BIO: George W. OAKS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 364-365.
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  GEORGE W. OAKS, a retired farmer and well known citizen of Burnside 
township, Clearfield county, Pa., is a native of New England, born October 
31, 1831, at Dover, Maine, and is a son of Stephen L. and Sally (Ames) Oaks.
  Stephen L. Oaks was born in Maine, in 1796, a son of Abel and Mehitabel 
(Jewett) Oaks, and died in Cambria county, Pa., in 1875.  He married Sally 
Ames, who was born in 1799, and died in 1877.  In 1838 they moved from New 
England to Blairsville, Pa., where Mr. Oaks followed his trade of millwright, 
at a later date moving into Cambria county, where he lived until his decease.
  George W. Oaks was seven years old when his parents came to Pennsylvania.  
He had but meagre school opportunities and as soon as old enough worked at 
farming and provided for himself.  He continued to follow agricultural 
pursuits in Pennsylvania until he was twenty-nine years old and then went to 
Sioux county, Ia., where he entered land and developed a farm.  He has been 
retired from active farm work since 1903.
  Mr. Oaks married Miss Elizabeth Mock, who was born in Bedford county, Pa., 
June 12, 1833, and died January 26, 1897.  They had the following children 
born to them:  Phineas, who lives in Iowa, married Alice J. Stanton; Amanda, 
who is deceased; May C., who is the wife of Irwin Jones, lives in Iowa; 
Joseph E., who lives at Hawarden, Ia.; John, whose home is also at Hawarden; 
Charles, who resides at Chatsworth, Ia.; and William, who lives at Hawarden.  
Mr. Oaks has grandchildren as follows:  Walter, Ray and Arthur, sons of 
Phineas, and of these, Walter has three children and Arthur has two; eight 
children of his daughter Mary (two sons of this family are married, Orald has 
two children and Norton has one child); one son of his son Joseph E., one of 
his son John, one of his son Charles, and five of his son, William Oaks.  The 
family is an unusually vigorous one and all its members are prosperous and 
representative people of the section in which they live.