Ventura County Biographies

T. B. Gosnell

Submitted by Sandy Neder

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T. B. Gosnell, a prominent rancher of Ventura County, was born in Newark, Ohio, 
November 2, 1848. His father, Nelson Gosnell, was also born at the same place, 
and his grandfather, Joshua Gosnell, was a native of New York, his ancestors 
having emigrated from England to that State. His mother, Samantha (Barrick) 
Gosnell, daughter of John Barrick, a native of Pennsylvania, traces her ancestry 
back to the Pennsylvania Dutch. Mr. and Mrs. Gosnell had thirteen children, 
seven of whom are now living. The family removed from Ohio to Illinois when the 
subject of this sketch was nine years old, residing there eight years. In 1865 
they removed to Missouri and remained there ten years. Mr. Gosnell was reared a 
farmer, and also learned the carpenter's trade. He returned to Ohio, and, in 
1885, came to his present locality. Here he purchased 102 acres of land on the 
Ventura avenue, and built on it two houses and a barn. He is now engaged in 
erecting a very fine family residence on one of the most sightly spots of the 
whole avenue, it being on a high point of land that overlooks the entire valley 
in every direction, with all the beautiful homes on Ventura avenue in full view. 
Mr. Gosnell has a family orchard with a variety of fruit of nearly all kinds, 
and also 300 walnut trees.
    In 1879 the subject of this sketch was united in marriage with Miss Caroline 
McGuire, sister of William McGuire, a history of whom will be found on another 
page of this book. It was on account of Mrs. Gosnell's health that they came to 
California. They are the parents of two children, Ira and Lena,  both natives of 
Ohio. Mr. Gosnell is a Royal Arch Mason. Politically he is a Republican.
 
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF SANTA BARBARA, SAN LUIS 
OBISPO, AND VENTURA, CALIF. by Ida Addis Storke, 1891, p 411