Sedgwick-Jackson-Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Ernest, George W. 1881 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   George W. Ernest, superintendent and manager of the Wichita Hydraulic Stone
and Brick Company, was born at Whiting, Kan., on December 21, 1881. His parents
were John J. and Alice M. (Smith) Ernest, natives of Altoona, Pa., who came to
Kansas in 1879, locating in Jackson county, where the elder Ernest was engaged
in contracting and building. Mr. Ernest died in 1906 at the age of forty-nine.
George W. Ernest acquired his education in the public schools of Whiting and the
Atchison Business College. His first employment was as telegraph operator and
agent for the Rock Island railroad at Hoyt, Kan., and afterwards as baggageman
for the same road at McFarland. This was followed by five years in the position
of yardmaster, when he became assistant yardmaster at Topeka, later going to the
Santa Fe in the capacity of passenger rate clerk in the general offices of the
company. Mr. Ernest came to Wichita in 1909, and in December of that year became
interested in the Wichita Hydraulic Stone and Brick Company as a stockholder,
succeeding to the business management of the concern, which is incorporated with
a capital stock of $10,000. The officers of the company are as follows:
President, F. C. Dymock; secretary, W. L. Brown; treasurer, J. W. Craig;
superintendent and manager, George W. Ernest. The yearly output of the company
amounts to $75,000 and it gives employment to twenty hands. The output of the
company is about equally divided between the city and shipping trade. The plant
was first organized in 1905. Mr. Ernest is a member of the Masonic order, the
Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Aid. He was married in 1904 to Miss Bess
Deck, daughter of John and Mary Deck, of Cricksville, Kan.

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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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