Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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J. D. FREDERICKS, Los Angeles
 
Born in Pennsylvania in 1869, son of Rev. J. T. Fredericks, a Presbyterian 
minister. Classical education at Washington-Jefferson Coll., Pa., and came to 
California in 1890. Taught school and read law at Whittier, Los Angeles Co., in 
the early nineties and admitted to bar, 1895. Married Agnes M. Blakeley, 1896. 
Served in Spanish-American War, 1898. Republicans elected him District Attorney 
of Los Angeles Co., 1902; re-nominated by all parties, four years later; has 
banished from the county gambling and illegal liquor selling, and has given the 
District Attorney's office a strong and fair administration; has made an 
exhaustive study of crime and its causes, and suggested important remedies for 
many social evils.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.115