"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
PAGE 845

WILLIAM R. GWIN, an enterprising farmer was born in Owen
County, February 24, 1823. He was the seventh child of
eight children and received a good as education as those
primitive times could afford. Previous to his birth, his
parents, Thomas and Nancy (Orum) Gwin, had moved from
Kentucky to Van Buren township, IN., where they lived for
several years. The father died in 1841, the mother in 1875.
The subject of this sketch was married in 1847 to Mary A.
Burk, a native of Kentucky. After marriage he settled on
a farm of his own in Van Buren township, Monroe County,
which he cleared and highly improved. He lived in Monroe
County for fifty two years. In 1875, he traded his farm
for a farm in Greene County, moved there and remained for
four years, after which he traded for property in Spencer
where he now resides. Mr. Gwin is the father of seven
children. He has been a consistent member of the Christian
Church for forty four years and is a staunch Republican.

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