Background
Loesch, Frank Joseph was born on April 9, 1852 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Frank and Mary (Fisher) Loesch.
Loesch, Frank Joseph was born on April 9, 1852 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Frank and Mary (Fisher) Loesch.
Bachelor of Laws, Northwestern University (Union College of Law), Chicago, 1874. Doctor of Laws, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri, 1922, University of Dubuque, 1929, Northwestern University, 1929, University of Chicago, 1929, Coe College, 1930, Tusculum College, 1932.
Wife of Doctor Robert E. Graves), Winifred L. (wife of Frederick Z. Marx), Richards L., Joseph B. Married second, May Browning Bausher, February 7, 1925. Admitted to Illinois bar, 1874, and specialized in estate, trusts and corporation law.
Senior member Loesch, Scofield, Loesch and Burke. Counsel at Chicago for Pennsylvania R.R. since April 1886. General counsel Chicago Union Station corporation since 1913.
Special state’s attorney in and for Cook County, Illinois, to investigate and prosecute frauds committed at 1st direct primary, 1908-1909. Chief special assistant attorney general of Illinois in direct charge of special grand jury investigations, 1928, into murders, bombings, kidnapings and other violences and frauds in connection with elections, 1926, and primary election, April 1928. 1st assistant state’s attorney of Cook County, 1928-1929, to carry on same work and investigations into irregularity and financial expenditures of Sanitary District of Chicago for years 1922-1928.
Appointed by President Hoover, May 1929, as one of 11 members of National Commision on Law Observance and Enforcement. Originated term “Public Enemy” (April 1930).
Author: Acquisition and Retention of a Law Practice. Personal Experiences During the Chicago Fire. Value of Legal Novels to a Lawyer.Shall the Law Triumph?. Gleams from Glimmer Glass.
Member, Draft Board Council, 111. District Northern 54, 1917-1918. Elder, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, since 1913.
President Presbyterian Church Union of Chicago, 1918-1919. Admitted to Bar, 111. 1874, United States Supreme Court.
1883; in active practice, Chicago, 1874. Author: Acquisition and Retention of a Law Practice. Personal Experiences During the Chicago Fire, 1871.
Legal Novels as Aid to a Lawyer. Shall the Law Triumph? (Chicago U. Record) 1929. Member of American, 111.
State. Chicago and New York City Bar Associations. Chicago History Society (trustee, v.- president). American History Society Clubs: Union League (past president), University, Commercial, Industrial (honorary Casino, Saddle and Cycle, Arts, Cliff Dwellers, Chicago Law (past president), Literary (past president), Glen View Golf, Cooperstown Country.
Married Lydia T. Richards, October 2, 1873 (deceased).; married second, May Browning Bausher, February 7, 1925. Children: Angeline L. (deceased.