Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOSIAH B. GUMP

Josiah B. GUMP, a resident of Calhoun Township, was born in Bedford County, Pa., October 25, 1828, and when twenty years of age, removed with his parents to Miami County, Ohio, and a year later to Indiana, where his mother died. Our subject left the Hoosier State in 1851, and went to St. Paul, Minn., where he was engaged in the employ of the North American Fur Company, and he helped survey what is now the Northern Pacific Railroad Line, from St. Paul to Puget Sound, and came down the Missouri River to Council Bluffs in the autumn of 1853 and worked at the carpenter's trade until he came to Harrison County.

He was married July 4, 1855, to Rachel EARNEST, by whom four children were born, two living in Harrison County, Iowa, one in Chadron, Neb., and one in Deadwood, S. Dak.

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