Background
Preston, George H. was born on May 10, 1890 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of George Junkin (Doctor of Medicine and Emma (Heinrichs) P.
Preston, George H. was born on May 10, 1890 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of George Junkin (Doctor of Medicine and Emma (Heinrichs) P.
Bachelor of Arts, John Hopkins University, 1911, Doctor of Medicine 1915. M. Alice Dorough, September 6, 1919 (deceased 1951).
Superintendent Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives, 1921-1924. Psychiatrist, Children’s Memorial Clinic, Richmond, Virginia, 1924-1928. Commissioner mental hygiene, Maryland., 1928-1949.
Clinical administrator Chestnut Lodge, Incorporated., 1952-1956.
Clinical director Child Guidance Clinic, Atlanta, from 1956. Frequent international lecture trips, from 1956.
Fellow American Orthopsychiatric Association (president 1944), American Psychiatric Association. Member Georgia, South.E. psychiatric societies, American Association on Mental Defiency.
Married second, Ellen J. H. Macduff, 1952.