George E. Mahaffy Biography


	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
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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. Page 688

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HON. GEORGE E. MAHAFFY, county treasurer of Beadle county, South 
Dakota, is a gentleman of worth to his community, who has been one of 
its foremost citizens for honest dealings, and as such holds his 
present high position. He is a native of Hebron, Washington county, New 
York, and was born August 17, 1847, of Scotch-Irish descent. His 
parents were John and Mary (Hugging) Mahaffy, and are both deceased. Of 
their six children our subject is the fifth in order of birth. The 
father was a farmer by occupation and moved from the Empire state to 
Marquette county, Wisconsin, when our subject was a child. He cleared a 
heavily timbered farm, which upon his death was placed in charge of our 
subject. 

In 1876 our subject developed a farm in Fillmore county. in addition to 
school teaching, for which he had prepared himself by attending the 
Iowa City University, and later the state university at Madison. In 
1882 he moved to Dakota, and filed on land in Whiteside township. He 
developed a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, on which he now has 
a tenant. The farm is well improved, with a comfortable residence, good 
granary, machine sheds, a thirty-eightfoot-deep well with windmill 
attached, and other conveniences which make farm life pleasant. Mr. 
Mahaffy was married January 1, 1874, to Miss Susie J. Allen. Their home 
has been blessed by the birth of one son, Ralph J. 

Mr. Mahaffy is an advocate of temperance and Republican principles, and 
is prominent in political circles, having held some of the more 
important offices, not only of his county, but the state. He has served 
on numerous important committees, and was elected to the first general 
assembly of the state of South Dakota, and in 1898 was called upon to 
fill the office of treasurer of Beadle county, and is performing his 
duty with fidelity and increasing popularity.