Los
Angeles County
Biographies
GEORGE WILLIAM
NIX
George William Nix is one of the
ablest members of the legal profession in Los Angeles, where he began practice
in 1917 and has been connected with the School of Law of the University of
Southern California as lecturer on California codes and codification during the
past fifteen years. He was born in
Providence, Rhode Island, June 22, 1893, his parents being William Allen and
Phoebe (Stevens) Nix, the former now a resident of Los Angeles County,
California, while the latter is deceased.
The family is of Scotch and English descent and its progenitors in the
new world settled in Nova Scotia. The
forbears of our subject in both the paternal and maternal lines held timber
land and had extensive lumber and milling interests.
George W. Nix acquired his
elementary education in the schools of Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent
the first thirteen years of his life. In
1906 he removed westward to Colorado, continuing his studies in the high school
at Lake City, that state, where he remained until 1912. In January of the latter year, when a youth
of eighteen, he had the misfortune to lose his eyesight in a dynamite explosion
which occurred while he was working on the Hidden Treasure mine at Lake City,
and for three years thereafter he was a resident of Colorado Springs,
Colorado. Since 1915 he has made his
home in Los Angeles, where he took up the study of law at the University of
Southern California, which at his graduation conferred upon him the degree of
LL. B., and he had the honor to be president of the senior class. It was in 1917, as previously stated, that he
began the practice of his chosen profession in this city, and recognition of
his legal learning and ability has brought him a growing and gratifying
clientele. Since 1917 he has conducted
the review course for applicants for California bar examinations, and about
thirty-five hundred students have taken his course - and
since 1920 he has been lecturer in the law department of the University of
Southern California on the subject of California codes and codification. He is a member of the committee on education
of the Los Angeles Bar Association and also has membership in the legal
fraternity Phi Delta Phi. Aside from his
professional activities he is financially interested in Los Angeles real
estate, securities and bonds, having made the study of securities, stocks and
bonds an avocation.
On the 26th of June,
1919, in Huntington Park, California, Mr. Nix was united in marriage to Miss
Julia Morey Boyd, a native of Portland, Oregon, and a daughter of Thomas Boyd,
D. D., and Narcissa Belle Boyd, both now deceased. Dr. Thomas Boyd, a graduate of Wooster
University of Ohio, which institution conferred upon him the M.A. and D.D.
degrees, was a Presbyterian clergyman who resided for many years in Portland,
Oregon, and later took up his abode in Fresno, California. The mother of Mrs. Nix was a graduate of the
Western College for Woman at Oxford, Ohio.
Mrs. Julia Morey (Boyd) Nix, is a graduate of Mills College of Oakland,
California, and a graduate student with an M.A. degree from Columbia
University. She is helpfully interested
in activities of the Mills Alumnae Association and the Parent-Teacher
Association, and she likewise belongs to the Friday Morning Club and the Town
and Gown Club of the University of Southern California. By her marriage she has become the mother of
two daughters, Nancy Narcissabelle and Marjorie Jean Nix. George W. Nix is a devoted member of the
Wilshire Crest Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, of which he was one of the
organizers and president of the board for seven years. He is a lover of God’s great out-of-doors,
exploring the desert and the California Sierras when holidays afford him
leisure and spending his summer vacation periods in the high mountains of
western Colorado in the enjoyment of such pleasures as hiking, mountain
climbing, horseback riding and fishing.
Transcribed by Mary
Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Pages 769-770, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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