BIO: George C. PASSMORE, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 670 & 671. _____________________________________________________________ GEORGE C. PASSMORE, a successful farmer and representative citizen of Penn township, where he owns 305 acres of excellent land, which lies two and one- fourth miles southeast of Grampian, Pa., was born in the Bailey settlement, in Pike township, Clearfield county, August 11, 1830, and is a son of Ganer and Mary Elizabeth (McCracken) Passmore. Ganer Passmore was born on the same farm in Pike township which was the birthplace of his son, his father, Abraham Passmore, having been a pioneer settler there. Ganer Passmore married Mary Elizabeth McCracken and they continued to live on the old Passmore homestead. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They had five children, namely: Joseph and Hiram, both of whom are deceased; Eli; Henrietta, who lives near Madera, Pa.; and George C., of Penn township. George C. Passmore attended school in his youth in Penn, Pike and Ferguson townships, and went to work at lumbering for some years trying his strength in making lumber and his skill in rafting it down the river. For a short time following his marriage he lived in Bell township and then settled on his present farm in Penn township, where he carries on farming and stock raising. In 1850 Mr. Passmore was married to Miss Elizabeth Rice, who was born in Lycoming county, Pa., July 28, 1834, a daughter of William and Nancy Rice. She lost her parents in infancy. To Mr. and Mrs. Passmore five children have been born, namely: William; Allen, who is deceased; Viola, who is the wife of George Bowman, of DuBois, and they have two children - William and Lizzie; George McClelland, who married Matilda Happer, a daughter of Simon Happer, and they have four children - Sherman, Berna, Olive and Helen; and Irwin, who married Maude Sankey, lives in California and they have two children. In politics Mr. Passmore is a Democrat and being a man of high standing in his neighborhood, has frequently been elected to local offices and has served acceptably as school director, treasurer, assessor and road supervisor.