Curtis D. Wilbur: Difference between revisions

In September 1902, the Republican Party nominated Wilbur for the post of judge of the [[Los Angeles County Superior Court]] to the take the seat of [[Lucien Shaw]], who was running for Supreme Court.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nominated to Succeed Shaw|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19020919.2.56.8|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=San Francisco Call|issue=111|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=19 September 1902|volume = 87|page=5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wilbur is the Man|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19020919.2.157|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=351|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=19 September 1902|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Politics and Politicians|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19020917.2.113|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=349|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=17 September 1902|page=7}}</ref> Wilbur won the election and in November 1902 began to hear cases ''[[pro tempore]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Superior Judge, Curtis D. Wilbur Will Take His Seat Pro Tempore Today|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19021112.2.108|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=41|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=12 November 1902|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Dustless Roads Case|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=ET19021203.1.4|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Evening Transcript|issue=105|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=3 December 1902|volume = 9|page=4}}</ref> He was especially interested in promoting children's welfare: on the Superior Court, he was presiding judge of the juvenile department;<ref>{{cite news|title=Judge Names Two for Probation Committee|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19110806.2.102|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=309|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=6 August 1911|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wilbur Has the Best of it in Juvenile Court Probe|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19130222.2.45|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=124|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=22 February 1913|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Japanese Jurist Is Juvenile Court Guest|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19120611.2.7|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=222|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=11 June 1912|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Gaines|first1=Thomas F.|title=Boy in Trouble Finds a Home|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HPNHJ19631017.2.19|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Highland Park News-Herald & Journal|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=17 October 1963|page=15}}</ref> in 1906 he was a director of the Bethlehem Benevolent Board;<ref>{{cite news |title=Social Plant To Be Erected; Rev. Dana Bartlett Plans Extensive Work; Additional Institutions to Be Founded by the Man Who Is Called "the Jacob Riis of Los Angeles" |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19061220.2.116&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22curtis+d+wilbur%22-------1 |access-date=16 August 2021 |issue=80 |work=Los Angeles Herald |date=December 20, 1906 | volume=34 |page=9 |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|quote=Signed by Curtis D. Wilbur, as 1 of 6 directors of the Bethlehem Benevolent Board}}</ref> in 1910, he was a founding director of the Juvenile Improvement Association;<ref>{{cite news|title=Children's Protectors Incorporate Society|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19100123.2.110.48|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=114|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=23 January 1910|volume = 37|page=10}}</ref> in 1912, he was president of the Social Purity League, which offered religious lectures to the public;<ref>{{cite news|title=Purity League Lectures|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19120907.2.139|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=297|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=7 September 1912|page=16}}</ref> in 1915, he helped organize the [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]] in Los Angeles, and was named permanent chairman of the executive committee;<ref>{{cite news|title=County Council of Boy Scouts is Organized|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19150226.2.556|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=101|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=26 February 1915|page=3}}</ref> and he served as president of the state Sunday School Association, organizing evangelical gatherings for young people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sunday School Meet Opens Tuesday|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU19190526.2.140|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Sacramento Union|issue=26|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=26 May 1919|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Judge Wilbur to Address Long Beach Young Men|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19120629.2.173|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Los Angeles Herald|issue=238|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=29 June 1912|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=State Convention of Sunday Schools in Two Sections|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=RBDN19200506.2.12|access-date=September 14, 2017|work=Red Bluff Daily News|issue=158|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection|date=6 May 1920|page=1|quote=Justice Curtis D. Wilbur of the slate supreme court, who is president of the association.}}</ref>

 

 

He taught at the newly founded law school of the University of Southern California from about 1904 until 1917, while he sat on the Superior Court.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}} Annually, he taught one course, extraordinary legal remedies.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}