Sacramento County
Biographies
RAY T. COUGHLIN
RAY T. COUGHLIN.--An attorney who seems to enjoy an unusual meed of popularity, is Ray T. Coughlin, in the Bryte Building in Sacramento. He was an Oakland boy, born there on March 7, 1892, and his parents were Timothy L. and Elizabeth (Smith) Coughlin. His mother was an early pioneer, while his father came out to California in the eighties; he was an interior decorator, and left behind an enviable reputation for superior work done on the State Building about thirty years ago. Mrs. Coughlin, like her devoted husband, is dead, the worthy couple having rounded out useful and honorable lives.
When the mother settled here after the death of the father, who was accidentally killed, Ray Coughlin attended Christian Brothers College and profitted there by both high school and college training. When the mother was taken sick, our subject accepted the post of bookkeeper with the telegraph company, a job he kept eighteen months; and then having fitted himself at a business college to become a stenographer for Charles W. Thomas, he studied law at night, and at the end of the year was appointed secretary to the District Attorney, Eugene Wachhorst. He continued to study law, and in 1915 he was admitted to practice. After practicing for a year here, he went to San Francisco with Theodore Bell, and on his return to Sacramento, he joined Martin Welsh. In July, 1921, Mr. Coughlin commenced to practice for himself, and he has since been eminent in that field. His national political preferences lead him to affiliate with the Democratic party, but he can also throw partisanship aside and unreservedly endorse a good candidate or measure sponsored by another party.
When Mr. Coughlin married, on February 19, 1917, at Sacramento, he chose Miss Eloise Daroux for his wife, a gifted lady of Sacramento, the center of a circle of devoted friends; and their union has been blessed in the birth of one child, John R. Coughlin. Our subject is a grand knight in the order of the Knights of Columbus.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 877-878. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.