BIO: LEONARD GUTSHALL, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 501-502
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    LEONARD GUTSHALL, one of the leading men of North Middleton township,
  Cumberland Co., Pa., was born in 1825, in the township in which he now lives,
  son of Jacob and grandson of Jacob Gutshall.
    
    Jacob Gutshall, the grandfather, was born in Berks county, Pa., and came to
  Cumberland county when a young man, following farming. He brought up the
  following children: John, who died in Berks county; Jacob; Sarah, who married
  Daniel Bob, and both died in Berks county; Leonard; Mary, who died in North
  Middleton township; and Eliza, who died in Frankford township, Cumberland
  county.
    
    Jacob Gutshall, father of Leonard, was born in Berks county, and came to
  Cumberland county, where he learned the trade of a mason. Later he purchased
  a farm in North Middleton township, consisting of 120 acres, upon which he
  farmed and worked at his trade. He married Susan Stauffer, of Cumberland
  county, and died at the age of seventy-five years in North Middleton
  township, where his wife also passed away; both are buried in Middlesex
  township. Their children were: John and Jacob, who died in North Middleton
  township, and Leonard.
    
    Leonard Gutshall was well educated in North Middleton township, and learned
  the wagonmaking trade, at which he worked for a short time. He then turned his
  attention to farming. In 1850, he married Mary Wetzel, daughter of John
  Wetzel, of Carlisle, Pa., and located where he now resides, the farm coming
  to him upon his father's death. Of the children born to this marriage three
  attained maturity: Amos, living in Middlesex township, who married Ettie
  Albright; Ellen, who married John Lane, and is living in North Middleton
  township; and Laura, deceased wife of John Waggoner. In 1877 Mrs. Mary
  Gutshall died, and in 1880 Mr. Gutshall married Louise C. Smee, daughter of
  David and Elizabeth Smee, of North Middleton township.
    
    For the past twenty-five years Mr. Gutshall has been living retired on the
  old homestead. In politics he is a Democrat, but he has never taken an active
  part in local affairs. He is a steadfast member of the German Reformed Church
  of Carlisle Springs, and Mrs. Gutshall also belongs to the same denomination.
  Although Mr. Gutshall has attained to a venerable age he is active, retains
    
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  all his faculties, and enjoys discussing current events, upon which he is
  remarkably well posted.