Los Angeles
County
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JOHN
C. STICK
By
way of the educational field John C. Stick entered the legal profession and for
a quarter of a century he has practiced successfully in Los Angeles. He was born in Hanover, York County,
Pennsylvania, January 29, 1883, a son of William C. and Lamanda
(Rohrbaugh) Stick, who were also natives of the
Keystone state. The Sticks were
originally Hessians and the American progenitor of the family came to this
country in 1775. By order of General Washington
he was confined in a prison at Baltimore, Maryland, but contrived to escape in
a huckster’s cart and settled in Pennsylvania.
The Rohrbaughs were also Germans and the immigrant ancestor said for
America in 1732, subsequently serving in the Revolutionary War.
John
C. Stick obtained his elementary instruction at Manchester, Maryland, next
attending the academy at Glenville, Pennsylvania, and afterward entered St.
John’s College at Annapolis, Maryland, where he received the Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1904. Following his graduation
he was instructor in the Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack, New York, for
a year and during the ensuing year was a teacher in the Swarthmore (Pa.)
Preparatory School.
Coming
to Los Angeles in 1906, Mr. Stick began the study of law in the office of Hahn
& Hahn and was admitted to the California bar in 1908. He has since followed his profession in Los
Angeles with gratifying success, due to his legal acumen and ability as an
advocate and counselor. While a general
practitioner, he specializes in corporation, probate and patent law, and in
those branches of jurisprudence is at his best.
In 1915 he formed an association, which later ripened into a partnership
with N. P. Moerdyke, with whom he is still associated under the style of Stick &
Moerdyke, and theirs is one of the leading law firms of the city.
At
South Pasadena, California, on the 1st of June, 1911, Mr. Stick was
married to Miss Ethyl B. Kohl, a native of Ohio and a daughter of Martin and
Louise (Loesch) Kohl.
John C. Stick, Jr., the only child of this marriage, is attending the
California Institute of Technology.
The
residence of the family is in South Pasadena but Mr. Stick’s law offices are in
the Washington Building of Los Angeles.
In politics a stalwart Republican, he has been active in behalf of the
party, serving for some time on the county central committee. A Mason, he is affiliated with the various
Masonic bodies, including the Scottish Rite. He belongs to the Los Angeles Athletic Club,
the Pacific Coast Club, the California Yacht Club, and the Camera Pictorialists
of Los Angeles. He is port captain of
the yacht club and owns the yacht “Smiles,” which he sails in the yacht races.
Mr.
Stick’s chief diversion from the routine of professional life is photography,
which has been his hobby for many years, and through his official connection
with the Camera Pictorialists he is known throughout the civilized world. He is a master of the art of photography and,
as a judge of this art, he has no superiors.
For five years he served as director of the Camera Pictorialists and as
such had charge of the International Salon of Photography in Los Angeles. He has received many pictorial photographs
from all over the world and they now comprise a collection of great value. He is also keenly interested in the radio, to
which he has given much study and experimentation. At his home he has a finely equipped machine
shop and with the aid of his son constructs devices of various kinds, ranging
from the ordinary to the unusual. The
son possesses considerable talent along mechanical lines, a bent that is being
carefully fostered by the father. Mr.
Stick is a man of forceful personality, genial nature and high standards,
esteemed and respected by his professional colleagues and the general public as
well.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 657-659,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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