Biography of George A. Wagner, page 141 / 142.  History of Northeast 
Indiana; LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the 
editorial supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and 
William H. McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   George A. Wagner for a number of years has been identified in a 
progressive and enterprising way with the agricultural affairs of Franklin 
Township, DeKalb County, is a native of that township, but for a considerable 
period of his lifetime lived in the West and laid the basis of his fortune 
as a farmer there.
   He was born in Franklin Township September 7, 1867, a son of Fred and 
Maria (Healy) Wagner. His father was born in Germany February 14. 1834, was 
educated there, and at the age of twenty came to the United States and 
settled in Ohio and later moved to DeKalb County, He married in DeKalb 
County and then settled on a farm in Franklin Township, Where he lived out 
his industrious career until his death on August 2, 1902. His widow 
survived him until February 8, 1914. He was a Drunkard in religion and a 
democrat in politics.   There were six children: Lena, wife of J.E. 
Firestone; Ada, wife of John Rohrbaugh; George A.; Cora, wife of Ora 
Hiner; Essie, wife of Luther Bryan; and Jesse, of Butler.
   George A. Wagner grew up in Franklin Township. He was educated in the 
district schools and at the age of nineteen left home and went out to the 
states of Nebraska and Kansas, where he spent altogether thirteen years.  
He acquired a quarter section homestead and after developing and improving 
that bought 160 acres more.  After selling his lands in the West he 
returned to DeKalb County and bought the forty acre farm where he live 
today.
   In 1904 Mr. Wagner married Kate Chambers. She was born in Wisconsin May 
10, 1864, but came to Indiana with her parents at the age of six years and 
was reared in Steuben County, attending school at Fremont.  She was one of 
the nine children, seven of whom are still living, of Nicholas and Mary J. 
(Noyes) Chambers.
   Mr. Wagner is a past grand of Butler Lodge No. 282 of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, is also a member of the Encampment, and he and his 
wife are affiliated with the Rebekah Lodge at Butler. They are also members 
of Wilmington Grange, of which he is a past master.   For some years he 
has been prominent in the democratic party in DeKalb County, has served as 
a member  of the election board and has also been a township supervisor.  
He is a trustee of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Butler

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