Carbon-Wasatch County UT Archives Biographies.....Curry, George P. 1887 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

GEORGE P. CURRY.

    George P. Curry, residing at Hiawatha, is chief electrician for the United
States Fuel Company in Carbon county, having supervision of all electrical work
for the corporation in connection with the various mines in this vicinity. His
position is one of responsibility for which he has been thoroughly trained
through study and experience, his powers developing through the exercise of
effort until he is regarded as an expert in this field of labor. Mr. Curry is a
native of Antwerp, New York. He was born August 2, 1887, a son of Peter George
and Catherine (Nowland) Curry. The father is a Canadian by birth, while the
mother was a native of New York. Mr. Curry, on coming to the United States,
settled at Antwerp and afterward removed to Watertown, New York, where he now
resides, having devoted his life to the milling business. His wife, however, has
passed away.

    George P. Curry acquired a common school education at Antwerp and his
interest in things electrical led him to pursue a course of night study in
electrical engineering and he also took a course under the direction of the
correspondence school of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Some years later he attended
the night school of the University of Nevada, where he again specialized in
electrical engineering, and throughout his en tire life he has been a close and
discriminating student of the profession, eagerly embracing every opportunity
that would promote his knowledge and further his efficiency in that line.

    On leaving New York in young manhood Mr. Curry went to Arizona and afterward
to California. From the coast he made his way to Sparks, Nevada, in the vicinity
of Reno, and was with the Southern Pacific shops as electrician. On the 10th of
June, 1909, he came to Utah, going to Heber, where he worked on the construction
of the power line and when it was fully installed he went to Brigham for the
Ogden Portland Cement Company as chief operator at their power plant. In
February, 1911, he accepted the position of chief electrician with the Chicago
National White Lead Company in Chicago but in the same year returned to Heber,
Utah, unable to withstand the allurements which the mountains have for all who
sojourn for a few years within their high and rocky fastnesses. He soon obtained
a position on the Snake Creek tunnel project, being engineer in that connection
until August, 1912, when he was transferred to the Silver King Coalition at Park
City. In the following August he came to Castlegate for the Utah Fuel Company to
do electrical work and In 1915 removed to Hiawatha as chief electrician for the
United States Fuel Company, having supervision of the electrical interests of
the corporation In all of the mines in this district.

    At Heber, Utah, December 29, 1909, Mr. Curry was married to Miss Nora May
Honer, daughter of William and Amanda Honer, of Heber, representative of the
pioneer stock of that place in the days when it was a collection of log houses
built in the form of a stockade. Mr. Honer was a miller by trade and has now
passed away. The mother survives and is still living at Heber, which has now
become a very modern and beautiful city. To Mr. and Mrs. Curry have been born
two children: Maxine E., born at Heber, March 11, 1912; and Earl W., who was
born at Heber, March 7, 1918.

    In his political views Mr. Curry is a stalwart republican, keeping
thoroughly conversant with the vital questions and issues of the day and giving
loyal support to the party yet never seeking office as a reward for party
fealty. He belongs to the Elks Club No. 849 at Provo and he is a member of the
American Institute Electrical Engineering Society of New York-a connection that
indicates his high professional standing and efficiency.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
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VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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