Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Remage, George W, M D 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1885

George W. Remage, M. D., physician and surgeon at Coleta, was born Jan. 29, 
1837, in Holmes Co., Ohio. Abner Remage, his father, was born in Pennsylvania, 
and was of Scotch and French extraction. The ancestral stock located in 
America prior to the Revolutionary War, in which the paternal great-
grandfather of Dr. Remage was a participant and was captain of a company. His 
grandfather and two uncles were soldiers in the War of 1812. Their business 
relations were in the vocations of farmers and mechanics. Abner Remage settled 
in Holmes Co., Ohio, in 1826, where he was a pioneer, and located in the woods 
on a farm which was in its primeval condition. He made it his home until his 
death, which occurred in November, 1861. He had lived a life of usefulness and 
honor and had proved a valuable citizen in the progress of the county from its 
primal condition to the advanced state to which it attained with great 
rapidity. The mother of Dr. Remage, Susan Custer, before her marriage, was a 
member of one of the old Dutch families who were identified with the pioneer 
history of the. State. She died in Holmes Co., Ohio, in 1855, aged 47 years. 
They had ten children, five sons and five daughters. Dr. Remage is the third 
son and seventh child. He remained at home until he was 17 years of age and 
obtained a rudimentary education at the district school, which at that age he 
began to turn to account in teaching, in Berlin, in the county where he was 
born, and he passed alternate seasons in attendance at school. He had 
cherished a project to fit himself for a professional life, and he commenced 
to read medicine in the office of Dr. W. N. King, in Millersburg, Holmes 
County. In the winter of 1858-9, he entered the Medical Department of the 
University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he pursued the prescribed course 
of study until the following spring, when he went to Middletown, in his native 
county, and commenced practice in company with Dr. Joel Poerene. Two years 
later, the nation was convulsed by civil war, and Dr. Remage, then in the full 
vigor of young hopes and ambitions, resolved to risk the fate of war, and he 
enlisted as a private soldier in Co. H, 23d Regt. Ohio Vol., under Capt. J. L. 
Drake. The regiment was assigned to the Department of West Virginia. He was 
under fire Sept. 10, 1861, at Carnifex Ferry, which was the only occasion in 
which he was in active service. His health became seriously impaired and he 
received honorable discharge in November, 1861. He resumed his practice, which 
he prosecuted until the fall of 1862, when he went again to the University at 
Ann Arbor and completed his course of medical study and was graduated March 
25, 1863. He received from Gov. Tod, of Ohio, a commission as Assistant 
Surgeon of the 96th Regt. Ohio Vol., and thus officiated until Feb. 13, 1865, 
when he was promoted Surgeon and assigned to the Fifth Tenn. Reg. in the Dept. 
of the Cumberland. At the close of the war, July 17, 1865, he was mustered out 
of service, when he resumed the practice of his profession at Somerville, 
Union Co., Ohio. He operated as a physician at that point five years, and, in 
1870, transferred his interests to Paulding, the county seat of the county of 
the same name, where he established his business and operated with marked 
success until December, 1877. He became worn with constant attention to his 
professional duties and sold out for the purpose of travel and recuperation, 
in which he was occupied some months. In September, 1878, he located at 
Coleta, where he has since resided and prosecuted his business as a physician 
with satisfactory results. Dr. Remage was married at Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio, 
Sept. 20, 1859, to Louisa C. Schwartfager, and they have had three children. 
Laura is deceased. Lola married Archie McAdow and lives at Paulding, Ohio. 
Herman is a student at Paulding. Mrs. Remage was born in Coshocton Co.. Ohio.

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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