San Francisco County
HON. EDWARD S. LIPPITT
HON. EDWARD S. LIPPITT, Petaluma, is a native of
Connecticut, born in 1824, a descendant of the noted Lippitt
family of New England. His ancestors were of Pilgrim stock, one of them
being town committeeman of the town of Warwick, Rhode Island, in
1638. Edward S. Lippitt is a cousin of Governor Lippitt of that State. Rev. Edward Lippitt,
father of our subject, was a minister in the Methodist church. His wife
was nee Miss Lois Spalding, whose ancestors were early settlers in New
England.
Our
subject received his education in New England, taking his preparatory course at
East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and entered Wesleyan University at Middletown,
Connecticut, and graduated in 1847, and was at Harvard law school until the
fall of 1848, when he engaged in teaching in the Wesleyan Female College at
Cincinnati for four years. He then studied law in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
was admitted to the bar in 1854. Was intimately acquainted and associated
with the coterie of brilliant young men who became prominent in the profession,
receiving the highest honors from the State, and attaining the highest offices
in the gift, of the country,--among them R. B. Hayes, George H. Pendleton and
Stanley Mathews. When President Hayes visited California a few years ago,
he and General Sherman visited Mr. Lippitt at his
home in Petaluma.
Mr.
Lippitt engaged in the practice of his profession in
Cincinnati. In 1859 he formed a law partnership with Rutherford B. Hayes,
who later became a General in the army, Governor of Ohio and President of the
United States. They were city solicitors for that city for two
years. In 1862 he came to the Pacific coast and engaged in the practice of
law, and for the past twenty years has been a prominent member of the
California bar. In 1874 he was appointed solicitor of the San Francisco
& North Pacific railroad, and has held that position for the past sixteen
years.
Mr.
Lippitt is a Democrat in politics, and active in the
councils of his party. His cousin, Colonel F. J. Lippitt,
was one of the framers of the constitution of the State in 1849, and is now in
Washington connected with the Department of Justice. Mr. Lippitt resides in Petaluma, where he has one of the most
elegant homes in the State, having a law office there and one also in San
Francisco. His youngest son, F. K. Lippitt, is
associated with him in practice.
Mr.
Lippitt married Miss Sarah Lewis of Monroe,
Louisiana, and they have two sons and three daughters,—one son is associated
with his father, one son is a professor of music; one daughter is Mrs. Judge
Dougherty, of Sonoma county; another is Mrs. J. Homer
Fritch, of San Francisco, and the youngest daughter is attending Mills
Seminary. Her sisters are both graduates of the same institution.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Page
454, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.