Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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GEORGE MUSGRAVE

This name long has been associated with the local newspapers of Harrison and adjoining counties. At one time or another he was editor and usually owner of the following journals: Republican at Magnolia, Western Star at Logan, Reporter at Dunlap, Woodbine Twiner, Logan Courier, Logan Observer, The Nucleus at Logan, Herald at Tekamah, Nebraska, and a paper at Manning, Iowa, with possibly others, for he was known as the starter in the journalistic field, and not without success either in most of his ventures.

George MUSGRAVE was a native of England and had been associated with newspapers in western Iowa ever since 1851, two years prior to the organization of Harrison county. The date of his birth in Westmorland, England, was 1838, he being one in a family of seven children. He came to America with the family in 1847, locating at St. Louis, his father being a machinist. Four years later they moved to Harrison county, Iowa, and settled where now stands the town of Woodbine, where the parents spent the remainder of their lives. Mr. MUSGRAVE first worked on The Harrison County Republican as a printer at Magnolia. Later he launched, or purchased, or leased all of the above mentioned newspapers. In 1863, he was appointed sheriff by the supervisors to fill a vacancy. He was an honored member of the Odd Fellow order at Logan. He married in Magnolia, in 1861, Amanda HETHERINGTON, to which union six children were born, Edgar W., Marie L., Maggie May, George R., Maude A. and Aggie J.

George MUSGRAVE was a thoroughgoing newspaper man and a writer of ability, forcible and keen. Politically, he was here and there and everywhere. He died several years ago while conducting a paper in an adjoining county.

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