GARDEN, LOUISA A., farmer, Sec. 30; P. Tracy; widow of Robert, who was born in Philadelphia December 19th, 1809; he emigrated to Iowa, to what is now Van Buren county, in 1837, where he lived until 1844, and then removed to this county; he entered 160 acres. Mrs. Garden's maiden name was Harris; she was born in Philadelphia September 17th, 1810; they were married March 10, 1829; he died April 16th, 1861, and left a family of five sons and two daughters, Augustus J., Benjamin H., Robert, Thos., J., Louisa, Malinda and Clarence B.

GASKILL, O. R., farmer, Sec. 20; postmaster, White Oak, and dealer in general merchandise; born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1834; came to Iowa in 1852, and settled in this county; married Julia A. Mathew, in 1856; she was born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1836; he enlisted in Co. C, 7th Iowa Infantry, in 1861, and was discharged in same year; he has held the office of township clerk for one year. Republican. Mrs. G. is a member of the M. E. church. Mr. Gaskill received a commission as 2d Lieutenant in the State Militia on the 13th day of October, 1864, and was appointed postmaster October 20, 1867.

GEARHART, RACHEL, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Oskaloosa; owns 120 acres of land; her maiden name was Alder; she was born March 10th, 1829, in Madison county, Ohio; was married April 25th, 1848, to Harvey Gearheart; came to this county in March, 1853. Her husband, who was respected by all who knew him, was drowned in the Des Moines river May 11th, 1854. She has resided on her farm since, except two years that she was on visit to Ohio; has one son, Harvey H., who was born in 1853.

GIBBS, CHAS. T., farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Leighton; owns a farm of 160 acres; was born in Burlington Co, N. J., April 30, 1830; he lived there but six months, when his parents moved to Cincinnati, where they lived two years, then removed near Lebanon, Ohio, where he lived until 1834, and then went to St. Joseph county, Indiana; he came to this county in the spring of 1862; married Miss Margarey McNay, January 1, 1855, a native of Elkhart county, Indiana; they have three sons and one daughter, Robert E., Albert N., Frank A. and Effie A.

GIBBS, ERNEST H., capitalist, Oskaloosa; born in Hampden county, Massachusetts, February 10, 1848, and was brought up there until seventeen years of age; in 1865 he came to Lee county, Illinois, and entered a bank in Amboy; he remained there until 1868, and came to Parkersburg, Iowa; he came to Oskaloosa in 1870, and engaged in banking; he married Miss Martha J. White, April 1, 1872; she was daughter of the late John White, one of the earliest settlers of the county; they have one daughter.

GIBSON, GEORGE M., former, Sec. 31; P. O. Eddyville; was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1823; lived there until 1845, and then went to Logan Co., Ohio, where he lived until 1850, and then removed to Indiana; lived there until 1855; then removed to Clark Co., Iowa; lived there until 1863, and then came to this county. He married Elizabeth McKin, of Ohio, in 1845; she died in 1850; three children by this wife; marrried again in 1851, to Deborah Johnson, from Ohio; has a family of five daughters and two sons, named Angeline, Anne, Hannah M., Evaline A., Martha J., David H., and George S.

GILCHRIST, GEO., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Oskaloosa; born in Pennsylvania in 1826; came to this county in April, 1857; owns 73 acres of land; has held office of school director; he enlisted in the 33d Iowa Infantry and was commissioned 1st Lieutenant Co. K; he married Miss Nancy Lutz in 1851; she was born in Pennsylvania.

GILMORE, SAMUEL, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Kirkville; was born in the town of Tevis, Harrison county, Ohio, in 1830; he lived there until 1851, and then came to this county; his farm contains 500 acres; he married Sarah Myers, November 25, 1856, a native of Morrow county, Ohio; they have two sons and two daughters, named Nina, Maggie, Myers and Fred; lost one son, John.

GILMORE, T. R., P. O. Kirkville; No citizen of Harrison township is more widely known and universally respected than the Hon. T. R. Gilmore. This gentleman has the brains and culture to unite with his farmer's life, that of a scholar and highly public-spirited citizen. He finds leisure from the irksome duties of agricultural work to devote himself to his library, his newspapers and his friends. Nor have the citizens of Mahaska county been slow to recognize his superior qualifications, having given him their votes to the highest office in the gift of the county. Elected first to the State Senate in 1874, to fill the vacancy caused by the change of residence of the late James a. Young, he was again returned on the Republican ticket in 1875, and still fills that office. He has taken a high rank among his fellow senators at Des Moines, as a man of integrity and thorough business principles. Mr. Gilmore was born in Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, April 30, 1825, where he attended district school during the earlier days of his youth. At fifteen years of age he commenced his classical studies at Franklin College, located at New Athens, Ohio. In the midst of his college course he decided upon a change of institutions, and in 1846 was able to look back on old "Jefferson College," of Cannonsburg, Pa., as his Alma Mater. Thus equipped with a thorough education and polished manners, he came to the "new country," locating in Mahaska county, Iowa, in 1853. Mr. Gilmore has been thrice married, first to Miss Catharine Milligan, a native of Tuscaraus county, Ohio, on November 7, 1854. The first union was broken by death when Catharine had been just seven months a bride. In 1860 Mr. G. married Miss Ellen Steele, a native of Ireland. The fruit of this marriage was four children, two sons and two daughters, named Clara E., William R., Jessie B., and Charles V. Mrs. Gilmore died September 1, 1873. Mr. Gilmore's present wife is a native of Preble county, Ohio. Her maiden name was Francenia Wilson, which became Francenia Gilmore Dec. 29, 1875. They have one son, Harry W. by name. Mr. Gilmore is quite extensively engaged in farming, having 861 acres in Mahaska county's best soil in his possession. His tastes lead him largely into the stock business and he was at one time the largest sheep raiser in the State of Iowa. His broad acres are worthy to be any farmer's delight, and his personal record shows that "Putnam like" the western farmer, who possesses the worth, may be called from the plow to a public station.

GILMOUR, WM., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Leighton; was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1810, he emigrated to the United States in 1832 and located in New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. G. is a weaver by trade, he remained in Connecticut five years, working the while at his trade; he then emigrated to Union county, Indiana, where he lived 18 years; he came to this county in 1856, and located where he now lives; his farm contains 139 acres; he married Miss Susan Foster, a native of New Haven, Connecticut, September 6, 1836; she died February 3, 1845; left family of three sons and two daughters: Catherine, Emily, Andrew J., William W., and Charles E; he married again to Jane McCullough, a native of Indiana, in August, 1848; they have one son and two daughters, James B., Sarah G., and Lizzie A.

GIVENS, M. P., professor and principal of the business department of the Oskaloosa College; born in Bloomington, Indiana, August 29, 1842; when thirteen years of age removed to Illinois, and attended school at Abingdon College, in Knox county, and also at Eureka College, in Woodford county, Illinois; afterward attended Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College at Chicago, and graduated there; he taught one year for Bryant & Stratton in St. Louis; came here in 1866, and since then has been connected with the Oskaloosa College, being principal of the business department, and secretary of the faculty; he has been superintendent of the Sabbath- school for twelve years, and was president of the Young Men's Christian Association one and one-half years.

GLEASON, H. W., attorney, firm of Crookham & Gleason, Oskaloosa; born in Warren, New Hampshire, May 2, 1845; was brought up and received his education in that state. Upon the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted in the 12th Regiment New Hampshire Infantry, Co. G. He was in the second battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harber, and many others. He was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg; he remained in the service until 1865. He came to Iowa in 1867, and located in Benton county, and engaged in teaching; he studied law and was admitted to the bar, and since then has been engaged in the practice of his profession. He represents this district in the State Legislature, being elected in the fall of 1877; married Miss Flora A. Howard, daughter of Henry Howard, Esq., October 20, 1875; they have one son, Howard L., born February 1, 1877.

GLOTFELTER, J. L., blacksmith, New Sharon; born in Greene county, Ohio in 1837; came to this county in 1868; has worked at his trade 24 years; he enlisted in the 74th Ohio Infantry in the late war, and served three years; he married Miss Sarah J. Junkin in 1861; she was born in Greene county, Ohio; have 3 children, Hattie J., Emma E., and Sadie G.

GODBEY, ALLEN, farmer, Sec.___; P. O. Peoria; born in Indiana in 1826; came to this State October 15, 1842, and to this county in 1843 (his father, John Godbey, being the first man with a family to settle in Richland township); he has known his father's family to be without bread from three to four weeks at a time, and lived on bacon rinds and greens, and it has taken them six weeks to go to mill to Iowa City, the river being so high it was with difficulty they could get across; the first election in the township was held at his father's house; he helped drive the first drove of hogs to Keokuk that was shipped out of the county; he married Miss Mary E. Bartlett in 1848; she was born in Ohio; have five children, Sylvester, Cameron, Viola, Edward, and Luke.

GODDARD, G. S., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Lacey; owns 85 acres of land, valued at $35 per acre; born in Jefferson county, New York, in 1828; came to Iowa, in 1866; married Mary M. Wood, in 1854; she was born in Canada, in 1824; have three children, Francis E., George L., Cora A. Democrat.

GORDON, JOHN B., carpenter and joiner, Oskaloosa; born in York county, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1818; he went to York State and learned his trade, and engaged in building. He married Jane E. Kennedy, from York State, in 1846; they had three children and lost them all. In 1871 he came to this county on account of his health, and since has lived here.

GORSUCH, J. R., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Sherman, Poweshiek county; born in Ohio, in 1831; came to this county in 1857; owns 350 acres of land; he married Miss E. McMasters in 1857; she was born in North Carolina; has seven children, Samuel, Martha, Robert, Matilda, Irene, James and Mary; lost one son, Charles.

GOULD, G. B., station agent, New Sharon; born in Friendsville, Wabash county, Illinois, in 1845; came to this county in January, 1872; he married Elizabeth Penrose in 1877; she was from Ohio.

GRACE, A. J., farmer, Sec. 16; P.O. New Sharon; born in Huron county, Ohio, in 1836; came to this State in October, 1839, with his parents, settling in Scott county and in March, 1873, came to this county; he owns 160 acres of land, he enlisted in the 20th Iowa Infantry in the late war, and served three years; he married Miss Eliza Ann Russell, in 1866; she was born in Virginia; has five children, Emma L., George E., Sarah J., Wm. Jackson, and Ruth A.

GRAHAM, E. W., farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Union Mills; born in Jefferson county, Indiana, in 1831; came to this county May 2, 1855; he owns 180 acres of land; has held offices of township treasurer and school director; he enlisted in the 31st Iowa Infantry in the late war, and served three years; he married Miss Margaret H. Watson in 1852; she was born in Indiana; has three children, Florence E., Ginn and Morton Y.; one daughter, Mary L., died in March, 1874, aged eleven months.

GRAHAM, J. W., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Union Mills; born in Jefferson county, Indiana, in 1844; came to this county in 1846; owns 80 acres of land; he married Hannah M. Ogle in 1869; she was born in Maryland; has four children, Frank L., Wilbert, Freddie and Baby; has served as school director; he enlisted in the Fortieth Iowa Infantry, and served until the close of the war.

GRAHAM, SANFORD, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Leighton; owns a farm of 140 acres; was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, in 1838; came to this county in 1851 and located where he now lives; not married; he enlisted in the late war in Co. C, 33d Iowa Volunteers Infantry, August 10, 1862; was wounded at Helena, Arkansas, July 4, 1863, and discharged November 8, 1863.

GRAHAM, THOMAS, farmer, stock dealer, and merchant, New Sharon; born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1815; came to this State October 19, 1854, settling in Scott county, where he remained until his removal to this county, March 1st, 1876; he is connected with C. H. Kramer, under the firm name of Kramer & Graham, dealers in general merchandise; he married Miss Mary Taylor in 1836; she was born in the same county; have ten children, Sarah A., Mary A., Martha E., Lydia J., C. Emaline, Julia R., Abbie J., Hannah C., Joseph T., and Clara; one son, John, enlisted in the 21st Iowa Infantry, and died from disease contracted in the army.

GRAHAM, THOS., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Leighton; owns a farm of 120 acres; was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, October 15, 1840, and lived there until 1851, and then came to this county; he married Miss Amanda Gibbs, November 11, 1874, a native of Indiana; she died July 5, 1876; has one daughter, Martha F.

N. W. GRAY, Farmer, P. O. Oskaloosa; born in Ohio in 1828; came to this county in 1855; owns 180 acres of land; has held office of school director; he married Ann M. Stanley, in 1858; she was born in Ohio; has two children, Eva E. and Walter S.

GREEN, I. C., merchant; dealer in boots and shoes, Oskaloosa; born in Clinton county, Ohio, June 10, 1826; he was brought up there and lived in that state until the spring of 1868, when he came to Oskaloosa and engaged in the mercantile business, and for the past seven years has been engaged exclusively in the boot and shoe business, and having an extensive trade. He has held office of justice of the peace, and held the office of mayor of New Vienna, Ohio. He is president of the board of trustees of Penn College. He married Rachel Moorman, from Greene county, Ohio, in 1848; they have six children, T. Homer, Mary Susie, Emma R, Oscar, Lizzie and Walter.

GREEN, J. H., firm of J. H, Green & Co., dealers in agricultural implements and farm machinery; born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 16, 1832; he was brought up in Ohio and lived there until 1856, when he removed to Minnesota; he came to Iowa and located in this county, in 1864. He engaged in business in 1866, and is the oldest house in this business here. He has held town and school offices; married Hannah Terrell, from Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1862; they have three children, Mabel, Clara, and Frank.

GREEN, W. H., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Beacon; owns 158 acres of land valued at $40 per acre; born in Green county, Pa., in 1827; came to Iowa in 1861 and located in Oskaloosa; removed to present farm in 1864; married Mary L. Stephen in 1860; she was born in Monroe Co., Ohio, in 1831; have five children, Emma Frances, John W., Elijah, Mary J., and Ella; Mr. g. has one child, Ann Eliza, by a former wife. Republican.

GRIFFEE, ABRAHAM, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Oskaloosa; born in Shenandoah county, Va., in April, 1815, and was left an orphan at an early age; he only went to school a few weeks. He learned the cabinet maker's trade, and removed to Ohio in 1833, and came to Washington county, Iowa, in 1841; after eighteen months returned to Ohio. He came to Iowa with his family in April, 1856, and located on the farm where he now lives; at that time timber land was thought to be the most valuable; and he bought one hundred and forty acres timber, and paid thirty dollars an acre; he sold part of it for fifteen dollars an acre, and would be glad to well the balance of it at ten dollars, and he has never cut a stick of timber. He had nothing when he commenced in life, and though he lost by his partner in business, $6,000, he yet owns a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres with fine improvements. He has held office of school director; married Nancy Hickenbotham, from Ohio in 1855; they have six children, Catharine, Minerva, Nancy, Stephen A., Abraham D., and Charlie.

GRUBB, THOMAS, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Indianapolis; born in 1831, and came to this county in 1855; owns 300 acres of land; has held the office of school director; married Miss Mariah Kelly, in 1853; she was born in Pa.; has six children, Henry, John, Samuel, Rebecca, Annie, and Elizabeth.

GUNN, JAMES A., of the firm of Canon & Gunn, merchants, Fremont; was born in Lake county, Ohio, October 7, 1849; he lived there four years; parents then emigrated to Iowa, and to this county; has been engaged in business here since 1873; is post-master; he married Mrs. S. S. Heinzman, April 20, 1873. a native of Shelby county, Indiana; they have one son, Frank L.