George A. Beerbower

BEERBOWER, WOLGAMOTT

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 00:01:46

Beerbower, G. A., Lincoln twp.; farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Winterset; born in Maryland in 1817; he removed to Ohio, where he lived ten years, and in 1852, he removed from Holmes county, Ohio, to this county; he came with his own team, and was thirty days on the road; he owns 200 acres of land; has held the offices of county supervisor, township trustee, etc.; he married Miss Margaret V. Wolgamott in May, 1842; she was born in Washington county, Maryland; has seven children living: Albert, Helen, George, Charles O., Judd, Jessie and Freddie; one daughter, Cornelia, died in 1854, aged six years; one son, Andrew, enlisted in the Twenty-third Iowa infantry, and was killed at the ever memorable battle of Milliken's Bend, June 7, being his birthday, being at the very hour of his birth.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 615