WEAR, (Judge) George, Charleston, S. C., then Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Judge George Wear was born in Charleston, S. C., in February, 1843, 
being an adopted son of John S. and Mary J. Wear.  His parents died 
when he was but an infant, and he knows nothing whatever of them.  He 
lived in South Carolina with his adopted parents until the beginning of 
the struggle between the North and the South, when he enlisted in the 
state's service in Charleston, under the command of Colonel Gregg.  
After about six months' service came the fall of Fort Sumter, when the 
regiment was disbanded and he re-enlisted in the Hampton legion, in 
Company A, and served through the war.  He participated in the two 
battles of Manassas Junction, Seven Pines, the Seven Days around 
Richmond, Fredericksburg, Sharpsburg and various other engagements of 
minor importance.  He surrendered in May, 1865, in Virginia, and 
returned to his home in South Carolina.  Here he remained but a short 
time, going the same year the war closed to Louisiana and locating
in Caldwell Parish.  In this parish he met and married Miss Rachel 
Stringer in 1866.  To Mr. and Wear have been born nine children--five 
sons and four daughters:  Thomas C.,  Francis P.,  Charles M.,  Phillip 
E.,  George, Edna E.,  Minnie L. (the wife of Dr. S. S. Godfrey, of 
Winn Parish), Josephine and  Anna.  The Judge was appointed by Governor 
Warmouth in the year 1869 as clerk of the district court of Columbia, 
La., and served in that capacity about three years.  During that time 
he read law, and in 1871 he was admitted to the bar, after which he 
resigned the clerk's office and formed a law partnership with T. J. 
Hough, of Columbia, La.  In 1879 he was appointed district attorney of 
the Twelfth district, but he only served in this capacity for a few 
months as the district was changed by the constitution.  He was then 
elected district attorney of the Fourth district, and was re-elected in 
1884.  Upon the decease of Judge Bridger in 1889, he was appointed to 
fill the position left vacant by the death of that lamented lawyer, 
until an election could be held to fill the vacancy,  and at the same 
election he was chosen to fill the unexpired term and is now serving in 
that capacity.  His family are Methodists in religious sentiment, and 
the Judge is a member, of the Masonic fraternity, of the Knights of 
Pythias and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He is highly 
esteemed by all who know him as a high-minded, honorable gentleman,
who is a capable and efficient officer and jurist, and who well 
deserves the high position he occupies socially and otherwise.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 446.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.