George Howard Earle, Jr.
George H. Earle, Jr. was a Philadelphia lawyer and financial diplomat who was highly sought after to save ailing corporations from financial ruin.
Earle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Grandson of noted abolitionist and philanthropist, Thomas Earle, and only son to Philadelphia lawyer George H. Earle, Sr. and Mrs. Frances Van Leer Earle, he gained notoriety for his abilities as a business doctorhaving turned around many organizations from the brink of financial ruin after being appointed as receiver and reorganizer. A Harvard University graduate , Earle became a member of the Philadelphia barfollowing in his fathers and grandfathers footstepspracticing his trade as a lawyer in the firm of Earle amp White in Philadelphia. But Earle would soon forsake the practice of law save as a useful medicament to be employed in the cure of invalid companies, and as a study for the little indoor leisure that business leaves him. He would be appointed as president and director to nearly two dozen Philadelphia companies and corporations. Mr. Earle married Catharine H. French onDecember 1881, two years after he graduated from Harvard.
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