George Linton
George E. Linton was a civil engineer and co-author with Virginia Hanson of Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett. He and his wife Dulcie were very active in the Theosophical Society in America branch in Portland, Oregon.
Early years
George Linton was born June 25, 1903 just west of Portland, Oregon, the son of farmer George Linton and his wife Della. By 1920 the family, including older brother Frank, had moved to Corvallis, where the father worked as a carpenter and civil engineer. George Jr. attended Oregon State University in Corvallis, studying civil engineering, and was Major-Adjutant in a student engineers battalion in 1924.[1] His brother Frank studied mining engineering at the same university.
Engineering career
By 1930, Mr. Hanson was working as a civil engineer on a jetty project. He was living in Winchester Bay as a boarder with a local family. [2]
Some time in the 1930s, he married Dorothy Condon, a school teacher. She was known as Dulcie. VERIFY THIS
He used his engineering experience in serving the Theosophical Society, as well. Several times when he visited the Olcott campus in Wheaton, Illinois, he examined the houses and other buildings and wrote recommendations for repair and maintenance.
Theosophical work
Writings
A notable accomplishment was co-writing Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett with Virginia Hanson. They worked together when he visited Wheaton during the years 1962-1975 when she served on the TSA headquarters staff.
He also wrote articles for The American Theosophist. The Union Index to Theosophical Periodicals lists 14 of them under the name George E Linton.
Later years
The Lintons retired to the Taormina community in Ojai, California.[3] George Linton died on January 24, 1997.[4] [5] [6]
Notes
- ↑ Oregon State University yearbook, 1924, page 324.
- ↑ United States Census for 1930.
- ↑ U. S. Public Records Index Volume 2.
- ↑ U. S. Social Security Death Index and Oregon Death Index.
- ↑ Anonymous obituary. Fohat 1.3 (Fall, 1997), 69.
- ↑ Nancy Secrest, obituary "George Linton 1903-1997)", Quest 85.4 (April, 1997), 19.