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FRANK C. COLLIER
COLLIER, FRANK C., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, California, was born in Central City, Colorado, September 14, 1878. His father was D. C. Collier and his mother Mattie M. (Johnson) Collier. At Los Angeles, California, December 11, 1905, he married Lucy Kate Pinkerton.
He spent his boyhood days in San Diego County, California. There he attended the public schools, graduating from the high school of that city in 1896. He went East to college, studied at the University of Michigan, graduating from that college in 1901 with the degree LL.B.
He was admitted to practice in the same year by the Supreme Courts of Michigan and California and later, in 1903, by the United States District and Circuit Courts. In 1908 he was admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court. He became a member of the firm of Collier and Smith of San Diego, composed of D. C. Collier, Jr., now Col. D. C. Collier, director general of the 1915 exposition at that city; Sam Ferry Smith and Frank C. Collier, taking the position of a junior partner. The firm already had a large and substantial practice. Mr. Collier’s work being efficient and worthy of note. He remained with the San Diego firm for over a year, then removed to Arizona, where he saw greater opportunities for a young attorney.
He practiced at Prescott, Arizona, during the year 1902, becoming associated with several of the prominent corporations and mining organizations of that territory. His record while in Arizona was that of a successful attorney and he returned from Arizona the following year locating in Los Angeles.
Mr. Collier renewed his practice in Los Angeles in 1903, and practiced there alone for the next three years, his specialty being that of corporation law. His intimate knowledge of affairs relative to the Southwest, specifically Arizona, and his success in those territories in a legal way was of particular advantage to him. In 1906, Mr. Collier formed a partnership with John W. Kemp, the firm taking the name of Kemp and Collier. This association lasted until 1908, when Mr. Collier left Los Angeles in the interest of some special affairs abroad.
He went to London, England, where he pursued special work for about eight months, his work necessitating his visiting many interesting places while there which broadened his knowledge of the world. He acquired an interesting understanding of the workings of the British legal world, at the same time continuing special work.
Mr. Collier returned to Los Angeles in the latter part of 1909, where he became an associate in the firm of Collier and Clark. Mr. Oliver O. Clark was a young Los Angeles attorney, recently graduated from the University of Southern California. The firm established offices in the H. W. Hellman Building and retain that location at the present time. They became active attorneys for the Los Angeles Wholesale Jewelers’ Board of Trade, Baltimore Oil Company, the Los Angeles Record, Anaconda Petroleum Co., Edmund G. Peycke Co., Freconee Company, and many other large interests.
Mr. Collier has varied interests besides his law work, particularly in the oil line. He is Secretary of the Anaconda Petroleum Co., the Freconee C., Assistant Secretary of the Baltimore Oil Company and is an influential man in those corporations. He is a member of the Jonathan Club, the Municipal League, and is a Thirty-second Degree Mason.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 754,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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