JAMES GASTON, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Montfort; was born in Chester Co., Penn., in 1815; his parents died when he was a child; he removed to Champaign Co., Ohio, when 21 years of age; he came to Grant Co. in 1847, and settled in the northeast part of Fennimore; he settled on his present farm in 1850, which he purchased of Washington Bennett, the original settler. He was married in Ohio, to Ellen Chapman, who was born in 1819. Mr. Gaston's farm contains 240 acres. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.