Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....YONKIN, George W. 1836 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      GEORGE W. YONKIN. - Among the enterprising and successful farmers of
  Sullivan county, may be numbered the gentleman whose name heads this sketch and
  who is well known throughout Cherry township. He is a son of Henry and Barbre
  (Hartzigg) Yonkin, the father a native of France and the mother of Switzerland,
  whose history is given at length in the sketch of Hon. John Yonkin on another
  page of this volume. The family has for years resided in this county and its
  members are among the most prominent and well-to-do citizens.
  
      George W. Yonkin was born in Wyalusing, Bradford county, Pennsylvania,
  October 30, 1836, and remained with his parents until seventeen years of age,
  when he entered the employ of Colonel G. F. Mason, with whom he remained two
  years. He then went to Southport, where he worked one year for Lewis Miller, at
  the end of that time returning to Bradford county, where he was in the employ of
  William A. Parks for six years, most of this time being spent in lumber camps.
  Later he purchased from Mr. Ward, sixty-five acres of land, of which he
  immediately cleared eleven acres, and built a small frame house. He soon brought
  his farm into good shape and by industry and perseverance he made it productive
  and profitable. In 1862 he came to Sullivan county, and in 1878 he built his
  present residence, a comfortable house of two stories. He is popular in his
  neighborhood and has served two terms as path-master. He is a member of the
  Reformed Lutheran church and in politics is a Democrat. Mr. Yonkin was married
  July 21, 1861, at Le Roy, Pennsylvania, to Miss Mary J. Sweeney, and of this
  union three children have been born. Emily married Lloyd McCarthy, and lives at
  Dushore, Pennsylvania; G. Addison, who married Miss Vernie Zaner, is a farmer in
  Cherry township; John Married Miss Agnes Lutzelman, and keeps a tavern in Lopez,
  Sullivan county.
  
      Mrs. Yonkin is a daughter of John and Mary (Conners) Sweeney, and was born
  in county Clare, Ireland, December 10, 1841. Her parents came to America in
  1852, settling in Canton, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where her father
  followed his trade as a shoemaker. He died in that city in November, 1875, aged
  sixty-three years, his wife surviving until 1888, when she, too, passed away, at
  the ripe old age of seventy-three years.  Their remains are interred in Towanda,
  Pennsylvania. The children of this worthy couple were: Mary J., wife of our
  subject; Bridget, who became the wife of Thomas Carmedy, of Bernice,
  Pennsylvania; John, living in Tioga county, Pennsylvania; Ella and James, who
  died in childhood; James, employed in the state library at Harrisburg,
  Pennsylvania; and Anna, who died at an early age. The paternal grandparents of
  Mrs. Yonkin were Charles and Hannah Sweeney, who spent their entire lives in
  their native country, Ireland. Her maternal grandparents, also, were natives of
  Ireland.
  
      Mr. and Mrs. Yonkin are pleasantly situated, and are enjoying the results of
  their early years of labor and care. They are interested in all the public
  movements of the day and give their aid to all worthy objects.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from: 
    
  History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
  by Thomas J. Ingham
    
  Compendium of Biography
    
  The Lewis Publishing Company
  Chicago: 1899
  
  
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