Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — REV. G. C. HADDOCK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REV. G. C. HADDOCK.

Sketch of the Temperance Advocate Murdered in Sioux City, lowa. Rev. George C. Haddock was born in Watertown, N. Y., in the year 1831. He received a fair education at the Black River Institute, of that place, where he was an industrious and exemplary student. After learning the printing business, he worked as a journeyman in various places for some years. He then settled down at Beaver Dam, Wis., where he published a paper. This was in 1855, four

years after his marriage. In 1863 he entered the Methodist ministry at Port Washington, Wis. He subsequently filled several appointments in Wisconsin. In 1880 he was appointed to Burlington, lowa. After serving in that charge and at Fort Dodge, in October, 1885, he removed to Sioux City, where he was so foully murdered. He was a man of powerful physique, and had on several occasions proved his ability, when opportunity was given, to defend himself against brutal attacks. Mr. Haddock’s only child, a son, is practicing, law at Oshkosh, Wis.