Howard-Marion-Boone County IN Archives Biographies.....Breedlove, George W. 1844 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

GEORGE W. BREEDLOVE.

    Prominent in the affairs of Howard county and distinguished as a citizen
whose influence is far extended beyond the limits of the community honored by
his residence, the name of the subject of this review stands out a conspicuous
figure among the successful contractors and representative men of Kokomo,
Indiana. Characterized by remarkable breadth of wisdom and strong individuality,
and in all of his enterprises and undertakings actuated by noble motives and
high resolves, his success and achievement but represent the result of fit
utilization of innate talent in directing effort along those lines where mature
judgment and rare discrimination lead the way.

    George W. Breedlove was born in Marion county, Indiana, April 8, 1844, the
son of Henry and Nancy (Medsker) Breedlove. The father was a shoemaker and a
plasterer, having died in Boone county in 1858, after a useful and well spent
life. His widow never re-married. She kept her ten children together until they
were grown, being a woman of unusual courage and perseverance.

    George W. Breedlove attended school about three months, but notwithstanding
the fact that his early education was limited he has gained a great fund of
information from his habits of observation and by home reading. He spent his
early youth assisting to keep his mother by his labor. He began to learn the
bricklayer's trade early in life, and in 1866 he was married to Mary A. Kildow,
a native of Pennsylvania and of Irish descent.

    Mr. and Mrs. Breedlove became the parents of ten children, seven of whom
survived infancy. They came to Howard county in the spring of 1880 and have
remained here ever since. Mr. Breedlove became a contractor and builder and he
erected the fifth house in South Kokomo, on South Union street, where he lived
for a period of twenty-six years, when he traded that property for four acres of
land just outside the corporate limits of Kokomo at the end of West Sycamore
street, where he now has a modern and beautiful suburban home. When the
subject's oldest daughter was twenty-one years old he presented her with a six
dollar Bible. He has continued this custom with all his children as they reached
their majority until he has purchased seven Bibles. He is an ardent believer in
the Divine Word. The subject and wife have raised one pair of boy twins.
Josephine, the oldest daughter, is a graduate of the Kokomo high school. The
boys are all good mechanics. James is now bookkeeper in a lumber yard at
Anderson, Indiana. Oliver is a pattern maker in Carthage, Missouri. William A.
is in southwestern Texas, engaged as a contractor. E. Roy is at Anderson, Indiana.

    Mr. Breedlove has erected a great many dwellings in Kokomo, having been one
of the busiest and best known contractors of the county for a quarter of a
century. He is now doing more repair work than actual contracting on new
buildings. In all his work he has been very successful, being a man of sound
judgment and honest business principles. He is a member of the Friends church.
Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic lodge, No. 93, of Kokomo, being a
Third Decree member. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, Lodge No. 133. Mr. Breedlove has voted the Prohibition ticket for the
past twenty-three years, up to 1908. His first presidential vote was for Horace
Greeley. The subject has long been a supporter of movements having for their
object the material advancement of the community, while his influence in
furthering the social and moral welfare of his fellow men has been second to
none during his twenty-eight years' residence in Kokomo, where he has always
been regarded a man of upright principles, industrious and kind hearted to those
in need, and but few men in his community are better or more favorably known
then he.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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