George Detlor was born on March 5, 1824 to William Van Pelt Detlor and Elizabeth File. Like his father and grandfather George was a shoemaker.  

He married Eleanor Mae Williams and had fourteen children.  Apparently they divorced in 1866 after which George married Mary Jane Pillman and had nine more children.

George died on April 11, 1893 in Frontenac from Cerebral Softening.