JOHN GILBAUGH
John Gilbaugh owns and resides on one hundred and twenty acres of land, on section 14, where he settled in the spring of 1875. In 1874 he bought two hundred and eighty acres of land on sections 14 and 23, one hundred and sixty acres of which he sold to Peter Lattig in 1882. Mr. Gilbaugh's farm is one of the best in the township, having expended three thousand dollars in cash, in 1883, for improvements, and built a nice house, which is one of the finest in this locality. His orchard, of seventy-five bearing trees, has a half mile of hedge fence, and has a grove of soft maples of two and a half acres. Mr. Gilbaugh is a native of Perry county, Pennsylvania, and was born on the 8th of May, 1825. He lived with his parents until sixteen years of age, when he became an apprentice to the trade of a carpenter. He was united in marriage in February, 1847 to Mary Gladden, a native of Pennsylvania. They have had twelve children, nine of whom are living--Francis S., born in November, 1847, died in March, 1850; Joseph M., born on the 10th of June, 1849, died on the 25th of March, 1850; James Wilson, was born on the 10th of April, 1851; Martha J., born October 5, 1852; Mary Emma, born March 3, 1855; John W., born December 10, 1856; George W., born in May, 1858; Harriet A., born in November, 1859; Robert C., born August 25, 1861; Albert B., born December 16, 1862; Anne L., born September 8, 1867, died in February, 1869; and Savannah M., born November 24, 1869.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 770.
