Dexter, an English colonist who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1630. On his mother's side, the Stanleys were descended from Thomas Stanley, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. George Dexter married twice. He married Elizabeth Conkey on February 5, 1865, at Preston, Minnesota. She had moved west to Minnesota with her family from Plattsburgh, New York. She died in 1876, and he then married Julietta Oakes, of Medina, Indiana, on March 3, 1879. Dexter had no surviving children from either marriage. He was active in the Hamilton College alumni association, and was at one time president of the Western Alumni of Hamilton College. George E. Dexter died August 27, 1894, suffering a heart attack after accidentally setting fire to his yard while burning garbage. References |- 1823 births 1894 deaths Hamilton College (New York) alumni Politicians from Rome, New York Lawyers from Buffalo, New York People from Monroe, Wisconsin People from Preston, Minnesota People from Charles City, Iowa Republican Party Wisconsin state senators County officials in Minnesota 19th-century American politicians Wisconsin pioneers Wisconsin lawyers American bankers Burials in Iowa