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GEORGE HAINES, grain and ice business, Monticello; is a native of Lancaster, Mass., and was born February 3, 1833. His parents lived in Boston until he was 12 years of age; they then removed to Cheshire Co., N.H., where he grew up and attended school. After reaching manhood, on the 30th of August, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Hannah L. Gilman, a native of Cheshire Co., N.H. They came West to Iowa, the same year, and located in Jones Co. He engaged in railroading and running a saw-mill, and was on public works several years, and afterward engaged in the grain and ice business. He has lived in this county over a quarter of a century, and is yet a young man.
Source: History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 669.
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