Biography of Jonathan A. Gushwa, page 569.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jonathan A. Gushwa, a representative of one of the pioneer families of De 
Kalb County, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1835, and was ten 
years of age when his parents moved to this county.  His youth was spent in 
assisting his father clear and improve a frontier farm, and six months 
before his majority, his father gave him his time and he then worked for 
wages till the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion.  August 10, 1961, 
he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, and served thirty-
seven months.  The first half of hies service he was detailed  teamster.  He 
contracted the erysipelas in his leg while in the army and has never fully 
recovered from its effects.  After his return from the war he settled on the 
old homestead and took charge of the farm for his father till his marriage, 
Jan. 4, 1866, to Harriet Williams, daughter of David and Mary Williams.  He 
then settled on a farm of his father’s in this township, where he lived 
sixteen years, and then bought forty acres of land, but three months later 
sold it and rented a farm of his brother a year.  Nov. 1, 1883, he moved 
to the farm where he now lives, where he owns eighty acres of choice land, 
with a pleasant residence and good farm buildings.  His wife died Jan. 18, 
1883, leaving two sons---Charles and Edward.  Oct. 4, 1883, he was married 
to Mrs. Margaret Jane Swinhart, sister of his first wife.  Mr. Gushwa has 
been a prominent man in his township, and held several offices of trust and 
responsibility; among others those of Supervisor, Constable, road Supervisor; 
and in the fall of 1884 was elected Justice of the Peace.  In Politics he is 
a Democrat.  He and his wife are members of the Albright church.

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