Pueblo-El Paso County CO Archives Biographies.....Ink, George W. 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

GEORGE W. INK.

    Mr. Ink was born in Luzerne County, Penn. His mother's death necessitated
his being raised by her parents, and he was accordingly put under their care. By
them he was sent to school winters till he was fifteen, and from fifteen till he
was twenty, was kept at work on their farm. Mechanism came natural to him, and,
without serving an apprenticeship, he took up carpentry and followed it
successfully for five years. He went to Lawrence, Kan., when he was
twenty-seven, and worked in a saw-mill, afterward buying a mill and sawing
lumber in several counties in the State. In partnership with others, he has
owned two sawmills on the divide, Colorado, and sawed many million feet of
lumber there. One of those mills he moved to Bergan's Park, near Pike's Peak,
and, in connection with it, opened a lumber-yard and set up a planing-mill in
South Pueblo. He dissolved partnership with his partners in 1873, taking the
lumber-yard and planing-mill as part of his interest in the property. He sold
the lumber yard and planing-mill in 1878, and has been engaged exclusively in
building and contracting from then to the present time. Mr. Ink is the owner of
much town property, residences and lots, and is considered a wealthy man. He is
Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate, and has gained more popularity by
his willingness to accommodate than he can ever gain through moneyed and
official positions.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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