Full of Maryland pride, and with not much in the way of resources except aristocratic tendencies, George worked his way through a Maryland college and was graduated at the head of his class at the age of eighteen. His family traditions were always with him, and in spite of lack of much in the way of earthly goods, he worked his way and was always a gentleman. He exhibited a measure of southern arrogance, as some people called it, but it was not that. While his manner might suggest it, the fact was it was simply an inborn sense of honesty of purpose, integrity of character and respectability,

which gave him that appearance. When one came to know him they found instead of arrogance, the utmost geniality. He made few intimate friends, but such as he did make were firm friends. He came to Nebraska in 1875, and for the greater part of a year taught school at Plattsmouth in Cass county, studying law during unoccupied hours. In 1876 he removed from Plattsmouth to Omaha, where, notwithstanding he had not had much experience in that line, he secured a position as bookkeeper in the firm of Creighton & Morgan. This position he filled acceptably for nearly a year. What wras the firm of Creighton & Morgan is now the Paxton & Gallagher wholesale house in Omaha. During the latter part of 1876 he returned to Maryland, studied law for several months and was admitted to the bar of Maryland.

He returned to Omaha in the early spring of 1878 and entered as a clerk in the office of Thomas W. T. Richards, who during the Civil War had been a captain in the Confederate army under Mosby. Mr. Congdon, senior member of the law firm above referred to, of which Mr.