From theNew Hampton (Iowa) Courier.

At his home, New Hampton, Iowa, July 20, 1885, George McCaughey, aged 64 years and 17 days. Deceased was born in Canton, Stark county, Ohio, July 3rd, 1821, and resided in Stark, Columbiana and Logan counties until about the year 1853, when he emigrated to Wisconsin, where ne remained until 1863, when he removed to Chickasaw county, Iowa, where he resided until his death.

He was twice married, first, Sept. 26th, 1844, to Miss Martha E. Jackson, of New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, whose death took place at her home near there, Jan. 19th, 1847. Dec. 1884, he was again married to Miss Margaret A. White, of Loudenville. Ashland county, Ohio, who still survives him. He was the father of two children by his first wife and ten by the second. At the time of his death, nine of his children were living, (five sons and four daughters,) and all but one were present at his bedside during his illness and at his death; the absent one, Mrs. F. M. Brubaker, being at her home in Florida, Ohio.

The public and private life of the deceased has only left an impression for good: all coming in contact with him instinctively feeling as if they were placed upon their best behavior, and the highest meed of praises that can be his is that he did his duty. Consecrating himself at the age of 19 to his Masters work, he has, during all his subsequent life, been a consistent working member of the Christian Church. The influence that he shed around him bears marked fruitage in the large family of industrious, earnest children that he leaves behind him to mourn his loss and carry on the work that was his. He was a man of earnest convictions, and followed their promptings unswervingly and while tolerant as to the opinions of others, was unbending in his own and spurned to compromise with what he considered wrong. Coming to the county when it was new, he entered upon the work of making a home up on the virgin soil, and dependent upon his own exertions to rear his large family, he was forced to protracted and hard work to meet the increasing demand, and he accepted his lot as marked out by on overruling Providence and gloried in and glorified the work that was his. He believed in the dignity of labor and labored in dignity, in public as in private life, Mr. McCaughey was firm to his convictions, and upon all the moral issues of the day was ever found foremost in the interests of humanity and dealt earnest and hard blows against all vice and corruption, and was unsparing in his opposition to the wrong.

At the time of his death he was a member of the Board of Supervisors, having been called from his farm to look after the interests of the county. Frequently filling places of honor and trust, no taint ever attached to his name, and at the time of his death he was honored -- and trusted by all. He will be missed in public, his neighbors will miss him but most of all will he be missed in his home. But in this our hour of sorrow, there is the blessed assurance that he was fully prepared to go, and that with him it is well, for with almost his latest breath he assured the loved ones around him that "All was well." His was a pure and godly life, a daily walking in the fear and love of God near by the Savior's side.

He leaves besides his family, two sisters, one older and one younger than himself: one is a resident of his home in Iowa and the other, Mrs. Daniel Karsner, living near Ayersville, Defiance county, Ohio. One daughter, Mrs. F. M. Brubaker, lives in Florida, Ohio, though far from the home circle, mourns the loss of a worthy idolized parent.