(1890-1962)
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Born in Vandenburgh County, Knight Township,
Indiana on August 13, 1890. He entered Carver Elementary School
and Clark High School in Evansville, graduating in 1910. In the
fall of 1910, George entered Indiana University at Bloomington. He
joined nine other students in founding Kappa Alpha Psi Frat ernity.
After George returned home for the summer of
1911, his father became ill with pneumonia and died. His father
had worked in the coal mines of Vandenburgh County for many years.
George, being the eldest son, became head of the family, thus
preventing his return to school. With the new responsibility of
supporting the family, George took a job with the area coal mines
and worked with the coal mines and the railroad until he died of
pneumonia on June 13, 1962. George married the former Willa Mae
Forte and settled in Stevenson, Indiana. They became the parents
of one son, Noel. |
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