From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean. 

pp. 560-561
GEORGE S. KING.  Fleischmann & Company, well-known purveyors to the 
people of Fleischmann's compressed yeast, could place their best 
interests in no more reliable hands than those of George S. King, the 
general agent for Wheeling and West Virginia.  A native of Bordentown, 
Burlington county, New Jersey, he was born May 1, 1865, and is a son of 
Harry H. King, from whom he inherits business ability and sound 
integrity.
	Harry H. King was born in 1828, and devoted the greater part of 
his active life to contracting.  In this capacity he was well known in 
Bordentown and Trenton, New Jersey, in which cities he contributed not a 
little to the general progress.  His wife, formerly Phoebe Tindle, was 
born on a farm near Windsor, New Jersey, in 1832, and became the mother 
of the following children:  Lydia; William; Maggie; George; and Olive, 
who is now the wife of D. Dyer, of Trenton, New Jersey.
	After his father's removal to Trenton, George S. King attended the 
public schools of that town, and spent the time until 1892 amid the home 
surroundings.  His first efforts to make a livelihood was with the 
company which he now represents, his first charge being in Trenton, 
where he remained for three years.  Since then he has been identified 
with the business life of Wheeling, and in his coming and going in the 
busy marts of trade has won the confidence and good-will of all who are 
fortunate enough to know him.
	In 1887 Mr. King was united in marriage with Emma L. Dickerson, 
who was born near Chester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and of this 
union there are four children, - Pauline, Lillian M., Harold C. and 
Grace.  Mr. King is a Republican in politics and a stanch upholder of 
the principles of his party.  Fraternally, he is associated with the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Royal Tribe of Joseph, Wheeling 
Lodge, No. 4.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.