Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Axtell, George R. 1825 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   GEORGE R. AXTELL, one of the foremost citizens of Beech Creek Township, was
born May 10, 1825, in Washington County, Penn. He is one of five children of
Thomas and Mary (Weir) Axtell, and his genealogy is traced elsewhere in this
work. In 1832, with his parents, he located in Knox County, Ohio, where, with
the exception of two years in Noble County, he lived until 1856, when he settled
in Greene County, Ind., on the same farm where he now lives. Amanda Farnham
became his wife November 5, 1846, and by her he is the father of five
children—Samuel W., Bryan C, Mary W., Georgiana and Edna J., all living but the
last. Mr. Axtell received a common school education in the Ohio schools, and
while a young man began the tanning business, which he followed until he came to
Greene County. Since that time he has been exclusively a farmer, and now owns
165 acres of good land, well improved and cultivated. On December 12, 1880, his
wife Amanda, died, and again, on January 8, 1882, he married Sarah R. Ogg, of
the same township. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Solsberry, and a Republican in politics. He has held several minor township
officers and shares the esteem of all who know him.

Additional Comments:
Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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