Butte County Biographies

Attorneys

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson, August 2004

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            Of the attorneys who have been admitted to practice law in the 
courts of this county, many resided elsewhere and came here but occasionally, 
while others, though residents of the county, never engaged regularly in the 
practice of their profession.   The following list contains the names of those 
regular practitioners who have either removed to other scenes or crossed forever 
the waters of the silent river.  Moses Bean, Reuel C. Baker, Seneca Ewer, Joseph 
E. N Lewis, Alonzo W. Adams, Joseph W. McCorkle, George Adams Smith, Warner 
Earle, A. Maurice, Jr., J.B. Barker, Patrick H. Harris, Warren T. Sexton, J.J. 
Klein, Frederick M. Smith, Silas W.W. Coughey, M.H. Farley, Charles G. Hubbard, 
J.G. Lawton, Jr., A.C. Morse, D.W. Chesseman, H.A. Gaston, J.G. Howard, G.W. 
Kretzinger, W.H. Rhodes, Simon Rosenbaum, John S. Berry, John Lambert, P.A. 
McRae, L.D. Marston, George G. Berry, Thomas Bay, St. John Jackson, S.L. Howard, 
James C. Martin, A.A. Cooper, John Dick, A.M. Bailey.
            The following list embraces the attorneys now practicing at the bar 
in this county, the first four gentlemen having begun their practice at this bar 
during the early years of the county�s existence:�
 
James M. Burt . . . . . . . . . . . .Oroville Park 
Henshaw .  . . . . . . . . . . . ......Chico
Charles F. Lott . . . . . . . . . . .      �                                  
J. T. Daly  . . . . . . . . . . . .  ....... �
Thomas B. Reardon . . . . . . .      �                                         
C. G. Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . �
L. C. Granger . . . . . . . . . . . .     �                                   
A. J. Gifford  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  �
John C. Gray  . . . . . . . . . . . .     �                                   
B. Collins  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   �
Leon D. Freer . . . . . . . . . . . .     �                                   
W.M. Bowers  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   �
Albert F. Jones . . . . . . . . . . .      �                                   
Franklin C. Lusk . . . . . . . . . . .    �
John M. Gale  . . . . . . . . . . . .      �                                   
T. L. Ford  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   �
_____ Turner  . . . . . . . . . . . .      �                                   
Frank F. Carnduff  . . . . . . . . . .Biggs
Warren Sexton, Jr.  . . . . . . . .      �                                     
James B. Reavis . . . . . . . . . .  Gridley
George M. Shaw . . . . . . . . . .        �                                      
R. C. Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . .        �
 
History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. 
II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal., 1882., 
pages 191-194.