Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Belknap, George S. 1828 - 
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    GEORGE S. BELKNAP is one of the most prominent citizens of Swede Grove township,
He is a son of Stephen and Elizabeth Belknap, and was born on the 28th of March,
1828, in the village of Bloomingburgh, N. Y., eighty-four miles from New York city.
Mr. Belknap traces his ancestry back through some of the most notable families in
American history. He is a grandson of Lieut. William Belknap, who entered the
service of his country in Col. Henry Beckman Livingston’s Fourth Regiment, and
continued in the service until the conclusion of the war. He was an original member
of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, formed by the officers of the
American army of the revolution at the cantonment on the banks of the Hudson river
in May, 1783. Gen. George Washington was elected president-general of the society,
and held that honor until the day of his death. The officers of the American army
having generally been taken from the citizens of America possessing high veneration
for the character of that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, who was
found following the plough when the statesmen of his country sought him as the only
one capable of leading their armies to victory, and clothed him with absolute power,
and who, having achieved the salvation of his country, laid aside that power and
gladly returned to his plough and the obscurity of domestic life, they thought they
could with propriety denominate themselves the Society of the Cincinnati.

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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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