Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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EDWIN W. SARGENT, Los Angeles
 
Born at Oregon, Dane Co., Wis., August 15, 1848; son of Croyden Sargent and Lucy 
W. (Hutchinson) Sargent; attended Wisconsin State University in years 1867-70; 
entered law department of the State University of Iowa in 1871, graduating in 
Law Department in 1874; commenced law practice at Denison, Iowa, remaining there 
from 1874 to 1879; moved to Atchison, Kan., where he remained until 1886. In 
July of this year he settled in Los Angeles. Early in 1887, he assisted in the 
organization and became the legal adviser of the "Los Angeles Abstract Company," 
which made a prominent feature of making the full, or unlimited certificate of 
title. This evidence of title soon became popular, and its growing business was 
reorganized in 1893 under the name of the "Title Insurance and Trust Company." 
From this company, he retired in 1895 and organized the present "Title Guarantee 
and Trust Company," of which he is Vice-Pres. and legal adviser. From his long 
and active experience in promoting and having had successfully adopted, the 
Certificate of Title, as the evidence of title in this community, he is known 
and sometimes called "The Father of the Title Business" as it is conducted in 
South. California. Mem. of the Jonathan Club, Knight Templar and Shriner.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.170