Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, June 13, 1830. His parents lived all of their days in Scotland and George came to America in 1854, locating first in Canada, where he lived two years, at the end of which time, in 1856, he came to Iowa, locating in Harrison county. For fifty-one years he toiled with his good wife and his sturdy sons and daughters as a farmer in this county, and it was not until 1907 that he finally retired from active life and moved to Missouri Valley. Mr. Richardson was married in 1856, to Anna Coulthard, who was born in Canada, January 29, 1841. During the active years of his life Mr. Richardson took a great interest in the civic life of the county. He came to America in the year the Republican party was formed and has always cast his ballot in behalf of the Republican candidates. His party, recognizing his worth as a citizen, nominated and elected him to the state Legislature of Iowa serving in the Eighteenth General Assembly, 1880, and in the Legislature he made a creditable record. He is a man of kindly disposition and charitably inclined towards the faults of others. He has always been willing to help those less fortunate than himself, and many are the acts of kindness which he has done. The family are loyal members of the Presbyterian Church.