Los Angeles County
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OSCAR A. TRIPPET
TRIPPET, OSCAR A., Attorney-at-Law, Los Angeles, California, was born March 6, 1856, in Gibson County, Indiana, the son of Caleb Trippet and Mary M. (Fentress) Trippet. He married Cora Larimore, November 5, 1902 at St. Louis, Missouri. There are two children, Larimore Oscar and Francis Oscar Trippet.
Mr. Trippet attended the common schools of Indiana; took a one-year course at the Indiana State Normal, and a one-year course in the law department of the University of Virginia in 1878-79. He passed the bar examination in the year 1879 and began practice at once. After a few months, in 1879, he was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney of Du Bois County, Indiana, serving under his brother, who was district attorney at the time. Practiced law and served a term as Senator in the Indiana Legislature until 1887, when he moved to San Diego, California. There he associated himself with Judge W. T. McNeely. The latter retired after two years, and Attorney Trippet continued practice alone, until 1901, with unusual success, representing many important corporations. He opened a law office in Los Angeles in 1901, and did business alone until 1911, when he formed a partnership with Ward Chapman, M. L. Chapman and J. E. Biby. This firm is attorney for the National Bank of California, California Vegetable Union, the Economic Gas Company and other corporations. He helped organize the Home Telephone Company of Los Angeles in 1902, and since its organization has been its attorney.
In 1896 he was California delegate to the National Democratic convention held in Chicago.
He is a member of the California Club, University Club, president Los Angeles Bar Association, member governing council American Bar Association, and a Mason.
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Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 382, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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