249 West Walnut Street Lancaster, PA

249 West Walnut Street Lancaster, PA

No president ever slept in this miniscule house. But this house was home to the family of barber George Leonard Wiley (1870-1923). George was born here in Lancaster. He was the son of Sarah (Bowman) Wiley and printer Charles W. Wiley, who was a pressroom foreman at the Inquirer newspaper.
The barber George and his wife Carrie only had two children, so this little brick house was big enough. They had five grandchildren. George apparently wasn't very active with social organizations or a church. But he was a member of Friendship Circle Number 73. George and Carrie were living in this house when George passed away in 1923, at age 52. The house was built ca 1830s.