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EARL
CURTIS PECK
PECK, EARL CURTIS, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, California, was born November 1, 1881, at Stratford, Connecticut, the son of Wilfred M. Peck and Emily Josephine (Curtis) Peck. Both on the maternal and paternal side the family goes back to the first settlers of new England, and there are many famous names, particularly in the Peck branch, which has been prominent in education. He is married, having been united with Ethel Rose Wilson, on April 7, 1910, in Los Angeles.
Mr. Peck attended the Stratford, Connecticut schools until the age of twelve. Then his family removed to Riverside, California. There he entered the Riverside High School, and graduated in the year 1900. In 1901 he entered the University of California, in which institution he studied two years. He became ambitious to enter the legal profession and removed to Los Angeles. He attended the sessions of the law school of the University of Southern California, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1909.
While he was attending the University of Southern California Law School he was also working. He was first in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and remained with them two years. He left the Southern Pacific to accept a place with the Pacific Electric Railway, and from there he went to the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company. He left the employ of the latter company in 1910.
Mr. Peck opened an office in January of the latter year, in the Equitable Savings Bank building, and has been busy with a general practice since that date, his success in the profession having been almost instantaneous.
He is a member of the legal fraternity of the Phi Delta Phi of the Beatty Chapter of the University of Southern California College of Law.
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3-11-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 610, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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