Amador
County
Biographies
ANDREW L. PIEROVICH
Andrew
L. Pierovich, one of the able and successful members of the Amador County bar,
is the present city attorney of Jackson, and is honoring his county by his
splendid professional service. He was
born in Jackson, June 22, 1895, a son of Andrew and Kate (Glavich)
Pierovich. The
father was a seafaring man, who came around the Horn to California and in the
early ‘70s came to Jackson, Amador County.
For a number of years he engaged in mining and then turned his attention
to the hotel business, which he followed successfully until his death, in
1919. His widow is still living in
Jackson. They became the parents of two
sons and three daughters, but one daughter is now deceased.
Andrew
L. Pierovich attended the public and high schools of his native community and
then entered St. Mary’s College, at San Francisco, from which he was graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1917.
During the World War he joined the United States Navy, in which he
served for eighteen months. At the close
of the war he was honorably discharged and returned home, and for a while had
charge of his father’s business after the latter’s death. He then entered the law school of the
University of California and won the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1922. Admitted to the bar, he practiced his
profession in San Francisco until 1926, when he returned to Jackson and has
since been engaged in practice here, though still maintaining his office
connections in San Francisco. He is an
able, successful and dependable attorney and is serving as city attorney of
Jackson.
Politically
Mr. Pierovich is a Democrat and is interested in everything that concerns the
prosperity and advancement of his community.
He belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Knights of Columbus
(third degree), the American Legion and the Native Sons of the Golden
West. He is very fond of the mountains,
and fishing and hunting are his favorite forms of recreation. He has prospered in his individual affairs
and he and a partner own the Jackson Theater, a modern and well equipped motion
picture house, in which are presented the latest talking pictures. He is known as a man of progressive ideas and
in civic affairs is a leader, giving freely of his time and efforts for the
welfare of the community in which he lives.
He commands a large law practice and is numbered among Amador county’s
representative citizens.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 16-17. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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