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RAY RANDOLPH ROGERS
Ray Randolph Rogers is a successful
young attorney of Huntington Park, California, with offices at 6334-1/2 Pacific
Street. He was born in Wilmington, Ohio,
September 14, 1890, his parents being Frank and Martha (Baker) Rogers, also
natives of the Buckeye state. The
father, who was a farmer by occupation, is now deceased. The family numbered seven children, five sons
and two daughters, but one of the sons has passed away.
Ray R. Rogers acquired his early
education in the public schools and received his higher intellectual training
at Lebanon University in Lebanon, Ohio, which conferred upon him the degree of
Bachelor of Science in 1912. Subsequently
he taught in the grade and high schools of Ohio for five years and during this
period also studied law. In May, 1917,
in Cincinnati, Ohio, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, with which
he served for two years, spending fourteen months of that period overseas. As a first lieutenant of the Seventy-Eighth
Company, Sixth Regiment, he participated in the engagements at St. Mihiel,
Chateau Thierry and Belleau Woods. He
sustained wounds at Chateau Thierry, was hospitalized from July to September,
1918, and thereafter was connected with the court martial department in Paris
until January, 1919. In March following
he returned to the United States, landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In September, 1919, Mr. Rogers
enrolled at the Ohio State University for one year and in 1920 matriculated at
the University of Cincinnati, from which institution he received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws in 1921, being admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. He made his home in Covington, Kentucky, just
across the river from Cincinnati, and in 1925 he was elected on the Republican
ticket to the Kentucky legislature from Covington, ably representing his
district for one term. In was in 1928
that Mr. Rogers came to Huntington Park, California, where he has been actively
engaged in the general practice of law to the present time and has won an
enviable reputation as an attorney of marked ability and power. For two years he was in partnership with
George B. Hancock.
On the 24th of June,
1920, Mr. Rogers was united in marriage to Frances McGlasson,
a native of Kentucky, whose widowed mother is now a resident of Los Angeles,
California. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are the
parents of three children, namely:
Frances Rea, who is eleven years of age; Flora Lee, five years old; and
Marilyn June, two years of age.
Mr. Rogers is a member of the
Huntington Park Chamber of Commerce and manifests an active and helpful
interest in community development. He
attends the services of the First Methodist Church, while fraternally he is
affiliated with Loyal Order of Moose and with the Masons. He also has membership in the American
Legion, the Disabled American Veterans Society and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and as a representative of the legal profession he belongs to the Los Angeles
County, California State and American Bar Associations.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 161-162, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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