Bio of Richmond, George C. (b.1837) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Richmond, George C., farmer and horse breeder of Plainview, is of Yankee
parentage. His father was Barzilla Richmond, of Orleans county, New York,
where George was born August 16, 1837. His youth was spent chiefly on a
farm near Lima Center, Roth county, Wisconsin, which became the family
home in 1846. He engaged in work on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway in 1857 and spent two years, most of the time as section boss. In
1859 he joined a company of gold diggers and went to Pike's Peak, where he
tarried ten months. Returning without wealth, he solicited a position from
the railway company, and was appointed yard master at Milwaukee. He served
his old employers in this capacity until August, 1862, when he enlisted
under Uncle Sam's banner in the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry, and
served with this regiment to the close of the rebellion, with the
exception of ten months that he was detailed to service in the First
Kentucky Battery. He was with Sherman until he reached Atlanta, and from
that place returned with Thomas to Nashville, and participated in many of
the severest and most closely contested engagements of the war. Very soon
after the was closed he found his way to Minnesota, and at once engaged in
farming. He now owns 330 acres of fine lands in Plainview township, and a
half section in Martin county. He makes a specialty of rearing Norman
horses. He resides in Plainview village. His politics are Republican, and
he has passed the chair in Plainview Lodge, I.O.O.F. Fidelia Colby,
daughter of George Colby, of Plainview, became his wife September, 1867.
They have two children, viz.: Charles, born July, 1868, and Frank,
February, 1875. Mr. Richmond while west in 1859 at one time claimed by
squatter sovereignty title to 160 acres of what is now the site of Denver
City, Colorado.
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab3.htm
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of the bios on her pages.

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