Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a37.
 
HARRY St. GEORGE

     is proprietor of the St. George hotel, Pomeroy, W. T.  Henry St. George,
his father, came from England to the United States in 1840.  He afterwards sent
back for Henrietta Bauman, whom he married upon her arrival in this country.
Their son Harry was born in New York City, November 15, 1850. He attended school
in that city until seventeen years of age, and then clerked and kept books for
six years in Springfield, Mass., and in Hartford, Union City, and Portland, Ind.
 He returned to New York, and in 1873 enlisted in the regular army, being
annexed to the 2d Infantry. He was stationed in the Southern States and on the
Gulf of Mexico; was in New Orleans during the election troubles in 1876; came to
Idaho during the Nez Perce war in 1877; received his discharge at Fort Lapwai in
December, 1877.  He remained in this country engaged in various pursuits,
spending considerable time in the Idaho mines. He came to Pomeroy and tools
charge of the Pomeroy hotel, now the St. George, September 1, 1881.  September
8, 1881, he married Martha J. Pomeroy.  The house has been enlarged and
furnished the past summer at considerable expense. There are now thirty-six
rooms and a large dining hall. A view of this hotel is given in this book. Also
a view of the block in which it stands, from another point.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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