Yuba-Sutter-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Manwell, Ray 1890 - 
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Author: Peter J. Delay

    RAY MANWELL. — Men possessing the fundamental characteristics to which Ray
Manwell is heir have ever been regarded as bulwarks of the communities in which
they live; and this well-known native Californian is no exception to the rule.
Born near Nicolaus, Sutter County, December 11, 1890, he is the son of Edmund
and Ellen Gertrude (Scott) Manwell, the mother a native of Yuba County, and both
now deceased. Edmund Manwell was born in a log cabin at Camp Far West, Placer
County, and was a school teacher in early days. Self-educated in the study of
law, he was a member of the State legislature in 1907. In 1908-1910 he served as
county superintendent of schools for Yuba County. Elected district attorney of
Yuba County in 1910, he was killed in the I. W. W. riots at Wheatland, August 3,
1913, while performing his official duties, a martyr to the cause of justice;
and his passing deprived this district of one of its most able men and
conscientious public officials. He was one of the original forty members of the
Lincoln-Roosevelt Club, which nominated Hiram Johnson for Governor in 1912.
Prominent in fraternal circles, he was a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite
Mason; a member of Marysville Parlor No. 6, N. S. G. W.; and a member of the Odd
Fellows and of the Foresters. Mrs. Manwell's death occurred in November, 1918. 

    Ray Manwell received his preliminary education in the Marysville schools,
graduating from the high school with the class of 1911, after which he attended
the law department of the University of Southern California for two and a half
years. For six years he was associated with the editorial department of the
Marysville papers; and in July, 1913, he was admitted to the bar. This event was
followed, in 1914, by his election to the office of district attorney of Yuba
County, at the age of twenty-two years, the youngest district attorney in the
United States. Four years later he was reelected, and in 1922 he was elected to
serve his third term in office without opposition. From the beginning of his
practice Mr. Manwell has made a success of the law. Working on his cases
entirely without help, a fact in which he can take justifiable pride, he has
obtained many legal verdicts in both civil and criminal courts in the county. 

    The eldest of eight children born to his parents, Mr. Manwell has helped in
rearing and educating the family, one of the representative pioneer families of
central California, who are carrying on the name and work left to them by their
parents and grandparents, founders of the family in the State. 

    The marriage of Mr. Manwell. which occurred in San Rafael in 1912, united
him with Miss Ruth Smith, a native of Marysville; and two children have been
born to them, Edmund T. and Virginia. As the owner of city property and also of
ranch interests which keep him in touch with the development of the district.
Mr. Manwell can be found in the foreground in any movements which come up for
the further advancement of his section of the State; and his name is known
throughout the county as that of a real worker for the common good. Fraternally,
he belongs to the Elks, the Odd Fellows, the Moose, and the Red Men, and to
Marysville Parlor No. 6, N. S. G. W., of which he is a past president. As a
member of the Rotary Club, he is active in all its doings, whether of a civic or
of a social nature. In short, he is a worthy son of a worthy pioneer, of the
type of men who have put California in the forefront in the Sisterhood of States. 


Additional Comments:

HISTORY OF YUBA and SUTTER COUNTIES 
CALIFORNIA 
WITH 
Biographical Sketches OF 
The Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified with Their
Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present 

HISTORY BY 
PETER J. DELAY 

ILLUSTRATED 
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME 

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1924


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