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GEORGE D. LINNING of the well-known firm of Linning & Jackson, Paducah, was born in South Carolina, in 1837, to Dr. Thomas and Sarah B. Linning. George D. received a liberal education in the “Frank Minor School,” of Albemarle County, Va., and at an early age went to Philadelphia, Penn., and there served an apprenticeship to the trade of machinist in the locomotive works of Richard Norris & Son. After completing his trade he became an engineer in the United States naval service, where he served from 1858 to 1861. He then espoused the cause of the Southern Confederacy, and entered at once upon a term of service in the Confederate Navy. He remained in this service until the close of the civil war, after which he accepted the position of master mechanic of the machine shops of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. He remained in this position for three years, soon after the termination of which he removed to Paducah, Ky., and became a leading factor in the establishing of the Paducah Industrial Iron Works, now owned and operated by himself and J. S. Jackson. Mr. Linning is a thorough business man; a cultured gentleman of that kind, whose citizenship adds materially to the benefit of the business as well as the social status of any community. He is a worthy member of the Episcopal Church, K. of H. and A. O. U. W. His estimable wife, to whom he was married in Mobile, Ala., in 1873, was a Miss Kate Austill.