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SAMUEL MOODY HASKINS

 

 

HASKINS, SAMUEL MOODY, Attorney, Los Angeles, California, was born January 20, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He is the son of the Rev. Thomas Wilson Haskins and Francis Emily Austin.  Mr. Haskins was married April 15, 1902 to Eliza Bonsall, of Los Angeles, and they have two children, Samuel M., Jr., and Barbara Haskins.

            Mr. Haskins spent his boyhood in New England and the Middle West and went to Los Angles from Burlington, Vermont, when he was fifteen years of age.  He entered the Los Angeles High School in the year 1887, and was graduated two years later.  The succeeding year he entered the University of California, taking the academic course, and was graduated in 1893 with the degree of B. A.

            He decided upon law as a profession, and soon after leaving college took up his studies.  After reading two years he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of California in the year 1895.  He began practice at once, but gave it up temporarily two years later, when he was appointed Clerk of the Los Angeles City Council, serving in this capacity until 1902.

            Upon the expiration of his term as Clerk of the Council he was engaged for legal work by the firm of Dunn and Crutcher, and he remained with them until 1905, when the firm name was changed to Bicknell, Gibson, Trask, Dunn and Crutcher.  He continued in association with the new firm and in 1908, when Judge Bicknell with drew from it, became and active member.  The name at that time underwent another change, being known as Gibson, Trask, Dunn and Crutcher. 

            He is a member of several social organizations in Los Angeles, including the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club.

           

 

Transcribed By:   Michele Y. Larsen on 18 November 2011.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 858, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2011 Michele Y. Larsen.

 

 

 

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