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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A History
of Seneca County, Ohio
A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress,
in People, and in its Principal Interests
- Illustrated -
- Vol. II -
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago-New York
1911
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G. BONNELL - Firm in the esteem of his numerous friends in this
community is John G. Bonnell, a Civil war veteran, who witnessed
some of the most stirring scenes in that great conflict, and the owner
of one hundred and sixty of the fair acreage of Seneca county, on which
he has for many years maintained a hospitable and attractive home.
Although he has lived in Ohio nearly all is life he is a native of
Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in that part of
the Keystone state on Apr. 10, 1834. At the age of seven years,
however, he came here with his parents who located on an eighty acre
farm in Pleasant township, the country then being very new and Mr.
Bonnell experienced many of the peculiarly interesting and
strenuous experiences of the pioneer, although the Bonnells were
by no means of the first who came to claim the Buckeye state from the
wilderness. The parents of the subject were William and
Margaret A. (Buiter) Bonnell. The father was a son of John
Bonnell, of Pennsylvania, and the mother was a daughter of
George Buiter, a native of Germany, who came to this country
with his parents, Mr. Bonnell, thus being to a remote degree of
Teutonic stock. The early years of Mr. Bonnell were spent upon his father’s farm in Pleasant township and it was there that he came to the decision to follow in the paternal footsteps in the matter of a vocation. On Mar. 15, 1857, Mr. Bonnell laid the foundation of a happy and congenial married life by his union with Catharine E. Gettinger. a daughter of Daniel and Jane (Dutrow) Gettinger, natives of Maryland, who came to the state at an early date and located in Adams township on the Portland Road. Mrs. Bonnell was born Feb. 6, 1836, and is bound by many ties to Seneca county, where she has lived all her life. She is one of the valued members of the Methodist church. Mr. Bonnell for the first few years after his marriage resided upon and sultivated rented land. Upon the breaking out of the Civil war he came to his country’s aid, joining Company I, One Hundred and First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain M. M. Barns. He went into camp at Monroeville, Ohio, being first transferred to Covington, Kentucky, and then to Louisville, that state. With the Fourth Corps he marched from Atlanta, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee, and then to North Carolina, being two years and ten months in service. After the declaration of peace he returned home and purchased a farm of eighty acres, clearing it and bringing it to a high state of fertility. It is here that his present home is maintained. About fourteen years ago he erected a fine house on this farm and removed to it, his son George residing in the dwelling vacated. Mr. Bonnell is a Republican in his political convictions, but is liberal minded enough to vote for other policies if he believes them to be just. His record as a public servant is good, he having held the office of township trustee and member of the school board for a number of years. As a member of the Grand Army of the Republic he maintains the old relations with the comrades of other days. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bonnell. The eldest, Anna A., became the wife of John Strickland, of Clinton township, and is the mother of four children: Rollins, George, Myrtle and Hallie; Margaret married Ivan Goettschius, of Clinton township, and has two sons, named George and Ray; George R., married Ella Miller, daughter of A. J. Miller, of Pleasant township, and they reside on the home farm adjacent to that of the former’s father; Frederick, the youngest child, died when only nine years of age. SOURCE: A History of Seneca County, Ohio - Vol. II - 1911 - Page 794 |
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