George Baird Getty was born on October 7, 1867 in Helena Township, Antrim County, Michigan. He was the second child of William, Sr and Adeline (Baird) Getty. 

On October 30, 1893, he married Clara B. Cronin in Kalkaska and they had one child before divorcing.

1. Clarence Getty

George served in the 34th Michigan Regiment during the Spanish American War in 1898 in the Philippines. He was a cornetist in a military band.

After the war, he married Alice Alma Rattray who was from Grand Rapids, Michigan. After their marriage, they moved to Puyallup, Washington and lived for a while with his brother, William John Getty, Jr. George was employed as a bookkeeper for the Orillia Lumber Company in Orillia, Washington for a few  years.

They had three children:

1. Dorothy Mae Getty (1906- )

2. William John Getty III (March 3, 1912 - )

3. Winifred Jean Getty (March 3, 1912 - )

George died on September 21, 1939 in Tacoma Pierce, King County, Washington. He was accidentally asphyxiated by leaking "illuminating gas".

Light gas is a gas mixture that was used in the past to illuminate public spaces, homes and other places before the invention of electric lighting technology.