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George McCoy
Benton County
Born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, June 26, 1800, and died April 6, 1863. He was a soldier in the Thirty-seventh Iowa Vol. Infantry, known as the Gray Beards. He was united in married November 28, 1822, at Washington County, Ind., to Miss Polly McKinney. He removed from Kentucky to Orange Co., Ind., in 1822. He lived a while in Washington Co., Ind. In 1851 he emigrated to Iowa and settled on a farm in Harrison Township. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, was a zealous temperance advocate, and strong abolitionist; fond of debate, and frequently engaged in public discussion of the leading questions of the day. He was elected to the Iowa State Senate from Benton County, 1855, and served in sessions of 1856 and 1858. He was the author of a bill locating the State Institution for the Blind at Vinton, Iowa. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
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