George W. Timberman

In the record Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings

1. S1391900 U.S. Federal Census — the James H. Timberman household, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry collection 7602, record 47094515, image 4115129_00218. Supervisor's District 6, Enumeration District 159, Ward 5, 2nd Division, sheet 2 B, house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, enumerated 1 June 1900 by John Shadrach. Read from the image at full resolution — 3933 × 3947 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 71–75: James H. Timberman, head, June 1858, age 41, married 14 years, Veterinary Surgeon, born New Jersey of New Jersey parents; Louisa E., wife, June 1863, age 36, 3 children born, 3 living, born Pennsylvania of German parents; James H., son, Oct 1886, At School; George W., son, Feb 1892; Albert, son, Aug 1893. The third independent source for the June 1858 birth. The tree carried 4 January 1858; the 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate [S93] gives June / Fourth / 1858 in longhand, and this census, taken nineteen years earlier while he was alive, gives June 1858 and corroborates itself on the age column — 41 at the 1 June 1900 census date is right for a 4 June birth and would be 42 for a 4 January one. ⚠ The day is not on this page: a 1900 schedule carries month and year and no day, so the fourth is not given here; the 1858 township birth return settles it S374. He is already a Veterinary Surgeon here, nineteen years before the certificate records the same trade — and, as there, the occupation exists only in the image and not in Ancestry's transcription. Ancestry indexes the entire household as "Limberman"; the enumerator's looped capital is a T, and that is a transcription artefact, not a name variant.
2. S1649Obituaries of Dr. J. H. Timberman — Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, 4 June 1919, p. 5, and Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly Record, 6 June 1919, p. 4. Read as machine-read (OCR) text; the page images have not been checked by eye. Born at Alloway, Salem County, New Jersey, 4 June 1858; came to Wilkes-Barre in 1883 after two years’ practice in Philadelphia; trained at the Philadelphia College of Veterinary Medicine; married Louise E. Harbauer in 1885. “Three sons were born to them, James H., Jr., whose death was caused by influenza in January; George W. of Gary, W. Va., and Albert N. of this city.” Albert, a lieutenant of field artillery, had come home from the army of occupation in Germany ten days before. Funeral 5 June from the Washington Apartments; burial at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery. The second paper misprints the birth year as 1958.