Background
Shurtleff, Charles Allerton was born on April 4, 1857 in Shasta, California, United States. Son of Benjamin (Doctor of Medicine and Ann M. (Griffith) S.
Shurtleff, Charles Allerton was born on April 4, 1857 in Shasta, California, United States. Son of Benjamin (Doctor of Medicine and Ann M. (Griffith) S.
Bachelor of Arts, Napa College (now College of the Pacific), 1879. Bachelor of Laws, Hastings College Law (University of California), 1882. Doctor of Laws from the College of the Pacific, 1926.
Admitted to California bar, 1882, and entered practice at San Francisco. Assistant United State Attorneys, Northern District California, 1891-1893. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, July 1921-January 1923.
Director, secretary and treasurer Mendocino Redwood Company.
Director and secretary Curtis, Collins and Holbrook Company Trustee National Board of Stanford University, Hastings College Law, College of the Pacific Children’s Hospital (San Francisco). Member first Board of Bar Examiners of California President California Bar Association (now State Bar of California), 1925-1926.
Member first Board of Bar Examiners of California.
Married Ada South. West, October 14, 1886 (died 1925). Married second, Nellie V. Crockett, July 25, 1927 (died 1934).