​George E. Gunn
Biography

GEORGE E. GUNN, son of Ralzamond and Betsy (Osband) Gunn, was born March 1, 1837, in Huron County, Ohio.  Having learned the carpenter trade, he came to this township in 1858, but did not permanently locate until about two years later, having returned to his home in Ohio in the meantime.  Before buying his present farm of eighty acres, in Section 35, he purchased land in Section 29, which he afterward sold.  The year of 1864 Mr. Gunn spent in California, and was in Huron County, Ohio, in 1871 and 1872; since has worked at his trade in connection with farming.  Mr. Gunn and Katherine A. Ridley were married on the 8th of February 1866.  She was born September 6, 1841; her parents, Jacob and Elizabeth Ridley, were natives of Pennsylvania, from where they went to Ohio, and are yet residing in Sandusky County.  Mr. Gunn is a Republican. There are two children in Mr. Gunn's family -Emma A., born June 19, 1876, and Anna A., born February 8, 1867.

​Source: 1882 History of La Grange County Indiana, p. 417

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