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CHRIS
WILSON
The name of Chris Wilson figures
prominently in legal circles of Long Beach.
He was born in Pueblo, Colorado, March 11, 1889, a son of Chris Wilson,
Sr., who was a native of Ireland. In
childhood the father was brought to the United States by his parents, who
settled in Virginia, later going to Kansas, where he was identified with the
lumber industry. Removing to Colorado,
he founded the Pueblo Savings Bank, and subsequently established his home in
Los Angeles, California, where he lived retired until his death in 1918. He was a Mason and a man of substantial
worth. In young manhood he married Emma
De Velbess, a native of Illinois, and they were the
parents of five children, of whom two survive: Chris; and Mrs. F. D. Sweeney,
of Fresno California.
Mr. Wilson obtained his elementary
education in Los Angeles grammar [sic] school [sic] and the Los Angeles high
[sic} school [sic], graduating 1907. He
next attended Stanford University and completed his law studies at the University
of Southern California, which awarded him the degree of LL. B. in 1912. Admitted to the bar in Los Angeles, he
practiced in that city until his enlistment for service in the World war and
was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the
United States Army. In 1918 he located
at Long Beach, practicing there to the present time.
In 1918 Mr. Wilson was married to
Miss Gwendolyn Paterson of Winnipeg, Canada, and their children are Mary Anita
and Gwendolyn Jean. In healthful outdoor
exercise Mr. Wilson maintains his physical well being; devoting many of his
leisure hours to golf, and in former years was known
for his prowess in football, which he played with the University of Southern
California in 1911-1912. He belongs to
the Virginia Country Club, and is a Mason, identified with Long Beach Lodge,
No. 327, F. & A. M. He is also a
member of the Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, the Los Angeles County Bar
Association and the California State Bar Association. He possesses an analytical, well trained mind
and all of the qualities essential to success in a most exacting profession.
Transcribed by Jeanne Turner.
Source: California
of the South Vol. II, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
305-306, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Jeanne Turner.
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