Yolo County
Biographies
EDWARD E. GADDIS
The career of Judge Gaddis has necessarily not
been of lengthy duration, as he is still a young man, his success in the past,
however, presaging a future which shall bring to him even greater honors and
elevate him to a yet higher place in the affairs of the public. A native of
Yolo county, Cal., born February 25, 1865, he has always made his own intersts (sic) parallel to those of the county, and has
aimed to make his success reflect honor upon the place which gave him birth,
and that he has succeeded is evidenced by the fact of his popularity and the
general esteem in which he is held by all who have known him in his official
capacity as well as in social life. The family of which Judge Gaddis is a
member came originally from Ireland, his father, Henry Gaddis, having been born
there. For more complete mention of the latter the reader is referred to his
sketch on other page of this work.
The education of Judge Gaddis was
received through the medium of the public schools, which he attended while
living on the home farm in Yolo county, and in Benicia
Academy, entering the latter institution after he had attained the age of
sixteen years. His preliminary education completed, he entered Hastings College
of Law in San Francisco and was graduated therefrom
in 1888, when he was the Republican candidate for the office of district
attorney, to which office he was elected, serving from 1889 until 1890.
Afterward, for two years, he acted as trustee of the Sutter Fort commission. In
1895 and ’96 he served as city attorney of Woodland,
and in 1897 was elected judge of the superior court of Yolo county. Upon the
expiration of his six-year term he was re-elected in 1903, at present occupying
the office in the efficient manner which has characterized his entire public
life.
The marriage of Judge Gaddis
occurred in Butte county and united him with Anna
Biggs, likewise a native of the state, and the daughter of Major Marion Biggs,
Jr., who is now deceased. Fraternally the judge is identified with the Masonic
order, the Elks, Knights of Pythias and the Native Sons of the Golden West.
Transcribed
By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: "History
of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento
Valley, Cal.," J.
M. Guinn, Pages 567-568. The Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago,
1906.
© 2017 Cecelia M. Setty.
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