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GODWIN MONTEREY PITTMAN
PITTMAN, GODWIN MONTEREY, Judge and Attorney-at-Law, San Bernardino, Cal., was born Oct. 28, 1886, at Owatouna, Minn., the son of Dr. H. Pittman and Josephine (Monterey) Pittman. His grandfather on the maternal side is Antonio Monterey, one of the cattle kings of Arizona.
When two years old his parents brought him to Oro Grande, Cal. He was educated in the public schools of San Bernardino. He studied law in the office of Attorney Byron Waters of San Bernardino and was admitted to the bar July 22, 1908.
He began the practice of law in 1908, as a partner of Byron Waters. In the year 1909 went into partnership with Raymond E. Hodge. This partnership was afterwards dissolved and he went into practice for himself, doing a general legal business. Some of the important cases in which Attorney Pittman has taken part are those of Whittram vs. the County of San Bernardino; chief counsel for the defence in the Whitehead murder case. He was special prosecutor for the Mexican government in the case of the People vs. Magill. He has the distinction of not having lost a single case in which he has taken part.
He was chosen to succeed Senator H. M. Willis as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the County of San Bernardino Law Library in 1908. He entered politics and was elected Municipal Judge of San Bernardino, Nov. 8, 1910. He has the distinction of being the youngest judge on the bench in California.
Judge Pittman enlisted as private in Company K, 7th Infantry, and was promoted to Company Clerk and later to Quartermaster Sergeant.
He has been Past Worthy Conductor of San Bernardino Aerie No. 506. Was nominated for the presidency of the same lodge, January, 1911, but declined.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 453,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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