GILCHRIST, Daniel F.

GILCHRIST, WHIPPLE, GEORGE, HADFIELD, COOMADT

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 10/25/2006 at 22:36:30

Daniel F. Gilchrist came to Burr Oak with the pioneers of 1857, arriving in April of that year. He was born in Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., March 12, 1835. When he was three years old, his parents, Archibald and Harriet (Whipple) Gilchrist, went to Chautauqua county, where he resided until the age of nineteen.

In September, 1852, he went to Racine, Wis., and was married in that city July 7, 1856, to Catharine, daughter of Roswell and Elizabeth George; she was born in Sandusky Co., Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gilchrist have six children— Willie R., Harriet E. (Mrs. Abner Hadfield), Estella A. (Mrs. Lester Coomadt, of Liberty), Clara P., Joseph A. and Roy W. On their arrival in Burr Oak, the family occupied the first tenement built in the township, (the Tillottson shanty) on section 10.

Three months after, they moved to Burr Oak Grove, where they lived until March, 186?, at which date they located on section 15, where they own a finely improved farm of 110 acres. Mr. Gilchrist was the first owner of a thresher in Burr Oak. He is a republican in politics and has been connected with the school board many years; is now its president. He has been prominent in the general township business, having served about twelve years as trustee.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 283.