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GEORGE H. McNEELY, a native of Boone County, Ky., was born June 14, 1835. His father, John McNeely, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1805, and settled near Petersburg, Boone Co., Ky., in the winter of 1817-18, where he lived for twenty-five years; he afterward moved to Gallatin County, and settled near Napoleon, where he still resides. He was postmaster at Pittsburgh in Boone County, and at Walnut Lick, Gallatin County, for a number of years. He married Rebecca Alloway, of Boone County, daughter of Archie and Huldah Alloway, who bore him eleven children, the subject of this sketch being the fifth child. Robert McNeely, the grandfather of George H., a native of Pennsylvania, settled in Boone County, Ky., in an early day, where he lived until his death. The paternal grandfather of our subject took part in the war of 1812. George H. McNeely was educated in the common schools of Boone County at Burlington and Petersburg; has always been a farmer, and owns 300 acres of well cultivated land. He settled in Gallatin County in 1860 on the Ohio River at Jackson’s Landing, where he remained for eight years, when he removed to a farm on South Fork Creek, and successfully farmed for fourteen years; he afterward moved to his present location. October 18, 1860, he married Mary Clements, of Gallatin County, daughter of David and Mary (Hance) Clements, natives of Kentucky. The birth of six sons and five daughters followed their union, viz.: John, Mary R., Evaline, Charles, Elizabeth, Henry H., Roddard, Alice, William, Lula (deceased) and Paul. Lula died July 30, 1870. Politically Mr. McNeely is a Democrat. He has been a magistrate eight years and also a school trustee. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and with his wife a member of the Baptist Church.