Sedgwick-Clark County KS Archives Biographies.....Boll, George M. 1881 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   George M. Boll, vice-president and manager of the Kansas Metal Granary
Company, was born in Worth county, Mo., on May 3, 1881. His parents were G. W.
and Susan (Sharp) Boll, the father being a native of Pennsylvania and the mother
of Indiana. George M. Boll's education was acquired in the public schools of
Kansas, his parents having moved to the state in 1884. They first located in
Clark county, but in 1887 moved to Sedgwick county and in 1907 to Wichita, where
George M. Boll became one of the organizers of his present business, which he
has managed successfully. The office and plant of the Kansas Metal Granary
Company is located at the corner of William and Wichita streets, Wichita. The
company was established in 1908 as G. M. Boll & Co., but was reorganized April
8, 1909, under the name of the Kansas Metal Granary Company, with G. W. Boll as
president; George M. Boll, vice-president and manager; J. D. Peckham, secretary
and treasurer; George A. Hinkle and Charles Waltercheid, directors. The company
manufactures grain storage bins, known as the Equity grain bin, made of metal,
which admits of nothing like rust or insects of any kind. The bins are lightning
and damp proof, and are also a dryer to damp grain, etc. They are sold
throughout southern Kansas. The establishment also manufactures metal tanks of
all kinds. Steel bins were originated in Sedgwick county in 1907. G. W. Boll was
the patentee of the Equity grain bin first in 1908, and other patents were
obtained in 1909 and 1910.

Additional Comments:
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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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