Charles C. Lips (ca. 1835–1888), also known as C.C. Lips, was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council from the First Ward in 1877–78.
Lips was born in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, about 1835 and "took his own life in a moment of insanity" in Napa, California, on August 4, 1888."Died," Los Angeles Times, August 8, 1888, page 7"Then and Now: Los Angeles Advertisers of 1880 and 1890," Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1891, page 1
Lips, who was noted as "one of the substantial men of the city," came to L.A. from Philadelphia and worked as the manager of E. Martin & Co., a wholesale liquor house in the Baker Block. His wife's name was Mary E., and their son, Walter Lips, became city fire chief in 1905. Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in Southern California . . ., American Memory, Library of Congress"In the Superior Court" (legal advertisement), Los Angeles Daily Herald, June 18, 1887, page 7]
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