Carroll County IAGenWeb

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah October 5, 2020

A capable agriculturist of Richland township is George A. La Mont, who was born in Pleasant Valley township, Carroll county, on the 15th of June, 1874, and is a son of Peter and Mary (White) La Mont. The father was a native of Argyleshire, Scotland, his natal day being the 11th of February, 1843, while the mother was born in the state of New York.

In the acquirement of his education George A. La Mont attended the district schools in the vicinity of his father’s homestead. His boyhood and youth were very similar to those of other lads who are reared in the country. He was early assigned duties about the farm and when he was old enough assisted in the work of the fields, so that by the time he had mastered the common branches he was also quite a competent agriculturist. He worked on the homestead where he was born until 1901, when he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 30, Richland township, where he has ever since continued to reside.

Mr. La Mont completed his arrangements for a home of his own on the 27th of February, 1901, at which time he was united in marriage to Miss Elsie J. Cuthbertson. They now have a son and daughter: Donald Arthur, who is a sturdy little lad of ten years; and Mary Emma, an interesting maid of three years.

Fraternally Mr. La Mont is a member of the Masonic order, the principles of which serve to guide him in all of his relations of life both private and public. He is a not a man who aspires to public honors or conspicuously figures in township affairs but discharges to the best of his ability his duties as a citizen by concentrating his entire attention upon the development of his private interests, which in turn influence and react upon the community.

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