Imperial-Los Angeles-San Diego County CA Archives Biographies.....Ford, Janus R. 1887 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

JANUS R. FORD is numbered among the esteemed citizens of Imperial County. He has
held the position of secretary and manager of the Imperial County Title Company
since October, 1915. Mr. Ford was born near Clinton, Missouri, March 21, 1887, a
son of William B. and Virginia C. (Slack) Ford. He received his education in the
public schools and Missouri University. In June, 1911, he left college and
traveled extensively throughout the western states. He came to California
January 1, 1912, and located in Los Angeles, and became identified with the
Title Insurance & Trust Company of that city for a period of two years. During
that time he attended night school, where he studied law and was admitted to the
Bar in January, 1914. He served as attorney for the Imperial Title Guaranty and
Bonded Abstract Company previous to the time it was made the Imperial County
Title Company, which was in October, 1915. Fraternally Mr. Ford is a member of
the Masonic Lodge and holds the office of Junior Deacon of El Centro Lodge, No.
384. He was married in San Diego, California, March 11, 1916, to Miss Ella
Yetive Golberg, daughter of Arne S. and Marie Golberg, one of the representative
families of that city. The father of Mr. Ford was a veteran of the Civil War,
being attached to the Seventh Missouri Cavalry, and fought on the Union side.
Mr. Ford's mother's people came from Kentucky, and her brother, William J.
Slack, was a general in the Confederate Army and was killed in action at the
battle of Pea Ridge. Janus R. Ford, the subject of this review, is a man of
unusual professional ability, and has a wide circle of friends.

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From:

THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918

Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco

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