Parents:
William DENNIS
birth: 11 April 1757
death: 27 December 1805
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Elizabeth SHERMAN
birth: 24 April 1759
death: 14 October 1816
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Find A Grave Memorial# 37658374
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In the DeKalb County, Illinois Biography we find the following: "George Washington Dennis was by trade a carpenter and a first class workman. He removed from New York west with his family of ten children in July 1844, locating in Mayfield Township, DeKalb County, Illinois where he purchased a farm of 80 acres on which a primitive log cabin was built and there was 20 acres under the plow. This farm he improved and increased its boundaries by adding forty acres more and then ten acres of timber.
For some years after coming west, he devoted the greater portion of his time to his trade,but as age advanced, he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He was a man of considerable ability and in his younger days taught school. Religiously he was a Universalist. He lived to be over seventy-six years of age, 1798-1873. His wife died in 1861 at the age of fifty-six years.
George Washington was well educated and a man of considerable means for those times. He was a school teacher. He had been bound out for seven years and had learned the carpenter trade, also the joiner and millwork trade.
Description of Geo. W. Dennis from an old tintype picture: "He was of medium height, wore side burns, was wearing a long dress coat, had a rather heavy nose, somewhat flat on the end, looked to be a sober, ill-tempered man and in fact, had the map of Ireland on his face. He looked very genteel, like an Irish Statesman.