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Subject: R.E.Geeting &Bro.-Biography
Date: 3 Mar 2005 22:59:50 -0700

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Surnames: Geeting, Watson, Wright
Classification: Biography

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R.E. Geeting & Bro., watch-makers and jewelers, Washington, Indiana. This firm consists of Royal E. & George C. W. Geeting. They bought their present business of J. C. Farron in 1880, starting at that time with small stock and limited capital, but by strict attention to business, economy and integrity, they have succeeded in building up a flourishing business. they carry a full line of watches, clocks and jewelery, and silverware and, control a large share of the trade in this line in Daviess County. Royal E. Geeting, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, September, 1856, and is a son of Isaac and Caroline (Watson) Geeting, natives respectively of Maryland, and Hamilton County, Ohio. Isaac Geeting removed to this city, with his family in 1868, and he has since resided here, engaged in contracting and building, being a carpenter by trade. the subject of this sketch worked with his father at the carpenter's trade until he was twenty-one years old, when he entered the jewelr!
y store of N. H. Jepson, of Washington, where he learned the watch-maker's and jeweler's trade
and continued with Mr. Jepson for over three years. He then worked at his trade for four months in Sullivan, Ind., when he returned to Washington and established his present business. Mr. Geeting is a Republican in politics, and is justly recognized as one of the enterprising and successful business men, of Daviess County, and as a moral, upright man. In November 1881, he was married to Maggie Wright, a native of this county, by whom he has one son, named Otis K. Geeting.
History of Knox and Daviess Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing;Chicago;1886
Pages 764-765

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