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Born 1855
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
HAY GEORGE A., Coshocton; mayor and notary public; was born November 16, 1855, in Coshocton; son of Houston Hay, American born, of Irish descent. Young Hay received a rudimentary education in the public schools, and, at the age of seventeen, entered the preparatory department of Denison University, at Granville, and was there four years. When twenty-one years old he entered the Junior class of Princeton college, and was graduated in June, 1879. Mr. Hay was elected mayor April 1, 1880, and took the oath of office on the 20th.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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