Shobal Patton Mulford

  General Notes:

In 1908 Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt was in the last year of his second term as our President. That year Shobal P. Mulford and George W. Dryer formed a partnership to practice law in the County of Los Angeles. Mr. Mulford, born in 1850, was from Ohio, where he had practiced law for five years before moving to Los Angeles in 1883 to continue his practice as a specialist in corporate and probate law. Mr. Dryer (born in 1881 in Placerville, in the heart of California's "gold country") grew up in Santa Ana. He graduated from Stanford Law School, and in 1904 was admitted to the California Bar.
Together Mr. Dryer and Mr. Mulford put down the legal roots which 92 years later still form the solid basis for the present firm, Lagerlof, Senecal, Bradley, Gosney & Kruse, LLP.

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1870, Lebanon, Warren, Ohio. ¹
David Kemper, 62, methodist minister, real estate $43000, property $5300, born in Virginia. Sarah Kemper, 40, born in Ohio. John Holly, 23, attending S. N. school, born in Illinois. Shobal Mulford, 19, attending S.N. school, born in Ohio. Joseph Brown, 23, attending S.N. school, born in Pennsylvania.

• Census, 1900, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. ²
Shobal P. Mulford, 49, lawer, born 26 Aug 1850 in Ohio, married 15 years. Helen B. Mulford, 43, born 34 May 1856 in Ohio, married 15 years. Ida Nye, 25, born 30 Sep 1875 in Sweden.

• Census, 1920, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. ³
Shobal Mulford, 69, parter in law firm, born in Ohio. Helen B. Mulford, 63, born in Ohio. Arma E. Farrar, 92, mother-in-law, born in Ohio. Cornelia Francis, 58, nurse, widow, born in Illinois. Ollie Carnson, 37, maid, born in Sweden.

Shobal married Helen B. Farrar in 1885 in , , Ohio. (Helen B. Farrar was born on 24 Aug 1856 in , , Ohio and died on 23 Aug 1941 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California ⁴.)