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HORACE SANDES WILSON
WILSON, HORACE SANDES, Attorney-at-Law, Los Angeles, California, was born at Los Angeles, December 9, 1883. He is the son of Percy R. Wilson and Emily Alice (Sandes) Wilson. He married Maybelle Louis Harmon, June 8, 1909, at San Francisco.
Mr. Wilson’s father was one of the best known men of Southern California, a highly respected man of means and great influential standing, who had been a lawyer and banker in Los Angeles for years.
Mr. Wilson was educated in California. He was first sent to the grammar schools of Los Angeles County, and when he had finished these, took the course at Harvard School, Los Angeles, which corresponds to the public high school course. He is a graduate of that school of the year 1904. The following autumn he went to the Leland Stanford Junior University, at Palo Alto, California. He attended that institution for three and one-half years, when he returned to Los Angeles to take the bar examination, which he passed in July, 1908, and immediately began the practice of law in the office of his father. He continued in partnership with his father until the latter’s death, in December, 1909.
Since his father’s death, Mr. Wilson has been associated with Oscar C. Mueller, and has appeared before the bench and as consulting attorney in all branches of the law.
He is a loyal son of California, with civic pride as one of his strongest characteristics, and is ever alert to aid any movement for the advancement of Los Angeles or the rich country which surrounds it. He has never sought nor held public office, nor is he active in politics.
Mr. Wilson is a member of the University Club and of the California Club of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 565,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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