| Abstract | Biographical sketch of George Adolphus Gurley, or George Gurley, president of the Packer Produce Mercantile Agency at 201 Delaware Street, born in Georgia in 1870 and moving to Platte County, Missouri, about 1881, and starting out in the advertising business for packing companies before becoming president in 1904 of the Barrick Publishing Company and of the Packer Produce Company in 1924. |