George W. Boosinger
George W. Boosinger, farmer, P. O. Brimfield, was born in Rootstown, this county, September 16, 1827, son of John and Barbara (Williard) Boosinger, who settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1816, the first family who settled here. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Conrad Boosinger, a native of Germany, who settled in Ravenna Township in 1800 and who in 1809 removed to Tallmadge, Summit Co., Ohio, where he resided until his death. John Boosinger, the father of ovir subject, was born in eastern Virginia March 17, 1785. In December, 1813, he married Barbara Williard, a daughter of Philip Williard, an early settler of Rootstown, and reared a family of eight children (see sketch of Philip Boosinger in Franklin Township). Mrs. Boosinger died March 28, 1867, at the age of seventy-seven years, and Mr. Boosinger died March 16, 1875, in his ninetieth year. Our subject was reared in Brimfield Township, this county, where he received a common school education. When twenty-two years of age he worked his father's farm, continuing with him until his death. He was married December 25, 1851, to Amanda M., daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Burdge,of Brimfield Township. By this union there were nine children: Elsie M. (Mrs. Joseph Meloy), Charles N. (deceased), Banks W., Charlie Q., Hoyt F., Frank L., Ida M., Henry S. and Hattie L. Mr. Boosinger came on the farm where he now resides in 1875, though he had owned it several years previous to that time. Both he and his wife are members of the First Universalist Church of Brimfield. He has held various offices in the township; in politics he is a Democrat.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885