For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 709
GEORGE H. WARD....George H. Ward, who was well known in Cedar and Muscatine counties as a patriotic and progressive citizen, was summoned from earthly scenes August 1, 1905, and the entire commuity mourned his death. He was during the last fifteen years of his life a resident of West Liberty and attracted many friends by his gentlemanly and genial manner.A native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he was born February 28, 1838, a son of Captain William and Mary ( McCoy ) Ward, who were also born in Pennsylvania. He was a member of a family of seven children and was given good advantages of education, so that upon reaching manhood he was well prepared to enter the battle of life. At nineteen years of age he was married and became identified with his father in the real-estate business, continuing in that line in Pittsburg until 1880, when he removed to Cedar county, Iowa. After spending ten years in Cedar county, in the meantime purchasing a farm of eighty acres, he built a handsome residence at West Liberty and there established his home, living there during the remainder of his life. His remains were interred in Alleghany cemetery at Pittsburg. He was a man of unusual intelligence, good powers of observation and discrimination and unexceptionable character, easily occupying a prominent position wherever he was known.
In 1857 Mr. Ward was united in marriage to Miss Loretta Lamborn, who was born at Pittsburg, February 28, 1840, a daughter of George J. and Jane ( Jordan ) Lamborn, both natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Ward was one of a family of five children. four of whom are now living. She still makes her home at West Liberty but spends the winters in Florida on account of the advantages of climate. She is a member of the Methodist church, as was her husband, and has been a liberal contributor in behalf of religion and philanthropy. She was instrumental in the erection of an addition to the church at West Liberty, which cost seventeen thousand dollars and presented the church with a pipe-organ which cost two thousand dollars. She also bore the expense of the erection of a tabernacle at Khandwa, India, and has assisted in numberless ways in forwarding the dissemination of the Christian religion. She is the owner of a store building and two fine residences in West Liberty and half a million dollars worth of property in Pittsburg. On account of her generous spirit she has a host of friends in Muscatine and adjoining counties.
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