George D. McGrew
George D. McGrew, farmer, P. O. Earlville, was born in Streetsboro, this county, November 18, 1838; son of George B. and Susannah (Martin) McGrew, latter of whom died February 29, 1884. She was a daughter of Robert and Mary Martin. George B. McGrew was born in Springfield, Mahoning Co., Ohio, March 6, 1803, son of Archibald and Margaret (Baird) McGrew, natives of Westmoreland County, Penn. He was reared in Springfield (now Summit County), Ohio, where he lived until thirty years of age, and in 1833 settled in Streetsboro, this county, and cleared and improved the farm now owned by R. H. Peck, where he resided up to 1860, when he settled on his present farm in the southern part of the township, a part of which he also cleared. He was married, February 6, 1838, to Susannah, daughter of Robert and Mary Martin, of Beaver County, Penn., by whom he had ten children: George D., William T., Mary (deceased), Robert M. (deceased), Margaret B., Archibald D., Marcia F., Sarah E., Scott M., Susan D. (Mrs. A. N. Sperry). The father is a prominent member of and a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church, with which he has been connected upward of fifty years. The subject of this sketch was reared in his native place, where he has always resided, and was educated in the common and high schools. He served in the late war of the Rebellion, enlisting August 9, 1862, in the Ninth Ohio Independent Battery, and was honorably discharged June 16, 1865. He was married, November 18, 1869, to Alvira E., daughter of Samuel and Emily (Newton) Stone, of Tallmadge, Ohio, by whom he has had five children: George B. (deceased), Alvin N., Susan R., Emma D. and Bertha M. Mr. and Mrs. McGrew are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is an officer; he has been Superintendent of the Sabbath-school several terms. Our subject is a member of the G. A. R. In politics he is a Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885