Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Clampitt, Edward A. December 14, 1868 - September 25, 1919
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page 74
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     EDWARD A. CLAMPITT, long one of the outstanding figures in the oil 
industry, was at all points and in all respects a sterling business man, much 
loved for his wholesome personality and the integrity that characterized all 
his relationships with his fellow men. He was successful without ostentation, 
was kind, considerate to all, and in his quiet way he went about doing good, 
finding not only time for, but absolute pleasure in ministering to those less 
fortunate than himself.

     He was born in Macon County, Illinois, December 14, 1868, and death came 
to him when he was still comparatively young, in his fifty-first year. He died 
September 25, 1919. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clampitt, moved to Los 
Angeles in 1888, and Edward A. Clampitt almost from the date of his arrival in 
California was identified with the oil business. He went into the fields and 
learned the producing side of the business from the standpoint of the worker. 
He became an expert oil driller, and helped to bring in some of the greatest 
fields in the Southwest. He was organizer and owner of the E. A. Clampitt 
company of Los Angeles, and was director of the Columbia Oil Producing 
Company. In his later years he owned several hundred acres in the Newhall 
district, and personally and through his capital and business organizations 
was responsible for bringing in scores of wells in and around Los Angeles. At 
the time of his death he was a counselor of the American Petroleum Institute.

     Mr. Clampitt did a great deal to promote wholesome legislation affecting 
the oil industry, and also did much to defend the oil interests from hostile 
interests. He was one of the most public spirited citizens of Los Angeles, and 
in 1908 was elected a member of the City Council, serving three years. He was 
a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Mines and Oils, the Los 
Angeles Athletic Club, was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Knights of 
Pythias and B. P. O. Elks. His funeral was conducted by his pastor, Rev. Dr. 
Locke of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and by Rev. Mr. Monkman of the 
Union Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

     Mr. Clampitt died at the climax of his powers and capabilities, but he 
had none the less lived a well balanced and well proportioned career, one in 
which physical action was set off by the spiritual elements. He was devoted to 
his work, to wholesome play and recreation, to family and home, and in his 
friendships he exemplified what amounted to a genius in binding men to him in 
hoops of steel.

     Mr. Clampitt married Miss Margaret M. Wright, who died September 18, 
1928. There are two daughters, Leah Margaret and Barbara Hallam.

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