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GEORGE UHRICH, blacksmith, Heyworth; is a native of Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio; he was born Oct. 4, 1829, and lived there until he was 15 years of age, when he went to Cadiz, Ohio, and was apprenticed to the trade of a blacksmith, and remained there until he was 18 years of age; he then worked transient until he was 21, when he engaged in the business for himself, at Uhrichsville, where he remained until the spring of 1857, when he came to Illinois, and stopped in Bloomington, remaining transient until 1859, when he came to Heyworth, and engaged with Mr. Forsby, who carried on a shop at this place; after working a few months, he engaged in the business on his own account (buying out a Mr. Graham, who also had a shop here) and is carrying on the business since. Adjoining his is a wagon shop, and in new work, the two shops work as one, thus giving each the advantage of the other, and enabling them to do all kind of building and repairing in their respective lines. On Sept. 12, 1852, he married Miss Adaline Brown, of Putnam Co., N. Y. They have five children.