol. II, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 143-144, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Bill Simpkins.
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