San Francisco County
Biographies
GEORGE
MORRIS LIPMAN
The boyhood ambition of George M. Lipman of San Francisco to be a successful lawyer has been achieved by him in most creditable manner, and he is now engaged in the practice, specializing in criminal litigation, with offices at 785 Market street. He was born in San Francisco, September 25, 1879, a son of the late Morris and Rosalie (Hirschfeld) Lipman.
Morris Lipman was born in Schneidemühl, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in the late ‘50s, when he was sixteen years of age. He came directly to San Francicso by the Cape Horn route, and in this city he lived during the remainder of his life. He engaged in the fruit commission business and met with prosperity. His death occurred in 1898, when he was fifty-nine years old. His wife, and the mother of George M., was also born in Schneidemühl, Germany. She received her education in Berlin, having graduated from the Univeristy of Berlin. She came to San Francisco in the ‘60s, and was here married. She died in 1921, at the age of seventy-eight. By her marriage to Mr. Lipman, she was the mother of three children, namely: Lena, who is the wife of David Hexter of San Francisco; Samuel, who died May 26, 1931; and George M.
George M. Lipman attended the public schools of San Francisco, the Hastings Law College. His course in the latter institution was interrupted by the death of his beloved father, however, but his desire and determination to make the law his life’s work were undiminished. He read law in the office of Coogan and Julius Kahn, and in June, 1904, was admitted to the California state bar. On May 2, 1930, he was admitted to practice before the United States supreme court in Washington, D. C. Mr. Lipman’s practice is especially devoted to criminal law, although his clientele covers all phases of law assignments. He served as assistant district attorney under William H. Langdon from 1906 to 1910, and is now a member of the staff of the Market Street Railway legal department. He belongs to the San Francisco and the American Bar Associations. During the World war period, he was on the local legal advisory board.
In Taylor, Williamson county, Texas, on November 21, 1912, Mr. Lipman was united in marriage to Miss Annette Melasky, who was born there, a daughter of Jack and Sarah (Pearlstone) Melasky. Her parents were of an old Texas family and widely known as cotton raisers. Mrs. Lipman was educated in the Benjamin Dean College of New York city, and is now a member of the Council of Jewish Women in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Lipman are the parents of two sons. George Morris Lipman, the elder, was born August 26, 1913, and Jack, the younger, was born May 2, 1916, both in San Francisco. The family residence is situated at 463 Twelfth avenue.
Mr. Lipman has been active in the republican party, but has not aspired to public office. He is a past grand president of the B’nai B’rith district No. 4, which comprises the Pacific coast states and British Columbia, Canada. He held this position in 1929-30. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, holding membership in Fidelity Lodge, No. 120, F. & A. M., of which he is past master, and in Islam Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is past sachem and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. For twenty years, he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Congregation Sherith Israel. His clubs are the Masonic and Union League. The recreational activities of Mr. Lipman extend chiefly to swimming and fishing. He is a popular figure in legal, social and business circles in which he moves, and in the practice of his profession he holds to approved ethical methods, which have won for him the respect of his contemporaries.
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 415-417.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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