Lars Torbjorn Eugene Ness

   Other names for Lars were Eugene Ness and L. T. Eugene Ness.

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Biographical Sketch
L. T. Eugene Ness was born in Morganville, Kentucky [s/b Kansas] in 1897. He attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. In 1929, he married Helen Straw of Paulding, Ohio in New York City. After their marriage, they settled in Springfield, where he was an attorney with the law firm of Malone and Ness.
In February 1934 Ness was selected by the Mission Indians of Southern California as their attorney at their regular meeting held in San Diego, California. He had been actively involved in Indian matters since the summer of 1933. From 1934 until 1937, Ness represented the Indians of Southern California in their Court of Claims case against the United States government and in other legal matters.
In 1937 Ness and his family moved to Paulding, Ohio, where he practiced law until moving to Florida in the 1950's. He and his wife had three children, Thomas, Charles, and Carol.

WWI draft record
Eugene Lars Torlipra Ness born 28 Oct 1897

1940 Pailding, Paulding, OH
L T Eugene Ness and wife Heklen and son Tommy Gene are living with Helen's widowed father Charles L. Straw

SSDI

Lars married Martha Helen Straw, daughter of Charles Lovell Straw and Susan Bernice Wells, in 1929 in New York City, Kings County, New York. (Martha Helen Straw was born on 24 Apr 1906 in Paulding, Paulding County, Ohio, died on 16 Sep 1992 in El Dorado County, California and was buried in Live Oak Cemetery Paulding, Paulding County, Ohio, USA.)