Amador County Biographies

GEORGE F. MACK

Submitted by Betty Wilson

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	GEORGE F. MACK, County Superintendent of Schools, of Amador County, 
and Principal of the Ione G.S.C. School, was born November 15, 1845, at St. 
Charles, Kane County, Illinois.  His parents were natives of New Hampshire and 
moved to Illinois about the year 1844.  In 1850 they moved to California and 
settled at Placerville, El Dorado County, where Mr. Mack engaged in mining for a 
few years, with good success, after which he turned his attention to 
fruit-raising, on land that he secured near Placerville.  He being one of the 
first in the State to enter that field of industry, found, when his orchards 
began bearing fruit, that he had a surer and safer income than he could realize 
from the mines.  He sold peaches to the miners as high as fifty cents apiece.  
He still lives on the same fruit farm in El Dorado County, where he first 
located, at the advanced age of seventy-five years of age, with his wife, who is 
seventy.  George F. Mack, the subject of this sketch, received his early 
education in the public schools of El Dorado County, after which he was a 
student in the Woodland Hesperian College for three years.  He was a member of 
the class graduating in 1867, at the Healdsburg Academy of Healdsburg, Sonoma 
County, California, but on account of the rapid advancement made in his studies, 
was permitted by the faculty of the institution to graduate in the class of 
1866.
            In 1868 he commenced teaching in Pleasant Valley, El Dorado County.  
He taught in the public schools of El Dorado County till 1879.  In that year he 
was employed as principal of the graded schools of Truckee, Nevada County, which 
position he held for two years.  In 1881 he came to Ione, Amador County, where 
he has been employed as principal of the schools uninterruptedly to the present 
time.  He was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Amador County in 
1886, on the Republican ticket.  He was married to Miss Gilla A. Miller, a 
native of El Dorado County, California.  They have seven children:  William H., 
George F., Jr., Mary A., Gilla A., Agnes M., Robert Lincoln and Daniel M.
            Mr. Mack is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Encampment, 
I.O.O.F., and also of the order of Chosen Friends.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891