Charles A. Beardsley, assistant city attorney of the City of Oakland, and one of the able and prosperous young lawyers of Oakland, connected with important litigated interests as a member of the firm of Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley, was born in Pennsylvania, January 14, 1882, a son of Ezra S. and May (Fleming) Beardsley.
Charles A. Beardsley came to California in 1892 and resumed his education, begun in Pennsylvania, in the public schools of this state, graduating from Campbell high school in 1901. He later entered Leland Stanford University, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1906 and with the degree of Doctor of Law in 1908. He was admitted to the bar by the first appellate court of California in January, 1907, and on June 1st of the following year he began the practice of his profession in association with Fitzgerald & Abbott, the firm name being now Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley. Mr. Beardsley was made deputy city attorney of Oakland in January, 1911, and later was made assistant city attorney, which office he now holds, discharging the duties incumbent upon him in a way which reflects credit upon his ability, impartiality and public spirit.
On the 9th of July, 1911, Mr. Beardsley was united in marriage to Miss Agnes I. Lafferty. He is a member of the Nile Club and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is a young man of energy, ambition and enterprise, who in professional, official and social relations holds steadily to high ideals, so that he commands the confidence and regard of all who are associated with him.
Past and Present of Alameda County California, Vol. II
Published in Chicago by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1914
Pages 416-417
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 7/5/2008
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