GEORGE EDWARD MATTHEWS, son of James Newson Matthews and Harriet E (Wells) Matthews, was born March 17, 1855, in Westfield, N. Y, the home of his mother's parents, but he spent his life in Buffalo, N Y. His father was a native of England, but settled in Buffalo in 1846. He was fitted for college in the Heathcote School in Buffalo and by Rev. Theodore M Bishop, D D , but before entering college spent two years in travel and in acquiring knowledge of the printing business in the office of the Commercial, of which his father was then editor and part owner. During the college vacations he always worked at some branch of the printing trades. The year after graduation his father bought the Express, and the son rose through various grades from clerk to business manager, and was also successively telegraph editor, city editor, and literary editor of the paper. He gained a thorough knowledge of the mechanical and business departments of a printing establishment, and became treasurer of Matthews, Northrup & Co, the printing branch of the business. Upon the death of his father in December, 1888, the ownership of the Express passed to the firm of George E Matthews & Co, and in 1901 this company and the Matthews-Northrup Works were consolidated into the J. N Matthews Co. Of this George E Matthews was president as well as senior editor of the paper. In recent years he had been developing a noiseless typewriter, and organized the company for its manufacture. He was the inventor of the four-color "prismaprint" process used in the Matthews-Northrup Works, and also patented a method of indexing books and other devices. He was at one time interested in the Buffalo Printing Ink Works. For several years he was president of the Buffalo Typothetse, and of the Buffalo Newspaper Publishers' Association.
He was influential in the public interests of Buffalo, notably in connection with the Pan-American Exposition there in 1901 and independent especially in municipal politics. He was active in the organization of the McKinley League in 1896, and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention which nominated Mr McKmley for President. After President McKinley's death he was secretary of the McKmley Monument Commission.
Mr Matthews died of angina pectons at his summer home on Grand Island, near Buffalo, June 11, 1911, after five years of ill health. He was 56 years of age
He married m Buffalo, July 12, 1887, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George Hunt Buirows and Mary Elizabeth (Cook) Burrows, who suivives him with two sons and a daughter The elder son graduated from the Academical Department in 1910.

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