George was one of the early pioneer settlers in Pickaway county. He came to Pickaway County and was a veteran of the War of 1812. He was the son of Jacob and Magdalena Buchs Dreisbach and Grandson of Martin Dreisbach who were both Revolutionary War Patriots. It's believed that George changed the spelling of his last name from Dreisbach to Dresbach. He and his brother Johnathan donated land from each of their farms to the UB church for the purpose of building a church. The church still stands to this day. Both brothers are buried in the church cemetery along with lots of others in the Dreisbach/Dresbach family.

*An interesting historical note...George along with his brother Johnathan were conductors on the Underground Railway, operating out of Saltcreek Township, Pickaway County, Ohio.

HERE'S INFO FROM ANOTHER SOURCE....

The history of the Dreisbach family, which has, in Saltcreek township, a representative in William in Circleville, Martin E. and Mrs. D.B.Wagner; in Pickaway, Isaac E.; and in Washington township, Edward Dreisbach, with numerous others, extneds back to Martin Dreisbach, who was born in the year 1717, in the earldom of Witgenstein, Germany, and his wife Anna Eva Hoffman, the daughter of a teacher, of Nausaugiegen. They emigrated from the fatherland in 1746, to the United States, and located upon a farm in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. They had four sons and two daughters-Jacob, Henry, John, Martin, Margaret, and Catharine.

Jacob, the eldest son, married Magdalena Buchs (whose name, anglicized, is Books), and they had a family of thirteen children, eight of whom were sons, namely, Martin, John, George, Samuel, Benjamin, Henry, Johathan, and Jonas, all of whom were early settlers in Ohio.

George, the third son, was born January 13, 1784, and his wife, whom he married in Northumberland (now Union) County, Pennsylvania, was born February 14, 1788. Her name was Catharine Betts (Betz). They were married January 10, 1809. Their children were:

Mary, born November 27, 1809
Hannah, born January 2, 1812
Elizabeth, born June 17 1814
William, born September 21, 1817
Manuel, born March 9 1829
Sarah, born January 16, 1823
George, borh August 18, 1825
Abner, born August 16, 1828
Solomon, born August 16, 1831

All are now living except Mary, Sarah (Mrs. P. Brock) and Solomon, the last named of whom died in infancy.

Only the eldest of the children was born in Pennsylvania and the others in Ohio, their parents moving in 1811, to this State. They stopped at first at Peter Spyker's on Salt creek, south of Tarlton, but in a short time removed to the farm upon which their son William, now resides, and which the elder Dreisbach bought of Mrs. Sayler, a widow. He cleard up this farm, endured the privations and toils, braved the dangers of pioneer life, and lived to enjoy the triumph of his labors. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and underwent, in the service as well as at his home in the back woods, the viscissitudes (sic.) of a frontier life in troublous times. He was a man of hardy constitution, and one of the most actively industrious of the large class of fearless, thrifty men, who prepared the way for the army of civilization and hewed out the rich inheritance that the present generation enjoy. He was noted for his uprightness of character, and his long life was, in all respects, an exemplary one. The church of the United Brethern was the religious institution which most closely embodied and exemplified his ideas, and he was for long years one of its most worthy members, as well as one of its best supporters. His long life of usefulness was brought to a close November 3 1863, ten years after the decease of his wife.

The descendents (sic.) of this pioneer pair were brought up at the farm home, accustomed to the labors incident to such life as they led, enjoying its simple pleasures, and taking advantage of the few opportunities afforded for social recreations of seldom occurrence; but they had health, that best of all inheritances, the example of good lives before them, wholesome training; and the happiness physical as well as mental, that wholesome labor and the right discharge of duty bring. They retained the traits of their parents, and matured into men and women of intrinsic worth, valuable to society and to the communities in which they dwell.

*Copied from "1880 History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties" from the section about the Dreisbach family.