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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

GASTON PERCY GEORGE.
    Gaston Percy George, lawyer and banker of Hamburg, was born here on the 25th
of March, 1873, a son of G. P. and Joan George, both of whom are deceased. On
the paternal side he is descended from Scotch-Irish ancestry and he is English
on the maternal side. The paternal grandfather, Hosea George, came to Ashley
county in 1840, and was one of the pioneer settlers here, as was the maternal
great-grandfather, Elias, who came to this state from the northern part of
Louisiana at the close of the Civil war. G. P. George was born in Ashley county
and resided here throughout his life. He enlisted for service in the Civil war
from this state and became a private in the infantry. He engaged in farming near
Hamburg at the close of the war and became one of the prominent agriculturists
in this community. At Farmersville, Louisiana, in 1864, occurred the marriage of
Mr. George to Miss Joan George, a native of that state. Her father, Wash George,
likewise served in the Civil war as private. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. George
ten children were born, two girls and eight boys, Gaston Percy, whose name
initiates this review, being the third in order of birth. Three boys and one
girl are living. Mrs. George died at Hamburg in 1900, in her forty-eighth year.
Mr. George departed this life on the 24th of April, 1909, when sixty-five years
of age.

    In the acquirement of an education Gaston Percy George attended the public
schools of Hamburg and later enrolled in the Southern Normal University, at
Huntington, Tennessee, where he took a three-year literary course. Determining
upon a professional career, Mr. George then returned to Hamhurg and entered the
law office of R. E. Craig. In 1898 he was admitted to the bar and immediately
started into active practice. He has built up an extensive and important
clientage and practicing in all courts in southern Arkansas, has won a place
among the foremost lawyers in the state. In 1917 he was elected to attend the
constitutional convention as a delegate from the seventh congressional district
and he was presidential elector from that district on the Wilson-Marshall ticket
in 1916. In addition to his legal and political activity, Mr. George is also
prominent in financial circles, being president of the Farmers Bank & Trust
Company of Hamburg and a director in the Fountain Hill Bank, at Fountain Hill.

    At Hamburg on the 7th of January, 1907, was celebrated the marriage of Mr.
George to Miss Abbie Wilson, a daughter of A. H. and EWza (Thompson) Wilson. Her
parents were among the pioneer settlers of this community and are representative
and highly respected citizens. Mrs. George has made many friends in Hamburg,
most of whom have known her from childhood, and she is prominent in the club and
social affairs of the town.

    Both Mr. and Mrs. George are consistent members of the Methodist church and
he is a trustee, in which position he has been active for some years.
Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, holding membership in Prairie
Lodge, No. 465, at Hamburg; Olive Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Masons; Albert Pike
Consistory at Little Rock; and Sahara Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Pine Bluff.
He is a Scottish Rite Mason. In the line of his profession he is identified with
the American and Arkansas State Bar Associations, and as a citizen who has the
good of the community ever at heart, he is a member of various bodies whose
object is the development and improvement of the general welfare. During the
World war Mr. George gave generously cf his time and money in promoting the
government's interests and he received recognition from Washington, D. C, for
service tendered in behalf of raising money in Liberty Loan drives and various
other war activities. He is readily conceded to be one of the influential and
highly respected citizens of Hamburg and this community is proud to claim him as
a native son.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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