Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Odell, S. W. 1864 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

S. W. ODELL.

    S. W. ODELL, City Attorney of Santa Monica, is a native of Illinois and was
born in the town of Hampton, Rock Island County, that state, November 4th, 1864.
His father's ancestors were from Yorkshire, England, and in the early days of
the country, settled in the State of New York; later moving on to the western
frontier in Ohio. His father, John P. Odell, left Ohio and located in Illinois
about the year 1850. Mr. Odell's ancestry on his mother's side was partially of
Scotch origin. The subject of our sketch received his education in the common
schools of Illinois and Iowa, later attending Port Byron Academy, at Port Byron,
Illinois, and the Bloomington Law School of the Illinois Wesleyan University,
from which he holds a Bachelor's Degree. He was admitted to practice law in the
State of Illinois in 1887 and practiced in the courts of that state until the
summer of 1903, with the exception of the year 1908, spent at Santa Cruz,
California. He maintained an office at Moline, Illinois, for a period of fifteen
years and was, for a portion of that time, City Attorney. He came to California
in 1903. After some months spent in Los Angeles, he opened an office in Santa
Monica in the spring of 1904 becoming soon thereafter a member of the law firm
of Tanner, Taft & Odell. He was appointed City Attorney of Santa Monica in April
1907 and his professional services to the new city government have proven
invaluable. Mr. Odell married at Port Byron, Illinois, Miss Clara J. W. Morgan,
in the year 1888, and they have two sons and one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Odell
are active members of the First M. E. Church of Santa Monica. The family
residence is at No. 1034 Second Street.


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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)


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