George
WEST
(b.
17 February 1823
,
Bradninch, Devonshire, England
d.
20 September 1901
,
Ballston Spa, New York, USA
)
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George WEST was born 17 February 1823 in Bradninch, Devonshire, England
George WEST was the child of ? and ?George WEST died 20 September 1901 in Ballston Spa, New York, USA .
m. Louisa Rose
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George WEST was a "Paper Bag King", industrialist, U.S. Representative from NY.
George WEST was a "Paper Bag King", industrialist, U.S. Representative from NY.
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1823 Birth 17 February 1823
Bradninch, Devonshire, England
1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)
1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)
First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented
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Union Bag and Paper Co. Dam. Ballston Spa, N. Y.
One of the most prosperous residents in the history of Ballston Spa, NY, was a “Paper Bag King” who once laid claim to the largest manila paper bag operation in the world, also located in Saratoga County.
George West, was born in the English village of Kentisbeare in 1822. He was the sixth of nine children, and as soon as he was old enough West followed in his father’s footsteps and began working at a local paper mill...
At first West’s bags were made by hand at the Union Store in Ballston Spa, but demand soon far outpaced his ability to supply them. He erected a bag factory next door to the Empire Mill and in 1866 built a second paper mill next door, which he named the Excelsior.
By 1875 West’s mills were manufacturing five and a half tons of manila paper per day...
West became ill in 1898, just as paper bag factories around the country were being consolidated into giant corporations. He sold his mills to the Union Bag and Paper Company (now part of Union Camp Corporation, which also acquired nearby International Paper mills in 1999)...
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1901 Death 20 September 1901
Ballston Spa, New York, USA
He died at the age of 78.
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