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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 46)

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George Whitaker was born in Logan county, Kentucky. His father, George W. Whitaker, was born in Montgomery county, Mary land, and at the age of twenty-one he moved to Logan county, Kentucky, where he married Harriet, daughter of Col. William Loving. He was engaged in the mercantile business, when goods were transported from eastern cities in wagons to Pittsburg, and thence to Louisville in flat or keel boats. He frequently made trips to Baltimore and Philadelphia on horseback. While making his collections for goods sold, he might have been seen passing along the almost Indian trail on horseback, leading horse loaded with bags of silver, the result of his collections. It is said that he was the first man who shipped goods up the Cumberland river to Clarksville, Tennessee, near which point he now resides, at the age of ninety. He once visited England. 
    
George Whitaker came to Fulton county in 1848, and soon after engaged in the mercantile business. In 1860 he was appointed deputy circuit clerk for this county, which position he held for eight years. He is now a member, and also secretary, of the Fulton Coal Company, located at Cuba. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Heckard on the 28th of May, 1852.