Bios: Surnames G-I: History of Luzerne County, by H.C. Bradsby, 1893

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>From History of Luzerne County, Pa., by H.C. Bradsby, 1893
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HILBERT, GEORGE 

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GEORGE HILBERT, merchant, Fairview township, P.O. Mountain Top, was born in
Germany, April 11, 1854, and is a son of Anthony and Orsaula (Koldenbach)
Hilbert.  George, the subject of our sketch, is the youngest in a family of
four children, and came to this country with his parents when he was four
years old, settling in White Haven, where the father died when George was
eight years old.  George attended the common schools until he was thirteen
years old, when he secured employment in the sawmill at White Haven, where
he worked until he was seventeen years old; he then went to work as a
brakeman on the Lehigh Valley Railorad, which occupation he followed for
three years.  He gave this up to accept a postion as clerk in the store of
R.P. Schoonover at Fairview, and though the same store changed hands three
different times in the the next fourteen years, Mr. Hilbert purchased the
stock in the store, and is still its proprietor, having made it a general
store.  In 1890 he secured the appointment as postmaster of Mountain Top,
having the office in his store building.  Mr. Hilbert was united in
marriage June 30, 1875, with Alice, daughter of Morris and Jane (Carey)
Bush, both natives of America.  Mr. and Mrs. Hilbert have three children:
George M., who works in the store with his father, and Elizabeth J. and
Nora B., who attend school.  Mr. and Mrs. Hlbert with the family are
regular attendants, though not members, of the M.E. Church.  In politics
Mr. Hilbert is a Republican, and is a member of Council No. 402, Royal
Arcanum, Mountain Top.

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