Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Dayhoff, George W. 1835 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   GEORGE W. DAYHOFF, farmer, P. O. Worthington. Among the early pioneers of
Greene County, Ind., was Elias Dayhoff, who was born December 1, 1799, in the
State of Kentucky. In 1826, Mary Thomas became his wife, and in 1827 he and wife
emigrated to this county, and settled in Smith Township, where Mr. Dayhoff
entered 160 acres of Government land. He continued adding to this until at one
time he owned about 1,000 acres. His first wife dying in 1832, he married
Eleanor H. Goodale in 1834, and together they lived happily many years. Mr.
Dayhoff took a very active part in all the public doings of the day, having
served as Township Trustee and Justice of the Peace, besides being the candidate
of his party—Republican—for the State Legislature in 1862. He was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, and a man honored and esteemed for his private worth
and purity of heart. He died April 13, 1883, having lived a life of over
eighty-three years of usefulness. George W. Dayhoff, subject of this sketch, was
born in the month of May, 1835, the eldest of his father's second marriage. He
was raised and educated in Greene County, and August 8, 1862, enlisted in his
country's cause in Company H, Seventy-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, He
served through the battles of Richmond and Nashville, besides several lesser
engagements, and was a brave and efficient soldier. January 5, 1863, he married
Mary A. Johnston, who died September 12, 1875, after bearing a family of six
children, four of whom are vet living. For his second wife, Mr. Dayhoff married
Mary E. Page, of Worthington. Mr. Dayhoff is one of the well-to-do farmers of
Smith Township, owning eighty acres of good land. He cast his first vote for
John C. Fremont in 1856, and since then has been a Republican in politics.

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Smith 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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