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George Noble Tyner, Treasurer of Holyoke Envelope Co, was born in Brookville, Franklin Co, IN 6/23/1848, his parents were Richard and Martha Sedgwick Willis Swift (Noble) Tyner, ... George N Tyner was educated in the public and private schools of Davenport, and at the age of seventeen was employeed in his father's business, later entering a wholesale and retail drygoods store, where he remained until 5/1870, when he was appointed a clerk in the US Postage Stamp and Stamped 'Envelope Agency at NY city. In 4/1873, he was appointed postal card agent, and was sent to Springfield, Mass, to inspect and distribute postal cards, which were there manufactured. When the contract was awaded to NY parties in 1877, he was again ordered to that city, where he remained until 4/1879, at which time the government contracts were transferred to Holyoke, thus causing his removal to this place. Soon after his arrival he associated himself with James T Abbe, and organized the Holyoke Envelope Co, which was incorporated 12/10/1880, with a capital of thirty thousand dollars, and in 4/1881, commenced operations. Mr. Tyner resigned from the postal service, in order to devote himself to the
new enterprise, which started with a capacity of two hundred thousand per day, but has since, by the aid of improved machinery of their own invention, increased to upward of three million, four hundred thousand daily, being the largest daily production of any manufactory in the world. They employ three hundred people, with a payroll of eight thousand dollars per month, their goods being produced by automatic machinery, which gums, prints, folds, and
counts at one operation. One 1/22/1888, their entire plant was destroyed by fire; but in July of the same year they moved into their new mill, which is three hundred feet long by eighty feet wide and three stores high, thus affording ample facilities for continuing and enlarging their extensive business. On 1/20/1877, Mr. Tyner was married to Miss Kate L Steinbacker of Akron, Ohio, daughter of Erhard and Phoebe Steinbacher, of that city.
