Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry 
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

DR. GEORGE BLEY, Jr., Beardstown; was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
July 14, 1851; eldest son of a family of three sons, and three 
daughters, born to Dr. George and Elizabeth (Lavis) Bley.  Dr. 
George Bley, Sr., was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, came to the 
United States in 1831, being then about eleven years old, and 
received his education in the Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; his wife is a native of that city, her father 
being for many years foreman of the Philadelphia Ledger.  The 
subject of this sketch removed in 1855, with his parents, to Scott 
County, Iowa, thence in 1858, to Rock Island, Ill., remaining 
there one year, and, after residing one year in Monroe County, 
Ill., settled in Staunton, Macoupin County, Ill., in 1861, where 
he received both a good English and German education.  At the age 
of fifteen he entered his father's drug store in Staunton, Ill., 
remaining there till 1873, when he moved to Bethalto, Ill., and 
opened a drug store there on his own account, conducting business 
there until 1879, when he sold out and began the study of medicine 
with his father.  In September, 1879, he entered the Jefferson 
Medical College, at Philadelphia, Pa., from which he graduated 
March 12, 1881; came to Beardstown in May, that year, and began 
the practice of his profession, and now enjoys a large practice.  
In 1872, he married Mary E., daughter of Green B. Hill, of 
Christian County, Ill.

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