<p>Vice President and General Manager, Washington Title Insurance Co., Vice President, Seattle Trust Co.
PH Coll 512.5.5</p>
<p>Edward Payson Tremper Sr. was born Feb. 16, 1860 in Fulton, Illinois. Worked at Osborne, Tremper &amp; Co, which became the Seattle Trust &amp; Title Company. Later went to work at the Washington Title Insurance Company, founded by his brother Henry in 1911. Died May 1944 in Seattle. In 1902 he purchased a large tract of land at Yarrow Point, and imported holly stock from England to plant on it. By the 1920s, he owned the largest holly farm in the United States.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCSH): Tremper, Edward Payson, 1860-1944;  Men--Washington (State)--Portraits; Businesspeople--Washington (State)--Portraits ; Title companies--Officials and employees--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits</li></ul>
<bdi>Studio of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Asahel_Curtis" class="extiw" title="w:en:Asahel Curtis"><span title="American photographer">Asahel Curtis</span></a>
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circa 1917 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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