BYRON ELMER GADDIS

Sacramento County

Biographies

BYRON ELMER GADDIS

BYRON ELMER GADDIS.--The bar in northern California could hardly be better represented than through the well-known and popular attorney of Sacramento, Byron Elmer Gaddis, who has been practicing law here since 1918, and now has his suite of offices in the Forum Building, under the firm name of Gaddis and Johnson. He was born at Red Bluff, Tehama County, on September 18, 1888, the son of M. D and Anna (Bashore) Gaddis, the former a rancher who came out to California in 1881. Both parents are now living, a joy to many who know and esteem them.

Byron Gaddis mastered the work of both the grammar and the high schools, and not content with that, attended a business college in Oakland. He then entered the train service of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and at the end of four years with them, he served as police officer in Sacramento for three years, and on October 2, 1918, having studied law privately, he was admitted to practice at the California bar. Since then, making Sacramento his headquarters, he has done much to add to the dignity of law-practice, as witnessed in Sacramento County.

In the year 1916, Mr. Gaddis was married to Miss Rhoda Moran, a gifted and popular lady of Tehama County, and also a native daughter; and Miss Helen Gaddis is their only child. In national political affairs Mr. Gaddis prefers the platforms of the Democratic party; Mr. Gaddis was once the legislative representative of Sutter Lodge, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Shriner, belonging to Ben Ali Temple; and is past-president of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Association, of the police department. He likes hunting, especially when the drive is after big game; and is well satisfied with what Sacramento County has to offer of outdoor life and sport.

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 985-986. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.