WILLIAM GUSTIN from the "Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa"

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WILLIAM GUSTIN, one of the intelligent and progressive citizens of 
Grove Township, Pottawattamie County, came to his present location in 
January, 1881.

He was born in Brown County, Ohio, May 1, 1846.  His parents are 
Alpheus and Polly (Edington) Gustin, both natives of Ohio.  The 
Gustins are of Scotch extraction, and grandfather Gustin was a soldier 
in the Revolutionary war.  The Edington family trace their lineage 
back to Ireland, their ancestors having lived near the Rhine.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Gustin reared eight children, five sons and three daughters, 
William being the fourth.  Six of them are residents of Pottawattamie 
County, namely:  Edward and A. B., Waveland Township; A. J., Isaac, 
William, and Eveline, wife of Crawford Cary, Grove Township.  Two 
sisters, Sarah and Massie Ann, live in Mills County, Iowa.

When William was a lad of nine years his parents moved to Illinois, 
remaining in that State one year.  From there they removed to what was 
then called the far West, Mills County, Iowa, and settled near where 
Emerson is now located.  The Gustins were among the early pioneers of 
that district.  There the parents spent the remainder of their lives, 
the mother dying at the age of fifty-six years and the father at 
sixty-three.  William was ten years old when the family went to Mills 
County, and in that frontier district he grew up, inured to hard work 
and received only a meagre education in the common schools.  He there 
engaged in farming until 1881, when he came to this county and settled 
on 120 acres of wild prairie land.  On it he built a comfortable frame 
house and barn and made other improvements, fencing, etc.  He also 
acquired more land and now has 200 acres in one body.

Mr. Gustin was married March 20, 1865, to Miss Phoebe Jane Hutchings.  
She was born in Delaware County, Indiana, and was ten years old when 
she came with her parents to Mills County, Iowa.  Her father and 
mother, William and Nancy (Cicle) Hutchings, both natives of Ohio, 
were among the first settlers of Mills County, where they still live.  
Mr. and Mrs. Gustin have reared six children, two sons and four 
daughters:  Emma Olive, wife of John L. Bradley, Grove Township; Rose 
Ann, wife of W. L. Holliday, of Montgomery County, Iowa; Nancy 
Eveline, Theodosia Adella, William Otis and Abraham Sirvetus.  They 
lost two children by death in infancy -- Edward Iven and Artie Clifford.

In politics Mr. Gustin is a Democrat.

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If you would like more information about anyone mentioned in this
biography, please write to the Pottawattamie County Genealogical
Society at:

P.O. Box 394
Council Bluffs, IA 51502-0394

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