Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....English, George W. January 4, 1837 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

GEORGE W. ENGLISH, resident on section 7, Croton Township, was born Jan. 4, 
1837, in Crawford Co., Ohio.  

His parents Abraham and Sarah (McKee) English, were born in Pennsylvania, 
respectively of English and 

Irish descent.  The father was born in 1800, and died in May 1882.  The mother 
was born in 1807 and died 

in 1875.

Mr. English has worked most of his active business life as a carpenter and 
builder, and cabinet-maker, to 

which trade he was apprenticed at 16 years of age.  He pursued it as a 
vocation in his native county until 

1861, when he went to Williams Co., Ohio and engaged in cabinet-making.  He 
enlisted in the civil war in 

September, 1862, enrolling in Co. H., Ninth Ohio Cav., for three years.  The 
war closed before his period 

of enlistment had expired, and he received his discharge at Columbus, Ohio.  
He was in active service 

during the entire time, and among the important campaigns of which he was a 
part wwas that of Sherman's 

grand march to the sea.  His wife and three children went to Crawford County 
while he was in the Union 

service, and on the termination of the war he returned to Ohio and they went 
to Wood County, returning two 

years later to Williams County. In 1873 they came to Hillsdale Co., Mich., and 
resided thee two years.  In 

1875 they removed to Isabella County, where they continued to reside until 
July, 1882, when they made a 

permanent settlement in Newaygo County.

In 1867 Mr. English began his labors as a minister in the interets of the 
denomination of First-Day 

Adventists, and at the date named he came to this county to take charge of the 
circuit of Big Prairie, 

Croton village and Snowtown, in Croton Township, where he is till discharging 
the duties of the position.  

He is a Republican in principle, but is in no sense active in politics.

Mr. English was married in Crawford Co., Ohio, Oct. 8, 1857, to Nancy, 
daughter of Robert and Jane (Doney) 

George.  Her parents were born in Pennsylvania, respectively in 1812 and 
1815.  Her father died in 1855, 

in Williams County, where her mother now resides.  Following are the names of 
the eight children born of 

this marriage:  Emma Jane, Abraham Lincoln, Frank Ellsworth, Ida Belle, Sarah 
Ellen, Charles Grafton, 

George Edward and Herbert (deceased).

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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