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Biography of Hon. George Forrest Harrington

From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]


Page 1075

HON. GEORGE FORREST HARRINGTON, son of Alvin and Elizabeth (Beach) Harrington, grandson of Uri and Hannah (Noble) Beach, and great-grandson of Obil Beach, was born in Canaan Township, Madison Co., Ohio, February 4, 1836, raised in Amity, and educated at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Studied law with Hon. Samuel Sullivan Cox, of Columbus, Ohio, and admitted to the bar in 1857. Practiced law in Rolla, Mo., in Memphis, Tenn.; was in the service of the Juarez Government, Mexico, in 1864, and located in Mobile, Ala., after the surrender of that city to the Federal forces, for the practice of law. He was, for one term, a member of the Lower House of Representatives of Alabama, and was unanimously chosen Speaker of the House. He was Mayor of Mobile, and died at this homestead, "Bay View," near Mobile, July 18, 1876, aged forty years.



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