George Sykes (sources also spell it Sikes) (December 1816 – November 29, 1881) was an American farmer from Sharon, Wisconsin who held various local elected offices, including a single one-year term in 1850 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing part of Walworth County.
[1] Sykes was born in Connecticut in December 1816, and in his childhood moved with his family to the state of New York.
They improved the land, built a house, and took up general farming and livestock raising.
In the same year, he was elected to the General Assembly over one Amos Holder for the district consisting of the Towns of Darien, Linn, Sharon, and Walworth, succeeding fellow Free Soiler George H. Lown.
[4] In the late 1870s the Sykes' gave up active farming and moved into the Village of Sharon.