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FELIX M.
CUNNINGHAM
Felix M. Cunningham, a successful young representative of the legal profession in San Francisco, was born in Silver City, Idaho, November 8, 1901. His parents, Richard and Margaret E. (Murtaugh) Cunningham, left Idaho in 1904 for California, settling in Sacramento, where the father engaged in law practice throughout the remainder of his life. The mother is still living.
Felix M. Cunningham began his education in the Christian Brothers School of Sacramento, later pursued a high school course and next entered St. Mary’s of Oakland, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925. His professional training was received at the Harvard University Law School, which in 1928 conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. He has since engaged in law practice in San Francisco, with office at 369 Pine Street, and has been accorded a gratifying clientage for one of his years. The zeal with which he devotes his energies to his profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his clients, and an assiduous and unrelaxing attention to all the details of his cases, have brought him a large business and made him very successful in its conduct.
Mr. Cunningham married Miss Frances Ashley Wakefield, of Boston, Massachusetts. He gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party, is a popular member of the Olympic Club of San Francisco and along strictly professional lines has membership in the California State Bar Association. His favorite forms of recreation are boxing, golf, handball and hunting.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Byington, Lewis Francis, “History of
San Francisco 3 Vols”, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1931. Vol. 2 Pages 167-168.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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