RALPH R. METZGER., attorney-at-law, was born in Allentown, in the year 1870. He was educated in a private school and in Muhlenberg College from which he was graduated in 1888. He read law in the offices of his father and in Jan. 1892, was admitted to practice before the Lehigh county courts and in 1894 was admitted to practice before the State Supreme Court. Mr. Metzger is prominent socially, being a member of the various Masonic bodies of Allentown and Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.. of Reading; the Livingston Club and the Lchigh County Historical Society. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Longenecker, a daughter of the late Hon. Henry C. Longenecker, whose full sketch appears elsewhere in this volume.