Background

Detweiler, George H. was born on June 25, 1883 in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Peter Christman and Luzetta, Rebecca (Horn) D.

Education

Preparatory education Temple School, Philadelphia, 1903-1905. Bachelor of Laws, Temple University, 1907-1911.

Career

Clerk of Philisophy&R. Railway, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1901-1902, Philadelphia, 1903, stenographer Pullman Company Philadelphia, 1903-1913. Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1912. In practice, Philadelphia, since 1913.

Chairman Executive Committee Methodist Book Room, Philadelphia, since 1945.

Achievements

• George H. Detweiler has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Pennsylvania State Occupational Diseases Compensation Commission, 1935, 36, 37. Member commission to select new president for Temple University, 1941. Member American, Pennsylvania (Chairman of Commission on workmen’s compensation law 1933-1941, 44-50), Phila bar associations, International Association Insurance Counsel, Federation Insurance Counsel, General Alumni Temple University (president 1940-1941).

Mason (32°.

Past district deputy grand master Pennsylvania. Chairman grand lodge commission on lectures, charged with formulating plan for Masonic education in Pennsylvania, 1943-1948). Clubs: Union League, Lawyers, Caveat, Constitutional (Philadelphia).

Connections

Married Eleanore Gambel Middleton, January 25, 1908. Children: Sylvia Eleanore (deceased), Robert Aaron.

Father:

Peter Christman Luzetta

Mother:

Luzetta

Spouse:

Eleanore Gambel Middleton

child:

Robert Aaron Detweiler

child:

Sylvia Eleanore Detweiler (deceased)