Biographical Sketch of Hon. Geo. Washington, Johnson County, Missouri
Centerview Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

HON. GEO. WASHINGTON,

who is the subject of this sketch, was born near Charlestown, West
Virginia, Dec. 9, 1830.  He removed with a colony of friends and
relatives, to Johnson county Mo., in March 1856.  From here he went to
California, in June, 1857.  He was cashier of customs, under his
brother, B. F. Washington, who was at that time U. S. collector of
customs, for the port of San Francisco.  He also edited the daily, and
weekly National, during the year 1858, and in 1859, in conjunction with
Geo. P. Johnson, he obtained a license to practice law in the supreme
court of California.  Resigning his position of cashier of customs, he
returned to Missouri during the summer of 1861, and entered the
Confederate service.  He was wounded and captured, during one of Price's
raids, near Fort Scott, Oct. 25, 1864, and was sent to Johnson Island,
and remained there until the fall of Richmond.  He was then transferred
to Cairo, from thence to New Orleans, and finally exchanged at the mouth
of the Red River, May 4, 1865.  He returned to St. Louis, in the summer
of 1865, and to Johnson county, in the spring of 1866.  He was married
at Otterville, Cooper county, Mo., on the 11th of April, 1871, to Mary
Virginia Dempsey, of Otterville, Mo.  The children by this marriage are:
Robert Washington, born, March 17, 1872, died in infancy; Vernon De
Hertburn Washington, born, July 27, 1876, and Mary Virginia Washington,
born, June 14, 1873.  He has held the office of county judge, from 1872
to 1878, and at present holds the office of justice of the peace, and
postmaster at this place.  The fortunate possessor of this illustrious
name has a very interesting genealogy, which fully identifies him as a
collateral kinsman of the Washington family.  The genealogical tree and
branches are as follows: Hon. Geo. Washington of Centerview, who is a
son of John Thornton Augustine Washington, (ensign during the war,) who
was the son of Samuel Washington, the oldest full brother of Gen. Geo.
Washington of hallowed memory.

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