Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE J. RAYMOND
GEORGE J. RAYMOND.–A Sacramento
attorney who has made his mark, as a well-trained, scholarly and
high-principled lawyer, throughout northern California, is George J. Raymond, of
the Capital National Bank Building, who has practiced law for nearly a decade.
A native son, always proud of the Golden State, he was born in Eureka, Humboldt
County, on March 29, 1890, the son of Joseph and Mary A. (Sheridan) Raymond,
who settled in California in 1881. Mr. Raymond was a lumberman, and helped to
develop the natural resources of the state, and both parents are still living.
George
Raymond went through the usual grammar school courses, and then enjoyed the
advantages of high school study in Humboldt County. After that he extended his
reaching out after knowledge in the school of actual, practical experience, and
when he was able he studied law privately under competent tutors. For some
years, he was an assistant at the State Law Library, and that proved of the
greatest possible advantage to him. In 1915, he was admitted to practice in the
courts of California; and ever since that year,
he has hung out his shingle here. When the great war
broke out, he enlisted in the United States Army, as a member of the Signal
Corps; and he served in France for sixteen months. On
being mustered out he came back to Sacramento and to his own office; and
after his return he organized here a post of the American Legion.
Mr.
Raymond is fond of hunting and fishing, and out-door
life generally; and belongs to the Elks and the Knights of Columbus, being a
member of the third degree among the Knights. Patriotic and a loyal citizen,
Mr. Raymond never loses an opportunity to improve civic standards, or to
inculcate a love of country and the cherishing of worthy ideals.
Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 6/01/07.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 861.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Vicky Walker.