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GEORGE POMEROY, a wealthy farmer and stock-grower of Washington township, Franklin county, Nebr., was born in Lee county, Iowa, in 1849, and is a son of George and Rose Anna (Throush) Pomeroy, the former of whom was born in Ohio and moved thence to Lee county, Iowa, and then to Wapello, where he died in 1883, having followed the most of his life the business of carder and cloth-dresser. In 1835 he married Rose Anna Throush, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1815, and from that state was taken by her parents to Ohio. She became the mother of eleven children, three of whom died in infancy, the living eight being— Mrs. Hannah Margaret Kellow, of Oregon; Thomas M., of Muscatine county, Iowa; Mrs. Ann Stretch, of Taylor, Iowa; Mrs. Ellen Jane Cloyd, of Ottumwa, Iowa; Mrs. Rose Ann Harsh, of Riverton, Nebr.; George, the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Emma Hawkins, of Muscatine county, Iowa, and Grimes, in Ottumwa, Iowa.

George Pomeroy, the subject of this sketch, when eight years of age was taken from Lee county, Iowa, to Wapello, by his parents, and thence to Muscatine county; from there he returned to Wapello, where he resided until 1874, when he came to Nebraska and settled on his present farm on section 30, township 1, range 13 west, in Franklin county. He began his business life in 1872 with comparatively no capital; he now owns about five hundred acres of good land, one hundred head of cattle and a number of horses, all gained by hard work and good judgment and management.

The marriage of Mr. Pomeroy took place in 1872, in Iowa, to Miss Margaret Harsh, who was born in 1853 in Ohio. To this union have been born four children, namely — Daniel W., Laura, who died in 1879; an unnamed child who died in infancy, and Rose, at home. In politics Mr. Pomeroy is a republican, but he has never been a seeker after public office.