Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Holcomb, George W 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

George W. Holcomb, liveryman at Morrison, was born Aug. 18, 1848, in the 
township of Woodbine, Jo Daviess Co., III. Newell Holcomb, his father, was 
born Aug. 15, 1819, on an island in Lake Champlain, which belongs to the State 
of Vermont and which constitutes Grand Isle County. Louisa (Kellogg) Holcomb, 
the mother, was born April 4, 1823, in Chautauqua Co., N. Y. The former was 
one of the earliest settlers in the State of Illinois, and he went in 1839 to 
Jo Daviess County, walking the entire distance from Springfield to Galena. The 
mother died in Woodbine Township, Sept. 7, 1849, leaving two children, the 
eldest of whom, Maria L., married Sidney Willison, of Jo Daviess Co., Ill. Mr. 
Holcomb was little more than a year old when his mother died. He was brought 
up on the farm of his father, and bred to the business of an agriculturist. On 
reaching an age suitable to settling in life, he bought 40 acres of land in 
the same township in which he was born, and where he operated until the spring 
of 1882, when he opened a restaurant at Savanna, Carroll Co., Ill. After 
passing a year there in that business, he transferred his interests to 
Sterling. He maintained a restaurant there but a short time, however, removing 
in 1883 to Morrison. He opened a grocery, in which he was engaged six months, 
when he sold out and interested himself in the business in which he is now 
occupied. He keeps about eight horses and livery equipments in proportion. Mr. 
Holcomb was married May 13, 1878, at Lyons, Iowa, to Mary S., daughter of 
William and Mary Tyson. She was born in Clyde Township, Whiteside County. Mr. 
and Mrs. Holcomb have one daughter, Lillie M., born in Woodbine Township, Dec. 
28, 1879. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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