July 06 1952
Bertram C. Jenkines 06 Jul 1952, Sun The Times (Munster, Indiana) Newspapers.com
Jenkines Dies; Ex-Superior Court Judge 06 Jul 1952, Sun The Times (Munster, Indiana) Newspapers.com
Jenkines Dies; Ex-Superior Court Judge
Death Friday night closed the brilliant legal career of Bertram C. Jenkines, former Lake County Superior Court judge, who will be buried Monday in Logansport, Ind., following final rites at the Chase Mortuary there.
Jenkines, 82, succumbed in his sleep during a visit to the home of a granddaughter, Mrs. Claudine LaGasse at Wichita Falls, Tex.
The deceased had moved six years ago to Santa Rosa, Calif. Mrs. LaGasse is the daughter of Clyde Brown of Hammond, former law associate of Jenkines.
Jenkines, who had won many trophies in golf, a former Indiana state chess champion and who was among the masters in the International Chess Congress, served as judge of Superior Court No. 3 in Gary from 1934 to 1943. He was a Democrat. In addition to his law partnership with Brown, Jenkines also was associated with Atty. Charles W. Gannon of Gary before he left for the west coast.
HE CAME to Lake County in 1928 from Logansport where he was a member of the Jenkines and Jenkines law firm. During his tenure on the Gary bench, Jenkines had issued an order declaring he would grant no more “10-day divorces” and the number of cases assigned to him for hearing took a sudden drop.
He was born in West Virginia. He obtained his law degree and was admitted to practice in 1907. In 1907, he was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and had acted as counsel in the most important cases in the Appellate and Supreme Courts. He also was a former deputy prosecutor in Lake County.
His many affiliations included Masonic lodges.
Bertram Claude Jenkines, April 25, 1870-July 04, 1952Mount Hope Cemetary, Logansport, Cass county, Indiana
