Tipton County IN Archives Biographies.....Gifford, Benjamin F. 1834 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   BENJAMIN F. GIFFORD, of the firm of Hirous & Gilford, manufacturers of hard
and soft wood lumber and staves, was born in Scioto County, Ohio, March 25,
1834, and is the son of Isaac and Sarah (Montgomery) Gilford, natives of Ohio,
and of England respectively. Isaac Gilford was a pioneer farmer of Scioto
County, Ohio, where he spent the latter part of his life. He was identified with
the Democratic party, and was a zealous worker in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He died in 1842; his wife survived him until 1849. At the age of
fifteen, Benjamin was left an orphan; he received no education in his boyhood,
but has now obtained a fair business education. He was engaged in job work until
he was twenty-three years of age. In 1857, he took up farming, and during winter
worked in a blacksmith shop. In 1859, he removed to Greene, County, Ohio, where
he engaged in farming until November, 1864, when he removed to Windfall, and
purchased forest land in the township, in which he employed from fifteen to
thirty men cutting cord wood and making railroad ties. In April, 1868, he
located where he now lives and farms sixty-four acres of well-improved land. In
1880, he purchased a half-interest in the mill he is now successfully operating.
Mr. Gifford was married, December 29, 1859, to Miss Melissa H. Thornburg, of
Greene County, Ohio, who died in 1865, leaving one son-Perry D. Mr. Gifford was
next married, in March, 1866, to Miss Susan McClish, of Shelby County, Ohio. Mr.
Gifford is an energetic citizen, and active in all public enterprises. He is one
of ten who closed the saloons of Windfall, by buying their right. He is an
active Democratic politician, and has served as Township Trustee. He is a Mason,
and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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