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George Issac Willsie

Birth	:	29 Apr 1853 Canada
Death	:	1921
Burial	:	Holy Rosary Cemetery, Detroit Lakes, Becker County, USA
Coordinate	:	46.8159720, -95.8529560
Plot	:	9 74 C
Description	:	The following is from the Memorial and Biographical Record of Turner County, SD, published by Geo. A Ogle and Co in 1897. GEORGE I. WILLSIE, an enterprising, successful, and highly respected farmer, located in section 7 of Parker township, Turner county, is one of the early settlers of the locality where he resides. By birth he is a Canadian and was born near Montreal April 29, 1S54, a son of W. H. and Cynthia (Hardin) Willsie. W. H. was a native of New York, where he was reared and married our George's mother, she being also a native of the Empire state.... Read More	The following is from the Memorial and Biographical Record of Turner County, SD, published by Geo. A Ogle and Co in 1897. GEORGE I. WILLSIE, an enterprising, successful, and highly respected farmer, located in section 7 of Parker township, Turner county, is one of the early settlers of the locality where he resides. By birth he is a Canadian and was born near Montreal April 29, 1S54, a son of W. H. and Cynthia (Hardin) Willsie. W. H. was a native of New York, where he was reared and married our George's mother, she being also a native of the Empire state. He was a farmer by occupation, and shortly after marriage removed to Canada, where he resided for about ten years, coming later to northern Iowa. There he engaged in the general merchandise business, owning several stores in the locality. The war then began in earnest, and he fed during that period of strife about one hundred families. His generosity proved disastrous to him and his business, and he lost nearly all he ever made. He died at the age of seventy years, and hiswife at sixty-seven. They were the parents of nine children, two sons and seven daughters, all of whom are now living, viz.: Matilda, wife of Dr. A. B. Sage, of MichiganCity, Ind.; Mrs. Helen Leggett, residing in Arkansas; Mrs. Luthera Beatie, of South Bend, Ind. ; Mrs. Charity McClellan, a teacher in Des Moines, Iowa; Lucinda, a faith doctor of Chicago; Mrs. Cynthia Congdon, whose husband is an operator on the ChicagoBoard of Trade; Mrs. Mary Rankin,residingin Missouri; H. H., also of Missouri; and our subject, George I. George was the eldest son and six months old when his parents removed to Iowa. When he was twelve years of age his father started farther west, first locating in Kansas, and then back to Iowa and later settled in Missouri, where his demise occurred. George remained with his parents and grew to maturity, attending the common schools of the districts where he resided and finishing with a course of study at Amity college, of College Springs, Page Co., Iowa. In 1875, when he was twenty-one years old, he started for California by railroad. He first went to Humboldt county and from there down the coast to Santa Rosa, and thence back to San Francisco. From the starting time until he came back to Missouri he was gone thirteen months, and on his return he and his brother rented a farm in Missouri, which they carried on for four years. At the expiration of that time our subject came to what is now South Dakota, entered a farm of 320 acres, built a sod house for shelter and started in to break up and improve his farm. He has worked hard and is now the owner of 200 acres of well-improved property, on which he has set out a grove of trees and built a good substantial house and outbuildings. Mr. Willsie was married in 1883 to Miss Anna Bacher, a native of Pennsylvania, where she passed her girlhood, and by this union they have become the parents of three children, viz. : Belle, Helen, and Lois. Politically Mr. Willsie is a Populist and a strong supporter of the doctrines of that party. Is a member of the boards of education and supervisors, and also holds the position of United States statistical reporter. Socially he belongs to the I. O. 0. F. No. 88, and A. O. U. W. No. 2, lodges at Parker, of both of which he is a member. George married Edith Smith in 1911.

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Latitude: 46.8159720
Longitude: -95.8529560

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Spouse

Annie B. Bacher Willsie

(1857 - 1898)

Edith Smith Willsie

(1873 - 1966)

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