The subject of this sketch was born February 3,1823. His parents, were George and Susan (Lamer) Gast, the place of his birth being on the Juniata river in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, where he received but a common school education, and was reared on a farm. In October, 1845, he moved to Delaware County, Ohio, and settled on the Scioto river, and remained until 1851, leaving there in May of that year and landing in Scott County in June. He came overland with a team and was twenty-one days making the journey. Mr. Gast first purchased a tract of eighty acres of land from “ Pancake” Jones (as he was familiarly called), after which he entered two hundred and eighteen acres of Government land, and on July 4 he moved into a shanty which he had erected.
Mr. Gast was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Moyer, November 6, 1845. The result of their union was three children. Susan J. died in infancy, William E. married Rebecca Henry, and Mary M. married Charles Like.
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