GWIN, S.C.

GWIN, MORGAN

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 16:56:13

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 805

GWIN, S.C.--Farmer, section 26, P.O. Victor. Was born in Holmes county, Ohio, where he worked on a farm, after, leaving school, until he was seventeen years old, then came with his parents to Iowa and settled in this county, engaging in farming, and the spring of 1853, he bought and settled where he now lives and owns 225 acres of well improved land. Mr. Gwin was married, October 1852, in this county, to Miss Sarah A. Morgan, a resident of this county, born in 1827, in Ohio. They have five children: Frank B. (born March 25, 1853; married, and lives in Colorado), Henry W. (born August 28, 1855), Marion D. (born December, 1857), William W. (born December 9, 1859; married, and lives on the home farm) and Ida May (born in 1862).