San Luis Obispo County Biographies

P. A. FORRESTER

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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P. A. FORRESTER, deceased, was an influential member of the San Luis Obispo County bar, 
a progressive citizen of broad intelligence and an aggressive advocate of the cause of 
right. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1836, became as he grew up a bright 
scholar, active in educational affairs, an eloquent speaker and an influential politician. In 
San Luis Obispo County he was County Superintendent of the Schools from 1870 to 1872, 
and brilliant correspondent of leading San Francisco papers. He was a member of San
Simeon Lodge, No. 196, F. & A. M., of San Luis Obispo. He was married in that city, January 
21, 1861, to Dona Maria Josefa Pico, daughter of Jose de Jesus Pico, a highly respected 
Californian of that place. Mr. Forrester died September 18, 1885, at the age of forty-nine 
years, leaving a wife and six children. Touching eulogies were written and officially 
engrossed upon the records of the bar. We copy: 

� Upon the receipt of the sad intelligence of the death of P. A. Forrester, Esq., the 
members of the Bar of San Luis Obispo County assembled in the court room of the 
Superior Court on Monday, September 21, 1885. and after eulogistic remarks passed the 
following resolutions: 

" Resolved, That the members of the Bar of San Luis Obispo County have received 
with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of P. A. Forrester, late esteemed 
member of the Bar of this county. 

" Resolved, That in his decease his family have lost a kind and affectionate father, the 
Bar an honorable member and learned attorney, and the community a good citizen. 

" Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the deceased these resolutions be spread upon 
the minutes of the Superior Court of this county; that a copy be transmitted to the 
family of the deceased, and that a copy be furnished the newspapers of the county for 
publication. 

" W. H. Spence, Chairman." 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.