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- [S1] Newspaper Clipping, 17 Dec 1924, Daily Local News.
George Matson
At The Chester County Hospital this morning at 2.18 o'clock, George Matson, an esteemed resident of West Chester, passed away after a lingering illness. He had been an invalid for the past two years, and during the recent five weeks suffered from uraemic poisoning. On Saturday last he was taken to the hospital, where he sustained a paralytic stroke, from which he never rallied.
He was a son of Wesley and Edith Matson and was born near Chadds Ford, but spent the greater part of his life in tis borough, where he followed the vocation of house painting, and added to the beauty and durability of most of the prominent homes and public buildings in town.
In other lines of work also he was skillled and excelled as a wood carver, having in his home a number of handsome pieces he had made.
He built his house, at the corner of Linden and Walnut streets where Dr. Francis Harvey Green lived, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Freeland S. Brown, and later he built the one at No. 704 South Walnut street, where of late he had been residing.
He is remembered as a man of gnetle manner and upright character and haivng many friends.
Hew was twice married, his first wife having been Mary Reynolds, a sister G. Reynolds, of this borough. His second wife, who survives him, was formerly Mary Hood, of near King of Prussia.
One brother is living, William G. Matson, proofreader on the Daily Local News, and there is also one sister, Miss Anna R. Matson, who lives at 706 South Walnut street. The three lived a few doors from one another, all on the same street.
- [S1] Newspaper Clipping, 5/23184, Daily Village Record.
MATSON - REYNOLDS - On May 22, 1884, at the residence of the bride's mother, by Rev. B. T. ones, George Matson, of Elam, Delaware county, to Marie C. Reynolds, of Kennett Square.
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1855 - 1924 (69 years)
