Columbia-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....ELWELL, George Edward 1848 - living in 1899
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    GEORGE EDWARD ELWELL, who since 1893 has been sole owner and proprietor of The
  Columbian, the oldest paper published in Columbia County, is a gentleman of high
  intellectual attainments and through the medium of his paper has materially
  assisted in promoting all of the worthy enterprises and undertakings which have
  made the town of Bloomsburg what it is at the present time. He is a son of Judge
  William Elwell, the subject of the foregoing sketch, and was born in Towanda,
  Pa., October 16, 1848. His early mental training was obtained in the Susquehanna
  Collegiate Institute of Towanda, at George R. Barker's preparatory school at
  Philadelphia, and in the Bloomsburg Literary Institute. He then took a complete
  course of study in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and was graduated in 1870,
  after which he was appointed assistant principal of the Fifth Street School in
  Bloomsburg, Pa., in which capacity he served until January, 1871. Being elected
  a member of the faculty of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal
  School, he became professor of English literature, French and German, and was
  instructor in these subjects until July, 1873. He then pursued the study of law
  with his father and in the office of C. B. Brockway, Esq., and was admitted to
  the bar September 4, 1874, upon the same day forming a partnership with Mr.
  Brockway under the firm name of Brockway & Elwell. They enjoyed a very
  successful practice. On October 1, 1875, they entered the field of journalism,
  purchasing The Columbian. This publication they edited together until October 1,
  1879, when J. K. Bittenbender succeeded to Mr. Brockway's interest, and on
  February 23, 1893, our subject became the sole owner and has since conducted the
  journal alone. "The Columbian," a large three-story brick building on Main
  street, is the largest and oldest printing establishment in its section of the
  state. Democratic in politics, the newspaper's influence makes it a controlling
  factor in the affairs of the party throughout the district. At present Mr.
  Elwell is not engaged in the practice of law but devotes his entire time to
  editing the paper and looking after his private business.
  
    On October 26, 1876, Mr. Elwell was united in marriage to Mary A. McKelvy, a
  daughter of I. W. McKelvy of Bloomsburg, and they have one son, George Edward,
  Jr., who was born April 19, 1886. Mr. Elwell is a member of the board of
  trustees of the Bloomsburg State Normal School; is a director of the Industrial
  Building & Loan Association; formerly was a director of the Bloomsburg Gas
  Company, and the Bloomsburg Water Company; and was vice-president of the Board
  of Trade. Politically he is a Democrat, served several years as a member of the
  Democratic State Central Committee, and served four years as a member of the
  town council of the borough. In religious attachments he is a member of St.
  Paul's Episcopal Church, and has always been active in the church work. He has
  been a vestryman for more than twenty years and a deputy to the diocesan
  convention a greater part of that period. He also has had charge of the music of
  the church as organist and choirmaster for thirty years. In 1874 with the
  assistance of the rector, Rev. John Hewitt, he succeeded in raising $1,200, with
  which a pipe organ was purchased. In 1897 he assisted in raising subscriptions
  amounting to $3,000, with the assistance of several church guilds, for the
  purchase of a new organ, which was placed in the church in time for the Easter
  services of 1898.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
  
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