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  1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

	GEORGE WOLCOTT, deceased, was born in Torrington, Conn., July 26, 1806, 
and was one of a family of twelve children. When sixteen years old he 
removed with his parents, Guy and Abigail (Allyn) Wolcott, to Summit 
County, Ohio. His father dying in August of that year, he had charge of the 
home farm unitl 1828, when he went to Wadsworth and engaged in farming 
until 1832. August 6, 1828, he married Miss Margaret Hine, of Tallmadge, 
Ohio, and for a time was engaged in saw-milling and the manufacture of 
fanning-mills at Wadsworth. In 1836, he sold his possessions here, and in 
March, 1837, he located on the southern line of Johnson Township, where he 
commenced reclaiming the then unbroken forest. One of the first industries 
started by Mr. Wolcott was a mill fed by a race half a mile long, which he 
dug himself. By this excellent management, it was not long before a little 
settlement sprang up around him, which took the name of Wolcottville, in 
his honor, now a thriving village of 500 inhabitants. He built mills, 
shops, stores, houses, etc. He erected the Wolcottville Seminary, hired 
teachers, and through his endeavors made Wolcottville what it now is. He 
was peculiar in disposition, but was a friend to the poor and needy, and at 
an early day did much to relieve those suffering from fever and ague, then 
so prevalent. In politics he was a Whig, but afterward a Republican.  He 
died March 31, 1857, but his widow is yet living, at the advanced age of 
seventy-eight, in Wolcottville. They were the parents of six children -Ann 
L., Abby A., Rowena R., Almira J. (deceased), Elton R., Marshall F. and 
Amelia M. (deceased). Mrs. Wolcott is living a retired life on her property 
near the village; she owns seventy-four acres of good land and is one of 
the highly esteemed old settlers of Johnson Township.

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