Biography of Frederick Ginder, page 985.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Frederick Ginder, farmer and stock-raiser, section 26, Wilmington Township, 
was born in Ashland County, Ohio April 25, 1843.  In 1853 his father, Jacob 
Ginder, moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Wilmington Township, 
where he was reared and educated, attending school in the log cabin school-
houses.  When eighteen years of age, in 1861, he enlisted in Company F, 
Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and participated in all the battles and 
skirmishes of the regiment, including Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Stone 
River, Chickamauga.  He was discharged in the fall of 1864, and returned to 
the farm, where he remained till the spring of 1868, when, in company with 
Henry Gunsenhouser, a fellow-soldier, he bought a saw-mill of Bass & Hannah 
at Fort Wayne, and ran it till January, 1876, when they exchanged it for 
land.  In February, 1877, Mr. Ginder settled on his present farm, where he 
is doing a successful business. He was married Oct. 22, 1865, to Emily 
McDannell, daughter of David McDannell, of Stafford Township.  To them 
have been born nine children---Jacob S., John P., Hiram and Byron (twins), 
David O., Nora M. and George  Merril.  Frederick and Margaret are deceased; 
the latter was burned to death at the age of five years.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Ginder are members of the United Brethren church.

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