Biography of Gilbert F. Greenwood, pages 615 / 616.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Gilbert F. Greenwood, farmer and stock-raiser, section 4, Franklin Township, 
was born in Stafford Township, De Kalb Co., Ind., Nov. 30, 1859.  His father, 
Benjamin F. Greenwood, was a native of Trumbull County, Ohio, a son of Oliver 
P. Greewood, a native of Stockbridge, Mass., born Feb. 20, 1808, and grandson 
of John Greenwood, a native Rehoboth, R.I., of English descent, and a sailor 
on a man-of-war for the United States in the war of 1812.  He settled in Trumbull 
County, Ohio, in 1818.  Benjamin F. Greenwood moved to DeKalb County, Ind., in 
1858, and settled in Stafford Township, and in 1873 removed to Franklin Township, 
and settled on the farm where our subject now lives.  He married Maria, daughter 
of John Henry, and their family consisted of two sons---Gilbert F., and Eugene, 
of Steuben County.  Gilbert F. Greenwood remained at home till manhood.  He 
received a good education completing it at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.  
He was married Sept. 4, 1879, to Orilla Felger, daughter of David Fegler, of 
Defiance, Ohio.  They have three children---Floyd, Ethel and Benjamin F.  Mr. 
Greenwood owns 236 acres of valuable land, and is among the prosperous young 
farmers of Franklin Township.

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