Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: EWING, John A. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 127-128



JOHN A. EWING.

	John A. Ewing, attorney at law, prominently known in professional 
connections in both Denver and Leadville, maintaining his summer home 
and an office in the latter city, was born in Kittanning, Armstrong 
county, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1857, his parents being James H. and 
Eleanor (Rhea) Ewing, both of whom were natives of the Keystone state 
and were descendants of old American families, whose ancestors came 
from the north of Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania during the early 
part of the eighteenth century. James H. Ewing was a successful farmer 
and merchant, having conducted mercantile interests in Kittanning for 
many years.

	John A. Ewing was educated in the common schools of his native 
city and in the Saltsburg Academy, after which he attended the Indiana 
Normal School and also pursued a special course under private 
tutorship.  Having determined upon the practice of law as a life work, 
he directed his reading and study in that direction and was admitted to 
the bar at Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1880. Two years after-ward he 
determined to try his fortune in the west and removed to Colorado, 
settling first in Leadville, where he has since maintained an office. 
However, in 1903 he established an office in Denver, where his family 
is located, and during the years of his practice he has specialized 
largely in mining and corporation law, being particularly proficient 
along those lines. In tact, he has won a place among the leading 
attorneys of the state and his clientage is large and of a 
distinctively representative character, while colleagues and 
contemporaries attest his worth in the profession and his marked 
devotion to its highest standards of ethics.

	In 1898 Mr. Ewing was united in marriage to Miss Georgia M. 
White, a daughter of the late George G. White, of Leadville, who was a 
member of the Colorado constitutional convention from Jefferson county.  
Mr. and Mrs. Ewing have one child, Eleanor Eileen. Fraternally Mr. 
Ewing is connected with the Masons as a member of the lodge and chapter 
and in his life exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft, which 
is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind and the 
obligations thereby Imposed. He has never had occasion to regret his 
determination to come to the west, for here he found the opportunities 
which he sought-opportunities which are constantly broadening with the 
rapid growth of this section of the country. With ability to utilize 
such opportunities, he has made steady professional advancement and is 
today regarded as one of the foremost representatives of the Denver 
bar.