Biography of Isaac Gunsenhouser, page 712.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago.

Isaac Gunsenhouser, section 4, Newville Township, was born in Stafford 
Township, De Kalb County, Ind., on the old homestead, on the southeast 
quarter of section 6, March 8, 1838.  In 1836 his father, John J. 
Gunsenhouser, came to this county and settled in Stafford Township.  At 
that time the county was all heavily timbered and the inhabitants were 
principally Indians and wild animals.  Isaac Gunsenhouser was reared a 
farmer and has followed that vocation the most of his life, with the 
exception of the decade from 1872 to 1882, when he ran a steam saw-mill on 
the St. Joseph River at Newville.  He received a common-school education, 
attending the schools of his native township.  He moved to Newville Township 
in 1872 and settled on section 4, where he owns seventy-six acres of choice 
land, under a good state of cultivation.  He served as Justice of the Peace 
three years in Stafford Township, and has held the same office eight years 
in Newville.  He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity.  He was 
married in 1860 to Rosanna, daughter of Jacob Dickerhoff.  They have had 
two children---Inez (deceased) and Mary E.

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