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D7975-1
Date(s)
- 1939-03-07 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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James F. (Jimmy) O'Brien, lawyer, seated at desk in his law office in the Perkins Building, Room 520. O'Brien, an Irish lad, came to Tacoma in 1889 from law school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He joined his older brother Steve in Tacoma. He arrived during the "Tacoma boom," begun with the arrival of the first Northern Pacific transcontinental train in 1887, when most of America felt that Tacoma would become the stellar city in the west. On arrival, he was too young to test for the Bar. He was admitted to the Bar in 1892. (T. Times, 3/7/1939)
O'Brien, James F.; Lawyers--Tacoma--1930-1940; Law offices--Tacoma;