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WILLIAM JEFFERSON HUNSAKER

 

 

      HUNSAKER, WILLIAM JEFFERSON, Lawyer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born September 21, 1855, in Contra Costa County, Cal., the son of Nicholas Hunsaker and Lois E. (Hastings) Hunsaker.  Lansing Warren Hastings, his maternal grand uncle, was a member of the First Constitutional Convention of California.  Mr. Hunsaker married Florence Virginia McFarland February 26, 1879, at San Diego, Cal.  There are four children—Mary Cameron, Florence King, Rose Margaret and Daniel McFarland Hunsaker.

     He attended the public schools of Contra Costa County and San Diego up to the age of 16, when he left to learn the printer’s trade.  He began as a printer’s devil on the “Bulletin” in San Diego, worked as a journeyman printer on the “Bulletin” and the San Diego “World” for two years and a half, then took up the study of law in the office of A. C. Baker, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.  He was admitted to the bar by the District Court of San Diego County, 1876, and by the California Supreme Court in 1882; practiced at San Diego, 1876 to 1880, when he located at Tombstone, Ariz., remaining there one year.  He then returned to San Diego and in 1882 was elected District Attorney for the county.  He served until 1884, when he resumed private practice.  In 1886 he formed a partnership with E. W. Britt as Hunsaker and Britt.  In 1892 Mr. Hunsaker moved to Los Angeles and has since resided and practiced his profession there.  In 1900 he and Mr. Britt resumed their partnership relations, which still continue.  Mr. Hunsaker has figured in many notable cases, among others the Robert Crawford Smith and Dalter will contests and the Tingley and Hearne libel cases.  He is a member of the Am. Bar Ass’n, Cal. State Bar Ass’n, University, Jonathan and California clubs.

 

 

 

Transcribed 8-31-08 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 128, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2008 Marilyn R. Pankey.

 

 

 

 

 

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