San Francisco
County
ROY A.
BRONSON
Roy A.
Bronson, lawyer, was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 20,1889; the son of Edward D. and Mabel S. (Knox).
He obtained his elementary education
in the public schools of Oakland, California, graduating from the Oakland High
School in 1908. Both his preparatory and legal education were obtained at the
University of Santa Clara, where he received the A.B. degree in 1912, the M.A.
degree in 1913, and the LL.B. degree in 1914. He was admitted to the California
bar in 1914.
Mr. Bronson has been in the practice
of law at San Francisco, California, since 1914, where he is senior partner in
the firm of Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, which he founded on January 1,
1927.
He was president of the San
Francisco Bar Association in 1945; chairman of the Resolutions Committee of the
American Bar Association in 1947 and 1948; president of the California Safety
Council in 1949; occasional lecturer to the bar of San Francisco and other
cities on corporation law, under the Continuing Education Program of the State
Bar of California; president of the Alumni Association of the University of
Santa Clara in 1929; and is a director of the First California Company, Viking Automatic
Sprinkler Company, the Gourrich Foundation and
others.
Member of the American Bar
Association, San Francisco Bar Association, Los Angeles Bar Association, State
Bar of California; Bohemian, Olympic, and Commercial Clubs (San Francisco,
California); California Club (Los Angeles, California).
Mr. Bronson is noted horseman and
has raised and developed many high-type western saddle horses which have been
exhibited in various horse shows. He is a member of several Western riding
groups, is secretary-treasurer of the California Reined Cow Horse Association,
and was formerly captain of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Mounted Posse. Besides
roping an occasional steer, he also collects books, and as an additional hobby,
collects and repairs old clocks.
On February 16, 1916, Mr. Bronson
married Clarisse C. Caspers of San Jose, California. They
have three daughters: Jean (Mrs. John Elizardi
Miller), Margery (Mrs. Stephen S. Townsend), and Claire (Mrs. Philip Keith
Hayes). Mr. Bronson was divorced in 1949 and married (2d) Lola Jones Rankin of
Pasadena, California.
Offices: Fifteenth Floor, Mills Tower, San Francisco
4, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 369, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies