Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Wagoner, George 1846 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

GEORGE WAGONER.

   To write the personal record of men who have raised themselves from humble
circumstances to positions of trust in a community, is no ordinary pleasure.
Self-made men, men who have achieved success by reason of their personal
qualities and who have left the impress of their individuality upon the business
development of their home community, perform an invaluable service and
unwittingly, perhaps, build monuments more enduring than marble obelisks or
granite shafts. Such a man is George Wagoner, a retired farmer of Flora,
Indiana, who removed to the town in October, 1912, and now lives on East
Columbia street. Mr. Wagoner was born in Carrollton township, Carroll county,
Indiana, on February 19, 1846, and is the son of Martin and Rosam (Martin)
Wagoner, the former of whom was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Martin
Wagoner was the father of twelve children, five sons of whom were living in
1915. The family originally consisted of six daughters and six sons. Of the
living children, Isaac N. is a farmer in Carroll county; Henry C. is a resident
of Flora; George is the subject of this sketch; David M. is a farmer in Carroll
county, and William F. resides in Flora.

   George Wagoner spent his boyhood days on the home farm, attending the
district schools of the neighborhood. Generally speaking, he worked on the farm
during the summer and attended the schools during the winter, until about
eighteen years old. He remained at home until reaching his majority.

   When he was twenty-one years old, Mr. Wagoner took the lease of twenty acres
of land to clear for four crops. This proved to be a very profitable experiment
and afterwards he and his brother Henry took another lease of Mr. Barber of
twenty acres, which Mr. Wagoner subsequently purchased. With Henry he bought
eighty acres of land, and afterwards traded his interest in the home place for
forty acres of this tract. He acquired further land and he now owns a
magnificent farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres and one which is highly
productive, and also has property in Flora.

   On October 4, 1873, George Wagoner was married to Sarah E. Cook, who was born
in Carroll county, in 1853, and whose father was Hezekiah Cook. Mrs. Wagoner was
reared in the same neighborhood as her husband and they knew each other from
childhood.

   To Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner have been born four children, namely: Edward D., who
is a physician and surgeon at Burrows, Indiana; Stella M. is a graduate of the
Wheeling schools and the wife of K. R. Flora, and the mother of five children;
Roscoe married Roxie Barnard and lives in Monroe township; Edith M. is unmarried
and lives at home with her parents.

   Mr. and Mrs. George Wagoner are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr.
Wagoner is one of the trustees and is an active member and one of the most
liberal supporters of the church. Politically, he belongs to the Prohibition
party, being an implacable foe of the liquor traffic and an ardent believer in
temperance.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

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