Gilbert H. Bunker From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1002.

TOWN OF CLIFTON

GILBERT H. BUNKER, Sec. 14; P. O. Martinville; born in Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 10, 1820, and, in 1838, went to Pennsylvania to his parents; worked there with his father one year; in 1839, went to Winnebago Co., Ill., and settled on farm; left there in May, 1851, and came to Wisconsin, and settled in the town of Clifton; bought 160 acres of land from Adam Keith, who bought it from the Government; sold his farm to Nelson Millard in 1870, and bought from Adam Keith the farm known as the Shipley farm; has lived there since except five years, when he lived in Muscoda, engaged in the drug and stationery business. He was married to Nancy Keith in 1846, who is now 53 years old; both are members of the M. E. Church; he has been class-leader for twenty years, and is still a leading worker of the church; is also a member of the Town Board; have four children living - Sarah A., Ellen L., Henry J. and Scott. Sarah was married to Joseph Doran, who lives in Virginia. Ellen L. married Dr. F. D. Stonard, who died Dec. 19, 1880; Henry J. married Sarah A. Fischer, and lives in Martinville.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.