Elmer L. BROCK 3956, Laurel Co.
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Elmer L. BROCK 3956, Laurel Co.
| Sandi Gorin (View posts) | Posted: 11 Jan 2000 12:00PM GMT |
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Surnames: Brock, McMullin, Sternberg, Lindon
History of Colorado, Illustrated, Volume II, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1918. Pp 680-1. Laurel Co.
Elmer L. Brock [photo], a representative of the Denver bar, who is doing important corporation work as assistant general counsel of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company of Denver, was born in Laurel county, Kentucky, December 15, 1880. He is a brother of Charles R. Brock, in connection with whose sketch on another page of this work appears mention of the family. He was educated in the public schools of his native county, in the Sue Bennett Memorial School of London, Kentucky, and in the State College of Kentucky, which is now the University of Kentucky, at Lexington. Mr. Brock came to Colorado in December, 1904, and with a broad literary training as the foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional knowledge, he entered the law department of the University of Denver and was graduat4ed with the LL.B. degree as a member of the class of 1909. He worked his way through college by teaching and while attending law school he occupied a position as collector with the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, thus providing the necessary funds for the advancement of his education. He thus also displayed the elemental strength of his character – a strength that accomplishes its purposes, that recognizes no such word as fail and that never stops short of the successful fulfillment of well defined plans. Following his graduation Mr. Brock was appointed assistant attorney general and occupied that position for two years. He was later associated with the firm of McMullin & Sternberg at Grand Junction, Colorado, for two years and in January, 1913, he became connected with the legal department of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company. His ability in this connection won recognition in a promotion to the position of assistant general counsel in 1914 and he has since made a most excellent record in that capacity. On the 7th of June, 1911, Mr. Brock was married to Miss Nora Lindon, a native of Erie, Pennsylvania, and they have become parents of two children: Elmer Leslie, Jr., who was born at Grand Junction, December 1, 1912; and Charles Lindon, whose birth occurred in Denver, November 6, 1916. Politically Mr. Brock is a democrat, and while not an active party worker in the sense of seeking or desiring office, he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and his aid and influence are always given on the side of municipal upbuilding, reform and improvement. He belongs to Kappa Sigma college fraternity and the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, while his interest in themorgal progress of the community is shown in his membership in the First Baptist church. Along strictly professional lines he is connected with the Denver Bar Association and the Colorado State Bar Association and he enjoys the warm friendship and high regard of many of his professional colleagues and contemporaries.
Elmer L. Brock [photo], a representative of the Denver bar, who is doing important corporation work as assistant general counsel of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company of Denver, was born in Laurel county, Kentucky, December 15, 1880. He is a brother of Charles R. Brock, in connection with whose sketch on another page of this work appears mention of the family. He was educated in the public schools of his native county, in the Sue Bennett Memorial School of London, Kentucky, and in the State College of Kentucky, which is now the University of Kentucky, at Lexington. Mr. Brock came to Colorado in December, 1904, and with a broad literary training as the foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional knowledge, he entered the law department of the University of Denver and was graduat4ed with the LL.B. degree as a member of the class of 1909. He worked his way through college by teaching and while attending law school he occupied a position as collector with the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, thus providing the necessary funds for the advancement of his education. He thus also displayed the elemental strength of his character – a strength that accomplishes its purposes, that recognizes no such word as fail and that never stops short of the successful fulfillment of well defined plans. Following his graduation Mr. Brock was appointed assistant attorney general and occupied that position for two years. He was later associated with the firm of McMullin & Sternberg at Grand Junction, Colorado, for two years and in January, 1913, he became connected with the legal department of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company. His ability in this connection won recognition in a promotion to the position of assistant general counsel in 1914 and he has since made a most excellent record in that capacity. On the 7th of June, 1911, Mr. Brock was married to Miss Nora Lindon, a native of Erie, Pennsylvania, and they have become parents of two children: Elmer Leslie, Jr., who was born at Grand Junction, December 1, 1912; and Charles Lindon, whose birth occurred in Denver, November 6, 1916. Politically Mr. Brock is a democrat, and while not an active party worker in the sense of seeking or desiring office, he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and his aid and influence are always given on the side of municipal upbuilding, reform and improvement. He belongs to Kappa Sigma college fraternity and the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, while his interest in themorgal progress of the community is shown in his membership in the First Baptist church. Along strictly professional lines he is connected with the Denver Bar Association and the Colorado State Bar Association and he enjoys the warm friendship and high regard of many of his professional colleagues and contemporaries.