Biographical Sketch of John Gostine, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Jon Gostine, engineer, with R. T. Davis, was born in County Antrim,
Ireland, in 1832, and was there raised to manhood and educated.  He
came to America in 1859, locating at Madison, Indiana, where he made
his home for fourteen years.  In 1863, he enlisted in Company C, 
188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, passing through the usual ordeal of
warfare.  At Wartress, Tennessee, he assisted in constructing and
operating a saw mill, for making bridge timbers.  Was honorably dis-
charged in 1865, and returned to Madison, Indiana, where for a number
of years, he was engaged in a starch factory.  He came to St. Joseph
in 1873, as an employee in the starch factory that was there estab-
lished, and continued in that work during its existence.  He is an
accomplished engineer and a worthy, unassuming man.  He married in
Ireland, in 1855, Miss Susan Giltry.  They have had twelve children,
eight of whom are living:  Jane, John, James, Nellie, Mollie, Charlie,
Aleck and Eddie; lost four: James, Elizabeth, Annie and Charlie.

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