George B. Roth was a painter by occupation, and was a member of Allentown council and jury commissioner in 1896. Captain Roth enlisted as a corporal in Company C, Fifth Pennsylvania Militia, and was in the reserve force at the battle of Antietam. He was in an invalided home, but later enlisted in the emergency regiment. For eighteen years he was in the Pennsylvania National Guard, and was a lieutenant in Company D, Fourth Regiment; then the Alien Continentals, from 1869 to 1888, when he became captain, when Colonel Lehr was chosen colonel. He was a past grand of Lehigh Lodge, No. 83, I. O. O. F. and an active member of E. B. Young Post, No. 187. G. A. R. He married, first, Mary Saeger, and second, Louisa E. Issermoyer, born in 1838, died Nov. 11. 1902.