Dr. George Washington Delo, son of Daniel and Christiana (Loughner) Delo, was born March 14, 1824, in Beaver township, Clarion county. He was educated in the common schools, and added thereto by close application thereafter. He married Sophia Wheaton, daughter of Charles Wheaton; she was a native of New Jersey, and came to Pennsylvania when she was four years old. They were highly esteemed in the communities where they lived. They had an old-fashioned family of thirteen children; three died in infancy, the living ones are: C. A., a coachmaker in Frisco shops, Springfield, Missouri, is married and has a family of four children. William R., married Sadie Adams, of Rockland, Venango county; he operated in the Bradford (Pennsylvania) oilfield, and state of Indiana, where he died in 1910; his widow lives in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and a daughter, Lenore Coswell, lives in Bartleville, Oklahoma. John A. is a brickmason, in Springfield, Missouri. and has a family. Mary E., widow of Benjamin La Belle, lives in Springfield, Missouri. Wesley B. is a brickmason, and lives in Springfield. Missouri. Maria, wife of George Atterbury, resides on a farm near Springfield, Missouri. George F. is a railroad man of Kansas City. Joshua H. is a carmaker in the Frisco shops, Springfield. Hannah J. is the wife of L. B. Cooper, and lives on the farm with her father, the mother having died a few years ago, aged eighty-two years. George W. Delo, the father, was a carpenter in his early manhood, later he studied medicine. He had taught school for several winters. For some years he lived in the oilfield of Oil Creek, Pennsylvania; then in Clarion county. In 1857 he moved to Elkhart, Indiana, thence to northern Alabama, where he practiced medicine in connection with agricultural pursuits. The Kuklux sent him several death notices. He finally sold out his plantation at a sacrifice and moved to a farm joining the city line of Springfield, Missouri, where he has prospered, and in his eighty-ninth year is a well preserved man, physically and mentally, and has a competence for his old age. He and his wife held membership in the Lutheran and Methodist Episcopal churches in their changes of residence. He is a Prohibitionist.
---Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley. v.1,
