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Transcribed from "History of North Washington, an illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.


     GEORGE F. GRANT, who is one of the prominent business men and agriculturists of Chelan county, is a native of the Empire state, born in Delaware county, February 8, 1850.  His father, George W. Grant, was a native of the same state, his ancestors of Scotland.  He was a farmer and millwright.  Ruth (Fuller) Grant, mother of our subject, was a member of the old and prominent Fuller family of New York.  She passed away in the early seventies.
     At the age of nineteen years, George F. Grant had received a good district school education, and he then engaged with his father in the lumbering business, subsequently going to Kansas, where he found employment in various avocations for two years.  Following a short residence in Minnesota he removed to Montana and engaged in the stock business, taking up a homestead and remaining there twenty years.  In 1897 he came to his present home near Mission and purchased six hundred and forty acres of land, of which he subsequently disposed of eighty acres.  He has thirty acres of tillable land, the remainder being suitable for timber, pasture, and so forth.  He raises stock and, in company with his son-in-law, John Hinton, rents and conducts a saw mill.  He has two brothers and four sisters; Charles and William, residents of the state of New York; Mary, Addie, Fanny, and Sarah, also living in New York.
     Mr. Grant found his bride at Osakis, Minnesota, Miss Imogene Slawson, with whom he was united in marriage May 17, 1873.  She was a native of Delaware county, New York.  A sketch of her parents will be found in the article devoted to Frank D. Slawson, her brother, in another portion of this work.  She died July 16, 1898.
     Our subject has five children: Minnie, wife of John Hinton, Mission creek; Ruth, wife of Morlin Stephens, Mission creek, mentioned elsewhere; Ettie; Nettie; and George, a schoolboy, living with his father.
     Mr. Grant is prominent in Masonic and other fraternal circles.  He is a member of Riverside Lodge, No. 112, A.  F. & A. M., Chapter 22, R. A. M., of Wenatchee, Damascus Commandery, No. 4, K. T., Glendive, Montana, and the M. W. A., Mission.  He is a Democrat, and  when business will permit, is active in campaigns.  For six years he was commissioner of Dawson county, Montana, and frequently served as delegate to state and county conventions in the latter state.  As a citizen, Mr. Grant is enterprising, public spirited, and highly respected.