Biography of David Gump, page 242.  History of Northeast Indiana; LaGrange, 
Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial supervision 
of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. McIntosh.  
The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.

   David Gump.  A resident of DeKalb County over forty years identified with 
the practical agriculture of that section and a man widely known for his 
good influence in the community, David Gump has a well improved farm of 120 
acres in section 17 of Butler Township.  
   He was born in Miami County, Ohio, March 18, 1847, a son of Jacob and 
Sarah (Detrick) Gump, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of 
Virginia.  His parents were married in Ohio and from that state moved to 
Allen County, Indiana, and finally came to DeKalb County, where they spent 
the rest of their lives.  They were active members and the father was for 
forty-five years a minister of the Church of the Brethren.  In politics he 
was republican.  Jacob Gump and wife had eight children, and four of them 
are still living: Lousia, wife of Henry Kuhns, of Keyser Township; David; 
Emma, widow of Carl Fair; and Perry, who lives in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.
   David Gump was eighteen months old when his parents moved to Allen 
County, Indiana, and he grew up there, acquiring a common school 
education. At the age of twenty-five, he came to DeKalb County, and since 
that date has been identified with the farming interests of Butler Township.  
In January, 1879, he married Amanda Rinehold, she was born in Seneca County, 
Ohio, in 1853, and when she was three months old her parents moved to 
DeKalb County, Indiana.  Mr. and Mrs. Gump have four living children: 
Gary, who is a graduate of the common schools and is farming on his 
father’s place; Perry, who married Bertha Downend; Lena, who is unmarried 
and at home; and Effie, a graduate of the Garrett High School and formerly 
a teacher.  There were two children who died young, Jeremiah, who died aged 
eight years, and Arthur, who died aged thirty years.  He married Mary 
Kelham.  The family are members of the Church of the Brethren and Mr. Gump 
is a deacon.  Politically he is a democrat.  Beside his farm he is a 
stockholder in the Garrett Elevator.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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