Gasper T. Husband

HUSBAND, TARR, HUNT

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/6/2002 at 21:22:10

Gasper T. Husband was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1829. He is a son of John and Margaret (Tarr) Husband, who, also, were natives of Westmoreland county. In 1875 he came to Washington county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming until the first year of the rebellion, when he enlisted in Company H, Second Iowa Infantry. He served in that company one year, and then served for two years in the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, Company B. He was honorably discharged at Davenport, Iowa, November 16, 1864.
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Upon receiving his dismissal from service he returned to Washington county, and there remained until 1866. In the spring of that year he moved to Bremer county, and located in Summer township, where he lived until 1874. At this time he went to California, on a visit, where he spent one summer, and then returned to Iowa, and settled on section 6, of Shell Rock township, where he has since resided. He was married, October 31, 1876, to Mary L. Hunt, who is a daughter of Samuel Hunt, of Trumbull county, Ohio.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 705