Sacramento County
Biographies
WESLEY E.
MARTEN
WESLEY E. MARTEN.--A well-trained attorney enviably know for his exceptional knowledge of certain branches of law, is Wesley E. Marten, the efficient and popular assistant inheritance tax attorney, who was born at Kingsburg, in Fresno County, on January 15, 1891, the son of John and Augusta (Peterson) Marten, both of whom are living comfortably at Kingsburg. Mr. Marten was a rancher, of good old Swedish-French stock, operating for years extensively in and around Los Angeles, where he settled in 1882; while Mrs. Marten came of excellent Swedish ancestry.
Wesley E. Marten went to school at Kingsburg, taking first the usual grammar school courses, and afterward going into the high school; and then he pursued law-course studies, first at the University of California, and then coming south again to the University of Southern California where he was graduated with the class of 1916. For two years he was resident counsel for the “Examiner,” and then he was in partnership with A. P. M. Narlian, of Los Angeles.
Mr. Marten’s next move brought him into the inheritance tax department, in Los Angeles, where he remained a year; and in March, 1919, he was transferred to Sacramento. Since coming here, he has done much to straighten out the kinks in the new legal chain, and to make the public better acquainted and more satisfied with the inheritance tax and related laws; for he likes his work, and is never better satisfied than when confronting plenty to do. He is a Republican, and a broad-minded and liberal citizen as well.
In the year 1917 Mr. Marten was married, at Los Angeles, to Miss Lucile Miles, a gifted native daughter of Pasadena; and she shares his love of outdoor life, and also of golf. Mr. Marten has already done well in his profession, and it is fair to assume that he will rise much higher.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 943.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.