George B. Cheney, township assessor settled in Lincoln Township, Mitchell County, in 1869, having purchased wild prairie and commenced breaking the year before. He has improved his land, planted a fine grove, set out a variety of fruit trees and erected good buildings.

He was born Dec. 17. 1826, in Kent. Co., England, where he was brought up on a farm. In 1851 he came to America and resided the first four years in Livingston Co., N. Y. then moved and spent one year in Knox County, Illinois, thence to Fremont Co., Iowa, where he was one of the early settlers. Here he pre-empted 160 acres, and lived there until 1862, when owing to war troubles and being near the Missouri line, he sold his land at a low figure, bought eighteen acres of land in Lester township, Black hawk Co., Iowa, made some improvements, and finally, in 1869, came to this township.

He was married in 1849 to Jane Ely, a native Kent Co., England, by whom he has had ten children--William M., George W., Charles L., John H., Julia, (wife of William Lathart), Alice, (wife of E. I. Andrews), Thomas J., Mary J., Albert E. and Dora.

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From History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 357.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, Oct. 2003
Updated 3-2005