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George Rule
Clinton County
A native of Roxburghshire, Scotland, where he was born, February 13,1821. He was brought by his parents to America in 1836. On their arrival to this country, they located in St. Lawrence county, New York, where the father engaged at his trade, being a miller, which occupation he followed all his life. George lived at home during his minority. At the age of sixteen he went into the mill and acquired a knowledge of the trade, which he has ever since followed. At the age of twenty years, he had charge of the St. John's Market Mills, near London, Canada West. At the age of twenty-one he was married to Miss Ellen Columbus, a Canadian and of French origin, her father being a native of France. After spending a year and a half in Cold water, Michigan mostly in charge of the Crippin' Coldwater Merchant Mills, he moved to Iowa. This was in 1854, when the State was comparatively new. For six months he worked in Muscatine and from thence he engaged in the Pine Creek Mills, in Muscatine county. In 1855 he moved to De Witt, in Clinton county, where he worked in the De Witt Mills for some three years. In 1858 he rented his father's mills at Spring Rock, Clinton county, which he run until the spring of 1863. At this time he bought the Alden Mills, in the northeast part of Hardin county. Politically he is an uncompromising radical Republican . He never consented to hold an office until the fall of 1871, when he yielded to an urgent request and became a candidate for the State Legislature, to which position he was elected. Although new in the harness, he proved himself to be more of a worker than talker, taking the deepest interest in every measure calculated to foster the agricultural prosperity of the state. Socially he is a good and reliable member of society. He is a speculative Mason where he advanced to the Knight Templar' Degree. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
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