George Raw 1834-1885

RAW, SIMPSON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 10/29/2015 at 16:20:40

GEORGE RAW, farmer, Sec. 21 ; P.O. Farley; born in Yorkshire, England, Sept. 27, 1834; came to America in 1855, and, after stopping a year at Shellsburg, Wis., to Dubuque Co. in 1856; his first seven years in the county were employed in mining, which occupation he had previously pursued in Wisconsin and in England; the last seventeen years he has been a farmer, and has every reason to feel gratified at his success, the result of his own efforts, as he came to the county a poor man; he has 180 acres of fine land, with good improvements, and all that is requisite to make what he evidently enjoys- a happy home.Religion, Methodist; politics, Republican. Mr. R. was married in 1860 to Miss Margaret R. Simpson, of Dubuque; they have four children living- Isabella, George T., Bertha Hope, Myra Myrtle; five have died- Mary A., Ellen, John R., Martha C. and Elsie M.

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