The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 226 A portrait of George F. Stean appears in this publication. GEORGE F. STEAN. George F. Stean's early experience in the hotel business in the east well qualified him for the conduct of similar interests in the northwest and he is now manager of the Hotel Commercial of Yakima. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 16, 1872, his parents being George and Elizabeth (Brown) Stean. The father was a hotel man of Cleveland and there passed away but the mother is still living. George F. Stean obtained a public school education and when his school days were over entered the hotel business in connection with his father, thus receiving thorough practical training, and gaining knowledge and experience which have been of great worth to him in later years. He left Cleveland in 1891 and went to Pittsburgh, where he accepted the position of manager of the Duquesne Hotel, while subsequently he was manager of the Engineers Club of Chicago. Later he went to New York, where he was manager of Archibald's Restaurant. He became identified with hotel interests upon the Pacific coast on his removal to Seattle, where he assumed the management of the Chelsea Hotel. He then took over the management of the Sol Duc Hot Springs Company's Hotel, in the Olympic mountains, thirty-eight miles from Port Angeles, and at a later period became manager and proprietor of the Wixon Hotel at Sedro Woolley, Washington. In 1915 he moved to Yakima to become manager of the Hotel Commercial, of which he has since had charge. He thoroughly understands every demand of hotel service and provides for his patrons all of the conveniences of the modern hotel of the twentieth century. In 1901 Mr. Stean was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Starck, a native of Chicago, and they have become the parents of two children, Ardath and Adrianne. The family resides on Thirteenth avenue, south, and they have a fine summer home on the Naches river. Fraternally Mr. Stean is connected with the Elks and he belongs to the Commercial Club and also to the Country Club. He is a gentleman of genial manner, social disposition, keen business sagacity and indefatigable enterprise, and all these qualities combine to make for him success in his chosen field of labor. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.