BIOGRAPHY: George T. CHILDS, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 495.

  GEORGE T. CHILDS, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Philadelphia 
county, Pa., January 2, 1841, son of Nathan and Catherine (Souder) Childs.  His 
paternal grandparents were Thomas and Susan (Grubb) Childs, who had four 
children:  Nathan;  Joseph;  John;  and Anna.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Nathan Childs are:  Susan (Mrs. William Waters);  George T.;  Harriet W.;  
Elwood M., married, has four children;  and Hannah E., died aged about sixteen.  
Both parents are deceased.  During his boyhood, George T. Childs attended the 
schools of Philadelphia county, and assisted his father in farming.  At the age 
of fifteen, he began to earn his own livelihood.  He was eighteen when he was 
first employed in the grocery of Samuel Beidler, who about two years later 
received the young man into partnership.  This connection lasted about seventeen 
years.  Mr. Beidler retiring from business in 1884, Mr. Childs carried on the 
establishment alone until June 1, 1895, when he removed to Lewistown.  Here he 
has an extensive wholesale grocery, with connections in six counties in the 
valleys of the Susquehanna and Juniata.  He is a member in good standing of 
Northern Liberties Lodge, No. 17, I. O. O. F., and Apollo Lodge, No. 9, K. of 
P., both of Philadelphia.  In politics, he is neutral.
  George T. Childs, was married, January 17, 1867, to Rachel A., daughter of 
Aaron and Margaret (Feaster) Engle.  They have one son, Frank E. Childs, who 
married Margaret W. Freed, and has two children:  Earl Wayne Freed;  and Frank 
Engle.  Mrs. Frank E. Childs is a daughter of Joseph D. and Mary (Fulton) Freed, 
and their only surviving child, two having died young, and one, Jennie, aged 
about forty-five.  The Childs family are members of the Episcopal church.