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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.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME III
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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