BIOGRAPHIES: George W. SANKEY, Lima Township, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by:  oldstufn@hotmail.com  on  9 July 2005
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George W. Sankey, who is engaged in dairying and stock raising on a
farm of 210 acres in section 33, Lima township, Pepin county, was
born in Nelson township, Buffalo county, Wisconsin, Sept. 19, 1865,
son of Christian and Mary Ann (Cathcart) Joiner Sankey. He attended
school in his native township and also at Crookston, Minn. In July,
1879, when in his fourteenth year, he went to Minnesota, where he
worked out for a number of years, returning to Buffalo county in
1887. There, about two years later, he was married and bought his
first land in Canton township, where he resided eight years. Selling
his property there in 1899, he came to his present farm, a valuable
and well-improved place, where he is doing a good business in
dairying and stock raising, breeding Guernsey cattle of which he has
a number of imported animals, and Poland-China hogs. His farm is
registered as Oak Grove Guernsey Farm. Mr. Sankey is also a
stockholder in the Inter-County Telephone Company. He belongs to the
Blue Lodge of Masons at Durand and to the camp of Modern Woodmen of
America at the same place, having been a member of the latter for
twenty years. He is now serving as a clerk of his school district. In
politics he is independent, and, religiously, was reared a Methodist.
Mr. Sankey was married Nov. 25, 1889, to Lora E. Sweet, who was born
at Modena, Buffalo county, Wisconsin, Jan. 8, 1864, daughter of Eri
P. and Sarah Elizabeth (Bowen) Sweet. Of this marriage, five children
have been born: Lillian Orma, Eri O., Homer Vere, Levi and Robert B.
Lillian Orma is the wife of John Farner, Jr., a farmer of Colfax,
Dunn county, Wisconsin, and has one child, Donald. Eri O., residing
with his father married Ethel June Cantrell, of Downsville, and has
one child, Howard Leroy. Homer Vere, formerly employed in the
creamery, is now in France as a member of the 341st U.S. Infantry.
Levi is in the marine service of the United States. Robert is living
at home.

-Transcribed from the "History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties
Wisconsin, 1919," page 644

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