GEORGE W. SHRIVER

SHRIVER, ELLENBURGER

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 16:09:51

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

GEORGE W. SHRIVER, farmer; born in Armstrong Co., Penn., 1817; moved to Van Buren Co., Iowa, in 1856, and located in this county in 1874. Married Elizabeth Ellenburger in 1844; she was born in the same county and state in 1820; have ten children - Thomas, Charles, An drew, James, Addison, Joseph, Elizabeth, Sarah, Emma and Ida. They are Presbyterians; he is Republican. Thomas and Charles enlisted by permit from their father, they being under age, in the 15th Iowa Vols., 1861 - the former re-enlisted as veteran; mustered out at close of the war; the latter served the full term of his enlistment. He owns a good home and ten acres in the corporation, valued at $5,000.