DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: GIGADET, FRANCIS VINCENT (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887  - Page 554-555

        FRANCIS VINCENT GIGANDET, a prominent and enterprising citizen of
Wayne Township, was born in France, June 14, 1830, a son of Nicholas and
Mary (Papon) Gigandet, natives of France. His parents came to America a few
years after their marriage, when he was about one year and a half old, and
first settled in Stark County, Ohio. They subsequently removed to Wheeling,
West Virginia, and later to Cincinnati, Ohio, remaining there three years.
They settled in Darke County about the year 1836 or 1837, where the father
died in October, 1847. He was a saddler by trade, and followed that
avocation for several years after coming to America. F.V., the subject of
this sketch, was reared a farmer, and received his education in the common
schools of his neighborhood and by study at home. He was united in
marriage, June 13, 1854, to Miss Mary Humbert, a native of France, and a
daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Dodier) Humbert. Nine children have been
born to this union, as follows -William Eugene, Martha Isabelle, Hubert
Amos, Emanuel Isidore (born in 1863, and died in October, 1885), Walter
Augustus, Aurelia Celina, Maria Flora, Francis Vincent and Lovina Ann. Mr.
Gigandet continued to reside in Darke County until 1873, when he came with
his family to Jay County, Indiana. He bought his farm in Jay County from
Henry Ewing, almost unimproved. A few acres has been cleared and twenty
acres deadened, and two log cabins and a log stable had been erected. He
has made good improvements during his residence on the place, making it one
of the best farms in his neighborhood. His farm contains eighty acres, of
which fifty-two acres is cleared and under fine cultivation. He has a fine,
substantial residence, built in modern style, and considered one of the
best in Wayne Township. In connection with his general farming he devotes
some attention to stock-raising, his farm being divided into different
fields for that object. In his political views Mr. Gigandet is a Democrat,
casting his first presidential vote for Franklin Pierce in 1852, and at all
succeeding presidential elections he has voted the Democratic ticket.
Although an adherent of the Democratic principles, he believes in a good,
honest Government for the people; and in local elections where he is
acquainted with the candidates, if his party nominates a candidate who in
his judgment has not the qualifications of a good officer, able and willing
to discharge his official duties in the interests of the people and the
good of the country, he does not hesitate to look in the ranks of the
opposing parties for an honest man, and if he finds him he votes without
regard to party affiliation. Mr. Gigandet is one of the most active member
of the Catholic church. In his religious views he is not bigoted, but
rather liberal, and is always ready to hold out the hand of friendship and
help to his dissenting neighbors and friends, having no ill-feeling toward
them because they do not believe as he does. Nor has he any ill-will toward
any man on account of his religious or political views, believing that all,
let them be Jew or Gentile, Protestant or infidel, have rights which ought
to be respected by all good citizens, and that if a man is honest and
upright he should be welcomed in any neighborhood without questioning his
creed or political views. He believes that all have a right to worship
according to the dictates of their own conscience. Mr. Gigandet took an
active part in the building of his church, of which he was one of the first
trustees, and is one of its most liberal supporters. William E. Gigandet,
the eldest son of F.V. Gigandet, was born in Darke County, Ohio, August 7,
1855, where he was reared, coming to Jay County with his father in 1873. He
was married April 30, 1880, to Miss Edna Ann Miller, a daughter of A.
Miller, of Wayne Township, Jay County. They are the parents of two
children, named Agatha A. and Estella E.


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