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DANIEL F. GASSAWAY was born in Warren county, Ohio, March 8, 1816, where he lived until twenty-two years of age. He was married March 18, 1889, to Eliza Michael, of Warren county, Ohio, who was born in Middleton, Penn. Their children are Theodore, Mary E., Albert, Lemuel, and Malinda. Their mother died in LeRoy, McLean county, Ill. His second wife was Mrs. Matilda Kimler, to whom he was married at Bloomington, Ill., Sept. 30, 1852. Her children are Mary E., Sarah, and Adelina Kimler. Mr. Gassaway’s children by his second marriage are Hettie, Ellen, Wm. H., John E., and Franklin S. His second wife died at Carthage, Mo., May 8, 1872. He married for his present wife Mrs. Lear Mason, at Carthage, Mo., May 8, 1873. She was born in Lafayette county, Mo., April 17, 1823, and was raised in Jackson county, Mo. The names of her children are William, Sarah, Julius, Mary J., John, Martha, Nancy A., Elizabeth, and Marina Mason, four of whom are deceased. This is an exceptionally large family, comprising twenty-two children in all. There happens to be three Marys, two Williams, and two Johns in the family, a coincidence of very unusual occurrence. Mr. Gassaway enlisted at Neosho Falls, Kan., in Oct., 1861, in the Ninth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, from which he was soon discharged because of a disability caused by a wound. He is a member of the M. E. Church, and his present wife belongs to the Christian Church. His farm of eighty acres is located in section 15, township 29, and range 33. There is a good orchard of four acres on the farm. Mr. Gassaway first came to Jasper county in 1867, but staid three years, from 1875 to 1878, in Crawford and Cherokee counties, Kansas, and returned to Jasper county in 1880. He is now a man full of years and has seen a good deal of this century, and can exclaim with the apostle “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.”