George W. Hanmore
The people of Mill Township during the past years have felt that the affairs of the town and especially of the schools were never entrusted to better hands than the management of the present trustee, George W. Hanmore. Mr. Hanmore is a well known young business man and represents a family which has been identified with Grant County since about the middle of the last century. His ancestry on the paternal line is Irish. His grandfather, Martin Hanmore, Sr., was born in Roscommon County, Ireland, and was of old stock and Catholic in religion. Martin, Sr., was a tiller of the soil, and in his home country married Mary Roan. Several of their children were born in Ireland, and they then started for America in 1856, landing in New Orleans, and from that city coming up the Mississippi River to the Middle States. Martin Hanmore, like a great many of his compatriots, found his first employment on a railroad. In a year or so he arrived in Grant county and settled on land in the Mississinewa Valley in Mill Township. There Martin Hanmore, Sr., and wife, lived and died. His death occurred when he was about fifty years of age, while his wife survived a long time and was past eighty years of age at her death. They were faithful Catholics in religion, and worshiped in that faith until the close of their lives.
Of their children was martin Hanmore, Jr., who was born in Ireland, October 16, 1845, and who was about ten years old when he crossed the ocean with his parents. He had two brothers: Thomas, now deceased, married and left two daughters, both of whom are married; and Dr. John J. Hanmore, who is now serving as coroner in Champaign County, Ohio, is married and has a son, who is also married. there were also two sisters: Mary, wife of Robert Brushwiller, of Detroit, and with a son and daughter living, and Jane E., wife of J. E. Parker, of Chicago, and Mrs. parker by a former marriage has one daughter. Martin Hanmore, Jr., grew up in Grant county, and since reaching his majority has been steadily engaged as a farmer. Recently he retired and now lies comfortably in Jonesboro. The people of this county have long esteemed him as one of the substantial representative citizens, and a man whose substantial qualities have made him a valued factor in local life. In Mill Township, Martin Hanmore, Jr., married Sarah A. Entsminger, of one of the old families in this section. She was born in Mill Township, November 3, 1846, and her entire life has been spent here. She and her husband for many years have been active members of the Presbyterian Church, Martin Hanmore, Jr., having left the faith of his father. In politics Martin Hanmore is a democrat, and has voted and worked for the good of his party. Mrs. Hanmore comes of a family which was for many years prominent in Virginia, and has lived in Grant County since 1830. She is a granddaughter of John and a daughter of David Entsminger, both of whom were natives of Virginia, and came more than eighty years ago to Mill Township in Grant County. As tillers of the soil and owners of considerable amounts of land, the Entsminger's identified themselves substantially with the pioneer Grant County, and the name has been esteemed and honored in this vicinity ever since. Grandfather John Entsminger was quite old when he died, and David was near middle life. John Entsminger married Sarah Knick, of Virginia, who died in grant county, when quite old. David Entsminger married Melvina Adamson, of Grant County, Indiana. The Entsminger's had been Presbyterians in religion for a number of generations. John Entsminger was a charter member of the First Presbyterian Church in Mill Township. David Entsminger and wife had the following children: Levi, John, Matilda, David and Mrs. Martin Hanmore.
George W. Hanmore is one of the three living children. His brother, David E. Hanmore, died after his marriage and had one child, also deceased. Rosetta Hanmore is the wife of Albert L. Parks, a farmer in Mill Township; their children are Ora O. and Delight, both of whom are married. John M. Hanmore is a resident in Mill Township, follows farming, and by his marriage to Ione Scrambling has one son, Keith.
George W. Hanmore grew up in Mill Township, where he was born February 25, 1880. His education was given by the local schools, being a graduate of the Gas City High School in the Class of 1900, and later taking a course in the Marion Business College. He studied embalming, of which he is a graduate, and for several years practiced in Mill Township but is now retired from that profession, and handles a general line of insurance. He has done a prosperous business in all the undertakings to which he has devoted his attention.
In November, 1908, Mr. Hanmore was elected Township Trustee, and is the first Democrat elected to that office in the history of Mill Township. His proficiency and careful administration have well justified his choice. Mr. Hanmore was married in this county to Miss Ethel Fern Friedline, who was born in Geneva, Indiana, in 1888, was educated in this county. They are the parents of one child, George W., Jr., born September 30, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Hanmore are interested in religious matters, his church being the Presbyterian and hers the Methodist. He has for a number of years been one of the local leaders in the Democratic party.
Centennial History of Grant County Indiana 1812-1912. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.