Shreves, G. W. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 972, Young Hickory Township
G. W. Shreves was born in Bedford Co., Pa., Feb. 13, 1831, son of Samuel and Abigail (Cook); came to the county in 1854; is a prosperous farmer on sec. 12,, owning 180 acres; has been School Director and Road Commissioner; in 1854 he married Isabel Anderson, and they had 2 boys and 2 girls; 2d wife, Caroline Snodgrass, whom he married in 1866. P. O., Midway