Person:David Gunder (4)

David Gunder
Facts and Events
Name[1] David Gunder
Gender Male
Birth[2][3][4] 22 DEC 1838 Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania
Marriage MAR 1859 Montgomery twp., Wood Co., Ohioto Elizabeth Clemens
Other 21 AUG 1860 (rural), West Millgrove, Perry twp., Wood Co., OhioCensus1860
with Elizabeth Clemens
Other 18 JUL 1870 Jackson twp., Seneca Co., OhioCensus1870
with Elizabeth Clemens
Other 23 JUN 1880 Portage Twp., Wood Co., OhioCensus1880
with Elizabeth Clemens
Other 01 JUN 1900 Portage twp., Wood Co., OhioCensus1900
with Elizabeth Clemens
Other 28 APR 1910 Six Points Road, Portage twp., Wood Co., OhioCensus1910
with Elizabeth Clemens
Occupation[7] 1860 Perry twp., Wood Co., Ohioa farmer
Occupation[8] 1870 Jackson twp., Seneca Co., Ohioa farmer in rural Fostoria
Occupation[9] 1880 Portage Twp., Wood Co., Ohioa farmer
Death[5][11] 02 JUN 1915 Portage Twp., Wood Co., Ohio
Burial[6] 04 JUN 1915 Mount Zion cemetery, Reynolds Road, Portage twp., Wood Co., Ohio
Other[10][12] 1897 Wood Co., OhioBio-hist-OK
Reference Number? 26280
References
  1. Judith (Lamb) Tomlinson. Warner/Miller family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn, Address: Hicksville, Ohio, Author E-mail: judetomlinson at mchsi.com (as of. (December 2001).
  2. United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
    age 26 born in Ohio.
  3. United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623)
    b. Dec 1838; age 61.
  4. Commemorative, historical and biographical records of Wood County, Ohio: its past, present, early settlement and development, biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etc. (Chicago : J.H. Beer, 1897.)
    page 1086; b. in Dauphin Co.
  5. Death Registration, Record Type: microfilmed certificates
    olume Number: 1681 Certificate Number: 36334.
  6. Death Registration, Record Type: microfilmed certificates
    certificate #36334.
  7. United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
    page 315B; sheet: 200; ancestry image: 14.
  8. United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
    page: 136B; sheet: 20; ancestry image 20.
  9. United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
    page: 110A; sheet: 29; ancestry image 29.
  10. Commemorative, historical and biographical records of Wood County, Ohio: its past, present, early settlement and development, biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etc. (Chicago : J.H. Beer, 1897.)
    page 1086.
  11. 4am from aortic insufficiency for 10 days. Informant on certificate was, Saul Gunder, of Prairie Depot, O. Is this another name for his son, Harry?
  12. "DAVID GUNDER, who, for the past twenty years, has made his home in Portage township, is a native of Pennsylvania, born December 22, 1838, in Dauphin county, son of Isaac and Susan (Heller) Gunder, who were farming people of Dutch and Scotch ancestry.

    Our subject was about twelve years old when the family settled in Wood county, and he attended school only one winter here. In addition to the ordinary disadvantages which the youth of that day experienced in acquiring even an ordinary education, he was hampered by defective eyesight, and also suffered from the fever and, ague, so common in this section when the region was little more than a swamp. When fifteen years old he commenced to work for other farmers, and he also engaged in different lines of work, being employed in a shingle mill for a time working with the surveying corps on the Dayton & Michigan railway, between Perrysburg & Toledo, and was also employed at grading. In March, 1859, he was married, in Montgomery township, Wood county, to Miss Elizabeth Clemens, who was born in Loudon township, Seneca county, daughter of Daniel Clemens, a farmer. The young couple lived with his parents for a short time and after that lived on rented land in various places in Perry township, Wood county, and in Jackson township, Seneca county, in the latter place renting one farm of Dr. R. C. Caples, of Fostoria, Ohio. for twelve years. In February 1875, Mr. Gunder removed his family to their present home in Portage township, Wood county, which comprises eighty acres of good land in Section 24, but which at that time was in its primitive condition, not even a building standing on the place. But since he has conducted the place it has changed materially, buildings and fences have been erected, and he has made a fine home for himself and family by incessant hard work. He is a self-made man in the strictest sense of the word, and is respected by all who know him for his industry and integrity. Mr Gunder has witnessed the transformation of this entire section of Ohio, for when they came here the country was still a forest, and his father's family made the entire trip from Pennsylvania to Crawford county, Ohio, and from Crawford county to Wood county, in a large covered wagon drawn by four horses.

    Mr. and Mrs. Gunder are the parents of two children--John, who is a carpenter, and Harry S., both living at home. Our subject and his wife, are both members of the U. B. Church, and in politics he is a stanch Democrat. He is a regular voter, but aside from that takes no active part in public affairs."