George D. Eagleston

George D. Eagelston, son of William and Emeline S. (Fargo) Eagelston, was born in Kickapoo township, Peoria county, April 26, 1849. His father was a native of Albany, N. Y., and mother of Ashtabula, O., as related in the history of the Eagelston family of Wyoming. In 1852 the family moved from Peoria county to Stark county, and here George D. received his early education, and completed a course of study at Cole's Business College, Peoria, in 1872-3. From this period until the spring of 1874 he was engaged in the cattle trade in Texas. On returning he began farming and dealing in horses, making a shipment of horses to the eastern market during the season of 1874. Since that time he has been engaged in stock-growing and agriculture here. On September 10, 1874, his marriage with Miss Phoebe A., daughter of James and Parmelia (Eustis) Woods, was celebrated. Her parents were natives of Ohio and Indiana, respectively, and her paternal grandparents, Jeremiah and Margaret (Wooster) Woods, were natives of Ohio. To this marriage four children were born: James W., May 20, 1875 ; Harry H., February 8, 1877; Henry M., February 21, 1878, and George W., March 1, 1881. In 1874 Mr. Eagelston purchased eighty acres on section 22, which he sold in 1878, and purchased ninety-three acres on section 5. In politics he was Republican up to 1878, when the Goddess of Greenbackism won his affections. For four years he has served as school director, is at present clerk of the board and highway commissioner. In Masonic circles he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Eastern Star, as related in the history of Wyoming. In religious thought he is Christian, but not a member of any particular sect. Mary Farwell, born at Dublin, N. H., in 1795, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gleason, near Castleton, March 9, 1886. Her husband died in New Hampshire in 1856.