George Pailthorp Biography, Genesee County, Michigan This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 1006, 1009 This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ GEORGE PAILTHORP, who carries on general farming on a beautiful tract of one hundred and thirty-five acres in Vienna Township, Genesee County, is one of the most successful agriculturists and most intelligent men in the township. He has an excellent library and keeps well informed on the issues of the day. His services to the country during the war marked him as a man of patriotism and bravery and he has the respect and esteem of his neighbors. Mr. Pailthorp was born April 12, 1841, in Lincolnshire, England, and his father, William Pailthrop, was a native of Nottinghamshire, and was born in 1814. His marriage, in 1840, to Frances, daughter of William Sissins of Lincolnshire, began his domestic life, which was carried on in England for two years. The young couple came to the United States in 1842 and after farming for a year near Albany they came to Mt. Morris, Genesee County, this State, and bought forty-four acres of land. He was a Democrat in polities and a man who was successful in life and left a fine property at his death, which occurred in 1872. His good wife is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-eight, and five of their ten children still survive. With the exception of Judge C. J. Pailthorp, of Petoskey, all of the family are living in this vicinity. Our subject remained at home until he was twenty-one years old, studying in the common schools and in the Flint High School. In 1861 he bought the farm which he now occupies and had just begun to get into shape for cultivating it when the Civil War called him from the pursuits of peace, and he enlisted in August, 1862, in Company C, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and was in active service until the close of the war. On account of sickness he was in the hospital at Knoxville for six weeks and was wounded by a ball at the siege of Atlanta. He took part in the following named battles: Campbell Station, Kenesaw Mountain, Rome, Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville and the Morgan raid and the sieges of Knoxville and Atlanta. When Fort Anderson was taken, Corporal Pailthorp was the one who captured the old garrison flag, being with the first of the assaulting party to enter the fort. After the close of the war Mr. Pailthorp returned to the farm and was married in 1866 to Sarah, daughter of Samuel Nichols of Niagara County, N. Y. Mr. Nichols and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Charles, were of English birth, and were married in their native home in 1831, some three years before coming to this country. Mr. and MI s. Pailthorp are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which organization he is a Trustee and he was Superintendent of the Sunday- school for fifteen years. Ever since the war he has been a Republican in his political views and has served his township as School Inspector and Highway Commissioner. The pleasant home in which he now resides was built in 1876. Mrs. Pailthorp is exceedingly useful in the community in various directions, and has been a teacher in the Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school for twenty-four years. He is a member of Frederick Walker Post, No. 134, G. A. R., of Mt. Morris and has filled nearly all the offices in the organization with the exception of commander. They have one child, a daughter, May C. j