Spain, Gorge W.

SPAIN, COX

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 12:16:28

SPAIN, George W.
Physician and surgeon; Lynnville; born in Champaign CO., Ohio, Jun 17, 1836; attended school in Marysville, Marion Co., Ohio, and came to Iowa with parents in 1854; they settled near Peoria, Mahaska Co.; here he engaged in farming for a number of years, but eventually started a drug store in Hartford, Warren Co., Iowa, which he continued for eight months; he then studied medicine three years with Dr. WOODWORTH, of Peoria, and attended lectures at Keokuk Iowa State University of which he was a graduate in the Spring of 1865; he then practiced a short time in Granville, Mahaska Co., but in 1866, he moved to this town, where he has since resided. Married Amanda A. COX in this town in 1869; she is a native of Indiana; their children are Anna F. and George E. ~ "Lynn Grove Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)