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GINTHER, JOHN W. V., P. O. Clarinda; senior member of the firm of J. W. V. Ginther & Co., proprietors of Clarinda flouring mills. The subject of this sketch was born in Germany in 1821, a mechanic by trade. He emigrated to America in 1850. The year of 1851 was spent in New York. He then went to Michigan where he remained several years. From thence he went to Noble county, Indiana, thence to Iowa, and settled in Jones county, remaining two years. He became a resident of Missouri in 1857, remaining in that state until 1860. He then settled at Clarinda, Iowa. At the breaking out of the late war he enlisted in the twenty-third Iowa infantry, serving two years. He returned to Clarinda and engaged in the carpenter and furniture business until a few years ago when he bought the Clarinda flouring mill. The junior member of this firm, Mr. Sweeney, is a practical miller of long experience, and is a gentleman of the highest type. Mr. Ginther was married in 1855 to Miss Susan Snestel, a native of England. They have one child living, Louisa V., having lost two sons.