George Owen Squier was born in Dryden, Michigan on March 21, 1865. He entered the army as a second lieutenant of artillery following his graduation from West Point Military Academy in 1887. He was then stationed at Fort McHenry, Md., during which time he studied physics, chemistry, and mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1893. From 1894 to 1895, he attended the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and from November 1895 to April 1898, he was an instructor in the school. From 1900 to 1902, Squier was commander of the US cable-ship Burnside which laid submarine cables in the Philippine archipelago. He next superintended the construction of telegraph lines in the Philippine Islands. In 1911-1912, he became military attach ̌at the US embassy in London. Research interests included electrochemical effects due to magnetization; the sine wave systems of telegraphy and ocean cabling, and the absorption of electro-magnetic waves by living vegetable organisms. His inventions were primarily in the area of telephony: wireless, multiple, and long-distance. He was also inventor of the monophone for broadcasting over telephone wires.