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ROY N. FRENCH
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Roy N. French, an attorney of high rating, at 111 West Seventh Street in Los
Angeles, formerly served on the Nevada bench as judge of the district
court. He was born in Essex, Essex
County, New York, July 7, 1874, his parents being Wilbur M. and Sarah B.
(Dickerson) French, also natives of the Empire state. Wilbur M. French, a farmer by occupation,
died in 1931, having for thirty-five years survived his wife, who passed away
in 1896. The French family is of
English, Irish and Scotch lineage, representatives of the name having gone to
England with William the Conqueror in the eleventh century.
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Roy N. French acquired his education in public and private schools at the place
of his nativity and received his professional training at Cornell University,
from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1896. After a brief period of practice
in Iowa and Colorado, he went Utah, in which state he practiced two and
one-half years. In 1900 he went to the
Philippine Islands as a soldier in the United States Army, serving with the
regular infantry for two years during the Philippine insurrection. Subsequently he was appointed by Governor-General
William H. Taft as assistant prosecuting attorney of the city of Manila, P. I.,
where he remained until returning to the United States in 1905. He went to Goldfield, Nevada, at the time of
the boom and next established an office in Reno, that state, for the general practice
of law. He remained in Nevada for twenty
years, during four years of which period, from 1910 to 1914, he served as
district judge. He was
first appointed to the bench to fill the unexpired term of Judge Pike and the
same year was elected to the judgeship on the Republican ticket. It was in 1924 that he came to Los Angeles,
California, where he has continued in the general practice of law to the
present time and has been accorded an extensive and gratifying clientele.
On the 21st of June,
1909, Mr. French was united in marriage to Florence G. Roach, a native of San Francisco,
and they are the parents of two children:
William M., who was graduated from Stanford University in 1932 and is
now in the employ of the Morrison Milk Company, Anacortes, Washington; and
Marian D., who is attending the University of California at Los Angeles.
Mr. French is a Knight Templar who
has also attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite
and has crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine. He is likewise a member of Phi
Delta Phi and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and he enjoys high standing in
social as well as professional circles of his adopted city.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 643-644,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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