George Baxter Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: George Baxter: (Curley) was born near Fairview, August 19th, 1828. His father moved from near Wellsburg, where he was born. He married in 1818, and his wife lived but a few years. In 1825 he was again united in marriage, to Miss Ruth McGuire, who was born on the Hooker farm, not far from where he lived. Our subject remained with his father, assisting him in farming and attending the common schools. On the 18th of August, 1870, he married Miss Eliza Kinney, daughter of Isaac Kinney. He has been engaged in farming most of his life, and owns the old homestead, where he is now living.