George Metzger
George Metzger (born November 19, 1782 - died June 10, 1879) was an attorney who served in the Pennsylvania State Legislature.
He was born in Hanover in York County, Pennsylvania. Metzger attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1797 to 1798. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society at Dikinson but he did not complete his studies and instead went to study law, first with an attorney in Lancaster, and then with David Watts of Carlisle.
In 1805, Metzger was admitted to the Cumberland County bar. The following year he was appointed deputy attorney general for Cumberland and Adams Counties, and from 1813 to 1814 Metzger served as a Pennsylvania State Legislator. He also served as a Trustee of Dickinson College from 1825 to 1833.
His will provided that his home, his library, and an initial endowment of $25,000 was to be used to establish a female college in Carlisle. Classes at the Metzger Institute, a College for Women, began in September 1881. Lacking enough money to maintain the school, the trustees closed Metzger Institute in 1913 and leased the buildings, including the four-story Metzger Hall, to Dickinson for housing female students. Funds from the Metzger Trust, ever since, have been donated in support of women's education at Dickinson College.
