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Class Year
1912
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James Garfield Pfanstiel, LL.B.
Morning View, Kentucky
Alpha Epsilon, Henry Clay Law Society.
"And finds with keen discriminating sight, Blacks not so black, nor white so very white." Gaze upon the likeness of my countenance portrayed above. You view here a clear thinker, a gentleman and a scholar. Being a native of Kentucky 1 am naturally inclined toward oratory and love of the beautiful. My handsome face has caused many a heart in feminine breast to leap with admiration. Only the needs of the hour move me to relinquish my indulgence in the aesthetic and delve in the law of Corporations. My vocation is law, my avocation "heart juggling." With me LL. B. means "Long Live Blackstone!"
-The Kentuckian, 1912
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James Garfield Pfanstiel (July 29, 1881 - January 9, 1943) was born in Kenton County, Kentucky to Frederick Pfanstiel and Angeline Smith. Pfanstiel attended Valparaiso University before attending the University of Kentucky College of Law. He moved to San Diego, California after receiving his LL.B. in 1912. He practiced law in the firm of Fox and Pfanstiel. In 1917, he served as the Assistant District Attorney of San Diego. Pfanstiel married Marie Edgar Cunningham.
