*Biographical Sketches - from History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, 1920 
 George D CUSTER, M.D., has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Scio, Harrison Co, since 1892, and has gained secure vantage-ground as one of the able and representative physicians and surgeons of his native county, with the additional prestige of being a scion of one of the prominent pioneer families of this favored section of the Buckeye state. 
 Doctor Custer was born in Washington Twp., Harrison Co., Nov. 10, 1851, and is a son of Robert F. and Margaret (Baker) Custer, the former of whom was born at New Rumley, this county, and the latter near the village of Tippecanoe, same county, she having been a daughter of George and Jane (Birney) Baker and her father having been one of the sterling pioneers of Washington Twp., where he and his wife continued to reside until their death. Mr. and Mrs. Baker were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they reared their eight children, namely; Mary, Elizabeth, Birney, John, Margaret, Sarah and Deborah. 
 Robert F Custer was a son of Jacob and Sarah (Webster) Custer, with whose names shall ever remain pioneer honors in this section of Ohio, the latter been a daughter of William Webster, who came to this part of the state in an very early period. Jacob Custer was born at Jessups, Maryland, where his father emanuel Custer, died when somewhat over 100 years of age. At an early period in the history of Ohio Emanuel Custer made a visit to this state, where he took up a section of government land - a property he later gave to his daughters, his children having been six in number: Jacob (the Harrison County pioneer), John and Emanuel (died in Maryland), Charlotte (Mrs. James Cummings), Susan (Mrs. John Hendricks), and Mary (Mrs. Joseph Cummings). 
 Reared and educated in his native state, Jacob Custer there learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith. He was a young man when he came to Ohio and settled in Rumley Township, Harrison County, where he took up wild land and instituted the development of a farm. He reclaimed his land to cultivation and in the meanwhile continued to follow his trade to a greater or less extent. He was the founder of the village of New Rumley, which he plotted, and after a number of years had passed he removed to Jefferson County, though he eventualy returned to Rumley Township, where he died in the year 1862, when seventy-two years of age, his wife having died in 1830, at the age of thirty-seven years. He was a brother of John Custer, who was the father of Gen. George A Custer, the gallant officer and intrepid Indian fighter who met his death in the historic massacre which perpetuates his name. Jacob and Sarah (Webster) Custer became the parents of eight children: William Webster M D, was for nearly half a century engaged at the practice of his profession at Scio, Harrison County, and his nephew, Dr George D Custer, of this sketch, became his virtual successor; Alexander died at the age of four years; Stewart F was a resident of Conotton, Harrison Co., at the time of his death; John M and Henry L established their home in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Robert F became a merchant at Scio, Harrison Co.; Isaac N became a representative dental practitioner at Westerville, Franklin Co.; Vincent died at the age of seven months. Jacob Custer and his wife were devout communicants of the Lutheran Church and he was one of the founders of the New Rumley Church of that denomination. 
 Robert F Custer was for some time engaged in the mercantile business at Perrysville, Carroll Co., and in 1874 he established at Scio, Harrison Co., the general merchandise business which continued to engage his attention during the remainder of his active career, his death having occurred on the 5th of January, 1909, and his wife having preceded him to the eternal rest. Both were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the four children Dr George D, of this review, is the eldest; Sarah J was the wife of Dr G M Weller and later Joseph Phillips; Mary Belle died in childhood; and Rev. Addison R., a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, resides in the city of Dayton, Ohio. 
 Dr. George D. Custer gained his preliminary education in the public schools of Perrysville, Carroll Co., and Scio, Harrison Co., in which later village he attended Scio College. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered Columbus Medical Colege, in the capital city of his native state, and there he continued his studies two years. He completed his technical course in the celebrated Starling Medical University of Ohio, now the medical department of the University of Ohio, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1879. In 1880, after thus recieving his degree of Doctor of Medicine, he entered upon his professional motivate at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas Co., where he developed a good practice and where he remained until 1892, since which year he has continued in active general practice at Scio, with a business whose scope and importance attest alike his professional ability and zeal and his secure hold upon popular confidence and esteem. In 1902 he opened a well equipped drug store, which he has since conducted in connection with his professional work. The Doctor is affiliated with the Harrison County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He has had neither time nor inclination for special political activity, but is a staunch supporter of the principals of the republican party and is loyal and progressive as a citizen. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church of their home village and he has served twenty years as a member of it's board of trustees. 
 On the 10th of September 1871, was solomnized the marriage of Doctor Custer to Miss Jennie C. Kirby, who was born and reared in Carroll County, and who is a daughter of John and Sarah Kirby. Doctor and Mrs. Custer have two children: Earle E. is the wife of Ross R Mortland, of Scio, Ohio, and they have two children, Paul Custer and George A,; Layke K., now a resident of the city of Detroit, Michigan, married Miss Anna Dickey and their one child is living. A daughter, Lillian Earle, died, aged one year; a son, George D., named in honor of his paternal grandfather.