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.
Detweiler, George H. was born on June 25, 1883 in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Peter Christman and Luzetta, Rebecca (Horn) D.
Preparatory education Temple School, Philadelphia, 1903-1905. Bachelor of Laws, Temple University, 1907-1911.
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.
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).
Married Eleanore Gambel Middleton, January 25, 1908. Children: Sylvia Eleanore (deceased), Robert Aaron.