G. W. Shires
G. W. Shires, one of the reliable citizens of Millersbourgh, is a native of Holmes County, born at Mount Hope in 1836, a son of Samuel and Rebecca (Richardson) Shires. His father was a native of Lancaster County, Penn., and his mother of Holmes County, her parents coming to America from Ireland. His father was a tailor in his young manhood, learning the trade in his native state. After coming to Holmes County he lived at Middletown, where he built a hotel, and later moved to Berlin, where he died at the age of sixty-one years.
George W. Shires was reared and educated in his native county, and when sixteen years old began to learn the blacksmith trade, which has been the occupation of his life. He came to Millersburgh in 1866, and has since been one of the enterprising, wide-awake citizens of the place. Mr. Shires enlisted at Berlin in the defense of his ccountry, in 1863, a member of Company C, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Ohio Infantry, and served one year. He was married in 1861 to Margaret, daughter of John Korns, an old settler of Berlin, and they have had four children, two of whom are living: Helen and Charles. Mr. Shires is a Democrat; is a member of the town council of Millersburgh, and a prominent one of the G. A. R. He and his wife are members of the Millersbourgh Episcopal Church.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889