People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — GEORGE O. PUMPHREY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEORGE O. PUMPHREY.

George O. Pumphrey was born in Connersville, Fayette county, Indiana, June 18, 1843. Spent his early life on farms in Fayette, Marshall and Newton counties. At 18 he volunteered under Capt. Moore, Co. E, 99tb Indiana volunteer infantry, and served in General Logan’s fifteenth corps three years. Was

in all the engage merits and marches of his regiment from Vicksburg to Missionary Ridge, also in the Atlanta campaign. Thence with General Sherman to the sea; north by the way of Beauford and Columbia, S. C.* Raleigh, N. C., Petersburg, Richmond, Old Fredrichsburg, Va., to Washington, D. C., at the grand review the 23d and 24th of May, 1865, where his regiment was mustered out. Then he came to Indianapolis and was discharged, June 15th, 1865, never having been absent from his company during his enlistment. Mr. Pumphrey left a father, mother and only sister, who now lives in Boise city, Idaho. His mother died in his absence and his father in a few weeks after his return. After traveling some and working at different occupations he married Miss Isabel Morris of Rushville, Indiana, and Went to farming and stock raising in Newton county, Ihdiana, where he lived until two years ago when he moved to Rensselaer and occupys suburban property in the north-western part of the city, where he has built some very good improvements and is planting quite an extensive fruit and berry tract at the corner of Jefferson and Merritt streets. His family consists of wife and two sons, Bruce and Newton, both teachers of good repute, one a teacher in the graded schools at Brook, Ind. They are also agents for some of the largest publishing houses in Chicago and other cities, for teachers helps and school libraries, and the People’s New Encyclopedia. These young men deserve great credit for being hard workers in the public schools of Newton county, and introducing libraries into the schools there and elsewhere. They also take a great interest in any thing they can do for superintendent Pfrimmer, “Kankakee Poet”, in his educational exhibits.

GEORGE O, PUMPHREY.