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GEORGE NOBLES, a citizen and business man of good standing in the town of Gerry, was born in Pomfret, Chautauqua county, New York, on April 28, 1826, and is the son of Heziah and Polly (Lorrell) Nobles, his father being a native of Massachusetts and his mother of Connecticut. Heziah Nobles was a tanner by trade, a republican in politics and a Universalist in his religious belief. He first came to Chautauqua county in the year 1814, took up his residence and plied his trade at the village of Milford, at which place he died, aged eighty-one years.

George Nobles, his son, has been a life-long resident of Chautauqua county, having been educated in the common schools of the town of Pomfret, in which town he resided for fifty-one years. At the close of his school career, which was at the age of eighteen, he engaged in the tanning business with his father and completed that trade. Shortly afterwards he became a partner with his father, the new firm doing a large and profitable business. Upon his retirement from the tannery, somewhat later, he took up the business of growing fruit and manufacturing baskets for its shipment, in which line of business he is now engaged under the firm name of Nobles & Manton. Since 1876, his business interests have been located in the town of Gerry, where he has large orchards and extensive basket factories. Mr. Nobles was the pioneer manufacturer of fruit baskets in Chautauqua county, He is a democrat and a charter member of the Building and Loan association of Sinclairville.

On May 23, 1850, George Nobles was united in marriage to Nancy Cassady Crane, a daughter of Henry Crane, of Fredonia, New York. They have had but one child, a daughter, Mary Crane.