Dates

• Existence: 1880 - 1946

Biography

Reginald Goodwin Fernald is president of the Morning Press Publishing Company of Santa Barbara, is a member of the California bar and is a progressive and public-spirited citizen who is a stalwart supporter of those civic and material enterprises and measures that tend to advance the communal welfare.

Reginald Goodwin Fernald was born in Santa Barbara on the 6th of July, 1880, and as a youth he here attended the collegiate school conducted by Professor T. H. McCune. In 1903 he was graduated in Stanford University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and on the 26th of June, 1907, he was graduated in the law school of historic old Harvard University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1908 Mr. Fernald was admitted to the California bar, in the City of San Francisco, and in that city he became associated with the representative law firm of Morris, Cope & Brabeck. He continued in the practice of his profession in San Francisco for several years, and his withdrawal from practice was enforced by a severe illness from which he recuperated very slowly. He thus returned to Santa Barbara, and in his native city he has since effectively staged his activities.

After the death of Cameron Rogers he succeeded that honored citizen in the office of president of the Morning Press Publishing Company, through the medium of which he has continued the splendid services of his predecessor in making the Press an effective exponent of community interests and in supporting those measures which conserve the best interests of the City and County of Santa Barbara.

Loyal in his allegiance to and appreciation of the glorious state of his birth, Mr. Fernald is actively affiliated with the Native Sons of the Golden West, besides which he is identified with the Sons of the American Revolution, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Santa Barbara Club, the Polo Club, the Santa Barbara Country Club and the Bohemian Club of San Fran- cisco. His religious faith is that of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he is a communicant. In addition to his active association with the Morning Press Publishing Company Mr. Fernald conducts a successful and representative real-estate and insurance business, under the title of the Santa Barbara Realty Company, and he has large and valuable real-estate interests in and about his native city.

– Gidney 1920

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