BIO:  George W. Metzger, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Jackson Township, Pg 119

GEORGE W. METZGER, M. D., son of Solomon and Rebecca (Bower) Metzger, was born in 
Manchester Township, February 8, 1855.  He attended the common schools until 
about thirteen years of age, when he entered the Millersville State Normal 
School, and studied for two years.  In 1874 he commenced reading medicine with 
Dr. J. B. Kain, of Manchester Borough, and was under his instruction for two 
years; he then entered Jefferson College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated 
in 1877.  The spring of that year he began practice in Jackson Township as 
successor to Dr. Christian Picking, and has here been very successful, now owning 
a brick dwelling, with several acres of ground, on the Gettysburgh pike, one and 
one-half miles west of Thomasville.  June 17, 1877, he married Mary Elizabeth, 
daughter of Abraham Yost, and has had born to him by this union:  Alemena K., 
John L., Sallie R. and Lizzie.  The Doctor has been a school director since 1883, 
and he and wife are members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, of West Manchester.