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G.W. FRESHCORN Biography - Cropsey Township


G.W. FRESHCORN, farmer and stock-raiser; P.O. Potosi; was born Nov. 20, 1811, in Chester Co., Penn., 
and lived there until 1856, when he came to McLean Co., buying and settling on his present farm of 
155 acres, which he earned principally by his own labor and management; he was a wagon-maker and worked 
under the supervision of his father in Chester Co., Penn. He has been no office-seeker, but has held the 
offices of Justice of the Peace, Assesor, Commissioner and has been connected with the schools; he is a 
minister of the M.E. Church, and was married, in 1847 to Catharine GAYMAN, a resident of Chester Co., Penn; 
they have five children - Fannie, Mary, George F., Wesley J. and Clara; Clara is a teacher of rare attainments. 
This fine old gentleman has made home happy by the association of literature and art.