Saylor, George W.

SAYLOR

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Date: 7/2/2021 at 20:17:48

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.974

GEORGE W. SAYLOR
George W. Saylor, a successful farmer and dairyman residing in section 3, Greenfield township, is a native of this state, having been born near Taylorville, in Polk county, March 12, 1854, the son of J. P. and Martha (Bales) Saylor. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Saylor, removed to the state of Iowa in 1845 from Indiana, his home being near Logansport, and settled in Polk county.
There J. P. Saylor, the father of our subject, grew up and entered land from the government. There he was married to Miss Martha Bales, who was a native of Logansport, Indiana. In 1870 he removed to Osage county, Kansas, where he entered land and improved it, remaining there for three years, and during this time he conducted a livery barn in conjunction with his farming operations. He sold out in 1873 and went to Des Moines, Iowa, buying a property there which two years later he traded for the farm on which our subject now resides. Here the father spent his remaining year and died in 1881, aged fifty-nine. The mother is still living at the advanced age of seventy-eight years and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Fox, in Des Moines. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Saylor were born six children, as follows: Frank A., born on February 4, 1852, spent twelve years on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in this county, and later went to Des Moines, where for twenty years he was connected with the Utica Clothing Store, of that city. At present he divides his time between the home of his sister in Des Moines and the home of George W. of this review. Lydia is the wife of E. H. Fox, of Des Moines. Alice died at the age of three years. Nellie, who was a graduate of the Des Moines high school, and engaged in teaching, died at the age of twenty-nine years. Edgar is an instructor of vocal music in San Francisco and has a troupe of his own on the road engaged in musical comedy. George W., the subject of this sketch, is the third in the order of birth.
George W. Saylor completed his education in the Baptist College of Des Moines and then returned home. On the 7th of April, 1887 he was married in Bloomfield township, Polk county, to Miss Mattie Hays, daughter of William Hays, an old settler of Polk county, and a native of Davess county, Missouri. For ten years the young couple continued to reside in the house in which his parents had lived, prior to the building of their present modern comfortable home. In addition to the residence Mr. Saylor has also built barns and the necessary outbuildings for the proper conduct of his work. He is conveniently located within five miles of the city of Des Moines, where he finds a ready and profitable sale for the products of his farm. Mr. Saylor keeps a herd of ten thoroughbred Jersey cows and employs a cream separator in the manufacture of his butter, all of which he has sold to private trade for the past nineteen years. He utilizes the by-product of his dairy in the raising of hogs.
In national politics Mr. Saylor is a republican, though in local affairs he is independent, voting for men and measures rather than for party. Fraternally he is a member of Grant's Camp M. W. A. He enjoys an extensive acquaintanceship throughout Warren and Polk counties, as well as in the city of Des Moines, having spent his entire life in this locality.