Los Angeles County
Biographies
GEORGE PRICE
ADAMS.
Thorough academic training, in addition to the wide and comprehensive experience gained through 40 years of activity in the practice of his profession has made George P. Adams, of Los Angeles, a thoroughly capable lawyer and counselor, whose ability is best indicated by the character and extent of his practice.
Mr. Adams is a native of Illinois, and was born in 1860 near Kewanee, Henry County. After receiving his preparatory training in public schools he entered Hedding College, Abingdon, Ill., from which he graduated with the Ph. B. degree as a member of the class of 1885. His legal training was obtained at Union College of Law, Chicago, which conferred on him the LL. B. degree in 1887, and he was admitted to the Illinois bar the same year.
Shortly after Mr. Adams moved to California and located at Los Angeles, engaging in the practice of his profession in partnership with William H. Mitchell under the firm name of Adams & Mitchell. The partnership was dissolved in 1893 upon the death of Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. Adams has since engaged in general practice individually.
In 1893 Mr. Adams married Edith L. Harmon and they have three children, Winola, Lyle H., and Nadine. He is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of California and Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is also a Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, and a member of the Blue Wing Gun Club. Duck hunting is his hobby, and in the past 22 years he has shot 12,000 ducks. The gun clubs of Southern California presented him with a magnificent Parker gun in recognition of his efforts toward the use of artesian water in creating artificial lakes.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: "American Blue Book California Lawyers"
by H. James Boswell, Page 21, Produced by H. James Boswell,
1928.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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