GIVENS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GIVENS, George Washington - b: 1837 Pulaski Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 573
residence: Windsor Twp

George Washington Givens, physician and surgeon, was born in Pulaski County, 
Missouri, in 1837, and resided there until 1861, living during this time in five 
different counties, but never having moved. The county is now Laclede. His father, 
Alexander Givens, who was born in Ireland, came to this state in an early day, and 
on January 11, 1848, he died. He married Clarissa Harlow Cornwell, of Kentucky, 
who died in 1863. George grew up on a farm, not having very good opportunities 
for acquiring an education when young; yet he was a close student at home, and at 
the age of nineteen he entered the Lebanon Academy and commenced a course of 
study which, with teaching school during vacations, has resulted in his obtaining 
an excellent education by his own exertions. From his mother he received five 
dollars, with which he started out in life. He read medicine with Horton & Glover 
and also with Dr. S. W. Wood, and attended lectures in 1861 and then was 
appointed assistant surgeon in the Confederate army. He remained till the close 
of the war and was mustered out at Shreveport, Louisiana. Coming to Texas, he 
practiced his profession for two years and then moved to Benton County, 
Missouri. In 1875 he attended his second course of lectures at the Missouri 
Medical College at St. Louis, where he graduated in 1872 with great credit. He 
came to Windsor in April, 1875, and commenced practice here, and has since met 
with good results. He has a magnificent residence and office and everything about 
him that is desirable for a home. He became a member of the Baptist Church in 
1871, and feeling it to be his duty to enter the ministry, he was accordingly 
ordained December 29, 1879. He has been preaching at the Mt. Olivet Church, and 
for the last year has supplied the pulpit at Fort Harmony Church. He married Miss 
Susan Sophia Spencer in June, 1867. She died March 9, 1870. His second wife was 
Elizabeth Davidson, whom he married March 10, 1874, in Benton County. She died 
June 17, 1875. She was a most estimable woman and her loss was deeply felt by 
many. He married Miss Emma V. Dick for his third wife April 16, 1879. She was 
the daughter of John W. Dick, of Benton County, who died in 1881. Her mother was 
born in Virginia, as was also Mr. Dick and Emma. They have two children, Mary 
Susan and John Dick. The doctor was superintendent of public schools in Laclede 
County and was elected coroner of Benton County.

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