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Obituary of George F. Taylor 1932
Executive of wholesale and retail shoe stores

Article from The Morning Observer newspaper, Washington Co., Pa., Tues., Nov. 22, 1932, p. 2:

SCENERY HILL NATIVE, SHOE EXECUTIVE, DIES - George F. Taylor, Aged 69, Prominent Business Man of Pittsburgh, Was Ill Short Time - Funeral Thursday.- George F. Taylor, aged 69 yeas, of 2939 Brownsville road, Carrick, prominent as an executive in several Pittsburgh wholesale and retail shoe [store ?], died in Mercy Hospital yesterday following a brief illness.

A son of Edward and Rachael McCarty Taylor, he was born at Scenery Hill but had lived in Pittsburgh since he was 13 years old.  He was graduated from Slippery Rock State Teachers' College before he entered the shoe business.

He was interested in the W. J. Crowley Shoe Company and the Newell & Schneider Shoe Company, both of which he was president and director, and the Book Shoe Company, of which he was vice president.

He was a member of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association and {b. ?] P. O. E. Lodge, No. 11.

He leaves two sons, both graduates of W. & J., George F. Jr., deputy secretary of banking in charge of the closed Franklin Savings and Trust Company, the Citizen's Trust Company of Bellevue and other closed state banks, and other closed state banks, and Robert G., who is in the shoe business.  He also leaves a daughter, Margaret [H. ?] Taylor; a sister, Josie [H.? or M.] Taylor, of Lorain, O., and a brother, James E. Taylor, of Tules, Okla.

Funeral services will be held in the late home Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock.  Interment will be in Scenery Hill Cemetery.

 

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