Ida County IA Archives Biographies.....Graves, George F. 1864 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

GEORGE F. GRAVES, a well-known farmer residing in Maple township, Ida county,
Iowa, dates his birth in Mendota, La Salle county, Illinois, August 11, 1864.
His parents, Julius J. and Helen (Barto) Graves, natives of Ohio and New York,
respectively, located in Illinois at an early day and resided at Mendota until
1865. That year they came to Iowa and settled south of Battle Creek, Ida county.
There were then few families in this vicinity. In 1876 they moved to Platte
county, Nebraska. They reared a family of thirteen children, eight sons and five
daughters, all of whom are living. During the war the senior Mr. Graves was a
member of the Thirty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and now draws a pension.
He is a member of the G. A. R. Post at Humphrey, Nebraska. Politically, he is a
Republican.

  George F. was reared to farm life, receiving only the educational advantages
that were afforded on the fontier [sic] where his father lived. He was married
September 15, 1888, to Mrs. Phoebe M. Heath, nee Ostrander, a widow with three
children, James, Ada and Harry. Mrs. Graves is a native of Boscobel, Grant
county, Wisconsin. They have one child, Clara. They own the nice farm on which
they live, 174 acres in sections 26 and 35.

  Mr. Graves' political affiliations are with the People's party. He is
progressive in his views and is one of the prominent young men of Maple township.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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