Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B
Lawrence County

GEORGE W. CASTLE, a native of Scott County, Va., was born January 12, 1845,
and is a son of James C. and Catharine Castle.  James C. Castle came to
Kentucky from Virginia in 1847, engaged in farming, and at intervals
occupied places of trust.  The subject of this sketch was reared in Johnson
County, and was a farmer until about sixteen years of age.  He had little
chance in his early days of obtaining an education, because his father's
condition was such as to prevent anything more than an attendance at
intervals at the common schools, which in those days were not of much
advantage, except to give an energetic boy a taste for an education.  In
1863 he left his home and engaged in steamboating to assist his mother and
the family to a support, his father having been imprisoned for his
convictions and sympathy with the South.  Commencing at the bottom he
steadily arose until he had occupied some of the most responsible positions.
In 1864 he left the steamboats and entered upon a clerkship for a dry goods
merchant at Louisa, Ky; in 1865 he went to Paintsville, Ky., and engaged
with his father and elder brother in the hotel and saw-mill business; made
money rapidly, but, by a misfortune, his father was induced to go upon a
sheriff's bond, and had most of all his hard earnings swept away for the
whole family.  In 1866 he removed to Louisa, married Miss Vessie, daughter
of Thomas Wallace, and engaged in the drug business for a short while; then
read law without a tutor, and was admitted to the bar in 1870, and was
afterward elected police judge of Louisa, defeating one of the most popular
men in the town; he was elected county attorney of Lawrence County in
August, 1878, and was re-elected in August, 1882, by a large majority over
his opponent.  He has by his own exertions risen to a high place at the bar,
is a successful lawyer and an able advocate, and is engaged in all the
important litigations in his section.  He is a kind-hearted man, true to his
friends and never forgets a favor.  He is an able advocate of the Democratic
party, and has done some telling work for it, ever ready to take the stump
in its behalf, but never offensive to his opponents.  Mr. Castle is a
Freemason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  His father
removed from Louisa to Sedalin, Mo., in 1875, where he died September 3, 1885.

Castle Wallace 
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Scott-VA KY MO

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