BIO:  NORRIS, George E., s/o John D. & Elizabeth (Hays) Norris

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

NORRIS   HAYS   KIDWELL   ARVIN   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Barr Twp., page 827

GEORGE E. NORRIS, one of the prominent farmers of Daviess County, Ind.,
is a native of the county where he now resides, born in 1831.  His parents,
John D. and Elizabeth (Hays) Norris, were natives of Kentucky and Maryland,
respectively, both born about 1808.  They were married about 1829 in Daviess
County, where they followed the lives of farmers.  The mother died in 1854, 
and the father in 1880.  Our subject's boyhood days were spent on the farm
and in attending the district schools.  At the age of twenty-one he began
farming for himself on a rented place, continuing about fifteen years.  He
then purchased seventy-eight acres of land, and since that time he and his
two boys have increased their farm to 340 acres.  Besides this he owns a
saw-mill and some very valuable machinery.  In 1851 he was married to Julia
A. Kidwell, born in Kentucky in 1836, daughter of Thomas and Theresa (Arvin)
Kidwell.  They became the parents of these children:  John, James, Martha,
Sarah, Theresa, Francis, Susan, Louis, George, Thomas, Mary, and an infant.
The family are Catholic, and Mr. Norris is a Democrat, and cast his first
vote for Buchanan.
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