page_title: George E. Matthews
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: George E. Matthews / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Falconwood Club House, Grand Island.
context_page_description: George E. Matthews was president of the "J. N. Matthews Co.," which published the Buffalo Courier-Express. At the time of his death, Matthews owned the Falconwood Club in Grand Island, New York.
context_section_description: On July 12, 1887, Matthews married Mary Elizabeth Burrows of Buffalo. Together they had three children: George E. Matthews, Jr.; Harriet Wells Matthews, who married J. Randall Williams, Jr. of "J. Randall Williams & Co." in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Northern Central Railway; and Burrows Matthews, publisher of the Buffalo Express and later Buffalo Courier-Express from 1911–1955 upon its consolidation.
  Although Williams did not hold elected office, he was a friend and supporter of President William McKinley and was a delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention. He was appointed by Governor Frank W. Higgins to membership in the McKinley Monument Commission, which erected a memorial in Buffalo to McKinley, who had been assassinated at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.  Matthews was a member of many clubs and organizations, including: 
  The Buffalo Historical Society
  The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
  The Buffalo Yale Alumni Association (past president)
  Matthews owned a country estate, called "Falconwood," in Grand Island, New York. Falconwood was the former Falconwood Club, built in 1882 and designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, a prominent architect of the time who studied at the first school of architecture in the United States, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
caption: Falconwood - Matthews summer home on Grand Island
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