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ROY A. KNOX
Devoting his efforts to municipal
service, Roy A. Knox is at his best in this line of endeavor and for eight
years has been director of the bureau of budget and efficiency of the City of Los
Angeles. He was born in Stuart, Guthrie
County, Iowa, on the 2nd of May, 1889, and is a son of John A. and
Amanda Ellen (Parker) Knox. He pursued
his education in his native town until his graduation from high school, after
which he was a student in the college of law of Drake University at Des Moines,
Iowa, where he received his LL. B. in 1910, and took an accounting course at
Southwestern University at Los Angeles.
In 1917 Mr. Knox was a member of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, where he was
commissioned a first lieutenant, and in August of 1918 he sailed for France
with the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Ammunition Train, a unit of the
Eighty-eighth Division. He remained
overseas until May, 1919. While in
France he was made a captain of infantry.
He received an honorable discharge in 1919.
In 1920 Mr. Knox started to work in
the efficiency and planning departments of the City of Los Angeles, with which
he was identified as an employee for four years, and in recognition of his
ability was appointed director of the efficiency department of the city in
1924. A new charter was adopted by the
people of Los Angeles in July, 1925. A
bureau of budget and efficiency was created by this charter, to be headed by an
individual appointed by the mayor, subject to civil service. Of this new bureau Mr. Knox was made director
in 1925 and the results achieved during his tenure of office have amply
justified the wisdom of his selection for this important post.
At Stuart, Iowa, on the 5th
of April, 1915, Mr. Knox was married to Miss Edna Marie Trent and they have two
sons, Merrill T., a graduate of Manual Arts High, class of 1933, and Roy M., in
Junior High. The family resides at 5407
Eleventh Avenue, Los Angeles. Mr. Knox
worships in Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist.
He belongs to Vermont Square Lodge, No. 515, F. & A. M., and to
Victory Post, No. 54, of the American Legion.
A citizen of high ideals, he has used practical
methods in their attainment, and is esteemed and respected by reason of his
ability, integrity and public spirit.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 241-242, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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