Biographies
CHARLES
ALLERTON SHURTLEFF
CHARLES ALLERTON
SHURTLEFF was born in
After attending the
public schools of Shasta, at the age of seventeen he moved with the family to
Removing to
In the fall of 1887
he was married to Miss Ada S. West, daughter of
Captain John West, an old and worthy pioneer of
In 1890 Mr. Shurtleff was appointed Assistant United States Attorney
for the Northern District of California, the duties of which office he is now
faithfully performing. He possesses good ability, agreeable social
qualities and immovable integrity, qualities which inspire the esteem and
confidence of a wide circle of friends.
When he told the late
Judge William P. Daingerfield that he had chosen the profession of law, the
Judge congratulated the young man and told him that success in law did not
depend upon genius alone, but was only achieved by close, constant
application---by work, work, work. Inspired by
the wisdom of this advice he makes patient industry the inflexible rule of his
life.
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2006 Marilyn R. Pankey.