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ARTHUR F. MORLAN
Arthur F. Morlan, president of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company of Los Angeles, entered the service of this company in a managerial capacity about twenty-five years ago and has been continuously identified therewith to the present time. His connection with the title insurance business covers nearly a half century, for he turned his attention thereto soon after his arrival in California in 1887. He was born in Salem, Ohio, April 10, 1861, his parents being Newberry A. and Emily (Forker) Morlan, who died many years ago.
Arthur F. Morlan acquired his education in the public schools of his native state and was a young man of twenty-five years when in 1887 he crossed the continent to California, settling in Los Angeles. After a year in the grocery trade he entered the title insurance business, which has claimed his time and energies continuously since and with every phase of which he is thoroughly familiar. It was in 1913 that he became connected with the title Guarantee & Trust Company of Los Angeles as general manager, while subsequently he became its vice president, and at the death of E. W. Sargent in 1931 he succeeded to the presidency of the company, of which he has since remained at the head. It was under Mr. Morlan’s direction that the two-million-dollar Title Guarantee and Trust Company building, one of the finest structures in Southern California, was erected in 1932. Mr. Morlan is also director of the Bank of America of California and a director of the Vernon Tool Company, and has long been numbered among the leading representatives of financial interests in this part of the state.
On the 21st of July, 1887, Mr. Morlan was united in marriage to Margaret W. Nicholls, of New York city, and they are the parents of a daughter, Rae, who is Mrs. Harry H. Isaacs. Mr. Morlan is a member of the patriotic society of the Sons of the Revolution and has many warm friends among his fellow members of the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and the Wilshire Country Club. Politically he is a republican.
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Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 509-510,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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