Los Angeles County
Biographies
GURNEY ELWOOD NEWLIN
NEWLIN, GURNEY ELWOOD,
Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Lawrence Kan.,
November 11, 1880, the son of Thomas Elwood and Laurie (Hadley) Newlin.
When 6 years old his parents brought him to Los Angeles,
later removing to Whittier, of which city his father was one of the founders.
He started his schooling at the public schools of that town. He was then sent
to the high schools of Los Angeles, graduating in 1898.
He then went East to Haverford
College, Haverford, Pa., and there studied two years. The two last years of his
college career were spent at the University of California, where he received
his degree of B. L. in the year 1902. The following autumn he went to
Cambridge, Mass., and entered the most renowned of law schools, that of
Harvard, and there remained throughout the three-year course. He received his
degree of LL.B. in 1905.
He began practice with Percy R. Wilson. In January, 1907,
he was made attorney for the Los Angeles Pacific Company. He was advanced to
the post of general attorney of the Los Angeles Pacific in 1910, in entire
charge of their legal business.
His general practice became so great that he was
compelled to resign March 1, 1911. He is a director in various
companies.
He is a member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco,
California Club of Los Angeles, of which he was director and secretary from
1908 to 1910; Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Gamut Club,
Catalina Yacht Club, University of California Club, Harvard Club of Southern
California and President of the Southern California Alumni Association of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He is a member of the American Bar Association,
California State Bar Association and the Los Angeles Bar Association.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
12 May 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 659,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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