George Andrew Huron was born in March 1838 in Hendricks County, Indiana to Katherine Harding and Benjamin Abbott Huron. He spent some of his schooling at the Methodist Academy of Danville, Indiana, and just before enlisting, he married Mary Frances Freeman. He joined the 7th Indiana Infantry, Co. I in August 1861 after the Civil War broke out. After mustering out in 1864, Huron continued to serve in the war as a sanitary agent for the armies of the Potomac and James, commissioned by Indiana governor Morton. With the end of the war, Huron received an appointment as clerk in the Third Auditor's office, United States Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., in December, 1865. He was there engaged until 1868, when he was graduated in the law department of Columbian, now George Washington University. Later that year he moved to Valley Falls, Jefferson County, Kansas, and in 1883 he moved to Topeka to continue practicing as a lawyer. George and Mary Huron had six children, one of whom died in infancy. George Andrew Huron died in 1927.
From the description of George Andrew Huron papers, 1880 - 1912 (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 711866060
