San Francisco County
Biographies
LEON J.
DUGAN
Leon J. Dugan, an able and successful representative of the legal profession in San Francisco, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 10, 1892, his parents being John J. and Millie (Haight) Dugan, the former a native of Princeton, New Jersey. The maternal grandfather was a relative of Henry Huntley Haight, tenth governor of California, and as a member of an old Mormon family accompanied Brigham Young to Utah. The grandmother in the maternal line is still living at the advanced age of eighty-five years. John J. Dugan, the father of Leon J. Dugan, has passed away, but is survived by his wife, who makes her home in Portland, Oregon.
Leon J. Dugan attended grammar and high schools in pursuit of an education and received his professional training as student at Lincoln University in San Francisco, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1923. He had also studied law privately and was thus well qualified for the work of his chosen profession when he opened an office in Oakland, where he continued in practice for two years. On the expiration of that period he returned to San Francisco and in this city has built up a gratifying clientage, maintaining well appointed offices in the de Young building at 690 Market street. Prior to beginning his law work he had gained valuable business experience as manager of a steamship company in Seattle. Much of the success which has attended him in his professional career is undoubtedly due to the fact that in no instance will he permit himself to go into court with a case unless he has absolute confidence in the justice of his client’s cause. Basing his efforts on this principle, from which there are far too many lapses in professional ranks, it naturally follows that he seldom loses a case in whose support he is enlisted.
In early manhood Mr. Dugan was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Holmes, who was born in England but was reared in Salt Lake City, Utah. A man of domestic tastes, Mr. Dugan is happy in his home life, and when professional duties permit he turns for recreation to golf and other outdoor sports. He is a republican in his political views, manifests an active and helpful interest in public affairs and is widely known as one of the substantial citizens and representative attorneys of his adopted city.
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 207-208.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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