Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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FRANK BENNETT FANNING 
 
was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, November 16, 1836, of English ancestry. He 
received an academic education. After clerking several years, he went West, to 
Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the coal business. He lived in Pennsylvania 
and New York till 1872, when he came to San Francisco, and from thence by stage 
to Los Angeles. Mr. Fanning was for some years Deputy Collector of Internal 
Revenue under William Higbie, after which he was chief clerk of the Banning 
Transportation Company about three years; since when, January, 1885, he has been 
chief deputy county clerk under Charles H. Dunsmoor. Mr. Fanning is a thoroughly 
efficient official. Under his sub‑administration, the now very extensive and 
important business of the clerk's office of Los Angeles County has been 
systematized and its methods perfected, so that the office compares favorably 
with that of any other county in this or any other State. Mr. Fanning was 
married to Harriet E. Lincoln in 1868. They have one son.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 474
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler