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CECIL P. RENDON
A prominent attorney of San Joaquin
County and Stockton who was for many years closely identified with the law as a
representative of the public’s interests is Cecil P. Rendon, who maintains
offices in the Wilhoit Building, Stockton, as a member of the law firm of
Foltz, Rendon & Wallace, and enjoys a lucrative practice throughout the
county. He was born in Sonora, Tuolumne
County, October 6, 1861, the son of Jesus Rendon, a native of Mexico who came
to California in 1849 and engaged in mining.
Grandfather Rendon was a native of Spain, migrating from there to Mexico
and later to California, and he was a goldsmith at Sonora in the early days of
the gold excitement.
Mr. Rendon’s
boyhood days were spent in Humboldt County, Nevada, where he attended the public
schools, living the life of a cowboy and learning the printer’s trade on the
Humboldt Register at Winnemucca, Nevada.
He spent one year at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California,
and then returned to Nevada and rode the range for a time. In 1884 he returned to California and worked
as a printer in Oakdale and on the Modesto News, and while there he studied law
in the office of T. A. Caldwell, the district attorney of Stanislaus
County. Coming to Stockton in 1885 he
read law in the office of Governor James Budd, and in 1887 he was admitted to
the bar of California.
Mr. Rendon was appointed prosecuting
attorney of Stockton, under Mayor William A. Clark, serving for three and a
half years, and for the next four years was city justice of the peace. Later he was appointed assistant district
attorney for San Joaquin County under George McNoble, serving four years, and
for the next eight years occupied the same office, when Edward P. Foltz was
district attorney of the county. He has
always been very active in Republican politics in California as a member of the
Republican County Central Committee, taking an active part in the party
conventions. For six years Mr. Rendon
was a member of Company B, 6th Regiment, 3rd Brigade, N.
G. of C., and was closely associated in military affairs with Col. Eugene Lehe
and Brig. General James H. Budd of the3rd Brigade. Prominent in fraternal life, Mr. Rendon has
been state head of three fraternal orders and the national head of one. He was a past grand president of the Young
Men’s Institute of the Pacific Coast, and is past grand chief ranger of the
Foresters of America for the state of California, past state president of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, and supreme chief ranger of the Foresters of America,
this being the highest office of the national order. He has also been popular in local fraternal
life, being a member of the Elks, Stockton Parlor, N. S. G. W. and Iroquois
Tribe of Red Men, and is ex-president of the San Joaquin County Bar
Association. His three children are Mrs.
Cecelia DeYoung, Mrs. Anita Atkinson and Raymond V. Rendon.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1478. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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