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EDWARD R.
YOUNG
Edward R. Young, attorney, was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, on September 10, 1876; son of William and Charlotte (Gifford) Young.
He attended the public grade school in Iowa; is a graduate of the Los Angeles High School and State Normal School (Los Angeles). At the age of twenty-one he became principal for a Los Angeles city school; resigned to study law at the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1902 with the LL.B. degree. He was admitted to the Michigan State Bar in 1902 and to the California State Bar in October of 1902.
Mr. Young began practice of law in Los Angeles, California, in association with J. W. McKinley. In 1907 he became assistant city attorney and continued in that office until 1911. In 1930 he formed the firm of Young, Lillick, Olson & Kelly, with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, specializing in Municipal Corporation and Admiralty Law. In 1937 the firm changed to Young and Kelly. Mr. Young served as a member of the Public Service Commission of Los Angeles from 1918 to 1923.
Member of the American Bar Association, Los Angeles Bar Association, State Bar of California; California, Los Angeles County, Beach and Los Angeles Stock Exchange Clubs; Phi Delta Fraternity. He finds relaxation in golf and riding.
In the year 1907 Mr. Young married Belle Radcliffe Wiley. They have two daughters (twins), Gloria May and Barbara Belle, born in 1916. The family home is at 527 South Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, California.
Offices: 650 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, California.
Transcribed 7-4-14, Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 365, C. W. Taylor Publ.,
Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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