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Author: Past and Present of Montgomery County, Illinois

GEORGE WILLIAM PAISLEY, a representative business man of Montgomery County, 
who at the head of the Montgomery Coal Company is now controlling one of the 
important productive industries of this section of the state, was born and 
reared within the borders of the county and obtained his early education in 
the country schools. Later he attended for three short terms the Hillsboro 
Academy and then put aside his textbooks to take up the active work of the 
farm. At a later date, however, he put aside agricultural pursuits and entered 
upon a three years' service in the Civil War as a member of an Illinois 
Regiment. He did his full duty as a soldier and when hostilities had ceased 
returned to his home. 

After the War, Mr. Paisley took up the study of law and for a time served as 
county surveyor of Montgomery County, while later he engaged in the 
publication of a newspaper. He has always been a man of much activity in both 
business life and in connection with public affairs, and from 1881 until 1883 
he was a member of the lower house of the Illinois legislature. In 1892, he 
was chosen to represent his district in the state senate, of which he 
continued a member for four years. During President Cleveland's first 
administration, he was connected with the interior department of the 
government and had charge of the land offices and surveyor general's office, 
in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, 
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. He is at present 
engaged in the mining and production of coal at Paisley, where there is a very 
rich vein of bituminous coal. The Montgomery Coal Company, the corporation 
with which Mr. Paisley is connected, was chartered July 1895, and the first 
shaft was commenced in the fall of the same years, while on the 4th of July, 
1896, coal was struck. The output is now extensive and the business 
profitable. (END) 

Source: Past and Present of Montgomery County, Illinois; S. J. Clarke Pub. 
Co.; Chicago; 1904. 

NOTE TO GUILFORD COUNTY RESEARCHERS: George William Paisley was the son of 
Joseph Paisley and Martha Ann Allen. Joseph Paisley was born in 1797 in 
Guilford County, NC, the son of John Paisley and Jane Rankin Paisley. John 
Paisley was the son of William Paisley and Deliverance Paine, early pioneers 
of Guilford County, and members of the Alamance Presbyterian Church there.

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