Reuben George Sr. * Joshua George * Enoch "Jack" George * A. Cary George * Homer George
 click to enlarge | Cary and Emma George about 1918 with grandchildren: Harold George, Lucille (George) Daubenmire King, (with bow), Mary Jane (George) Rieth, and Ruth (George) Pierce |
Emma Jane Fry George click to enlarge |
| A. Cary George, born near Okeana, Ohio in 1859, was a son of Enoch Jackson "Jack" and Margaret (DeArmond) George. He married Emma Jane Fry (Fye, Frye). They had five children: Homer Carlton George (Lebanon OH), Clayton George (Madison WI), Russell Lowell George (Lebanon, IN), Pearl Evelyn George Cook (Brookville, IN), Howard O George (Sacramento CA) | ||
OSU 1907 click to enlarge | Homer Carlton George Okeana and Lebanon, Ohio |   parents: Cary and Emma George |
After growing up in Butler County, OH, Homer went to Ohio State University where he graduated from the College of Agriculture in the class of 1907.
In "The Dean's Corner" of Hi Alumni, Vol 2 - No 1, Fall 1977, Roy M. Kottman, the current Ohio State University Dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, published Homer's letter that follows:
Dear Mr. Kottman:
Thank you for your nice letter of June 8 in which you asked for my bio-data. I am indeed a proud member of the 1907 graduating class of Ohio State's College of Agriculture.Immediately following my graduation I worked as a surveyor for the Wooster Experimental Station and had the privilege of traveling to many parts of our beautiful state. After two years I returned to my father's farm near Okeana, Ohio and worked with him until I could save enough for a down payment on a farm of my own. I married Blanche Mae Inloe in 1911 and we were blessed with six wonderful children.
In 1919 we bought a 200 acre farm near Lebanon, Ohio on which we still reside. I vividly remember walking our herd of cattle from my fathers farm through the main street of Hamilton, Ohio to our new home, a distance of some 40 miles.
As you know farming at its best is a laborious and uncertain income-producing occupation, yet rewrarding in so many ways. To help weather the Great Depression of the 1930's we opened a retail milk service. We operated this business as The Georgeland Dairy for 18 years. The importance of a large farm family was clearly demonstrated, as my wife and each of our six children spent many long, before and after daylight hours cleaning stables, hand milking, bottle washing, and helping deliver milk to our many customers in Lebanon and surrounding areas. With the help of the old civilian conservation corp's (C.C.C.) we also planted, tended and later harvested 15 acres of Christmas trees.
After the closing of the dairy business many years later, I found I so missed daily contact with the public that I began to raise sweet corn, and other farm produce to peddle to my old milk customers and others. This eventually led to specializing in the raising and distributing of "Georgeland Popcorn". We distributed this product throughout much of Ohio and even to a few overseas customers. I continued this endeavor until my retirement at the age of 87. I am pleased to be remembered by the older generation as "the milk man" and by the younger generation as the "popcorn man".
I will be 91, December 24th this year, am in good health and fully expect to reach the century mark at least. Active in civic affairs, I am a past master of Lebanon Grange, a member of the Farm Bureau, The Baptist Church, and Blanche and I are charter members of the local Senior Citizens Club. Finally, we are expecially pleased with our 32 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Enclosed as requested is my graduation picture and one of my wife and I taken in recent years. Blanche is a spry 86 this year.
Blanche and HomerSincerely, Homer C. George
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Homer C. George, 1909  click to enlarge |
Homer C. George, 1928  click to enlarge |
Homer C. George, 1928  click to enlarge |
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Lucille and Blanche 1920-21  click to enlarge |
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Blanche F. George, yr unknown  click to enlarge |
Blanche Mae Inloe (Inloes) George | Blanche & Homer, 1977  click to enlarge |
Blanche Inloes was born 5/21/1891 in Okeana Ohio. She married Homer Carlton George on 8/15/1911.
If I am reading my copy of the family tree correctly (it's very hard to decipher) her parents were
Clemont V. Inloes
- born 6/28/1863 Franklin Co, IN
- Died 5/10/1932 Scipio Ohio.
Married Martha Jane Cameron in Brookville IN 7/29/1886.
- Born 2/2/1865 Scipio
Ohio
- Died 4/25/1918 Scipio Ohio.
Clem remarried someone named Samantha.
This information comes from a distant relative that did a huge amount of research many years ago. It is my understanding that all spellings of Inloes, Inloe, Enloes, Enloe, Enlow are all related.
Contributed by Gary King from pages 348/349 in the Memoirs of the Miami Valley:
James Inloes.
Farming has stimulated the best efforts of some of the leading men of various parts of Butler county, and through their participation therein they have become well-to-do and prominent in their communities. Such a man is James INLOES, of Morgan township, who is known in his community as a skilled and successful general farmer. Mr. INLOES was born in Butler county, Ohio, June 24, 1873, a son of David and Elizabeth (HAMLIN) INLOES, the former a native of Hamilton county and the latter of England. The mother came to the United States a child and resided with her parents in Hamilton county, Ohio, until her marriage to Mr. INLOES, after which the young couple moved to a farm in Morgan township, Butler county, after a short residence in Franklin county, Ind.
They became the parents of the following children: Alfred and John, residents of Oxford, Ohio; Clem, who resides in Reily township, this county; William, of Morgan township; James, of this review; Lois, deceased; Kate, deceased, who was the wife of Harry HAMILTON of Okeana, and had one child, Charles; and Elizabeth and Lessie, deceased.
William INLOES has two sons who were in the army during the late war, Frank and Carl, the latter of whom saw active service in France.
James INLOES attended the public schools of Franklin county, Ind., and Morgan township, and following the completion of his education worked for his father until he attained his majority, after which he began working by the month. He was married March 4, 1896, to Margaret, daughter of Jonathan and Helen LEVINGSTON, of Franklin county, Ind., who had six other daughters: Inzia HARLING, of New Zealand, whose husband met his death during the great war; Belle, Gertrude, Emma, Ola and Mary. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. INLOES: Lillian, Martha, Valita and Upton. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. INLOES settled on the farm of W. L. BEARD, of Oxford, located in Morgan township, and Mr. INLOES became the owner thereof by purchasing in 1915. This is a productive tract of 180 acres, which he devotes to general farming and the raising of Jersey and Holstein cattle, and in both departments has been entirely successful. He is thoroughly conversant with modern methods of agricultural work, and as he is progressive and at the same time practical he has become known as one of the able agriculturists of his community. As a citizen, also, he has been active in promoting good movements. His political allegiance is with the Democratic party, and he and the members of his family belong to the Christian church at Scipio.