Delta County CO Archives Biographies.....Stephan, George March 30, 1862 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     George Stephan, of Delta, a leading attorney-at-law, banker, real estate

man and promoter, who has borne a large share of the burdens incident to

developing and building up a new country, and has done his work so wisely and

with such commanding enterprise and skill that the results are most gratifying

in magnitude and quality, is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, born on March 30,

1862, and the son of John C. and Elizabeth (Watson) Stephan, who were born,

reared and married in Pennsylvania.  Soon after their marriage they moved to

Cleveland, where the father practiced his profession of dentistry for a period

of twenty-five years.  On retiring from active practice he moved to Kansas City,

where he died in 1899.  His widow now lives in New York.  They had seven

children, three of whom are living, George being the oldest of these.  He was

educated in the public schools of Cleveland, being graduated at the high school

there in 1878.  In 1882 he came to Colorado and located at Denver, where he

lived until 1888.  He then passed two years at Salt Lake engaged in the

real-estate business.  In 1890 he moved to Delta, arriving in the spring, and at

once became president of the Delta Mercantile Company, which he organized, but

he sold his interest in the company soon afterward.  In 1895 he bought a

one-half interest in the banking house formerly established by Blachly &

Baldwin, and, in partnership with F.E. Dodge, reorganized the institution into

the Farmers and Merchants Bank, the name it now bears.  In 1898 he sold his

interest in the bank and, in partnership with Judge A.R. King, bought the Delta

Town and Improvement Company of the Crawford estate.  This company soon

afterward organized the Union Abstract Company, and Mr. Stephan has devoted his

energies to the business of these two corporations as president in connection

with his official duties as county attorney, an office in which he is now

serving his third term.  He was admitted to the bar in 1889, and since then he

has built up a large and representative practice and taken a high rank in the

profession.  He is an ardent Republican in politics and is prominent and

influential in the councils of his party, serving as secretary of its county

central committee and having a voice of potency in its conventions.  He has also

served acceptably as a member of the Delta city council.  In fraternal circles

he is a thirty-second-degree Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in the same

order.  On June 28, 1892, he was united in marriage with Miss Helen Carr, a

native of Philadelphia and daughter of A.W. Carr, one of the pioneers of Delta

county.  Their beautiful home, over which Mrs. Stephan presides with grace and

dignity, is a center of refined and generous hospitality and intellectual life,

and both she and her husband are recognized as among the leading citizens of the

community. 

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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