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JAMES STUART McKNIGHT

 

M’KNIGHT, JAMES STUART, Attorney, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Green Bay, Wis., Nov. 15, 1883. He is the son of Joseph McKnight and Katherine Alice (Blasius) McKnight.

He began his education in Spokane, Wash., continued at Los Angeles and was graduated from Occidental College in 1905. Then entered Univ. of Sou. Cal. College of Law, graduating with LL.B. in 1908. During his school days he was engaged in newspaper work on Los Angeles papers, but began practice in June, 1908, immediately after being admitted to the Bar.

Mr. McKnight makes a specialty of corporation and real estate law and is among the prominent attorneys of Southern California. For several years he handled the legal affairs of several well-known Los Angeles capitalists, among them Frank A. Garbutt, Director of the Union Oil Co., and in this capacity was called upon to pass on bond issues and title to public lands valuable for oil.

As attorney for several oil and mining corporations, he has figured in numerous important actions involving great sums of money and vast tracts of land, and serves today as Counsel for many of these concerns, among them the California Midway Oil Co., Midway Royal Petroleum Co., Knickerbocker Mining & Extract Co. and Palladium Investment Co. He also is actively interested in charitable and philanthropic work, acting as Chief Counsel for both the national and local Francis Murphy Associations.

Mr. McKnight is a member of the Faculty of the College of Law, University of Southern California, and also holds membership in the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, of which President William H. Taft, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt and several Justices of the United States Supreme Court are members.

 

 

Transcribed 10-19-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 795, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.

 

 

 

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