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ELISHA AVERY CRARY, IV
E. Avery Crary, IV, a successful representative of the Los Angeles bar, is a member of the well-known law firm of Meserve, Mumper, Hughes and Robertson, with offices in the Richfield Oil building at 555 South Flower Street. He was born in Grundy Center, Grundy county, Iowa, June 24, 1905, his parents being E. Avery and Gertrude (Minor) Crary, the former also a native of Grundy Center, where the paternal grandfather of our subject had establish his home prior to the outbreak of the Civil war. E. Avery Crary III, the father of E. Avery Crary of this review, was a member of the Iowa state bar for many years, building up an extensive and gratifying clientele in his native town, where he continued in law practice until impaired health necessitated his retirement from the work of the courts. He held an engineering degree from the State University of Iowa and in his later years served as engineer of Grundy County. Mr. Crary passed away October 4, 1927, being survived for a number of years by his wife, whose death occurred on February 12, 1933. Their remains were interred at Grundy Center, Iowa.
E. Avery Crary IV, was graduated from the high school of his native town and subsequently entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, but resigned therefrom at the end of two years to enroll in the law department of the State University of Iowa. His professional training was completed as a student at the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 1929. The following year he was admitted to the California bar and at once became associated with Meserve, Mumper, Hughes, & Robertson, of Los Angeles, one of the strongest law firms in the west, with which he has been continuously connected to the present time. Mr. Crary is a very active member of the Los Angeles Bar Association and is chairman of the Junior Bar Association of the State Bar of California. His name is also on the membership rolls of the Army and Navy Club, the Reserve Officers Association, the sons of the American Revolution and the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Outdoor sports constitute his favorite form of recreation. He holds the commission of captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the U.S.R
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on February 11,
2013.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Pages 589-590, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2013 Michele Y. Larsen.
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