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- George C. Reeser attended the elementary and high schools of Watsontown. His first position was with the Watsontown Planing Mill Company, in whose employ he remained until the mill was burned, in 1899. He had been engaged in contracting, and when the firm reorganized, as a stock company, the same year, he became a stockholder and director, the business being from that time carried on under the name of the Watsontown Door and Sash Company. Mr. Reeser is still engaged in contracting at this mill, where about ninety skilled workmen are employed. In 1904 the plant was again destroyed by fire, the buildings being a total loss on that occasion, but they have been replaced by substantial structures and the plant is a large and well equipped establishment. The company enjoys a large trade in the leading cities of the East. Mr. Reeser has other large interests, being a stockholder in the Watsontown Brick, Clay & Produce Company, of which he was one of the original promoters. He is one of the most substantial business men of the borough, where he has gained high standing by uprightness and integrity in all his transactions. He has initiative and ability, and has made a success by the most honorable methods. Mr. Reeser has no special political affiliations, voting independently. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and socially belongs to the Royal Arcanum and the Jr. O.U.A.M. In 1887 Mr. Reeser married Margaret E. Crawford, daughter of Jacob and Emily (Guffy) Crawford and granddaughter of Elijah Crawford. Jacob Crawford, her great-grandfather, was a native of Montour county, Pa., and married a Miss Shirk, from England. They had three sons, Elijah, Kim, and Charles.
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1863 - 1930 (67 years)
