Orange County Biographies

RAY BILLINGSLEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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attorney and counselor at law, Santa Ana, is a native of Washington County, 
Iowa, born November 10, 1854. At the age of sixteen years he entered the State 
University of Iowa and graduated there in 1877 with the degree of Ph. B. Two 
years afterward he graduated in the law department of the same institution, and 
directly was admitted to practice in the State, Supreme and Federal courts, and 
he followed his chosen profession at Vinton, that State, until 1886, when he 
came to Santa Ana, resumed and still continues his professional practice, 
appearing for respondent in the first case from the new county of Orange in the 
Supreme Court of this State, and is at present of the law firm of Billingsley & 
Cooke, of Santa Ana.
        He was married February 22, 1882, to Miss Eleanor A. Patterson, of 
Charles City, Iowa, a daughter of ex-Senator J. G. Patterson, of that State. Mr. 
and Mrs. Billingsley have four interesting children, whose names are William 
Patterson, Helen May, Harlow E., Ray and Carey Val.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  889