BIOGRAPHY: George McClellan THOMAS, 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 505.

  GEORGE McCLELLAN THOMAS, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in West 
Market street, Lewistown, January 3, 1863, son of James M. and Angelina (Stahle) 
Thomas.  The Thomas family is of Huguenot ancestry.  James M. Thomas has resided 
during the greater part of his life in Lewistown.  He was for about five years 
proprietor of the Miller House;  for a short time, he kept the National Hotel, 
opposite the court house.  The parents of Mrs. J. M. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. John 
Stahle, were of German descent.  The children of James M. Thomas and his wife 
are:  Valeria J. (Mrs. W. H. T. Rider), of Lewistown, has three children;  
Matilda (Mrs. Benjamin Pawling), had one child, and died at about twenty years 
of age;  James B., married Emma Baker, has three children;  William H., died in 
early childhood;  Harry H., married Matilda Soles, has three children, resides 
in Harrisburg, Pa.;  Andrew M., of New Britain, Conn., married, and has four 
children;  George M.;  Eclarias, married, and resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.;  Mary 
B. (Mrs. Joseph M. Patton), has one child, her husband died in Philadelphia;  
and Ida M. (Mrs. Harry Hoffa), of Brooklyn, N. Y., has three children.  Mr. and 
Mrs. James M. Thomas still reside in Lewistown.
  George McC. Thomas attended the common schools at Lewistown, but enjoyed only 
rather limited opportunities, as he began to earn his own living at the age of 
seventeen.  He was first employed for general services on the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, and being found willing and industrious, soon obtained the position of 
car inspector, other promotions following in due course of time.  In the autumn 
of 1888, he was made locomotive engineer, and has ever since satisfactorily 
filled that position.  His run is between Lewistown and Sunbury, Pa.  Mr. Thomas 
resides on West Water street, in a comfortable and inviting home.  He is a 
member in good standing of Lodge No. 97, I. O. O. F., at Lewistown;  and of the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.  He is also the leader and manager of the 
Lewistown Silver Cornet Band.  He is a Democrat.
  George McClellan Thomas was married May 20, 1886, to Rebecca M., daughter of 
John S. and Martha (Middlesworth) Smith.  Their children are:  Charles M.;  and 
George McClellan, Jr.  John S. Smith is one of a large family, the sons and 
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith.  Mrs. Thomas' maternal grandfather, New 
Middlesworth, of Snyder county, Pa., represented his district for a number of 
terms in Congress.  Mrs. Thomas and his family attend the Lutheran church.