GEORGE H. TOWRY was born February 7, 1834, in Livingston, now Crittenden Co., Ky., and is a son of Manring and Rebecca (Imboden) Towry; the former a native of South Carolina, and the latter of Pennsylvania. When they were quite young, his father and mother came with their parents to Kentucky. The father died in 1864, aged sixty-four years. The mother died in 1880, aged seventy-four. George H. was reared on his father's farm and received a good common school education. In 1856, he attended the Bethany Academy in Caldwell County, and later he attended the old Cumberland College at Princeton one session, after which he returned to the farm and taught school in the fall and winter for about six years. During that time he had provided himself with law-books, and was engaged in the study of the law. In 1865, he was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected to that office, which he held until 1874, when he moved to Dixon, where he has since been engaged in the practice of the law. He represented Webster County in the legislature in the sessions of 1877-78. Mr. Towry is an advocate of the Greenback ticket, having become identified with that party in 1877. He was a delegate in May, 1884, to the national convention at Indianapolis. Much of his time he is devoting to delivering speeches, and otherwise advancing the interest of the Greenback party. He was married, in 1864, to Miss Jane O'Neal, of Crittenden County, who died in 1871. His second marriage was in September, 1872, to Miss Lue J. Deal, of Union County. This lady is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Towry is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Pages 1050-1051.