California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


LAKE COUNTY TITLE & ABSTRACT CO.� The Lake County Title 
& Abstract Company, incorporated November 20, 1905, has the only complete 
set of abstract books in Lake county, which fact, however, is but one of several 
good reasons why it has attracted the most important patronage in its line in 
this part of California. That it is considered the highest authority on certificates 
and abstracts of title is evidenced by the open confidence shown by various 
business and financial institutions. The California Title Insurance & Trust 
Company, of San Francisco, issues its policies of title insurance on the work 
of this concern, which has become a synonym for accuracy and reliability. 
The local banks take this company's certificates of title as the basis of their 
loans. When the recent drastic legislation pertaining to titles and loans was 
enacted this company had no need to change its policy in any respect, for it 
was not only complying with all the provisions of the new law, but had led in 
adopting many of the most important of its measures. Its operations satis- 
fied every requirement of the law and of the state commissioners of banking 
so far as its word has any bearing on the validity of loans. This corporation 
is a member of the California Land Title Association and of the American As- 
sociation of Title Men � the former a state, the latter a national, organization. 
The company is a result and the outgrowth of the abstract and title business 
started by its president, Herbert V. Keeling, in 1893. 

The Lake County Title & Abstract Company has a capital stock of $25,000, 
divided into two hundred and fifty shares. The officers are : Herbert V. 
Keeling, attorney at law, president and examining attorney; George H. 
Neal, secretary ; Fred A. Greene, treasurer. They also compose the board 
of directors. The business is the making of abstracts of title and the issuing 
of certificates of title.