"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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GEORGE W. BASS is a native of Johnson County, Ind., and was born June 20,
1842. His parents, Josiah H. and Elizabeth (Robinson) Bass, natives of
Kentucky, had seven children, of which George W. was the sixth, and with
three older brothers. His youth was spent upon the farm, and his education
acquired at Greenwood High School in his native county. In the summer of
1862, he enrolled at Springfield, Mo., in Company I, First Missouri Calvary,
and served to the close of the war. The first year of his service was spent
scouting in Southwestern Missouri and Northeastern Texas; and he also
participated in the battle of Prairie Grove and the Van Buren (Arkansas)
raid. He was at the siege of Vicksburg as Orderly to Gen. Herron, and
afterward saw service at the following places in their order: Yazoo, Miss.,
Baton Rouge, Carrollton, Morganza Bend, and New Orleans, La. From
Brownsville, Tex., he returned to Baton Rouge, where he had charge of the
division mail for some time, when he was ordered to his regiment, then at
Little Rock, Ark., from which place he was honorably discharged from the
service. After leaving the army, he clerked awhile in a dry goods house, a
drug store, and finally, in the year 1874, settled down in the drug business
at New Augusta, Ind., where he remained four years. In 1878, he removed to
Mooresville, where he has since been engaged in the drug business. On
November 8, 1871, he was married at Greenwood, Ind., to Mary E., daughter of
W.A. Woods, Esq. By this marriage he has had born to him three
children--Frank R., Charlie W. and Nellie B. The mother of these children,
died March 30, 1880, and October 27, 1881, Mr. Bass was married in Morgan
County to Martha T. (Turley) Bray. Both he and his wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Bass belongs to the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and Knights of Honor, of which latter lodge he is present
Financial Reporter. He owns a small farm in Johnson County, and his
residence in Mooresville, as also the business property in which he carries
a lucrative drug trade.
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