Sacramento County
Biographies
CLINTON E. HARBER
CLINTON E. HARBER.--As a worthy representative of the bar in California, Clinton E. Harber is one of those exceptionally gifted and preeminently accomplished gentlemen who would do credit to any generation, or to any community, in which they might be placed, and who could not fail in any profession they might enter, to attain to more than ordinary success. He is the junior member of one of Sacramento's most prosperous law firms, and with his honored associates, enjoys the esteem of a wide circle of clients.
Clinton E. Harber was born at Sacramento on February 15, 1888, the son of George Edward Harber, now deceased, of Des Moines, who had married here Miss Mary Nicolai, of Wisconsin, who is the center of a very devoted group. Owing in part to the intellectual life of the family circle. Clinton was given every grammar and high school advantage; and when he came to take up the study of legal lore, he read the law with Messrs. White & Miller. On July 2, 1909, he was admitted to the bar, to practice law in California, and after that he was a clerk under Clinton L. White, when the latter was mayor. He joined Messrs. White, Miller and McLaughlin as a law clerk, and when this firm was dissolved, he associated himself with Messrs. White, Miller and Needham, and helped to form the firm of White, Miller, Needham and Harber. He has been three times on the executive committee of the county bar association, he also belongs to the state and American bar associations, and, believing in extending his professional influence where and when most helpful in the commercial world, he is a director of the Chamber of Commerce. He marches under the banner of the Republican party, and he is one of the best boosters for Sacramento, city and county.
At Sacramento, on May 14, 1908, Mr. Harber was married to Miss Minerva Bell, a daughter of Henry Clay Bell, of Oroville, and they are now happy in the parentage of three children, Edith, Clarice and Margaret, all of whom are still pupils in the schools. He has been one of the most active promoters of the Del Paso Country Club, and is fond of fishing and golf. Few men, indeed, enjoy a more deserved popularity, and few carry their honors so modestly and well. Mr. Harber is a member of Concord Lodge No. 117, F & A. M., of Sacramento, Sacramento Chapter No. 3, R.A.M., Sacramento Commandery No. 2, Knight Templars, and is a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Sacramento.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 783. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.