GEORGE W. CAREY, Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 27 November 2004

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Turtlecreek Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

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729

GEORGE W. CAREY, insurance agent. The subject of our sketch, George W. Carey, was born in the village of Merrittstown, Warren Co., Ohio, on the 26th day of October, 1838, and is now in his 44th year. He was born of poor parents, and is the oldest child of a family of eight children (all of whom are now living). His father, Isaac, died at the age of 38, at Dalton, Wayne Co., Ind., where he was practicing medicine. He formerly practiced medicine in Warren County, Ohio, where he had read medicine under Drs. Crossfield and M. H. Keever. After the death of his father, our subject went into the store of his father's friend, Mr. Benjamin Fritchey as a clerk at West Baltimore, Montgomery Co., Ohio, at a salary of $5 per month. He worked fifteen months and then drew $5, which he sent to his mother (who is yet living at the age of 65) to assist her in providing for his younger brothers and sisters. From West Baltimore he went with his employer to Rose Hill, Darke Co., Ohio, where he served him for two years as clerk in a general store. He also taught a district school in said county for three terms. In 1858, he came to Lebanon and engaged as clerk in the large dry goods house of John W. Howry, where he worked five years, at the expiration of which time he and his brother, Amzi, opened a store of their own at No. 68 Broadway, where they carried on a successful business for five years. They then dissolved partnership and the subject of our sketch started a mercantile business at 103 Mulberry street, which he carried on successfully for some six years, when he sold out his business and engaged in the insurance business January 1, 1875. He did not have full advantages for an education, but was a close student and what knowledge he did obtain was in the old Washington Schoolhouse, Pekin, Ohio. After the death of his father, he was obliged to quit school and hire out his services for the benefit of the family. He has held many offices of trust and no one can say be has not been faithful in all. At present he holds a U. S. office, a county office, Justice of the Peace, Secretary of the County Fair, President of Steam Fire Department, Councilman, and has served since his residence in Lebanon for seven years as Township Clerk, and for five years as City Clerk. He has also served three years as President of the Agricultural Society, and six years on the Board of Education. George is a hale fellow well met.


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