Contra Costa County Biography

REX LADELL BOYER

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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Rex Ladell Boyer, who is successfully engaged in the practice of law in 
Martinez, is a man of clear, logical mind. He was born in Walla Walla, 
Washington, August 5, 1889, and was educated in the public schools of Concord, 
California. He later took a business course in Oakland and studied law under J. 
E. Rodgers. On May 1, 1912, he graduated from Kent Law School in San Francisco, 
and on the day of his graduation he was admitted to the bar. His father, Joel 
Jerome Boyer, is a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother was born in 
Washington. When Mr. Boyer was but five years of age his parents removed to 
Lafayette, where his father followed agricultural pursuits and engaged 
extensively in the chicken business. Mr. Boyer is affiliated with the Republican 
party. He was appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff R. R. Veale, and while in 
this office he started and is still connected with the criminal identification 
known as the "Bertillon System," which is being successfully used throughout the 
country. He had made a study of this system in the Oakland police department. In 
May, 1913, he opened law offices in the Gazette building, in Martinez, where he 
has since engaged in general practice. In all social, official, and professional 
relations he has held steadily to high ideals, and has the confidence and regard 
of all who know him. Mr. Boyer, during the extra sessions of the Superior Court, 
acts as official stenographer. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic lodge 
of Martinez, also of the K. of P., and has served as chancellor of the Martinez 
lodge of this order. He is also a member of the Woodmen of the World.
 
Source: "The History of Contra  Costa County, California", Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
p. 485.