George W. Wilkin, Jefferson Twp.

Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and Wiley,
1889, p576
 George W Wilkin, one of the useful citizens of Marchandville and a popular
ferryman, was born at Coal Center, Washington county, Penna, January 28,
1827, and is a son of Reuben Wilkin and Bethsheba Dowler Wilkin.
 George Wilkin, grandfather, died soon after coming from Virginia to
Washington county, Penna.
 Reuben Wilkin, father, was a native of Hardy county, Virginia, and was a
carpenter, and died in 1879. He married Miss Bethsheba Dowler, daughter of
Thomas Dowler, a farmer of Washington county. She was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and died in 1868 aged sixty two years.
 George Wilkin was reared at Coal Center, and learned the trade of
carpenter. His first employment was boating coal down the Monongahela. After
ten years spent on the river, he engaged (1855) in building skiffs and
operating the ferry between Coal Center and Marchandville. In 1873 he
removed to Marchandville and has continued in the ferry business up to the
present time.
 In 1849 he married Miss Margaret Ann Addis of Menallen township. She died
March 31, 1865, and left four children: Angeline Wilkin, Louisa D Wilkin,
Emma E Wilkin and John H Wilkin.
In 1866 Mr Wilkin married Miss Joanna Halliday of Dunbar. After her death,
he was married in 1885 to Mrs Annie Dial Hamilton, daughter of the late
Isaac Dial, formerly a farmer of Tyrone township. Mrs Dial Wilkin was born
near the site of Everson, June 7, 1839. She accompanied her father to Ohio
in 1844, and six years later removed with him from that State to Illinois.
Mr Dial was drowned in the Mississippi river near Fort Madison, Iowa, and
sleeps in the cemetery at Montrose in that State.
Mrs Wilkin�s first husband was William Murray of St Louis, whom she married
September 21, 1862. He died in 1868 and December 8, 1877, she was married to
Isaac Hamilton of Jefferson township this county. He died in Washington
county in 1883, and she was a resident of that county until her marriage
with Mr Wilkin. She has one child: Edward H Murray, now living in
Marchandville.
George W Wilkin is one of the oldest ferrymen on the river. He is a
republican and has served as school director. He is a member of the Disciple
church, a pleasant and agreeable man and an industrious citizen.