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WILLIAM LAWRENCE CONNOR
William Lawrence Connor is one of
the foremost patent attorneys of Southern California, with offices at 756 South
Spring Street in Los Angeles, where he has practiced successfully during the
past two decades. He was born in Omaha,
Nebraska, August 11, 1888, his parents being William and Mary A. (Kennedy)
Connor, who came to California in 1906.
The father, who was a railroad construction engineer, is now deceased,
but the mother is still living.
Mr. Connor spent eleven years of his
youth in North Platte, Nebraska. His
early education, acquired in parochial schools, was supplemented by study in
the grammar and high schools of Utah, and he also pursued an engineering course
at the University of Utah. In 1906 when
a youth of eighteen years, he came to Los Angeles, California, and here engaged
in surveying and engineering in connection with subdivision work, likewise
serving in the county surveyor’s office.
He was also assistant to the chief engineer of
the City Gas Company (now the Southern California Gas Company), in the design
and construction of its plant at Tenth and Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, and in
the laying of its first hundred miles of mains.
He studied law at the University of Southern California, and was
admitted to the bar in 1915. He has
since practiced in Los Angeles, specializing in patent law, for which he is
particularly fitted by reason of his combined engineering and legal
education. He is highly rated as an
attorney and enjoys an enviable reputation among his professional colleagues
and contemporaries.
At the time of the World War Mr.
Connor served his country as an officer in the air service. He was graduated from the adjutants’ school
at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and later stationed at Park Field,
near Memphis, Tennessee, first commanding the One Hundred Sixtieth Squadron and
later serving as personnel adjutant. He
was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant.
In politics Mr. Connor is a stalwart
Democrat, and in religious faith he is a Catholic. He is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic
Club and its affiliated beach clubs, and along strictly professional lines he
has membership in the Los Angeles County and California State Bar Associations.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 221-222 , Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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