George Washington Cash

Cash was born to Stephen Cash and Elizabeth Palmer, both natives of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.^[2]

He was an apprentice with N. Hasty, a cooper in Portland. He was also a peddler of goods.^[1]

In 1864, Cash married Olivia A. Littlefield, with whom he had eleven children: Alice, Henry, Dwight, Herbert, Eleanor, Christena, Bessie, Georgia, Chester, Cathleen and Harold.^[1] At least four of them died in infancy.

In 1870, aged 29, he became a grocer at Cash Corner, in today's South Portland, Maine, which is named for him and his brother, fellow merchant A. J. Cash.^[1][2][3][4]

Cash died in 1912, aged 71. He was interred in Brown's Hill Cemetery in South Portland, beside his wife, who predeceased him by five years.^[2]