Biography of Frederick Ginder, pages 752/753/754.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.




Frederick Ginder



	The life history of Frederick Ginder, one of the well known and 
highly esteemed venerable veterans now living in honorable retirement 
in Wilmington township, show what industry, good habits and staunch 
citizenship will accomplish in the battle of acquiring property and 
rearing children to lead steady and respectable lives.   His life has 
been one replete with duty well and conscientiously performed in all 
its relations.  He has not been man to shrink from his duty, however 
irksome or dangerous, whether in the role of private citizen or on the 
field of battle, and it is such traits that win in life’s affairs.  He 
has come down to us from the pioneer period and has noted the wondrous 
transformation from that time to this, playing well his part in the 
drama of civilization.  He has been an advocate of wholesome living and 
cleanliness in politics as well, and has ever been outspoken in his 
antipathy to wrong doings, whether by the humble citizen or by the 
incumbent of influential office.

	Frederick Ginder was born in Ashland county, Ohio, on the 25th 
day of April, 1843, and is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Miller) Ginder, 
both of whom were natives of Germany.   The subject’s grandfather Jacob 
Ginder, also a native of the fatherland, came to the United States  
when his son, Jacob, was but eleven years old and settled in Ashland 
county, Ohio, where they remained until the family came to DeKalb 
county, Indiana, in 1854, and here the subject’s father  lived until 
his death, following farming, in which he met with a fair degree of 
success. To him and his wife were born the following children: 
Katherine, P. D., two who died in infancy, Eva, Mary, George, Matilda, 
Sarah, Louis and the subject.

	Frederick Ginder received his education in the common schools of 
Ohio and Indiana, and was reared to the life of a farmer, a vocation, 
which he has never forsaken and is which he has met with a very 
gratifying degree of success.  He was also engaged for thirty years in 
the sawmill business, being a good judge of timber and an expert in 
this line, and in this as in his farming operations he has been 
prospered.  He is the owner of two hundred acres of splendid land in 
Wilmington township and has been guided by up-to-date ideas in the 
management of his farm, the condition of the building, fences and 
fields indicating him to a man of good judgement and wise 
discrimination in the management of his estate.

	In 1861 at the outbreak of the Southern rebellion, Mr. Ginder 
enlisted as a private in Company F, Forty-fourth Regiment Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Colonel Reed, and the 
regiment, being assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, was plunged 
into the midst of the struggle at the outstart.  Mr. Ginder took part 
in many of the most hotly contested battles of that great struggle, 
including the sanguinary conflicts at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, 
Stone River, Mission Ridge, Perrysville, and Chickamauga, than which 
there were no more important battles fought in the middle west section 
of the Southern territory.  Mr. Ginder served three years and two 
months valiantly and courageously and was mustered out at Chattanooga, 
Tennessee, in December, 1964, with a military record of which he is 
justifiably proud.

	Mr. Ginder has been twice married, first in 1865, to Emily 
McDaniel, the daughter of David and Nancy (Gunsenhauser) McDaniel, both 
of whom were members of old families of DeKalb county.  To this union 
were born the following children: Jacob Sherman, John Philip, Maggie, 
deceased, Bryan and Hiram Twins, David O., Nora, George and Fred, 
deceased.  After the death of his first wife Mr. Ginder married 
Elizabeth Hollinger, the widow of George Hollinger.  Politically, Mr. 
Ginder give his support to the Prohibition party, believing that the 
liquor question is the most important issue before the American people, 
and he is standing firmly for his convictions on this subject.  His 
religious connection in with the United Brethren church, in the success 
of which he is deeply interested and to the support of which he 
contributes.  All worthy enterprises for the general advancement of the 
community find in him an earnest advocate and liberal patron, and he 
has always given his influence and aid to every progressive measure for 
the good of his fellow men.  He is in every respect an upright, 
energetic man, keenly alive to every interest which affects the growth 
and development of his community and has every reason to be proud of 
his success and of the prominent place he holds in public esteem.



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