Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Gwynn, Josiah October 20, 1812 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Josiah Gwynn, farmer and stock grower, who was born 
near where he resides, October 20, 1812, is a son of Joseph 
Gwynn and Martha Dowlin Gwynn.  His grandparents on the 
maternal side were natives of Montgomery County, Penna, and 
were of Welsh origin.  Mr Gwynn's grandfather, Joseph Gwynn, 
came from London, England, to what is now Greene County, and 
was among the early settlers in this part of Pennsylvania.  
His grandfather Gwynn came to this county before the 
Revolutionary War, and settled on the farm which Josiah 
Gwynn now occupies.  This was then an Indian settlement, or 
rather an Indian neighborhood, and he took what was then 
called "a tomahawk claim."  He left this country with the 
intention of returning to London, but got no farther than 
the Island of Cuba, and there he engaged in a sugar 
plantation, and on his return he found other parties had 
settled on two of his claims.  He served as county 
commissioner in what is now Washington and Greene counties.  
Josiah Gwynn's father farmed on the home place throughout 
his life.  He was drafted in the War of 1812, and died in 
1864 at the age of seventy five.
  
      Josiah Gwynn is the oldest of a family of eight 
children.  He attended school on his own farm, in the 
old-fashioned log school house which he has since seen 
replaced by one of hewn logs, that by a frame building, and 
the frame ready to be superseded by a substantial brick.  Mr 
Gwynn has made farming the business of his life, and owns 
200 acres of the original entry made by his grandfather.  He 
was married March 28, 1841, to Lydia Phillips, daughter of 
George W Phillips and Susannah Myers Phillips.  Mrs Gwynn 
was born in Chester County, Penna.  Her father was a farmer 
and butcher of English descent.
  
      Mr and Mrs Gwynn have eight children, six living: 
Martha L Gwynn, wife of Wilson Huston; Joseph C Gwynn; 
George W Gwynn; E E Gwynn, wife of Lacy Craft; John R Gwynn, 
and J F Gwynn.  All are members of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church in which Mr Gwynn is elder and 
superintendent of the Sabbath school.  He has always been a 
liberal high-minded gentleman, and highly respected by the 
community.

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