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__NOTOC__ John Franklin Godfrey〔His middle name is attested by () this Los Angeles Public Library record〕 (1839–1885) was a sailor, a soldier and officer in the U.S. Civil War, a city attorney of Los Angeles, California, and an attorney in private practice who, among other clients, represented people arrested for operating businesses on Sundays. ==Personal== Godfrey was born in 1839 in Bangor, Maine, the son of John Godfrey a Central Maine lawyer. Young Godfrey attended Bangor High School.〔〔 He settled in Los Angeles in 1874, purchased a house on Adams Street in the southwestern part of the city and began cultivating oranges. Godfrey married twice, his first wife dying in Los Angeles, and two years later he married again.〔〔 Godfrey was credited with saving the life of Henry Hunt, who faced a lynch mob in Los Angeles after he was put into jail and accused of murdering George W. Gillis, a popular deputy sheriff.〔("Hoary Headed Henry Hunt," ''Los Angeles Herald,'' August 5, 1894 )〕〔 Col. Godfrey, seeing that the man could only be saved from lawless violence by a ruse, addressed the crowd and made a pretense of endorsing the proposed lynching. But he added that . . . there was a way in which the crowd could give a better proof of its sympathy with the murdered man's family. who had been left in destitute circumstances. This was to make a contribution of money to the widow. . . . But many in the crowd, though anxious to take a hand in the hanging, did not feel sympathetic enough to give anything, and began to disperse the minute the hat started on its rounds.〔("Anecdote of Col. Godfrey," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 8, 1885, page 1 )〕 He died suddenly on June 29, 1885, leaving a wife and four or five children. A memorial service attracted nearly every lawyer in the city, and burial took place in the family plot.〔("Col. John F. Godfrey," ''Los Angeles Times,'' June 30, 1885, page 1 )〕〔〔("Rest in Peace," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 2, 1885, page 4 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John F. Godfrey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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