Joslin, George R.

JOSLIN, EGGLESTON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/22/2007 at 00:39:04

Source: Monona County History 1890
Chicago National Pub

George R. Joslin, of the general merchandise firm of Joslin, Eggleston & Son, at Maple Landing, where he also carried on a blacksmith-shop, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 25, 1847, and is the son of Welcome and Mary Joslin. At the age of seven years the family removed to Michigan and three years later to Canada, from which later place, with his parents, our subject came to Monona County. The family arrived here in the spring of 1868, and settled on section 16, Lincoln Township, where our subject remained with his parents, about two years. At the expiration of that time he went to Burt County, Nebraska, and there spent about three years in learning the blacksmith’s trade. Coming back to his father’s farm, he remained upon it about eighteen months, but in the fall of 1873, after the big hail storm which destroyed their crop, he removed to the southern part of the township, and engaged in the rearing of bees. After three years of this business and two years spent on a rented farm, he purchased a tract of land on section 7,84,46, upon which he was engaged in agriculture until the spring of 1884, when selling the farm, he moved to Maple Landing, and bought a blacksmith-shop. This business he still carried on. About the same time he bought an interest in the store with Mr. Christie, who afterwards sold out to John S. Eggleston, and the firm of Joslin & Eggleston formed. The junior partner, Charles F. Eggleston was admitted in August 1888.
Mr. Joslin was united in marriage February 22, 1874, in Lincoln Township, with Miss Alice V. Eggleston, the daughter of John S. and Mary (Jividen) Eggleston, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, and is the happy parent of two bright and promising children: Dillie D., and Ruby M.