BIO: George P. WIESTLING, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 337.
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  WIESTLING, GEORGE P., son of Dr. Samuel Christopher, was born May 4, 
1808, in Paxtang, now Susquehanna township, Dauphin county, Pa., and 
died May 31, 1883, at Harrisburg, Pa.  He was educated in the schools 
of the borough and the Harrisburg Academy.  He learned the art of 
printing with his brother, John S. Wiestling, who edited and published 
the Pennsylvania Intelligencer.  He afterwards worked as a compositor 
in the different newspaper offices at the State capital.  About the 
year 1842 he established himself in the wood and coal trade, in which 
he continued down through life, being one of the first to engage in it.  
For a period of fifty years he was leader of the Reformed church choir.  
Having a love for music, and being endowed with fine talents in that 
direction, he took special delight in their cultivation.  He was an 
active member of the church with which he so long identified himself as 
its musical leader, and for forty-four years an elder.  He was faithful 
to every trust, honest and upright in all his dealings with the world, 
earnest and sincere in every good work, and his memory will remain 
green in the hearts of those who honor him.  Mr. Wiestling married 
Margaret Berryhill, daughter of Samuel Berryhill.