Person:George Laing (2)

George Laing, age next birthday = 2. This family has 1 male child attending school, 2 female children attending school; 1 child died in 1851. Family lives in a log house, single story, 1 family in the house. SOURCE: Ancaster twp, dist 2, page 141, 1851 census, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Cnd; Film SLC 0283613. "This part of twp lying north of the Macadamized road." < Samuel & Charlotte had 9 children: Edna, b. Dec 7 1838 at Jerseyville, Wentworth Co., Ontario; Emma d. in childhood; Elizabeth Ann b Aug 3 1840; Robert Coursen b. June 25 1846; Jennie M., b. Feb 11 1848; George Miller b. Nov 16 1850, d. June 17 1898; Aaron G. b. Apr 5 1852; Clara d. in childhood; Ida Violetta b. Dec 1 1860 d. unmarried July 29, 1888. From "The Lundy Family & Their Descendants" by W. C. Armstrong. < George & Amy reside at Windom, Mn. From "The Lundy Family & Their Descendants" by W. C. Armstrong.

BIRTH: HISTORY: LAING, GEORGE M., lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1850 in Canada. He has been president of the board of education of Windom, Minn.; in 1888 was appointed to revise and codify the probate laws of Minnesota; and in 1896 was elected a representative of the Minnesota state legislature. Thomas William Herringshaw, Encyclopedia of American Biography, p.566