HILSINGER, George E. 1874-1927

HILSINGER, SCARBOROUGH

Posted By: Errin Wilker
Date: 7/27/2014 at 14:11:59

George E. Hilsinger was born in Sabula, Iowa, March 14, 1974, and died in a hospital in Chicago, December 2, 1927. Burial was at Sabula. His parents were John and Mary (Scarborough) Hilsinger. He was graduated from Sabula High School, from Grinnell College in 1894, and from the law department of the State University of Iowa in 1898. He was elected representative in 1899, and was re-elected in 1901, serving in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth general assemblies, and was elected senator in 1912, and served in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth general assemblies. Besides practicing law in Sabula he became president of the J. Hilsinger & Son Bank in 1906. He was also city attorney of Sabula at the time of his death.

Source: Annals of Iowa, Third Series, Vol. XVI, No. 7, January 1929, Pg. 558.