Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 117-118.  Graves Co.

HON. HENRY GEORGE

     Hon. Henry George, one of the distinguished men of western Kentucky,
is a native and resident of Graves county.  Mr. George was born March 2,
1847, the son of a farmer, and on the farm he grew to manhood, his duties
being such as fall to the lot of a farmer's son.  His parents were Brinkley
and Elizabeth (Golden) George.  His father died in 1860, aged
seventy-seven, and his mother died in 1853, when fifty-two years of age.
     Thus Mr. George was only six years of age when his mother died, and
thirteen when his father died.  When the Civil war came on he had just
passed his fourteenth year of his life.  November 5, 1861, when not yet
fifteen, he enlisted in the Confederate army, Company A, Seventh Kentucky
Regiment, and served until the close of the war.  He participated in the
battles of Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Baker's Creek, Jackson,
Corinth, and after the regiment became a mounted infantry under General
Forrest, he participated in the battles of Paducah, Brice's Cross Roads,
Harrisburg and Oxford, and then at Athens, Sulphur Trestle and Pulaski.
The regiment was with Hood at Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville, Monter
Valley, and Selma.  Besides these battles Mr. George took part in many
dangerous skirmishes.  He was wounded three times, but not seriously, and
was taken prisoner at Selma; confined eight days and then made his escape
and immediately rejoined the command of General Forrest.
     The war closed.  Mr. George returned to the house of his brother in
Graves county, and for two years thereafter worked at farming and attended
school.  He then secured a teacher's license and taught school two terms.
He engaged in merchandising at Dukedom.  In 1872 he removed to Wingo, where
he continued merchandising an established and extensive business, later
becoming interested in farmiing also.
     In politics Mr. George is an ardent Democrat, and he has been for
years a leader in his party.  He has held several positions of honor,
including representative in the lower branch of the state legislature and
also in the state senate, being now state senator from his district.  He
represented Graves county in the legislature of 1877 and 1878, and first
became state senator in 1879.  During his services as a legislator he has
left the impress of his wisdom as a statesman on much legislation in
Kentucky.
     Mr. George was married in 1871 to Miss Martha Galloway, daughter of
David M. and Martha Galloway.

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