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GEORGE H. McCOMB, farmer and blacksmith, Section 5, Town 21; P. O. Heyworth; born in Indiana Co., Penn., July 16, 1822. He was a son of James McComb, who was born Oct. 14, 1785, in the same county and State, where he followed farming until his decease, which occurred April, 1865, upward of 80 years of age. He was married to Jane Laughlin in 1813 or 1814; she was also born in the same county, April 27, 1788; they were the parents of eight children, of whom five now survive. The subject of this sketch attended the common school until 18 years of age, when he learned and worked at the blacksmith trade until 1869, at which time he emigrated West and located upon his present place where he has since lived; he first purchased eighty acres of land upon Sec. 5, to which he has since added by purchase until he now owns 160 acres of good prairie land, which he has accumulated by his own hard labor, energy and industry, in which he has been nobly assisted by his amiable wife, to whom he was united in marriage on the 10th day of March, 1847; she was born in Armstrong Co., Penn., Jan. 8, 1829; her maiden name was Caroline Irwin; they are the parents of nine children — Corydon I., born Dec. 16, 1847; Mary A., Sept. 23, 1850; Emma V., May 31, 1853; James B., Oct. 31, 1855; Thomas R., May 27, 1858; Elmer E., Aug. 20, 1861, died Sept. 13, 1869; George W., born May 31, 1864, died Aug. 14, 1870 (killed by being thrown from a horse); Carrie J., born Nov. 24, 1866, died March 5, 1870; Annie Bell, born Oct. 1, 1869. Mr. McComb was an old-line Whig, and joined the Republican party upon its organization, and has since labored for the success of the same He is a strong temperance advocate. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1848; his wife became a member about the same time; three of the elder children are also members of the same Church.