Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE ARMISTEAD WORK
GEORGE ARMISTEAD WORK.—Promising among
the more recent accessions to the ranks of distinguished members of the legal
fraternity in California, and already prominent for having demonstrated talent,
scholarship and rare qualities, George Armistead Work, the attorney, has
established himself enviably in Sacramento city and county. He was born at
Jackson, Miss.,
on March 16, 1889, the son of George A. Work, the planter, and his wife, who
was Lydia Herron before her marriage, both of whom are now deceased. They
were highly esteemed as representatives of the old school and as worthy of the
best that the social life of the South could produce; and they left an enviable
record for having benefitted the world during their
sojourn here.
George Armistead Work came to California
and availed himself of the University facilities here, after he had put behind
him both grammar and high school work; and he was duly graduated from the University of California in 1913 with the degree of J. D. He practiced law
in San Francisco and Rio Vista for two years, and was city attorney of
the latter flourishing town. In June, 1919, he came to Sacramento. His progress here has been marked by a rapid
mastery of California legal and other conditions, and by the natural fruits of
his having set a high standard, and then lived up to it, in all of his dealings
with clients, society and the bar. He is known for his
public-spiritedness, and is interested in Sacramento County history and traditions, both past and
in the making.
A democratic American, rather than merely
an American who persists in shouting for democracy, Mr. Work served for two
years in the world War as a member of the American army. He entered as a
private, served abroad as one of the 344th Battalion, Tank Corps,
and was commissioned lieutenant before the end. He was married, March 16,
1921, to Miss Geraldine Graham, born at Colusa, and they have one son, George
Armistead, Jr.
Transcribed 8-13-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 994-995. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.