San Francisco County
Biographies
IRA
SHELL LILLICK.
Ira S. Lillick, of San Francisco, is a recognized leader in the field of admiralty and marine insurance law, and represents many important shipping interests of the west coast. He is a native son of California, and was born in 1876 at Lawrence, Santa Clara County. After completing his preparatory educational training in the public schools of Santa Clara he attended Stanford University, which conferred on him the degree of A. B. in 1896. His legal training was obtained through post-graduate study at the same institution, and he was admitted to the California bar in 1897.
Since then Mr. Lillick has been actively engaged in practice at San Francisco, specializing in admiralty, corporation and insurance law. As a result of his ability and knowledge of the law he represents as Counsel the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Robert Dollar Co., Charles R. McCormick Steamship Co., General Steamship Corp., North British & Mercantile Insurance Co., Western Assurance Co., Standard Marine Insurance Co., Canadian Government Merchant Marine, Dodwell & Co., Ltd., and other interests.
In addition to his legal practice Mr. Lillick has a number of other interests, being a Trustee of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, a director of the Bohemian Club, Hind, Rolph & Co. Inc., City Coal Co., Spring Canyon Coal Co., and other organizations.
He holds membership in the American Bar Association, State Bar of California, and the Bar Association of San Francisco, as well as the Pacific Union Club, Bohemian Club, Olympic Club, San Francisco Golf Club, and Menlo Country Club. In 1918 he married Stella Wakefield Jarvis.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: "American Blue Book California Lawyers"
by H. James Boswell, Page 123, Produced by
H. James Boswell, 1928.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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