Macneil, Sayre, 1886-1961

Variant names

Dates:

Birth 1886

Death 1961

Biographical notes:

Speech delivered by Sayre Macneil at the Sunset Club in 1941. Traces the development of legal education in the United States from the 1920s to 1940, and is primarily an anecdotal biography of Los Angeles lawyer H.W. O'Melveny. References are also made to other Los Angeles lawyers including William Carey Jones, G. Wiley Wells, and Bradner W. Lee. Includes an introduction by James C. Sheppard.

From the description of A Californian's legal education, 1941, November 28. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 676924991

Biography

Sayre Macneil (1886-1961), son of Hugh Livingston Macneil and Louise (Slauson) Macneil, and grandson of Jonathan Sayre Slauson (early California banker who purchased the Dalton Azusa Rancho and founded the city of Azusa), was born in Los Angeles. He was educated at the University of California and Harvard University, and became professor of Law at Harvard (1926-1933) and at Loyola University from 1940. He married Daphne María Antonia Martha Drake, granddaughter of Alfred Henry Wilcox, who engaged in Colorado River Navigation for many years, and María Antonia (Argüello) Wilcox, of the Santiago Emidio Argüello family of Tijuana, B.C., and San Diego.

From the guide to the Sayre Macneil Papers, 1736-1957, (The Huntington Library)