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AUBRY MILLER
Aubry Miller, rising young attorney
of Los Angeles, was born in Leadville, Colorado, January 29, 1899. His parents are Alfred A. and Anna Louise (Machin) Miller, the former a native of Quebec, Canada, and
the latter of London, England. Alfred A.
Miller, who devoted much of his active life to mining development, went from
Colorado to Spokane, Washington, in 1904 and later in the same year came to Southern
California. He passed away in June,
1932, in Los Angeles.
Aubry Miller attended the grammar
and high schools of Spokane, Washington, and continued his studies in the
Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis.
In 1915, when sixteen years old, he put a pack on his back and started on
the long trip down the coast to San Francisco, California. He scorned no honest employment and soon he
enlisted in the Oakland Guard, becoming a member of Company A,
Fifth Infantry, California National Guard.
Later he was transferred to Company D of the same regiment, at San
Rafael, and in the summer of 1916 was ordered with his company to Nogales,
Arizona, in connection with the troubles on the Mexican border. He was mustered out at Sacramento in
September, 1916, but was soon called again to military duty, his former company
having entered the World War service as part of the One Hundred Fifty-ninth
United States Infantry, stationed at Camp Kearney. He was injured in bayonet practice and was
honorably discharged on the 22nd of February, 1918.
It was in the year 1918 that Mr.
Miller came to Los Angeles and realized a long cherished ambition on entering
the law department of the University of Southern California, from which he was
graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1922.
Soon thereafter he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his
chosen profession in Los Angeles, where he has since built up a very
satisfactory and representative clientele.
He was formerly a member of the firm of Bonelli
& Miller but is now practicing independently. Mr. Miller has made his way in the world
unaided and owes his success entirely to his own efforts. He became lecturer on historical
jurisprudence in Occidental College of Los Angeles, and in 1919 he founded the
college paper known as “Wampus” at the University of
Southern California, acting as its editor and manager during the first year of
its existence. He is an authority on
ancient history, is the owner of a large library pertaining thereto and is the
author of a monograph on ancient Olympic games and also
of a work on historical jurisprudence.
On the 21st of October,
1921, in Ventura, California, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Mildred
Schuckman, a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a
daughter of Jesse M. Schuckman, well known
capitalist. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one
child, Virginia Ruth.
Mr. Miller gives his political
allegiance to the Republican Party, while his religious faith is indicated by
his membership in the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which his wife also
belongs. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Masons, belonging to Pentalpha Lodge, No.
202, F. & A. M., of Los Angeles. He
is also a member of Delta Theta Phi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities and is
secretary of the California Epsilon Association. Along strictly professional lines he has
membership in the Los Angeles County, California State and American Bar
Associations and his reputation among his professional colleagues and
contemporaries is indeed an enviable one.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 473-474, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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