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WILLIAM
FLEET PALMER
A member of the California bar whose success in the practice of his profession has been well earned is William Fleet Palmer, member of the firm of Jones, Stephenson, Palmer & Moore, of Los Angeles. He has practiced law for nearly 45 years.
Mr. Palmer is a native of Indiana, and was born in 1862 in Clinton County. After attending public schools at Frankfort he studied for a year at the law school of Washington University, then continued his legal studies in the office of his father, Judge Truman Henry Palmer. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1883, and practiced with his father under the firm name of Palmer & Palmer until the death of the latter in 1904.
In 1906 Mr. Palmer moved to California and entered practice at Los Angeles, where he has since remained. For a number of years he was Counsel for the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake R. R., and in 1916 became Assistant United States Attorney at Los Angeles, serving for four years. He is now City Attorney for Monrovia, where he has his residence. He engages in general civil practice.
Mr. Palmer holds membership in the American Bar Association, State Bar of California and Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is a Mason, and a member of the Commercial Club, Los Angeles City Club, Norumbega Town & Country Club and University Club of Monrovia. In 1889 he married Florence Ella Ewing, daughter of James K. Ewing. She died in 1920. They had four children, Florence C. Cooper, Margaret O. Coffey, Elizabeth E. Lay, and William Fleet, Jr. In 1921 Mr. Palmer married Bessie Pryor (Fletcher).
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: "American Blue Book California Lawyers"
by H. James Boswell, Page 59, Produced by H. James Boswell,
1928.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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