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CHARLES
WILLIAM ROLLINSON
Charles
William Rollinson is a representative and successful
attorney of Los Angeles who has practiced in this city during the past
decade. He is a native of Mount Vernon,
Illinois, and a son of Joseph R. and Julia Bell (Hawkins) Rollinson. Following the completion of his grade and
high school education he engaged in teaching for a year and subsequently
entered the Southern Illinois State Normal University at Carbondale,
Illinois. He next studied both medicine
and law at St. Louis University and continued his professional training in
Indiana University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of
Laws in 1912.
Admitted to the bar the same year, he engaged in the practice of his
chosen profession in the Hoosier state for eleven years, on the expiration of
which period he came to the Pacific coast in 1923, locating in Los Angeles,
where he has since built up a clientele of gratifying proportions. He occupies Suite 1000 in the Lincoln
Building, and his name is on the membership rolls of the Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County and California State Bar Associations.
Mr.
Rollinson is also a member of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Jonathan Club, the Uplifters Club and
the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Fraternally
he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights
of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic bodies,
including the Mystic Shrine. He also
belongs to the American Legion, the Forty and Eight and the United Veterans of
the Republic.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 581, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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