Charles Henry King Entrepreneur Chadron Founder Banker President Gerald Ford's Grandfather Show 063

Charles Henry King was an Entrepreneurs Entrepreneur Founder of Chadron, Nebraska, a prominent Banker, Wyoming's wealthiest businessman and President Gerald R. Fords biological grandfather.

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Recall we just did an entire show on Fannie O’Linn on our last show 062

Charles Henry King was a Prominent Banker that started a Bank  C. H. King Company and First National Bank of Shoshoni, Wyoming.

He was a serial entrepreneur at that time of his passing he was Wyoming’s wealthiest businessman.

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CH King - today would be known as a serial entrepreneur

At the age of 31 in 1884 he and his wife, Martha [Alicia (nee) Porter,] moved to Nebraska and settled a sparsely populated
the region is known as Dawes County today we know it as the Panhandle of Nebraska.

Their humble home was nicely settled along the White River in an area that we just talked about the brand new town of Chadron.

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Now back to the show you will recall that
Fannie O'Linn the subject from our last show certainly knew CH as his associates knew him as both helped found the town Chadron

You see CH was a merchant pioneer who began trading with the Indians and became a bigtime merchant
and wool trader he had one of the most successful entrepreneurial enterprises in Nebraska and Wyoming.  He was founder and president of the Omaha Wool and Storage Company and founder of banks transportation companies and promoter of various enterprises.

He had come far born in Pennsylvania on March 13, 1853, in Bradford County.

When in Chadron NE he started a general store known as C.H. King's Mercantile.

He was described in his day as being shrewd a true businessman, as a business person why study CH make him one of your own case studies well he was a visionary what today we might say a mover and shaker.

He was a visionary -> he saw what others could not as he anticipated the arrival of the Chicago and North Western
Railroad network into Chadron
and the nearby Wyoming territory.

He was constantly thinking of how he could expand his commercial
enterprises.

He executed on this opportunity by stringing together general stores, lumberyards' banks, wool trading companies, a freight hauling business, and much real estate strategically located
where the railroad access insured the
founding of future towns and cities in addition to Chadron.

By July 25, 1886, Chadron
was much in the infancy as an organized community -> it was at this time that
President Gerald Ford's biological father Leslie Lynch was born to Charles Henry King and his wife Martha in the town of Chadron

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