Biography

08/17/1872 - 10/22/1949

STEVENSON, George W., a Representative from Jefferson County; born, August 17, 1872 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, Williamsport High School; attended, Williamsport Commercial College; employed, J.G. Erig Cracker and Cake bakery; employed, railroad industry; engaged in the fire insurance business; elected, assessor, school director and tax collector, Punxsutawney; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1918 and 1920; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1922); died, October 22, 1949 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.