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GEORGE C. SCHLEY
GEORGE C. SCHLEY.—A gentleman of pleasing personality who has built up a profitable business in Chico, is George C. Schley, proprietor of Schley’s Klassy Kicks Shoe Store, which is located on Main street. Mr. Schley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of Charles Schley, who is now engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business at Cheboygan, Mich.
George C Schley was reared in Detroit and Cheboygan, Mich., and attended the grammar and high schools, graduating from the latter in Cheboygan. He was reared in the mercantile business, and after his graduation he secured employment in a clothing and shoe store in Cheboygan, where he remained two years, learning the business. He then went to New York City and was engaged as a clerk in a shoe store for a time. He worked in the same line of business in Chicago and St. Louis, and in 1901 came to San Francisco, being employed in the Rosenthal Shoe store on Kearny Street for two years. The following five years he managed the Boston shoe Store at Riverside.
Mr. Schley was then in a position to engage in business for himself, and he found an opening at Paso Robles, in 1910, when he bought out a shoe store, and during his five years there he built up a large trade. Meantime, in 1912, he bought out Keefe and Son in Salinas, named the place the Reliable Shoe Store, and conducted both stores until 1915, when he sold his Paso Robles store and gave his time to the Salinas establishment. He sold this store in September, 1916, and located in Chico, where, in September of that year, he bought out George L. Marsh at 236 Main Street. He remodeled the building and has made of it a most modern store and does an ever increasing business. The Schley’s Klassy Kicks Shoe store is the largest in Butte County and is well named.
Mr. Schley is public-spirited and has supported all progressive projects for the upbuilding of the places where he has lived. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus at Chico, and is a member of the Elk’s Lodge in Salinas, and of the Chico Business Men’s Association.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1270, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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