- GEORGE A. McLAY, a man who has made his own way in the world,
is a successful farmer of
- Johnstown township, Rock county, Wisconsin, was born in La
Prairie township, Rock county, Wisconsin, on March 19, 1866.
He is a son of Duncan and Agnes (GENTLE) GRAHAM. His mother died
when he was six months old and a few years later his father moved
to the state of Kansas, where he met an untimely death by drowning.
Thus left an orphan when a young lad, George R. was taken into
the family of Mr. David McLAY, of Johnstown township, by whom
he was reared and whose family name he adopted. Here he spent
his boyhood and youth, attending the district schools and helping
with the farm work. He grew up with habits of industry, economy
and thrift, and on attaining his majority, began life on his
own account. Prosperous and successful, he accumulated sufficient
capital to own a farm of his own, and in 1898 bought what was
known as the George HANTHORN farm, comprising 160 acres in Section
32, Johnstown township. The place was favorably located and under
a good state of cultivation, and has been improved by Mr. McLAY
with a fine modern dwelling house, good barns and out buildings,
and all the appliances that pertain to an up-to-date model farm.
- On March 18, 1891, Mr. McLAY married Miss Belle W. SCOTT,
a daughter of William and
- Christina SCOTT, of La Prairie township. Mr. and Mrs. McLAY
have an interesting family of six children, viz.: Graham R.,
Agnes M., Grace C., Ivan G., Kirkland S. and Arthur G., all living
at home.
- Mr. McLAY has given himself to general farming with good
success, having a genius for hard
- work, and richly merits the social and domestic enjoyment
and comforts that have come as the result of his industrious
and upright life.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wis." by William Fiske
Brown, (c)1908, pp. 1033-1034.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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