Civil War Veteran
Union Army
Pvt. Co. D, 3rd Iowa Cavalry

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Son of Samuel and Katherine (Minear) Guthrie.

Married Mary Alice (Veatch) Guthrie on August 22, 1877.

George Washington Guthrie, reared in the primitive home of a pioneer, enlisted Feb. 16, 1864, when just twenty years of age, in Company D, Third Iowa Cavalry, then a veteran organization. He served actively as a private for eighteen months, first in scouting expeditions into northern Mississippi, with Memphis, Tenn., as a base; second, in the Missouri campaign against Gen. Stirling Price and third, in the final campaign of the war through Alabama and Georgia.

At the close of the war he attended the Troy Academy and then the Iowa State University, from which he graduated in 1873. For a number of years thereafter he was superintendent of public schools in various places. After which he purchased a farm in Davis County, Iowa, upon which he lived until 1896, when he entered for one term the office of county treasurer, to which he was elected on the Republican ticket.

In 1901, like his fathers, he became a pioneer, entering for land in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservation, then being opened for settlement in Oklahoma Territory. He settled on a quarter section near Lawton, Okla., in 1902, and amid the trials and privations incident to the development of a new country, labored heroically to bring the raw prairie into a state of cultivation.

He was a man of strong physique, fine mental abilities and scholarly tastes. He was deeply religious and for many years an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He gave unstintingly of his time and means to it and to every good cause. He was public spirited, interested in politics and education.

While teaching in Schuyler County, Mo., he met Miss Mary Alice Veatch, daughter of Peter Lowry Veatch. They were married Aug. 22, 1877. (See the Veatches, Allied Families.)

George W. Guthrie died at his home in Lawton, Okla., Jan. 8, 1924, and is buried in the Lawton