George D. Bunyan

As printed in 1908

GEORGE D. BUNYAN, who is engaged in general farming on a well-improved farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Mad River Township, was born February 14, 1843, in Mad River Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of William Bunyan and a grandson of James Bunyan.

James Bunyan came from Scotland to this country with his father when a boy. The family located on a farm in New York State, where he was reared, and later he operated a saw and woolen mill. He married Elizabeth Hume, also a native of Scotland, and they reared a family of eight children: Alice, who married N. Garrison; William; Jane, who married

Martin Cosier; George; David; and Margaret, all now deceased. In 1837 James Bunyau and family removed to Ohio, traveling by wagon and canal. His son William had previously been to Ohio and purchased the present Bunyan farm in Mad River Township, from Mr. Loofborrow, the land having been entered from the Government by a Mr. Sroufe. AYilliam Bunyan and his father stopped for a short time in Lancaster, Ohio, before settling on the farm, where James later died.

William Bunyan married Martha A. Otstott, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Springfield, Ohio, with her parents. Daniel and Hannah Otstott. After residing for several years in the old log house which was on the farm, William Bunyan in 1843 built the large brick house in which George D. now resides. His wife died in the fall of 1877, and in the following year William Bunyan and other members of the family removed to Delaware, Ohio, where he died March 5, 1900, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Six children were born to William Bunyan and wife, namely: George Dushane; Leonidas H., who is a resident of Indiana; Frances Emma; Ellen A., who died in 1901; Edward T., who resides in Connecticut; and William H., who died quite young.

George D. Bunyan was born in a frame house near his present home. He was reared on the farm and attended the district schools and later the college at Delaware, Ohio, for two and a half years. In 1867 he went to Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, where he opened a general store, which he operated successfully imtil 1877. when he sold to Charles Shaw.

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Politically, Mr. Bunyan is an adherent of the Prohibition party, and is religiously associated with, the Methodist Episcopal Church.

As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.