Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Wister, George October 28, 1863 - ?
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Progressive Men of Western Colorado



     The interesting subject of this brief review, who is now just in the prime

of life with all his faculties in full vigor and active exercise, and whose

judgment is matured and his knowledge of business is full, accurate and

serviceable, and who may therefore hope to grow in prosperity and usefulness, is

a native of Jefferson county, Kansas, born on October 28, 1863.  His parents,

George W. and Pauline E. (Wyant) Wister, were natives of Pennsylvania, born in

Franklin county, and moved to Kansas when they were young. The mother died on

Christmas day, 1902.  They had a family of five children, of whom only two are

living, the son George being next to the oldest in order of birth.  When he was

three years old the family moved from Jefferson to Jackson county in his native

state, and there he remained until 1884, receiving a common-school education and

acquiring habits of providence, industry and usefulness in his father’s flour

mill.  In the year last named, when he was about twenty-one years of age, he

came to Colorado and took up his residence at Colorado City, where he remained

until 1891.  At that time he moved to the vicinity of Palisades and pre-empted a

tract of one hundred and twelve and one-half acres of land.  In the spring of

1894 he set out four acres of fruit trees, and he did the same every year

afterward until his planting covered twenty acres, one-half of which is now in

good bearing order and yields large returns for his enterprise and skill.  In

the season of 1903 his net revenue from the orchards was over two thousand

dollars, and there is every prospect that this will increase from year to year

as time passes and more trees come into bearing.  He was married on December 7,

1887, in Jackson county, Kansas, to Miss Mary Clonch, who was born at Severance,

Doniphan county, Kansas, on April 27, 1862, and is the daughter of C.C. and

Martha (Buster) Clonch, natives of Pulaski county, Kentucky, who moved to

Kansas, as a young married couple and lived there until their deaths.  Mr. and

Mrs. Wister are the parents of four children, Earl, Vernon, Cecil and Dean, all

living and all born on the ranch which is now their home.  In political

relations Mr. Wister trains with the independents, and in fraternal life he

belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.  He is an enterprising

and progressive man and is highly regarded on all sides on account of his good

business capacity, his sterling worth and his usefulness as a citizen. 

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

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