Los Angeles County
Biographies
VINCENT
SCOTT
Among the younger members of the Los Angeles
bar is Vincent Scott who, in the comparatively few years he has been engaged in
active practice here, has achieved extraordinary progress and has created most
favorable repute for himself.
Mr. Scott is a native son of Los
Angeles, his birth having occurred here on June 1, 1901, and he is a son of
Edgar James and Lottie Elizabeth Scott. The former parent, who was born
November 1, 1866, and is of Scotch descent, also numbers among his ancestors
Gen. Winfield Scott, well-known military figure in American history. Edgar
James Scott served as a soldier and also as a non-commissioned officer during
the Apache wars of 1886-91, and during the World war was over seas in the
engineering corps. He is now a retired major of engineers. His father, and
grandfather of Vincent Scott, was James Horatio Scott, who was a major in the
Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war. Lottie Elizabeth
Scott was born October 21, 1871, of Dutch and English descent, and was brought
to Los Angeles by her parents, Joseph M. and Martha M. Van Norman, in 1883.
Vincent Scott first completed the
grammar schools in his quest for an education, then
graduated from Redondo Beach high school in 1919. He took up the study of law
at South-western University in Los Angeles and from this well-known institution
received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1926. During his school and university
days, Mr. Scott was variously engaged in other capacities. He was with the
department of water and power in Los Angeles for several years; was with the
Los Angeles Times one year; with the Los Angeles county assessor for one year;
served as court clerk in the Los Angeles justice’s court and Los Angeles
municipal court for about five years. He left the municipal court to enter the
practice of law on July 1, 1927, and has been continuously so engaged since.
Mr. Scott is a member of the Omega
Sigma Sigma legal fraternity, and was chancellor of
the same in 1924-25. He now belongs to Highland Park Lodge, No. 382, of the
Masonic Order, the California State Bar Association, and to the Foreign Trade
Club of Southern California. His religious associations are protestant.
Transcribed By:
Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 75-76,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
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