Los
Angeles County
Biographies
I.
HENRY HARRIS
For many years an outstanding figure in
the legal profession of California, the death of I. Henry Harris was a severe
shock to his professional associates and to the many who learned to know and
admire him for his personal qualities and his great outstanding
characteristics.
Mr. Harris was born in New York city, in
1865, the son of Henry Francis Harris.
He attended the public schools of the
city of his birth and later completed his law at Columbia University law school
in 1895. That year he was admitted to
the New York Bar. He continued to
practice law in New York city until coming to Los Angeles, California in 1910
where he was admitted to the bar of California that year.
With a record of having been a member of
the California Bar for a quarter of a century Mr. Harris has handled a wide
range of cases in the legal profession, some of which were the most important
in the State. A man of great ambition,
he never allowed his desire for success to cloud his appreciation of the rights
of others and as a result he made and retained the warm personal friendship of
many of Southern California’s outstanding leaders.
Mr. Harris passed away at his home, and
is survived by his widow, Cora Lee and a son, I. Henry Harris, Jr., who graduated
in law Loyola University and was then associated with his father.
Mr. Harris, Jr. will continue to serve
the large clientele his father established at his law offices in the Stock
Exchange building.
Among the leading citizens of Southern
California who served as honorary pallbearers were Presiding Judge Frank. C.
Collier of the Superior Court, Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick, Judge J. Perry
Wood, Guy Richards Crump, Fred Purdy, Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Dr. Edward
Huntington Williams, Olin Wellborn, Jr., John Keogh, Dr. Joseph King, Capt.
Ripley Jackson, Daniel Hunsaker, Luke Wood, Charles Ehrlich, John Holmes,
William B. Keller, Robert A. Larson, Frank E. Randall, P.M. Leidy and Charles
R. Woodrfuff.
Transcribed by Mary
Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Pages 775-776, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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