Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Hutton, George H. 1870 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com December 12, 2005, 10:00 pm Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908) GEORGE H. HUTTON, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for Los Angeles County, elected in November, 1906, is a product of the frigid north where his childhood was spent as a ward of his uncle, Reverend George H. Bridgman, President of Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, at which institution he received his academic education. At the State University of Minnesota he received his legal education and was from there admitted to practice in 1893 and the same year became the assistant attorney or general trial lawyer for the Minneapolis & St. Paul Railroad, which position he held until his removal to California in 1897, when he located and engaged in the practice of his profession at Santa Monica. He had, up to the time of his elevation to the bench, been actively engaged in his profession and had attained more than ordinary success as a lawyer, being widely known in Los Angeles County and throughout Southern California. He was for several years the general attorney for the vest and varied interests of Ex-Senator John P. Jones, and attorney and trustee under the will of the late Andrew J. W. Keating, who left a fortune which during Judge Hutton's trusteeship has increased in bulk from less than a quarter million to nearly two million dollars. He has been an extensive traveler and knows the American continent better than most men and is at home anywhere from Alaska, where he caught trout; to Washington, D. C., where he has appeared as attorney before the United States Supreme Court. He believes in the great west, its present and future and has contributed to various well known western magazines and other publications—to Out West, The West Coast, Pacific Monthly—his favorite themes being "California Missions," "Early Religions," "Education" and "Agriculture." He is a public speaker of note and his oration at the funeral of Senator Patton, at Ocean Park, in December of 1906, was a classic in all that the word implies. He is a prominent member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks; of religious and public spirit, ever ready to give his energetic support to any movement tending to the betterment of improvement of the religious, moral and municipal conditions of the community. Judge Hutton possesses ability, dignity, firmness and courage, and is clear and direct in his statements; his decisions are well considered and he has by these qualities and his uniform courtesy and patience earned the good will and confidence of the members of Los Angeles bar; while on the bench he is quiet and reserved and conducts his court with dignity. In chambers he is genial, cordial and approachable and in private life social and friendly. He will be thirty-seven years old August 5th of this year (1907). In 1897 he was united in marriage to Dolores Egleston, a daughter of S. J. Egleston, one of the founders of the City of Spencer, Clay County, Iowa. They have one son, George Robert Egleston Hutton, eight years old, the pride of his parents and the central attraction of a home that Judge Hutton finds to be the brightest spot on earth and where he spends his leisure hours to the exclusion of society or politics. He is a man of stern and strict habits whose life is dominated by two leading desires—first, to enjoy his home and family and second, to succeed in his profession. He is possessed of a most unusual memory and rarely forgets the doctrine of any case he has once studied. Since his elevation to the bench he has impressed the bar and the public with his persistent and untiring diligence, with his keen analysis of facts, his clear perception of the truth and his tireless search for every possible legal principle that might aid him in reaching a correct and accurate conclusion Additional Comments: Extracted from: Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County, 1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative people. Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/losangeles/bios/hutton141bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb