San Joaquin-Statewide County CA Archives Biographies.....Crittenden, Bradford Samuel January 20, 1876 - 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages  94 - 95
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     BRADFORD SAMUEL CRITTENDEN is a Stockton attorney and a representative of 
San Joaquin County in the Legislature. He is a lawyer with many interesting 
affiliations and contacts with his community and state.

     He has been a Californian forty years. He was born near Cleveland, in 
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, January 20, 1876. His father, the late Samuel O. 
Crittenden, was also a native of Ohio and was a Union soldier in the One 
Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Infantry in the Civil war. After coming to 
California in 1890 he lived on a ranch until his death. Samuel 0. Crittenden 
married Lemira L. Bradford, who resides at San Jose, at the age of eighty-four.

     Bradford Samuel Crittenden was fourteen years old when brought to 
California, and here he attended grammar schools in Merced County, and had 
several years of ranch work as part of his experience. In 1898 he graduated 
from the Academy of the Pacific, at San Jose, took his Bachelor of Laws degree 
at the University of the Pacific in 1903, and subsequently entered the 
Hastings Law School of the University of California, graduating Bachelor of 
Laws in 1907 and in the same year received the Master of Arts degree at the 
University of the Pacific.

     Mr. Crittenden for one year practiced in San Francisco, after which he 
returned to his home town of San Jose, where he was engaged in a general law 
practice until 1916, in which year he established himself at Stockton. While 
he has stood in the relationship of a general practitioner of the bar, his 
time and abilities have been almost completely taken up during the past ten 
years in connection with the legal work involved in the organization of 
irrigation districts, and he is regarded as an authority on all the details of 
the law governing this class of public improvement. For ten years he acted as 
attorney for the Tracy Irrigation District. He is a former city attorney of 
Stockton and since 1921 has been a member of the California General Assembly.

     Mr. Crittenden during the World war acted as deputy to his law partner, 
who prepared nearly all the papers in connection with the application of the 
draft law to the entire district. He was also president of one of the bond 
drives and a four-minute speaker. In 1929 Mr. Crittenden was president of the 
San Joaquin County Bar Association. He is a Republican and a Methodist. He has 
cultivated various fraternal and social affiliations, being a member of Mount 
Oso Lodge No. 460, A. F. and A. M., at Tracy, Stockton Chapter No. 28, Royal 
Arch Masons, Stockton Commandery No. 8, Knights Templar, the Mystic Shrine at 
Sacramento, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sciots, Knights of 
Pythias, P. O. Elks, Tracy Lions Club and San Francisco Commonwealth Club. He 
takes his recreations chiefly out doors, hunting and fishing.

     Mr. Crittenden married at San Jose, July 17, 1907, Miss Edith May 
MacChesney, daughter of T. C. MacChesney, of San Jose. They have two children: 
Edith Eudora, in the second year of her studies at the College of the Pacific; 
and Bradford MacChesney, member of the class of 1930 in the Stockton High 
School.

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