George L. Townsend memoir, 1970?

George Townsend was born on August 16, 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Thomas Lincoln Townsend and Ella J. Townsend. He married Frances Dew Townsend and they had two children, Mary Ellen and Phyllis Dew Townsend. In the 1930s, Townsend, who was a Quaker, engaged in relief work in Pennsylvania as Director of the Bureau of Transient and Homeless and served on the Pennsylvania State Emergency Relief Board. He was also employed as the Director of Personnel for the National Youth Administration for Pennsylvania.

In 1942, Townsend was recruited for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). He was first sent to the Tule Lake camp on a temporary assignment, moving luggage off the trains that carried Japanese Americans. Townsend arrived at the partly constructed Minidoka camp on July 4th, 1942. He served as the Assistant Project Director in charge of Community Services. He left Minidoka in late 1943 and returned to Pennsylvania. He was, however, asked in 1945 to serve the WRA again in the Seattle office to assist those incarcerated in the resettlement process. He died on November 19, 1975 in California.