Sedgwick-Cowley County KS Archives Biographies.....McCurley, George F. 1872 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

    George F. McCurley, contractor and builder, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of
Missouri, having been born in Benton county, that state, in 1872. Has parents
were Thomas J. and Priscilla L. (Boyett) McCurley, natives of Tennessee, where
they lived until the time of the Civil War, when they moved to Missouri and
there spent the remainder of their days. Young McCurley was educated in the
public schools of Missouri, and after leaving school learned the trade of a
carpenter. At the age of twenty-two he moved to Springfield, Mo., where for the
next five years he was employed on contract work, building railroad bridges,
depots, etc. He next took up the building of elevators with P. H. Pelky, at
Winfield, Kan., and continued at this for the next five years in Kansas,
Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas. In. January, 1904, Mr. McCurley came to Wichita,
continuing in the employment of Mr. Pelky until February, 1907, when he branched
out in business for himself in the contracting and building line. Since that
time he has erected several fine churches and schoolhouses, besides doing a
large quantity of general work. August 1, 1909, Mr. McCurley took charge of the
Peerless Construction Company offices, located at No. 509 Winne Building, East
Douglas avenue, the officers of which are: G. F. McCurley, president and
manager, and Charles H. Reed, secretary and treasurer. Mr. McCurley is a firm
believer in a greater Wichita. In fraternal orders he is a Past Grand of Wichita
Lodge, No. 93, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the Rebekahs, etc.
He was married in November, 1904, to Miss Myrtle McBride, of Oklahoma, and is
the father of two children, Alva Ray and Ruth Helen.

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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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