El Paso County CO Archives Biographies.....Sharp, Arthur G. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 August 8, 2009, 11:33 pm Source: See Additional Comments Below Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1919) ARTHUR G. SHARP. Arthur G. Sharp has for more than twenty years been connected with the Exchange National Bank of Colorado Springs and for the past fifteen years has been its president. Honored and respected by all, there is no man in the city who occupies a more enviable position in financial and business circles, not alone by reason of the success he has achieved, but also owing to the straightforward and progressive business methods which he has ever followed. Mr. Sharp is a native of Ohio, his birth having occurred on a farm near Chillicothe, in Ross county, on the 19th of March, 1864, his parents being Gideon T. and Sarah (Teter) Sharp, who were also natives of Ross county and there continued to reside throughout their entire lives. The farm on which Gideon T. Sharp was born was located near Chillicothe and was owned by his father, Henry Sharp, who was a native of Culpeper county, Virginia, and a descendant of one of the noted families of the colonial period in the Old Dominion. Prior to the Civil war Gideon T. Sharp was a merchant of Roxabell, Ross county, Ohio, hut after the outbreak of hostilities between the north and the south he responded to the country's call for troops and in 1862 enlisted as a member of Company K, Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he participated in many important engagements. He served actively until he was captured by the Confederate troops, by whom he was confined in Andersonville prison. After months of hardship and suffering there he passed away on the 9th of June, 1864. A short time before his capture he visited his family on a brief furlough, which was destined to be his last glimpse of his home. He was a brave and gallant soldier whose life was given as a sacrifice to the cause of his country. His wife, Sarah Ellen Sharp, who died April 15, 1877, was a woman of rare sweetness of character and devoted her life to the care and education of her five children. She was a daughter of Samuel Teter, who was born and reared in Ross county, Ohio, and from the primeval forest cleared a farm on which he lived for more than seventy years. He reached the very advanced age of ninety-two. Arthur G. Sharp was educated in the excellent schools of Greenfield, Ohio. That city has a modern high school building, erected at a cost of four hundred thousand dollars, with an auditorium having a seating capacity of fifteen hundred. There are also outdoor study balconies and every modern facility to promote the school work, the equipment comparing favorably with that of the best colleges. In 1885 Mr. Sharp started westward, traveling as far as Kansas. He there accepted the position of bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Burlingame and later was elected cashier and a director of the bank, with which he was connected for ten years, and during the last three years of that period he was its president. In 1895 he resigned his position in Burlingame and removed to Colorado Springs, where for more than twenty years he has been connected with the Exchange National Bank, entering that institution as its cashier, but for the past fifteen years serving as its president. This bank is capitalized for three hundred thousand dollars, and its deposits reach more than five million dollars. It has an able corps of officials and the business of the bank has steadily developed, its policy being marked by a progressiveness that is tempered by a safe conservatism. On the 31st of March, 1887, Mr. Sharp was united in marriage to Miss Louie Milner, of Leesburg, Ohio, who is a daughter of Alfred and Nancy (Denny) Milner and a graduate of the high school of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp became the parents of two sons, Roy Milner, who died January 5, 1916; and Arthur G., who is now thirteen years of age. Mr. Sharp is a thirty-second degree Mason and also a member of Pikes Peak Commandery, K. T., while both he and his wife have membership in the First Presbyterian church of Colorado Springs. There is no one who occupies a more creditable position in financial circles of Colorado Springs than Mr. Sharp. Free from every element of the spectacular, his life has been characterized by a steady advancement that has come as the recognition and utilization of opportunity and the development of his innate powers and talents. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME III CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/elpaso/bios/sharp296nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb