A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--pages 957-958
George H. Duncan, of Eel River Township, Hendricks County, Ind., is an old soldier and an honored citizen. He was born January 10, 1846, in Jackson Township, Putnam County, Ind., son of James and Anna (Proctor) Duncan. He received a common education and was reared to farming, and when seventeen years, six months of age, he enlisted at Greencastle, Ind., in July, 1863, in Company I, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. William H. Allison and Col. (afterward Brigadier General) John R. Mahan. Mr. Duncan served eight months in eastern Tennessee, and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, February 25, 1864; he then returned home and enlisted at Terre Haute, Ind., in Company K, Thirty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Henry C. Johnson and Col. James Burton, served six months, and was honorably discharged at Indianapolis, in July, 1865, on account of the closing of the war. This service was in North Carolina. He joined his regiment at Raleigh, N.C., the day before the surrender of Gen. Johnston, and marched from there to Washington, and was present at the grand review. After his service he came to the vicinity of North Salem, Ind., and then took a trip to central Missouri, remaining three months, and again returned to Eel River Township. He married, February 25, 1866, Nancy, daughter of William and Catherine (Zimmerman) Davis, and to Mr. and Mrs. Duncan were born two children: Elmer C. and Lula C. In 1869 Mr. Duncan bought a farm of eighty acres in Eel River Township and farmed until 1882, when he engaged in the manufacture of drain tile, in which he continued until recently, did a successful business and supplied the surrounding country with his product. Both Mr. and Mrs. Duncan are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Duncan is commander of Fleece post, No. 383, G.A.R., of North Salem, and is a stalwart Republican.
Mr. Duncan is of Scotch descent. Henry Duncan was a pioneer of Garrard County, Ky., from Virginia. James Duncan, father of our subject, was one of the first settlers of Putnam County, Ind., coming as early as 1829. He was the father of eighteen children, by two marriages; by his first wife, there were born to him—Coleman C., William, Mary, Annie, James, Miranda, Amanda, George, John, Nancy and Katurah, and by his second wife—Amanda Dean—he was the father of seven children—Ruth, Benjamin, Bell, Elmer, Della, Charles and Minerva R. James and John were soldiers in the Civil War; James in Company H, Eleventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and John in the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.