- GEORGE HOWARD, Pastor of the Advent Christian Church at Magnolia,
also farmer, Secs. 14
- and 24; P.O. Magnolia; born April 15, 1830 in Herkimer Co.,
N.Y., where he was educated. In 1844, he began to work on the
Erie Canal; in the fall of 1848, went to Illinois and worked
on the Illinois Canal, and visited Wisconsin; went home, and
in the spring of 1849, returned to Wisconsin and settled on land
he had bought the previous winter in Magnolia Township; he remained
here farming till the spring of 1852, when he went to California,
gold digging; in 1855, he returned and has since been farming,
but at different times, has followed other occupations in connection;
from 1858 to 1861, a store in Magnolia Village with his brother,
and from then till 1866 bought grain and stock to ship to Chicago
and Milwaukee. His farm consists of 130 acres of land, on which
he raises grain and stock; he also makes creamery butter for
the market; he built his homestead in 1868. In 1871, he was
ordained minister by the Wisconsin Conference of the Advent Christian
Church, and same year was elected Pastor of the Church at Magnolia,
and still officiates in that high calling. He has been President
of the Conference for two years up to date, and Secretary of
the Wisconsin Missionary Society for the same length of time.
He married Miss Parmelia ANDREW, of Herkimer Co., N.Y., March
14, 1849; they had three children - Alice E., born June 6, 1850,
and died April 11, 1875; Fannie V., born Oct. 15, 1856; George
H., born Sept. 20, 1860. He was Town Clerk for two years, Treasurer
for two years, and Side Supervisor for two years; is Chairman
of the Supervisors for the second year. The family are members
of his Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 878-879.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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