BIOGRAPHY: George R. GLASS, M.D., Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 226
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GEORGE R. GLASS, M.D., A rising physician and surgeon of Portage, this county, 
was born in Ennisville, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1867. At an 
early age he was thrown on his own resources, and being both ambitious and 
energetic, determined to secure for himself a liberal education. He received his 
early instruction in the Stone Valley academy, and on leaving this school taught 
for four terms. He then entered a business college at Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1887. Having decided upon the 
profession of medicine as a life vocation, and lacking the means with which to 
pursue a professional education, he became a salesman of medical supplies, and 
in a year and a half had earned enough money to justify his commencing the 
studies preparatory to his profession. After a year's preparatory study in the 
University of Maryland, he matriculated in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1891. On June 1, 
1891, he located in Portage, this county, and entered upon the practice of the 
profession for which he had been making such thorough preparation.
     He is an indefatigable student, and as a practitioner is careful, patient, 
and painstaking, as is evidenced by his large and successful practice. He is 
progressive, and is deeply interested in all that promotes progress in medical 
science; is a member of the State Medical society, and of the Cambria County 
Medical association. In September, 1892, he was appointed railroad surgeon for 
the Pennsylvania Railroad company, from Gallitzin to Johnstown, and still serves 
in that capacity.
     Fraternally, he is identified with the Ebensburg Lodge, No. 312, F. and 
A.M., in which he has reached the degree of Past Master. He helped to organize 
the South Fork Lodge, No. 838, I.O.O.F., and is a member of the Improved Order 
of Heptasophs.