Fresno County Biographies

Lewis L. Cory

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, November, 2006

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	Lewis L. Cory is one of the prominent young attorneys of 
Fresno. His parents came across the plains to the Pacific Coast in 1847 and 
settled in San Jose, where the family home was located  for many years, and 
where he was born in 1861. Very early in life he was sent to the public schools 
and afterward to the University of the Pacific. At the age of fifteen he went 
East to complete his studies,  entering the freshman class at Rutgers College in 
New Jersey and remaining there two years. In 1879 he entered the junior class at 
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, then under the direction of the 
venerable James McCosh, LL.D., and graduated in 1881, at the age of twenty 
years. He then went to New York City and took a two years' course in the 
Columbia Law School, without question one of the finest institutions of its kind 
in America. During this period Mr. Cory was at different times studying in the 
law office of Judge Fullerton, of New York, one of the most celebrated attorneys 
in the East. After graduating at Columbia Law School in 1883, he was admitted to 
the bar in New York State, and practiced there for two years in connection with 
the firm of Hubbell & Co. Considering the opportunities for a professional man 
much better in the West than in the East, Mr. Cory returned to California, and 
in 1884 settled in his old home,  San Jose. The following year he removed to 
Fresno, where he has since resided. He is a partner in the well-known firm of 
Church & Cory, of which Mr. George E. Church is the senior member. The firm has 
an extensive practice throughout Central California, being employed in many of 
the most important cases of litigation. Mr. Cory was married in 1882, to Miss 
Carrie Ayres Martin, a native of New Jersey, and their union has been blessed by 
two children. 

Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, pp. 300-301.