CRAWFORD COUNTY George W Matlock, business manager of the Farmers’ Joint Stock Company was born in Crawford County in 1845. He received a common-school education, and remained on the farm until twenty-five years of age, when he was employed as a clerk in Cuba. In 1876 he was elected to his present position of business manager of the Farmers’ Joint Stock Company, and in 1882 was made secretary and treasure of the same, holding the latter position from 1876 to 1880 also. He had been president and a director of the bank of Steelville since its organization, and is director of the Roller Mill Company. In 1871 Mr. Matlock married Jennie Halbert a native of South Carolina, by who he has one son, Clarence. Politically a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity, Mr. Matlock is one of the most enterprising men of Steelville, and has been very successful in a financial way. He is the son of Elias Matlock one of the oldest living settlers in Crawford County, whose parents were Robert and Mary (Carpenter) Matlock, residents of Kentucky until about the year 1818, when settled in Crawford County, Mo., and engaged in farming. Both lived to a good old age, and their four children, Elias was the eldest. The latter was born in Washington Co KY in 1807, and at age of nine years came to Missouri with his grandfather Isom Matlock. Elias married  Mary Reeves, who was born in Washington County Ky., in 1811 and died in 1852. Mr. Matlock next married Allie Francic, and after her death, Miss Cicily A Halbert became his wife. Mr. Matlock owns six or seven hundred acres of land, all of which is just reward of his industry. In politics he has been a life long Democrat, having cast his first presidential vote for Jackson. In 1876 he was elected treasurer of the county, and in 1878 was re-elected, discharging his official duties in a creditable and satisfactory manner. (History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford & Gasconade Counties, Missouri : from the earliest time to the present : together with sundry personal, business and professional sketches and numerous family records : besides a valuable fundof [sic] notes, original observations, etc., etc. Cape Girardeau, Mo.: Ramfre Press, 1958 Pg 1051)   Graphics and page designed by Leona1999 January, 2005 Copyright © The main image is a courtesy of http://dirk.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/pictures-of-old-books/ Updated May 2008