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GEORGE LITTLE, a resident of Perry County, Ind., for the past forty-five years, was born February 8, 1819, in Marion County, Ky., and is the second of three children born to the marriage of Reynolds Little and Sarah Prather, the former being a native of Germany, and the latter of Maryland. George Little passed the first twenty-one years of his life in his native State, and owing to the limited facilities of that day secured but a meager education. In 1840 he first came to this county, and has since made it his home. Selecting farming as his life’s occupation in youth, he has steadily followed his chosen occupation, and today is the owner of a valuable tract of land comprising 480 acres, of which all but about eighty acres is in timber. In politics he is one of the few Republicans of Leopold Township, firmly believing in the principles of his party; but is possessed of sufficient judgment and discernment to not be controlled entirely by any party or clique in which a wrong or false policy is advocated. He was married July 14, 1847, to Ellen Wheatley, by whom he is the father of three children deceased, and the following named now living: Jane (Mrs. Frank Elder), Reynolds (married Mary Miller), George, Ellen, Joshua, Joseph and Amanda—the last two named being twins.