GEORGE.   T. E.  
                        Lake Charles, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 156.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

T. E. George. Lake Charles. - T.E. George, of the firm of George & Swift, was
born in Springfield, Limestone county, Texas, October 18, 1859.   He is the son
of Edgar B. George and Susan Aurelia Sorrelle, natives of Mississippi and
Pennsylvania, respectively.  Edgar B. George was admitted to the bar at Mobile,
Alabama, and later in life moved to Marshall, Texas, at which
place he pursued his vocation with marked success.  He subsequently located in
Springfield, and through an unfortunate accident met his death in 1859.
The subject of this sketch after reaching the age of ten had no advantages of
school, and his success later in life is to be attributed solely to his own
exertions.   When fouteen he began work in the saw-mills of Orange, Texas, where
he remainded from 1872 t 1883.  In 1885 he moved to Lake Charles and formed a
partnership with D. R. Swift, at which place they engaged in the livery
business on a small scale, opening in connection there with a blacksmith shop
and their present large business is the outgrowth of this humble beginning.  Mr.
George is a thoroughly progressive citizen, and is never found wanting in
anything that tends to the material advantage of his section. 
He has served two terms as member of the city council.  In 1883 he married Miss
Mollie E. Price, of Calvert, Texas.  The mother of our subject still resides in
Orange, Texas.