Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . 13 EJ D CALIFORNIA BUILDING, PAXAMA-PAi IFIC IXTERXATIOXAl. EXPOSITION 182 Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco. W. P. LAWLOR Associate Justice Supreme CourtCalifornia T O rise by ones own effortsfrom bobbin boy in a cottonmill to Associate Justice of the StateSupreme Court is no mean record—and it is that of Justice William As Superior Judge he waspresiding magistrate at the trials ofRuef, Calhoun and others of thoseindicted during the graft prosecu-tion, and became a national figurethrough his unswerving insistenceupon a strict observanc
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . 13 EJ D CALIFORNIA BUILDING, PAXAMA-PAi IFIC IXTERXATIOXAl. EXPOSITION 182 Municipal Blue Book of San Francisco. W. P. LAWLOR Associate Justice Supreme CourtCalifornia T O rise by ones own effortsfrom bobbin boy in a cottonmill to Associate Justice of the StateSupreme Court is no mean record—and it is that of Justice William As Superior Judge he waspresiding magistrate at the trials ofRuef, Calhoun and others of thoseindicted during the graft prosecu-tion, and became a national figurethrough his unswerving insistenceupon a strict observance of the rulesof law and evidence without regardeither to the prominence of the ac-cused or the tremendous influencebacking the prosecution. To re-member that the man who occupiedthis position was the orphan boywho worked in a New Jersey cottonmill for his daily bread, depriving himself of needed sleep at nightthat he might obtain an education, is a thought tinged with not alittle of what may be called true American romance. William P. Lawlor, born in New York City September 17. ,was left an orphan when ten years old by the almost simultaneousd
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