San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/24/2009
LAWRENCE EDWARDS
A distinguished attorney who has added lustre to the San Joaquin County Bar, is Lawrence Edwards, junior member of the well-known law-firm of Messrs. Tye & Edwards, at Stockton. He was born at Los Angeles on May 12, 1887, the son of Robert L. and Clarissa (Smith) Edwards and grandson of ex-Governor Edwards of Missouri, early settlers in the San Joaquin Valley. The father served a term as public administrator of San Joaquin County and is now farming near Linden. Lawrence Edwards was reared in Stockton, where he attended the public schools and then entered the Polytechnic high school, San Francisco, from which he was graduated in the class of 1905. After spending one year at St. Mary's College, in Oakland, he took up the study of law in Hastings Law School and graduated with the class of '12, when he received the L.L.B. degree.
The same year he opened a law office in Stockton, and in 1915 he was elected, on the Democratic ticket, assemblyman of the State Legislature, and he was re-elected in 1917. He introduced and put though the bill for the erection of the State Armory, on North California street, Stockton, the only one, by the way, to be built in California in recent years. He also worked for the improvements in the reclamation and irrigation districts, particularly in the Delta section, thus making a very good legislative record; and when the World War called for the assistance of the Americans, he was attached to the 91st Division at Camp Lewis, in the officers' training school, and later was transferred to Camp Taylor, Ky. He received his commission as second lieutenant and was assigned to the 71st Field Artillery, 11th Division, at Camp Knox, Kentucky. Shortly after he had received his commission, the armistice was signed.
Lieutenant Edwards then returned to Stockton; and in 1919 he formed a partnership with Hugh J. Tye, under the firm name of Tye & Edwards. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Preston State School, at Ione; belongs to Stockton Parlor No. 7, of the N.S.G.W.; and is a member of the Anteros Club, the Yosemite Club, the Stockton Golf and Country Club, and Karl Ross Post of the American Legion, of which he was first president, serving two terms.
At Stockton, in 1914, Mr. Edwards was married to Miss Margaret L. Reid, a native of Scotland, who was reared in Stockton; and their union has been blessed with one daughter, Joanne L. Edwards. Mr. Edwards is developing two ranches in the Linden section of the county; he recently planted a walnut orchard, and he has had for four years a dairy ranch of eighty acres, with twenty-five cows. He is a member of the San Joaquin County Bar Association and of the Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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