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Howard (1907), Vol. 2 biographies
b. 9 Sept. 1856, DeKalb Co., Ind., eldest child of John (b. 27 Jan. 1831, Holmes Co., Ohio; d. 8 Feb. 1903) and Catherine (Reinoehl) Gushwa (Part 74, pp. 1011–1013). Father emigrated to Indiana in 1844 with ox teams; served in Co. B, 29th Indiana Infantry through the Civil War; came to St. Joseph County in 1865; m. (2) 1866 Ellen Shambaugh (Part 74). William was ten when the family home was established in the county; teacher’s certificate; taught one year in his home township; Northern Indiana Normal College, Valparaiso, 1879–1880; taught fourteen years in Liberty and Union townships; in 1892 left teaching for the hardware and implement trade in North Liberty, firm of Price & Gushwa; partnership dissolved two years later; then real estate and insurance (Phoenix of Brooklyn, Hartford, Aetna) and notary public in North Liberty (Part 74). M. 25 Nov. 1890 Estella Lee (b. 16 Mar. 1857, La Porte Co., Ind.; brought at nine to North Liberty; her father a Civil War soldier, d. 2 July 1900; her mother still residing in North Liberty, an Episcopal church member) (Part 74). Modern Woodmen of America (Part 74). [PROFILE] Carrying fact: the clearest school-to-Main-Street career in the register — fourteen years a Liberty/Union teacher, then North Liberty hardware, then its real-estate/insurance/notary man. Business leg cross-carries Price & Gushwa; People keeps him at profile size.