GEORGE MCDERMOTT
George McDermott was born in Benton township, Cass county, Iowa, November 15, 1862. He is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Miller) McDermott, who were among the first settlers of Benton township, and also of Johnson county, Iowa. George received his education in the common schools of the township. He was married, April 27, 1884, to Ella M. Van Slyke, a daughter of Horace Van Slyke, who resides in Audubon county. Although but a young man, he has lived to see what was once a wild, unbroken, and uninhabited prairie in all directions, transformed into fertile and well cultivated farms. Mr. McDermott is a young man of good character, and energetic, and owns one hundred and twenty acres of fine land in Grant township.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 688.
