George Duxbury Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 1097-1098

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GEORGE DUXBURY, a prosperous farmer of McCook county, is the owner of 
one half-section of land in Pearl township. He was born in England in 
1835, and was the youngest son in a family of nine children born to 
William and Ann (Whittiker) Duxbury. 

When our subject was but two years of age his parents came to America 
with their family and landed in New York, from the sailing vessel 
"Virginia," in 1838. They settled near Salem, Massachusetts, where the 
mother died, and in 1840 the father moved to Rock county, and there 
passed the remainder of his life. Our subject remained with his father 
until about sixteen years ago, when he began work in the cotton mills 
of Salem, Massachusetts, and then went to Cambridge, where for a short 
time he was engaged at the trade of blacksmithing. He went to Fillmore 
county, Minnesota, in 1856, where he took a pre-emption claim and 
engaged in farming there fifteen years. He entered a claim to the 
northwest quarter of section 23, in Pearl township, McCook county, 
South Dakota, in 1 88 1, and his present farm constitutes the north 
half of the same section of land. He has a well improved estate and has 
gained a comfortable competence. 

Mr. Duxbury was married in 1861 to Miss Mary Mills, who died in 1869. 
Three children were born to this union: Mary E., deceased; Henrietta, 
now Mrs. William Dunn; and Sarah Ann, now Mrs. Hiram Greene, of the 
state of Washington. Mr. Duxbury married Miss Rose Carpenter in 1871. 
Mrs. Duxbury died in 1878, leaving two children, Willie A., a teacher, 
residing at home, and John H. Mr. Duxbury has served as township 
treasurer three times and has been a member of the township board, and 
takes an active part in educational affairs. Politically he is a 
Republican.