Henry Alexander Melvin was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1908-1920.
Son of Samuel Houston Melvin and Sarah Amanda Slemmons Melvin, Judge Melvin was born at Springfield, Illinois in 1865, the same year that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Melvin's father was a neighbor, friend, ardent Unionist and supporter of the 16th President.
In 1873, the Melvin family moved to St. Helena, California, where they lived for three years before settling in Oakland.
Judge Melvin attended Franklin Grammar School in Oakland, Oakland High School, and then the University of California, where he graduated in 1889 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He received his law degree from the Hastings College of Law in 1892, and was admitted to the bar the same year.
Melvin was also a practicing pharmacist and ran a drug store, as well as holding a professorship at the Oakland College of Medicine and Surgery.
He was a noted expert on military affairs and he was first lieutenant and inspector of rifle practice of the University Cadets when he graduated from the U of C. For many years he was a member of the Republican Alliance of Oakland, in which he attained the rank of major.
While still a student in 1891, he was appointed a justice of the peace of Brooklyn Township, Alameda County. He later served as a prosecuting attorney for the City of Oakland, deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County and a special deputy attorney-general of the State of California.
In 1901 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Superior Bench of Alameda County, and in 1902 was elected to a full term of six years. He resigned to accept an appointment as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California on his birthday in 1908.
Judge Melvin was a Mason (Scottish Rite), and was one of the most active members in the California Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he was made grand Exalted Ruler in 1906. On July 18, 1921, the granite monument pictured above was unveiled on the Melvin plot, a gift of the Elks of the nation.
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Melvin plot, No. 16, Lot 33, was established in 1882 for the burial of Judge Melvin's grandfather, James Melvin. There were already 11 family members in the plot when Judge Melvin passed. The Elks required that their marker be the central and only marker in the plot. All earlier markers were removed. Only other marker is that of brother Charles Stuart Melvin, who died in 1911. Perhaps because he was the Secretary of Mountain View Cemetery Association, his marker was restored.
Son of Samuel Houston Melvin and Sarah Amanda Slemmons Melvin, Judge Melvin was born at Springfield, Illinois in 1865, the same year that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Melvin's father was a neighbor, friend, ardent Unionist and supporter of the 16th President.
In 1873, the Melvin family moved to St. Helena, California, where they lived for three years before settling in Oakland.
Judge Melvin attended Franklin Grammar School in Oakland, Oakland High School, and then the University of California, where he graduated in 1889 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He received his law degree from the Hastings College of Law in 1892, and was admitted to the bar the same year.
Melvin was also a practicing pharmacist and ran a drug store, as well as holding a professorship at the Oakland College of Medicine and Surgery.
He was a noted expert on military affairs and he was first lieutenant and inspector of rifle practice of the University Cadets when he graduated from the U of C. For many years he was a member of the Republican Alliance of Oakland, in which he attained the rank of major.
While still a student in 1891, he was appointed a justice of the peace of Brooklyn Township, Alameda County. He later served as a prosecuting attorney for the City of Oakland, deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County and a special deputy attorney-general of the State of California.
In 1901 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Superior Bench of Alameda County, and in 1902 was elected to a full term of six years. He resigned to accept an appointment as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California on his birthday in 1908.
Judge Melvin was a Mason (Scottish Rite), and was one of the most active members in the California Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he was made grand Exalted Ruler in 1906. On July 18, 1921, the granite monument pictured above was unveiled on the Melvin plot, a gift of the Elks of the nation.
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Melvin plot, No. 16, Lot 33, was established in 1882 for the burial of Judge Melvin's grandfather, James Melvin. There were already 11 family members in the plot when Judge Melvin passed. The Elks required that their marker be the central and only marker in the plot. All earlier markers were removed. Only other marker is that of brother Charles Stuart Melvin, who died in 1911. Perhaps because he was the Secretary of Mountain View Cemetery Association, his marker was restored.
Henry Alexander Melvin was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1908-1920.
Son of Samuel Houston Melvin and Sarah Amanda Slemmons Melvin, Judge Melvin was born at Springfield, Illinois in 1865, the same year that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Melvin's father was a neighbor, friend, ardent Unionist and supporter of the 16th President.
In 1873, the Melvin family moved to St. Helena, California, where they lived for three years before settling in Oakland.
Judge Melvin attended Franklin Grammar School in Oakland, Oakland High School, and then the University of California, where he graduated in 1889 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He received his law degree from the Hastings College of Law in 1892, and was admitted to the bar the same year.
Melvin was also a practicing pharmacist and ran a drug store, as well as holding a professorship at the Oakland College of Medicine and Surgery.
He was a noted expert on military affairs and he was first lieutenant and inspector of rifle practice of the University Cadets when he graduated from the U of C. For many years he was a member of the Republican Alliance of Oakland, in which he attained the rank of major.
While still a student in 1891, he was appointed a justice of the peace of Brooklyn Township, Alameda County. He later served as a prosecuting attorney for the City of Oakland, deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County and a special deputy attorney-general of the State of California.
In 1901 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Superior Bench of Alameda County, and in 1902 was elected to a full term of six years. He resigned to accept an appointment as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California on his birthday in 1908.
Judge Melvin was a Mason (Scottish Rite), and was one of the most active members in the California Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he was made grand Exalted Ruler in 1906. On July 18, 1921, the granite monument pictured above was unveiled on the Melvin plot, a gift of the Elks of the nation.
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Melvin plot, No. 16, Lot 33, was established in 1882 for the burial of Judge Melvin's grandfather, James Melvin. There were already 11 family members in the plot when Judge Melvin passed. The Elks required that their marker be the central and only marker in the plot. All earlier markers were removed. Only other marker is that of brother Charles Stuart Melvin, who died in 1911. Perhaps because he was the Secretary of Mountain View Cemetery Association, his marker was restored.
Son of Samuel Houston Melvin and Sarah Amanda Slemmons Melvin, Judge Melvin was born at Springfield, Illinois in 1865, the same year that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Melvin's father was a neighbor, friend, ardent Unionist and supporter of the 16th President.
In 1873, the Melvin family moved to St. Helena, California, where they lived for three years before settling in Oakland.
Judge Melvin attended Franklin Grammar School in Oakland, Oakland High School, and then the University of California, where he graduated in 1889 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He received his law degree from the Hastings College of Law in 1892, and was admitted to the bar the same year.
Melvin was also a practicing pharmacist and ran a drug store, as well as holding a professorship at the Oakland College of Medicine and Surgery.
He was a noted expert on military affairs and he was first lieutenant and inspector of rifle practice of the University Cadets when he graduated from the U of C. For many years he was a member of the Republican Alliance of Oakland, in which he attained the rank of major.
While still a student in 1891, he was appointed a justice of the peace of Brooklyn Township, Alameda County. He later served as a prosecuting attorney for the City of Oakland, deputy district attorney, chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County and a special deputy attorney-general of the State of California.
In 1901 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Superior Bench of Alameda County, and in 1902 was elected to a full term of six years. He resigned to accept an appointment as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California on his birthday in 1908.
Judge Melvin was a Mason (Scottish Rite), and was one of the most active members in the California Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he was made grand Exalted Ruler in 1906. On July 18, 1921, the granite monument pictured above was unveiled on the Melvin plot, a gift of the Elks of the nation.
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Melvin plot, No. 16, Lot 33, was established in 1882 for the burial of Judge Melvin's grandfather, James Melvin. There were already 11 family members in the plot when Judge Melvin passed. The Elks required that their marker be the central and only marker in the plot. All earlier markers were removed. Only other marker is that of brother Charles Stuart Melvin, who died in 1911. Perhaps because he was the Secretary of Mountain View Cemetery Association, his marker was restored.
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