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LOYAL DURAND HOTCHKISS, editor of Los Angeles Times, was born November 25, 1893, in Bloomfield, Iowa, the son of Willis Marvin and Jane Margaret (Ritchie) Hotchkiss.
After studying at the Iowa Wesleyan University of Iowa, 1911-12, he entered the State University of Iowa, graduating in 1916 with an A.B. degree.
Mr. Hotchkiss started his newspaper career in 1916 as a report for the Des Moines (Iowa) News and Des Moines (Iowa) Register-Tribune; then with the Des Moines Capital in 1919. In 1920 he moved to California and was reporter and assistant city editor for the Los Angeles Examiner until 1922. He has been associated with the Los Angeles Times since 1922, first as reporter, 1922, then assistant city editor form 1923 to 1925, city editor from 1926 to 1932, assistant managing editor from 1933 to 1934, managing editor from 1934 to 1945, and editor since September 1945.
Member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Sigma Delta Chi and Beta Theta Pi fraternities.
Mr. Hotchkiss married Vera Malone on May 25, 1921, and they have one daughter, Janet.
Offices: 202 West Frist Street, Los Angeles, California.
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on October 22,
2013.
Source: Eminent Californians 1953, by Lee
E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 95, C. W. Taylor Publ.,
Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Michele Y. Larsen.
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