Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Morey, George C. July 18, 1843 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Morey, George C., M. D., Russia, was born in Eaton, Madison county, July 18,
1843.  His father was Dexter A., a son of George Morey, a native of 
Connecticut and of Scotch descent, who married Electa Morey, by whom he had 
nine children. Mr. Morey and family came to Madison county and here he and his 
wife lived and died. Dexter A. was born May 7, 1818.  He married Annie Meyer, 
a native of Steuben, Oneida county, by whom he had a son and a daughter.   In 
1846 Mr. Morey went to Steuben and there lived and died.   He was a Whig and 
voted for William Henry Harrison and also for his grandson, Benjamin 
Harrison.   He died May 9, 1892, and his wife is still living in Oneida 
county.   George C. was reared on a farm and received a common schooeducation, 
supplemented by several terms in an academy at Rome, N. Y.    At the age of 
eighteen he began studying medicine with Dr. Alfred Gillette of Steuben.  One 
year previous he taught school and followed that during winter for several 
years.  August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Seventeenth 
New York Volunteer Infantry and was discharged in 1863.  He then returned to 
the study of medicine, graduating from Vermont Medical College in  1865. He 
began practice in Grant and has since been very successful. In 1885 he married 
Lelia Vincent, a native of Cold Brook, a daughter of William and Jane 
Vincent.  By a previous marriage Dr. Morey had two sons and one daughter. He 
is a Republican, a member of E. A. U., No. 327, of Grant, and G. A. R. Post 
Thomas, No. 39.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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