Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 650
GEORGE W. SMALL

George W. SMALL, located on section 26, of Raglan Township, came to Harrison County in the autumn of 1879. The first two years he rented land in Taylor Township. He bought eighty acres of land in Magnolia Township which was partly improved, upon which he built a house and lived there two years, then sold his place and rented land six years, after which he bought eighty acres of his present farm, which was partly improved at the time.

He was born in Knox County, Indiana, in October 1855; the son of Abraham and Catharine SMALL. The former, a native of North Carolina; the latter of Kentucky. They reared thirteen children, our subject being the twelfth. Our subject remained with his parents in Indiana until twelve years of age, when the family moved to Otoe County, Neb., where the father took a homestead near the city of Lincoln, and followed freighting for three years. He was taken sick and compelled to give up his claim, and after living in the town of Wyoming, Neb., for five years he moved to Fremont County, Iowa, remained two years and then moved back to Nebraska, where he remained until the date of his death, March 26, 1878.

Our subject has worked for himself since thirteen years of age. He was married in March, 1880, to Rachel MESSER, daughter of William and Hannah MESSER, natives of Pennsylvania, who reared the following children -- Barney, Jessie, Elizabeth, Rachel, Polly, Caroline, Rebecca, Mentel L., and Hannah R.

Our subject and his wife have five children -- Joseph, Myrtle, Bertha, George, and Abraham, deceased.

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