San Luis Obispo County Biographies

ERNEST GRAVES

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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ERNEST GRAVES, a member of the firm of Graves, Turner & Graves, attorneys at law, 
at San Luis Obispo, is a son of William J. and Soledad Pico, and was born in the old 
mission building adjoining the Catholic Church in the city of San Luis Obispo, December 
5, 1852. At the age of eight years he was taken to San Francisco, as the family changed 
residence to that city, where his father was practicing law. He attended St. Ignatius 
College in that city, between the years 1862 and 1864, and later the Santa Clara College; 
in 1871 he was in attendance at the State University at Berkeley, and then at an Oakland 
school. He studied law under the instructions of his father in San Francisco, afterward 
practiced with him there, and after his father's death he located in San Luis Obispo city, 
his old home, where he has since resided. The law firm of which he is a member is well 
known in all parts of the State, as they have been parties in all important litigation in this 
county for a number of years, and generally with marked success. Among the most 
important cases were those of the wills of Biddle, Logan, Herrera, Blackman, etc.; also 
the case of Schultz against McLean. Mr. Graves was City Attorney for three years, 1875-'77, 
the first three years of the corporate life of the city; and he was District Attorney 1880-'85. 
He was married March 27, 1878, to Miss Holloway, a native of California, and he has 
three children. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.