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George Maxwell (Montgomery County, Ohio, resident and indicted murderer)

b. 1847?

Montgomery County, Ohio, clerk. Ohio native. Son of Ebenezer C. Maxwell and Elizabeth Maxwell. Resident of Union County, Ohio, in 1850. Resident of Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1860. Killed Augustus A. Van Houten in Montgomery County on October 6, 1864. Indicted for the murder of Augustus A. Van Houten in Montgomery County in November 1864. Fugitive from justice in Kentucky in 1865. Arrested in Fleming County, Kentucky, in September 1865. Remanded to the State of Ohio on September 25, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Union County, Center Township, p. 636A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Montgomery County, Dayton, 2nd Ward, p. 246.

"Shocking Affair," The Daily Empire (Dayton, Ohio), October 7, 1864, p. 3.

"Trial of Maxwell," The Daily Empire (Dayton, Ohio), January 10, 1867, p. 3.

"Admitted to Bail," The Daily Empire (Dayton, Ohio), January 25, 1867, p. 3.

KYR-0001-006-0076.

KYR-0001-006-0078.

Citation

Maxwell, George. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204468 (November 12, 2026).

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