Doughterty.George.1823.Unknown.BIOS



GEORGE W. DOUGHERTY, proprietor of the Spring Mill near Paoli, is son of
GABRIEL and SARAH (SCOGGINS) DOUGHERTY, and was born May 14, 1823, in
Stampers Creek Township, Orange County, Indiana.  Gabriel was a native of
Kentucky, and in 1815, at the age of six years, he came to Indiana with his
parents who ever afterward made their home in Orange County.  He was a
soldier in the Mexican war and at the battle of Buena Vista was wounded and
also lost an eye.  He was a man of little education and an abundance of
ability.  He always refused political honors.  He was married three times,
his first wife bearing him four children, among them GEORGE W.  She was a
widow with one child, as was also his second, by whom he was the father of
four more children, and by his third wife ten more, making in all eighteen
of his own.  George W. Dougherty has always lived in Orange County, and was
educated in its common schools.  January 5, 1853, he was united in matrimony
to MARIA ANN, daugher of WILLIAM and ANNA (CORNWELL) GRIGSBY, who were among
the earliest settlers in Orange County from the South.  Mr. and Mrs.
Dougherty are parents of ten children, of these: SARAH A., WILLIAM, GEORGE,
MCLELLAN and ALBERT are yet living.  From his youth Mr. Dougherty has been a
miller by trade.  In 1878 he purchased and remodeled the Spring Mill, near
Paoli, and has since operated it with two sets of buhrs run by water-power,
and is doing a good business.  Politically he is Democrat and religiously he
and wife are Regular Baptists.

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA" GOODSPEED
BROS.  1884


Submitted by: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997