BIO: George B. WESTBROOK, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 231. __________________________________________________________ GEORGE B. WESTBROOK Huntingdon, Pa. Train Service: Born at Huntingdon, Pa., on Washington's Birthday, February 22, 1862. A son of Thomas Westbrook, who ran a packet boat from Philadelphia to Hollidaysburg, Pa.; was a yardmaster for forty-two years; died May 5, 1898, at the age of seventy-seven years. George B. Westbrook was educated in the Second Ward school of Huntingdon, Pa. He was a road conductor for the H.& B.T.R.R. At the present time is a lamp man; looks after switch lights; has given the company a service of eleven years. He was with the Penna. R.R. as yard conductor for twenty-two years. During the World War was a watchman wit the Penna. R.R. at No. 5 Bridge, at Union Furnace; also at Newton Hamilton, Pa. He is a Democrat. Has four brothers deceased, John, Frank, James and William. Three sisters deceased, Mary , Annie and Clara; one sister living, Maggie, married to Robert Sampson; he is deceased; he owned three farms in Montrose, Colorado. George B. Westbrook married Annie J. Elder; they have one daughter, Edith, a graduate of the Huntingdon High School; now a trained nurse at Atlantic City, N.J. Three sons: Frank is a World War veteran; was among the eleven hundred men that W. W. Atterbury, President of the Penna. R.R., had charge of: they constituted an Engineering Corps; George, a civil engineer; graduated from Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, Pa.; is a representative of the Gulf Refining Company, of Fort Worth, Texas; he married Jean Bert; Paul is a passenger brakeman, Penna. R.R.; he married Rachel Smucker. George B. Westbrook remarried to Luanna Carmon, a daughter of Henry Carmon, who died in 1924; her mother died when she was two and one-half years old.