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ISIDORE B.
DOCKWEILER
DOCKWEILER, ISIDORE B. Attorney, Los Angeles, California, was born in that city on December 28, 1867. His father was Henry Dockweiler, a Bavarian by birth, and his mother, Margaretha Sugg, was an Alsatian. On June 30, 1891, he married Miss Gertrude Reeve at San Francisco. They have eleven children.
Mr. Dockweiler was educated at St. Vincent’s College, Los Angeles, from which he received a commercial diploma in 1883 and the degree of A. B., 1887; A.M., 1889, and the honorary degree of L.L.M. in 1905 and L.L.D. in 1911.
In 1883 Mr. Dockweiler was employed as a bookkeeper, which position he held for two years, leaving to return to college. After graduating in 1887 he engaged in surveying for one year and then commenced to study law. He was admitted to the California bar on October 14, 1889, and thereafter to the bar of the Federal Courts in California and the United States Supreme Court.
He has been a trustee of St. Vincent’s College since October 1, 1890. He was a director of the Los Angeles Public Library from 1897 to 1899, and from February, 1901, to February 2, 1911. He is a trustee of the State Normal School at San Diego, California, having been commissioned to serve from December, 1898 to July, 1912. Mr. Dockweiler was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California on the Democratic ticket in 1902 and a delegate from California to the Democratic National Convention of 1908.
Mr. Dockweiler is a member of the California, Gamut and Newman clubs; Chamber of Commerce, Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of America; Los Angeles Bar Association, American Bar Association, Native Sons of the Golden West, B.P.O.E., Knights of Columbus, Young Men’s Institute, and the Royal Arcanum.
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11-13-09 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 351, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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