PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
December 1, 1999
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

GEORGE W. BOOSINGER, farmer, P.O. Brimfield, was born in Rootstown, this
county, September 16, 1827, son of John and Barbara (Williard) Boosinger,
who settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1816, the first family
who settled here.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was Conrad
Boosinger, a native of Germany, who settled in Ravenna Township in 1800 and
who in 1809 removed to Tallmadge, Summitt Co., Ohio, where he resided until
his death.  John Boosinger, the father of our subject, was born in eastern
Virginia March 17, 1785.  In December, 1813, he married Barbara Williard, a
daughter of Philip Williard, an early settler of Rootstown, and reared a
family of eight children.  Mrs. Boosinger died March 28, 1867, at the age of
seventy-seven years, and Mr. Boosinger died March 16, 1875, in his ninetieth
year.  Our subject was reared in Brimfield Township, this county, where he
received a common school education.  When twenty-two years of age he worked
his father’s farm, continuing with him until his death.  He was married
December 25, 1851, to Amanda M., daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Burdge of
Brimfield Township.  By this union there were nine children:  Elsie M. (Mrs.
Joseph Meloy), Charles N. (deceased), Banks W., Charlie Q., Hoyt F., Frank
L., Ida M., Henry S. and Hattie L.  Mr. Boosinger came on the farm where he
now resides in 1875, though he had owned it several years previous to that
time.  Both he and his wife are members of the First Universalist Church of
Brimfield.  He has held various offices in the township; in politics he is a
Democrat.