Charles H. George

    Charles H. George is a native of Jefferson County, and was born December 4, 1849. He is the son of Thomas D. and Elizabeth (Clark) George, natives of Trimble County, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio respectively.

    His grandfather, Milton George, came from Kentucky and settled in Madison Township, Jefferson County, in 1830.

    His maternal grandfather, Capt. Samuel Clark, is a native of Baltimore, Maryland; he came to Madison, Indiana in 1831. He was a steamboat captain on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and lost his life by the explosion of the boilers of the "Gen. Brown," November 25, 1838.

    Thomas D. George, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Trimble County, Kentucky, and died November 15, 1869, at the age of forty-five years. He was a man honored by those who knew him, and was prominent in his own township, holding township offices at one time. He was actively engage din the Baptist ministry during the last fifteen years of his life.

    Thomas George, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of the early settlers of Madison, having taught school there. He was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. E. George, the mother of Charles H. George, was one of the earliest pupils of the Lower Seminary at Madison, Mr. Reynolds being the teacher. Mr. C. H. George owns 172 acres of land.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.