GEORGE W. KENDRICK, Montfort; born in Frederick Co., Va., in 1819; he came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1845; he lived in the town of Mifflin, Iowa Co., till the following year, when he engaged to work on a farm in the town of Clifton, Grant Co. He was married to Sarah A. Tucker in the spring of 1847; she died in the spring of 1862; his second wife was Catharine Herman; he has three children - Sarah J., Edward J. and Eleanor A. His father, George Kendrick, was also a native of Frederick Co., Va., and a soldier in the war of 1812; he came to Grant Co. in 1848, and died of cholera soon after. Mr. Kendrick's present wife was Miss Pamelia Messersmith, born in Alton, Ill., in 1824; married to Mr. Kendrick in October, 1877; her father, John Messersmith, was born in Pennsylvania in 1790, where he was married to Elizabeth Schell; he went to Galena, Ill., in the spring of 1827, and located near Dodgeville in the fall of that year, where he removed his family from Galena in the fall of 1828; he located a farm here, and also engaged in the business of mining and smelting; he was at one time the owner of valuable mining lands; he died on his farm in the fall of 1855; his wife died in Madison in 1876, in her 84th year. Mr. M. had ten children - four sons and six daughters; four daughters and one son are still living - Henry, resides in Jasper Co., Mo.; Mary, now Mrs. William H. Virgin; Pamelia, now Mrs. Kendrick; Matilda; Charlotte, now Mrs. Davis, resides in Missouri; names of children deceased are John, George, William, Eliza and Jane.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.