Biography

04/04/1858 - 05/20/1910

STEGMAIER, George John, a Representative from Luzerne County; born, April 4, 1858 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa.; attended, Wyoming Seminary; attended, Saint Vincent College; machinist; collector, C. Stegmaier & Son; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1888; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1890); treasurer, Doran Lace Manufacturing Company; appointed, chief engineer, Wilkes-Barre Fire Department; vice president and director, Stegmaier Brewing Company; director, First National Bank; president, Mercy Hospital; president, Stegmaier Realty Company; director, Susquehanna Brewing Company; director, Fenwick Lumber Company; president, Wilkes-Barre News; elected, treasurer, Wilkes-Barre (1905-1908); appointed, director of the poor, Wilkes-Barre (1908-1910); died, May 20, 1910 in Karlsbad, Austria (now Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Czech Republic); interred, Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.