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Wing, George Curtis

lawyer, jurist, was born April 16, 1847, in Livermore, Maine. He was admitted to the bar in 1868. He practiced law for two years at Lisbon Falls and in March, 1870, removed to Auburn where he formed co-partnership with the Hon. Nahum Morrill.

He served on the superintending school committee of Auburn in 1872 and 1873; and was city a solicitor in 1878-87. He was one of the incorporators of the Shoe and Leather bank in 1875, and has been one of its directors ever since. He was elected county attorney for the county of Androscoggin in 1872, and judge of probate in 1875 and 1879, and was appointed judge of probate for the year 1885. He was chairman of the republican state committee in 1884, and in that year was chairman of the republican state delegation to the convention at Chicago. He served on the staffs of Governors Bodwell and Marble. In 1885 he took a prominent part in the formation of the Maine Benefit association, was elected its president and has been re-elected ever since. At the present time he is vice-president of the Auburn Trust company, president of the Auburn board of trade and one of the directors of the Portland and Rumford Falls railway.