Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington",  published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.

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     GEORGE SINCLAIR, JR., was born in Edinborough, Scotland, March 12, 1859, came to the United States with his parents when between six and seven years of age, and was educated in the district schools while residing on the farm with his parents.  George Sinclair in early manhood filed on his present farm as a homestead, forty acres of which now lies within the incorporate limits of Ritzville.
     The parents of Mr. Sinclair are George and Mary (White) Sinclair, and both were born in Scotland, the father in Caithnesshire, and the mother sixty miles from Edinborough.  The family came to the United States in 1865, settled first in Winona county, Minnesota, and four years later removed to Lincoln county, South Dakota They remained here until coming to Adams county, in 1880, where the elder Sinclair filed on a timber culture five miles east of Ritzville, but when home resides with his son, who is our subject.
     George Sinclair has three brothers and one sister: Andrew, a Lincoln county farmer; Charles, also farming in Lincoln county; Mark, now in Scotland with his father, and Margaret, wife of Henry Horn, a Ritzville business man.  Mr. Sinclair has never been married.
     Besides his original homestead Mr. Sinclair has a quarter section of land, and has each year about two hundred acres sown to wheat.
     Mr. Sinclair is prosperous in his business, and is regarded as an honest and industrious tiller of the soil.  Politically, he votes the Republican ticket, though he is not by any means a radical, nor is he an active party man.
 
 

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