Brother George Viall Schramm was born in Galesburg, Michigan, August 19, 1867. When four months old his parents removed to Mentor, Ohio, and in 1871 to Onawa, Iowa. Three years later, 1874, the family came to Ogden, this State.

Brother Schramm was educated in the public schools of Ogden. After leaving school, he was employed for several years in the railroad office of that city as Freight Inspector. Later he learned the jewelry business and was a member of the firm of Beghtol and Schramm. In connection with this business, after having made the necessary preparation, he took up the work of an optician and followed this with studies at several eastern institutions, including the Northwestern University, the Washington and Jefferson Medical College, and at St. Louis, completing his studies at San Francisco, in the year of the earthquake, 1906. In the meantime he had moved his family to Salt Lake, and upon his return to this city he began the practice of his profession—that of eye, ear and throat specialist—and continued it with marked success up to the time of his death, which occurred May 28, 1928.
In 1891 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Rowlands, of Sioux City, Iowa, and to them three children were born,

Elizabeth Marie, Clem Sanford and Stephen Rowland Schramm.
He began his Masonic career in 1882, being initiated as E. A., March 17th, passed April 4th, and raised April 28th of the year named, and in Weber Lodge No. 6—the Lodge of which his father was a charter member, the first Junior Warden under charter and later Worshipful Master. On December 27th, 1894, Brother George Schramm began serving his Lodge as Worshipful Master, and he continued in that station two years, and after an intermission of one year, he was re-elected Master, in December, 1897. The records show that the Lodge prospered under his administrations.

In the Grand Lodge he was appointed Junior Grand Steward, January 17th, 1894, elected Senior Grand Warden January 19th, 1898, and Grand Master January, 1900. He was made a Royal Arch Mason in Ogden Chapter No. 2, R. A. M. in 1897; was knighted in El Monte Commandery No. 2, K. T. Ogden, 1899; became a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in El Kalah Temple, April 23rd, 1902, and received the degrees in the A. & A. S. Rite at the fall reunion, 1911.

P. G. M. Schramm was a member of the Salt Lake County Medical Society and of the Utah State Medical Society and of the Salt Lake Rotary club.

Brother Schramm’s health had not been good for some time before his death, but he continued at his work until about two weeks before the end came. He was buried in the family plot in the City Cemetery at Ogden.