George Marks

Name: George Marks
Hometown: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthplace: United Kingdom
Died: 1933-02-05 (Age:32)
Pro Boxer: Record

George Marks was the brother of fellow California boxer Benny Marks (famous for being Fidel LaBarba's early amateur opponent at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, then later as a fine pro boxer). Won the Pacific Coast Bantamweight Title in 1921 and held it on and off until 1926.

Marks's early manager was Charles Kline. They parted ways the summer of 1924, per the August 5 Los Angeles Times.

After retiring from boxing, Marks worked as a film cutter in a motion picture studio in Hollywood for about five years.

According to a February 6, 1933 Associated Press news item, with an Azusa, California dateline in the February 7, 1933 edition of the San Bernardino County Sun, George Marks, a "retired featherweight and lightweight boxer who was formerly from New York," was killed instantly when an automobile that he was driving collided with another automobile in an accident near Azusa the previous day (February 5, 1933).

According to the California Death Index, 1905-1939 database on Ancestry.com, George Marks was born about 1901 and died on February 5, 1933, in Los Angeles County. According to U.S. census data, Marks was born in England, but emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1902, settling in Brooklyn, NY.

According to a marriage record in digital form found in the California, County Marriage database on the FamilySearch website, one George Marks, a 21-year-old "Boxer," was born in England on December 28, 1900. He married Lavina E. Wilkinson, an 18-year-old native of California, in Los Angeles, California on June 1, 1922. One of the witnesses was Irving Glasser. (Glasser, also known as Irving (Izzy) Glassier was a boxer in California during the ten-year Four-Round Era who later became a well-known bail bondsman.)