TY - SER KW - George Washington (1732-99) KW - Colonial America AU - George William Gerwig AB - A novelized partial biography of George Washington. C1 - 1732-58 C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Turtle Creek (tributary); Pittsburgh; Downtown; Ft. Duquesne; Lawrenceville; Fayette County; Wharton Twp.; Ft. Necessity C4 - Biographical; Historical; War CY - New York, Chicago, and Boston LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - A novelized partial biography of George Washington. PB - Charles Scribner’s Sons PP - New York, Chicago, and Boston PY - 1923 RN - George William Gerwig (1867-1950), born in Paris, France to Pittsburgh parents, attended the University of Nebraska and earned his Ph.D. from the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh). The longtime secretary of the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education, Gerwig reportedly bid his college friend, Willa Cather, to come to Pittsburgh to teach English at Allegheny High School. EP - 144 p. TI - Washington, the Young Leader ER -