Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . air wouldonly aid in sinking him under the load. So he tried to remain cheerful, and,also knowing- that man cannot stand still, must either make progress orretrograde, he always looked toward the heights, keeping in mind the motto,There is no excellence without great labor. His life was an open sesamewith all the simple sincerity that belongs to great-souled men. George Albert Atwood was born in Barnard. Vermont, January 15, fourth in a family of ten c
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . air wouldonly aid in sinking him under the load. So he tried to remain cheerful, and,also knowing- that man cannot stand still, must either make progress orretrograde, he always looked toward the heights, keeping in mind the motto,There is no excellence without great labor. His life was an open sesamewith all the simple sincerity that belongs to great-souled men. George Albert Atwood was born in Barnard. Vermont, January 15, fourth in a family of ten children. He was the son of George Hammondand I\Iary X. ( Culver) Atwood, the father a descendant of William Pennand the n-iother of Samuel Adams. George Hamn-iond .Atwood was the sonof Ebenei^er Atwood. His parents were honest, industrious Xew Englandpeople, and spent their lives on a farm in Vermont, on which their sonGeorge Albert Atwood was reared to manhood, and on which he workedduring the summer months when he became of proper age. By dint of hardwork under n-iany disadvantages in the rural schools, b\- alternatelv attend-. GEORGE A. ATWOOD. PECEASi:!). GREENE COUNTY. MISSOIUI. 937 ing school and teaching school, he ohlaincil a j^noil founilatinn 1(<r ihc tineeducation which he hnall} ol)taine(l 1)\ persistent hdnie study .and contactwith the world. He studied at Kimball Union Academy at Aleriden, \e\vHampshire, and Oswego Business College of Oswego, New \ork. Whenthe war between the states came on he proxed his patriotism and courage byenlisting in the Union army in 1862, in Company B, Twelfth Vermont \ol-unteer ]\lilitia, receiving- honorable discharge after nine UKJuths service. Hethen left the home farm to carve out his own career in the world, and to a clerkship in the United States treasury department, whichposition he held for two \ears in a highly acceptable manner, and was inWashington when President Lincoln was assassinated and shared in theinte
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