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GEORGE W. TINKER, a practical and successful agriculturist of Worthington, Mass., who began in life as a poor boy, is now the owner of the well-stocked and highly cultivated farm of one hundred and forty-five acres on which he resides. He was born here, April 13, 1839, son of Omri and Salome (Crozier) Tinker, the former of whom was a native of Connecticut, from which place he came with his parents to Massachusetts.

Omri Tinker was then a young man, and for several years he continued to live at the parental home. When his father and mother moved to Rochester, Lorain County, Ohio, he remained behind and soon purchased the farm in Worthington on which his son now lives. The estate at that time contained one hundred and forty acres, but he later on purchased fifty acres additional. He was a hard-working and enterprising farmer; and besides performing his ordinary farm duties he was often employed by others in laying stone walls, being an excellent workman in that line. He continued to carry on his farm until his death on March 12, 1892, at the age of eighty-nine years and eleven months. His first wife, Salome Crozier, bore him four children, namely: George (deceased); Louisa (deceased); George; and Mary, the wife of Charles Cole, who is now living in Hinsdale, Mass. Their mother died in 1854. Mr. Tinker’s second wife was Sarah Chapman, a native of Becket, Mass. Of this union one daughter was born: Ella, the wife of Lewis Walsh, a prosperous farmer residing in Pittsfield, Mass. In political affiliation Mr. Omri Tinker was a Republican, and an active worker for his party. He and his wife were communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which they were well known as faithful helpers. At twenty years of age George W. Tinker left the paternal roof to gain a livelihood for himself. He began by working out during the first year, after which he went to Chester, Mass., where during the succeeding six years he was successfully engaged in conducting a saw-mill. Buying a farm from Lawrence Smith he thenceforward profitably turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, having received good practical instruction therein during his boyhood and youth. He continued to carry on this place for fifteen years, and then purchased the old Tinker homestead, on which he has since resided. He is successfully engaged in general farming, raising for his principal products corn, oats, and wheat; and he is also engaged to some extent in dairying. On his farm is a fine sugar orchard, which yields yearly from two to three thousand pounds of maple syrup and sugar of nice quality.

He married Miss Mary Bidwell, who was born in Connecticut on February 17, 1854; and their union was blessed by the birth of four children, as follows: Harry, born November 4, 1877; Lottie J., born November 9, 1879; Charlie, who died in infancy; and Agnes, born June 26, 1881. The children have received the advantages not only of the schools of Worthington, but have also attended school at Pittsfield, Mass. Mrs. Tinker died on July 20, 1890. Mr. Tinker has always been a stanch supporter of the Republican party. He is well known and universally liked by his associates.