Sacramento County
Biographies
ARTHUR
GEORGE
ARTHUR GEORGE.--Well-known as an industrious and worthy citizen and as a successful orchardist, Arthur George has been located since 1914 on a tract of thirty acres in Del Paso Heights, known as the Oak Knoll section, where, in partnership with a brother and four sisters, he has developed a fine orchard. He was born in Dawson, W. Va., December 18, 1878, the sixth of eleven children born to John A and Elizabeth George, also natives of West Virginia, of Scottish descent.
Arthur George received his early education in the public schools of West Virginia and at the age of twenty left home and went to Richmond, Va., where he entered business college, and after completing the course, took up duties as a stenographer for a wholesale company, where he worked for a year; then he took a better position with another wholesale company, where he remained for twelve years. During this time he visited his brother and sisters in California.
Later he became assistant manager of the wholesale grocery company, a position he occupied until 1920, when he again returned to California to remain permanently, and he now acts as manager of the orchard property and is joint owner with his brother Clarence T. and his sisters, Maude V., Norma C., Clarice T. and Helen. Mr. George is a member of the farm bureau of his locality and Clarence T. is a member of the Del Paso Improvement Club. For the past fifteen years, Mr. George has been a member of the B. P. O. Elks of Hinton, W. Va., and in politics he is a Democrat.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 944.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.