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GEORGE E. HOLLENBECK is one of the enterprising farmers of Pettis County, owning a fine estate of two hundred and eleven acres, located on section 1, township 44, range 23. Since attaining manhood he has given his energies and industry to agriculture and is thoroughly practical and well informed on every subject pertaining to the best methods of conducting a farm. He is a splendid judge of animals, and has perhaps bought and sold more live stock than any other man in Pettis County.

Our subject was born in Ohio, November 27, 1850, and is the eldest member of his parents’ family. Alphonso and Amanda (Archer) Hollenbeck, the parents, were also natives of the Buckeye State. The father traveled a great deal, visiting South America and the states on the western coast of America. He died in the Golden State, June 26, 1872, while his good wife passed away in Missouri in May, 1889.

George E. Hollenbeck had very few opportunities for gaining a good education, for at the time when he should have been in school the Civil War broke out and the schools over various portions of the country were closed. He came to Missouri when a lad of eight years, at a time when this now thickly populated county was a vast wilderness, and but little improvement had been made on farms which had been taken up. The father went to South America when our subject was eighteen years of age, and the latter looked after affairs at home. He remained under the parental roof until a year prior to reaching his majority, when he began farming on his own account, and in this venture has been greatly prospered from the first. His estate adjoins the beautiful little village of Green Ridge, and the buildings which adorn the place are substantial in character and aid in making this one of the most attractive homes in Pettis County. The farm is a valuable one, and is devoted to raising both grain and stock.

Mr. Hollenbeck was united in marriage, in December, 1885, with Miss Minnie, daughter of Dr. W. H. Flesher, a prominent physician of this county, who makes his home in Green Ridge. Their union has been blessed by the birth of three daughters, Eula, Mary A. and Elizabeth. In politics our subject is a Democrat at all times and under all circumstances, therefore is opposed to monopolies. He is President of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank at Green Ridge. At all times he gives his influence to support measures calculated to benefit the community at large, and is a shrewd business man. By those who are well acquainted with him he is held to be a man of sterling worth and strict integrity.