Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 287
GEORGE E. FERGUSON

George E. FERGUSON, editor of the Persia Globe, was born in Marshall County, Iowa, in the city of Marshalltown, February 18, 1866, and when nine years of age, his parents removed to Crawford County, and lived until he was fourteen years old, and then went to Manning of Carroll County, Iowa, where our subject remained with his parents until 1884; he there worked as a printer on the Monitor until 1886, when he went to work on the Manning News, and in April, 1887 went to Manilla, Crawford County. In July of that year he went to South Omaha, where he worked a short time on a stock journal, and from there to Denver, Col., and back to Kansas City, was there a short time, and then went to Chicago, where he remained about a year, after which he came to Manning, and taught school during the winter of 1877-78. It was a district school in Audubon County.

In the autumn of 1889, he had control of the Gray Eagle at the village of Gray, Iowa. But after six months became dissatisfied with the town, which was a mere hamlet, and went to Council Bluffs, where he worked on different papers until the autumn of 1889, and came back to Manning and took charge of the Free Press until September, 1890, when he came to Persia, and started the Globe.

Our subject was married at Denison, Iowa, December 24, 1887, to Miss May FYOEK, and they are the parents of one child, Nile, born July 15, 1890. Mrs. Ferguson was born, in East Des Moines, June 8, 1869, and when she was about nine years of age her parents removed to Perry, Iowa; lived there four years and then removed to Panora, where they lived until the spring of 1887.

Our subject's wife remained at home until the date of her marriage. Politically our subject is a supporter of the Democratic party. He belongs to Lodge No. 203, Bluff City Typographical Union. For an account of his newspaper, we refer the reader to Persia village history.

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