Sacramento County
Biographies
JOSEPH L.
KNOWLES
JOSEPH L. KNOWLES.--The supremacy of Sacramento, both city and county, is nowhere better attested than in the enviable position and influence of her lawyers among the members of the California bar, including the highly progressive attorney, Joseph L. Knowles, whose offices are in the Capital National Bank Building, in Sacramento, the town in which he was born on December 21, 1892. His father, Jay G. Knowles, came out to look over the Golden State in 1885, while his mother, who was Anna Wagener before her marriage, migrated westward later; and here they were joined in matrimony. Mr. Knowles became a successful manufacturer of cigars in Sacramento, and now he and his devoted wife are able to enjoy the well-earned results of their labor and investments.
Joseph Knowles attended both the grammar and the high schools of Sacramento, and then became a student at the University of California, from which institution he was graduated in 1915, with the A. B. Degree; and later he went abroad for postgraduate work at the Inns of Court, in London. Before entering upon that cherished experience, however, Mr. Knowles enlisted in the United States Army in the 4th Division, in which he served for eighteen months in France, Germany and England; while in the service he took his postgraduate course and on his return to America, he took up the practice of law at the California capital. As might be expected, he is deeply interested in Sacramento County, past, present, and future; and his public-spiritedness leads him to respond to any rational call likely to advance the day when both California and Sacramento will come to their deserved own. He belongs to the American Legion and to Sutter Fort Parlor No. 241, N. S. G. W.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 902.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.