Robert Hawley George and Edith Freeman

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Husband Robert Hawley George ¹

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           Born: 23 Aug 1880 - Bradford, McKean Co, PA
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         Father: Robert George (1849-1911) 1
         Mother: Sabra Wilcox (1856-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1 Jun 1905 1

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   Other Spouse: Genevieve Eaton (      -      ) 2 - 17 Jul 1926 2

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Wife Edith Freeman ¹

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           Born: 9 May 1882 - Bradford, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Jay Freeman (1853-      ) 1
         Mother: Irene Lawrence (1856-1934) 1

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Children

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1 F Ruth Gretchen George ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Hussong (      -      ) 2

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2 M Robert Freeman George ¹

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Adams (      -      ) 2

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3 F Jean George ¹

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         Spouse: Lowell Johnston (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Hawley George

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He attended the public schools in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and after three years in high school there he left to engage in business in Indiana. For some years he was a general “roustabout,” pumping and drilling, and for three years he remained in Indiana oil fields. He also opened oil fields in Wyoming, and for nineteen years operated a sawmill in Japan, shipping native hard woods from that country to Europe and America. While still young, he returned to Bradford, Pennsylvania, beginning the production of oil there and combining this work with oil interests in Kansas. Gradually other business enter­prises interested him more and more. Beginning in 1903 he conducted the Bradford Laundry. He started the Willowdale Cemetery Association in 1936, and became its president and one of its directors. Farming also inter­ested him, and he raised corn and soy beans in North Carolina.
In addition to his business activities, he was interested in public affairs. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Bradford Club, the Pennhills Country Club, the Valley Hunt Club and the Free and Accepted Masons. In the Masonic Order he was affiliated with Union Lodge, No. 334; Bradford Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he was a Past High Priest; Brad­ford Council, Royal and Select Masters, of which he was Thrice Illustrious Master; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar; Coudersport Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and Zem Zem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (of Erie).

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 127.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 128.