Edwards, Rev. Jonathan.  "An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of
Washington."  San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1900.  p. 311.
 
GEORGE E. DARBY

     a pioneer of 1884, was born in Connecticut, August 19, 1854.  When a boy he
came to Santa Cruz, California, where he was employed in the California Powder
Works. He had charge, for two years, of their magazine, packing and shipping.
In February, 1884, he came to Spokane and started a liquor business where the
Grand Hotel now stands. He is at present located in the Sherwood block. He also
has a three-thousand-acre stock ranch, fifteen miles north of , and in raising
cattle for the market.  There are usually from one to two hundred head in his
pastures. For a number of years he was mining in the Okanogan country, and is
now extensively interested in nearly all the camps of the mining region
tributary to Spokane.  Socially he is a member of the Elks.


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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in November 2007 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.