Imperial-Madera-Mariposa County CA Archives Biographies.....Larew, John S. 1862 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

JOHN S. LAREW.—John S. Larew, who has been actively engaged in practice as
attorney at El Centro, California, since 1909, is an able and representative
member of his profession. Mr. Larew was born near Red Sulphur Springs, Monroe
County, West Virginia, December 15, 1862, a son of John M. and Sarah S. (Peters)
Larew. He acquired his education in the public schools. At the age of seventeen
Mr. Larew began to teach and continued in this vocation in the public schools of
Monroe County, West Virginia, until he was twenty-one years old. He then went to
Kansas, where he taught for one year. In 1885 he removed to California and
taught school until 1893. He then entered the office of his brother, W. H.
Larew, in Madera, an attorney of that city, and studied law and was admitted to
the bar in 1895. In 1898 he went to Washington, D. C, and was admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. Returning to California,
Mr. Larew engaged in the practice of law in Mariposa County from 1896 to 1909,
and from November, 1909, he has been identified with Imperial County, with
offices in El Centro. During his residence in Mariposa County Mr. Larew served
as a member of the County Board of Education. He also served for six years
preceding his leaving Mariposa County as inspector of the Masonic district
embracing Mariposa County, and for five years he was master of Mariposa Lodge
No. 24, F. & A. M. In his religious views he is a member of the Presbyterian
Church and has been an elder of his church for the past eight years. He was
married in Riverside, California, September 14, 1916, to Lizzie Wright Daniel,
of Louisville, Kentucky, a daughter of C. V. and Ella Daniel. Her father served
as a Union soldier and Mr. Larew's father fought on the side of the Confederacy.
His grandfather, Col. Peters, fought in the War of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Larew
reside at 641 State Street, El Centre Mr. Larew has done much in the promotion
of many worthy causes that will be of material benefit to the community.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918

Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco

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