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History of
Cass County, Iowa G Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton. John
Gilbaugh owns and resides on one hundred and twenty acres of land, on section
14, where he settled in the spring of 1875. In 1874 he bought two hundred and
eighty acres of land on sections 14 and 23, one hundred and sixty acres of which
he sold to Peter Lattig in 1882. Mr. Gilbaugh's farm is one of the best in the
township, having expended three thousand dollars in cash, in 1883, for
improvements, and build a nice house, which is one of the finest in this localty.
His orchard, of seventy-five bearing trees, has a half mile of hedge fence, and
has a grove of soft maples of two and a half acres. Mr. Gilbaugh is a native of
Perry county, Pennsylvania, and was born on the 8th of may, 1825. He lived with
his parents until sixteen years of age, when he became an apprentice to the
trade of a carpenter. He was united in marriage in February, 1847 to Mary
Gladden, a native of Pennsylvania. They have had twelve children, nine of whom
are living - Francis S., born in November, 1847, died in March, 1850; Joseph M.,
born on the 10th of June, 1849, died on the 25th of March, 1850; James Wilson,
was born on the 10th of April, 1851; Martha J. born October 5, 1852; Mary Emma,
born March 3, 1855; John W., born December 10, 1856; George W., born in May,
1858; Harriet A., born in November, 1859; Robert C., born August 25, 1861;
Albert B., born December 16, 1862; Anne L., born September 8, 1867, died in
February, 1869; and Savannah M., born November 24, 1869. George W.
Gingery, son of Daniel and Helena Gingery, was born in Stark county, Ohio, in
1842. The family are of German descent, the parents being natives of Germany,
who came to the United States in 1831, settling then in Somerset county,
Pennsylvania. Daniel Gingery was a soldier in the war with Mexico, and died in
the service at Pueblo, in 1848. In 1834, Daniel Gingery and wife left
Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio, where they remained until 1860, when Mrs.
Gingery came to this county, accompanied by her two youngest children, her older
children having come here previous to that time, with the exception of John
Gingery, who came shortly after. Three of the brothers, Edward, John and George,
are residents of this township; William Gingery resides in Benton township. the
subject of this sketch was one of the younger children of the family, and came
here with his mother in 1860. He settled upon his present farm, on section 34,
in 1872. He was married to Virginia Goodale, daughter of Almon Goodale. They
have six children - Helena E., Charles, Grace, Cora, Elmer and Lizzie. One
daughter, Edith, died in infancy. Mr. Gingery is engaged in gardening and
fruit-growing, in which business his brother John is also engaged. Edward
Gingery was the first one of the family who came to Cass county, having come
here in 1854, and located on sections 22 and 27, of this township, where he
still lives. Frank C.
Goodale
of Pymosa township, is a son of Thomas Jefferson Goodale, one of the
pioneers of Cass county. The latter came here July 17, 1853. He entered during
that year, land in section 6, of Benton township, and from that time until 1856,
entered a large amount of land, comprising not less than fifteen hundred acres
in the townships of Benton and Pymosa. In addition to this he entered a large
tracts of land for other parties, both in Cass and Audubon counties. The
homestead on which he settled and resided till his death, was on the northwest
quarter of the southwest quarter of section 6, of Benton township. He owned at
one time the whole of that section. Thomas Jefferson Goodale was born in
Connecticut, in 1802, but was reared upon a farm in Vermont. When a young man he
went to Ohio, where he was married to Almira Pattee, his present widow. She was
born in Canada but went to New York when quite young, thence to Ohio. Several
years after his marriage, Mr. Goodale removed to Allen county, Indiana, where he
improved a farm of timbered land, and lived for eighteen years, or until the
summer of 1853. He was prominent among the pioneers of this region and perhaps
the name of no old settler is more intimately connected with the history of Cass
county, than that of Jefferson Goodale. His death occurred at the homestead in
Benton township, October 2, 1882. He lacked only a few weeks of reaching the
advanced age of eighty years. His widow still lives at the homestead. Mr. and
Mrs. Goodale had a family of eleven children, of whom seven are now living -
Almon, in Nebraska; Mrs. Mary a. Hoyt, in Colorado, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Everett,
also in Colorado; Mrs. Harriet M. Campbell, in Pymosa; Mrs. Hannah A. Johnson,
in Atlantic; Frank C. and Mrs. Sarah J. Case, of Atlantic. Frank C. Goodale was
born in Indiana in 1842. He came here with his father in 1853, being then eleven
years old, just the proper age to retain a vivid recollection of the pioneer
times of Cass county. He was married to Isabel Tatlow, daughter of Thomas W.
Tatlow, an early settler in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Goodale have six
children - William E., Dora, George W., Ira B., Mabel and Beecher. Mr. Goodale
resides on the south half of the northeast quarter of section 11, which was
included in the entries made by his father. |