Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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EDWARD KING ISAACS, Los Angeles
 
Native of Wisconsin; spent boyhood on farm; taught first term of school when 
seventeen. Attended business college in Madison, Wis., and the Normal Coll. (now 
the University) of Valparaiso, Ind., in which institution he was afterward an 
instructor for ten years. Came to Los Angeles in 1892 and has been in active 
business college work since; is Pres. and manager of the Isaacs-Woodbury 
Business Coll., established in 1884�the oldest and largest business college in 
the Southwest. Mr. Isaacs has a national reputation as a penman and business 
educator; during the last fifteen years has also gained a reputation as an 
expert authority and court-witness on questioned handwritten documents.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.110