Bios: JAMES A. GEORGE, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      JAMES A. GEORGE,
  
  [p. 893] who is foreman of the hot mill department of the plant of the
  United States Steel Company, at New Castle, was born at Leechburg,
  Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1864. There he was reared
  and educated.
  
  When Mr. George started out to choose an occupation, he decided to
  become a mill worker in metal, and began as a sheet-iron worker with
  Kirkpatrick & Company, and later learned the trade of tin mill worker.
  He is one of the few Americans found who are experts in this line of
  work, the foreign element generally prevailing on account of the great
  endurance that is required. In 1894 Mr. George came to New Castle and
  entered the employ of the New Castle Steel and Tin Plate Company, which
  was afterward absorbed by the United State Steel Company, which about
  the same time took over also the Shenango Tin Plate Mill, and Mr. George
  was transferred at this time. Until within the past six years Mr. George
  was employed at rolling work, but since May, 1902, he has been foreman
  of the hot mill department, Shenango works, the responsibility attached
  to this position being only understood by mill workers. Mr. George is a
  man of ample means, being a director in the New Castle Building and Loan
  Company, and a director in the Union National Bank, and a stockholder in
  the Cash Buyers' Mercantile Company. He has served three terms in the
  city council, where his practical ideas on public matters received
  attention, and he takes an active interest in politics.
  
  On December 25, 1889, Mr. George was married to Miss Frances Miller, of
  Westmoreland County, and they have two sons: J. Clare and Raymond M. Mr.
  and Mrs. George are members of the Central Presbyterian Church. Formerly
  he belonged to the Amalgamated Association, joining the organization in
  1882, with which he remained connected until 1902.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 23 Jan 2002